We are pleased to announce the public beta of ColdBox Elixir v3.

In this screencast we show you how to use CommandBox 4.5 to manage the versions of Java your servers use via the AdoptOpenJDK API.

CommandBox 4.5 release notes:
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-450-released

Docs for managing Java versions via CommandBox:
https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/embedded-server/configuring-your-server/custom-java-version#automatic-java-download

AdoptOpenJDK:
https://adoptopenjdk.net/

Today we are very excited to bring you the release of our latest Docker container for ContentBox v4.2.1. This is a major re-work of our container images as we now support over 5 different variations of our images, from warmed up servers to alpine versions of ContentBox. We have also added tons of new optimizations and environment variables to control container deployments. Ultimately, we have also updated our images to leverage the latest CommandBox 4.5.0 image!

Learn more about ContentBox at https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/contentbox and more about Docker deployment here: https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/getting-started/installation/docker

Release Notes

v4.0.0

• Disabled directory browsing for security
• Added docker hostname to Application name in Application.cfc
• Added a rolling file appender for all app logs to go to > /var/log/contentbox.log
• Upgrade to latest CommandBox v4.5.0
• Updated healthchecks to permit load up times and consistency
• No runtime flags where ever being used, revamped it to warmup the server correctly and leverage environment variables for execution
• Removed support for lucee 4.5
• BE env variable was never working so you can test bleeding edge versions of ContentBox

We are excited to bring our training Bootcamp series as a post-conference workshop for this years Adobe ColdFusion Summit EAST 2019 in Washington, DC from April 11-12th. Please note, that our training this year is AFTER the conference.

This training series will be led by Box creator Luis Majano at the Regus Franklin Square 5 minute walk from the conference center. Register as soon as possible as space is very limited!

Today we are very excited to bring you the release of ContentBox v4.2.0. This is a minor release of ContentBox and it sports tons of new updates, improvements and bug fixes including a major upgrade to ColdBox v5.3 which in itself gives us tons of new updates and features.

Here are the what's new guides for our release:

• What's new with v4.2.0
• What's new with v4.1.0
• What's new with v4.0.0

What's New With 5.3.0

ColdBox 5.3.0 is a minor version update with lots of fixes, improvements and some new features not only to the ColdBox core but to LogBox and WireBox standalone versions alike. Below are the major areas of improvement and the full release notes. To update y...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of CommandBox 4.5.0.  This minor release contains some major new features in terms of managing your Java installations for servers and come just in time as free Oracle support ends and OpenJDK is on everyone's Christmas lists!

We are pleased to announce that CommandBox 4.5.0-rc is available for testing. This is a new minor release with over 25 completed tickets. There are a lot of little fixes and a handful of nice features, several of which I'd like to get a few eyeballs on before setting the release in stone. 4.5 will only be in release candidate for a week or two so please test it soon or all bugs will be deferred until next year! :)

We are pleased to announce a minor maintenance release of CommandBox. Version 4.4.0 is released just in time for CFCamp with a handful of fixes and a few nice features.   I'm writing this up on the plane on my way to Germany for CFCamp so I'll be brief :)  

Many of the cool new features came as pull requests for the community.  Thanks a ton to everyone who contributed!

We love Digital Ocean for many reasons, that list of reasons includes a big one - Digital Ocean is powering our Production Infrastructure.

For a long time, Digital Ocean has been a great way to get affordable, powerful and simplified Cloud computing up and running. For as little as $5 per month you can get a nice little droplet ( VM ) up and running in seconds, to host your ColdFusion app, wordpress site ( excuse my language ) or even Docker instances or a full Docker Swarm. Digital Ocean keeps improving its offering, and this year, we committed to moving our production infrastructure over to Digital Ocean, and now I'm happy to say we've been running on Digital Ocean for months now, and things have never been better. We get a lot of questions about how our setup looks, so this post will give you a little more insight into our Production Infrastructure, powered by Digital Ocean.