2021-07-20 Weekly News - Episode 112

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/42kYISzFpRI

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
• Brad Wood - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Adobe Docker Images Update

First, you can now pull the Adobe CF images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), including both the CF2021 image and 2018, as well as the add-on and PMT images for CF2021.
Second, soon you will be able to download the Adobe CF images from DockerHub as well (“the way it’s supposed to be”, some would say). There’s no date set for when those will be posted, but indications are that it will be “very soon”, according to Adobe (see below).
Finally, the previous repository that Adobe had used, Bintray, announced its closure, to happen May 1. The CF images there did remain accessible until very recently (indeed, as of the date I wrote this, June 17 2021). But as of a check in early July, the repo is indeed gone and pulls from it fail. (If you have images you had previously pulled, those DO still work. But consider the alternatives above, going forward.)
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/06/adobe-will-support-dockerhub-soon-and-supports-aws-ecr-now/

CF2018 and CF2021 PreRelease

• Charlie just updated his post and some of this has changed
• Support for macOS Big Sur (in ColdFusion, at least. But there's a new ColdFusion Builder 2018 installer for all OS's, including MacOS. More on that below.)
• Renewed support for the ColdFusion 2021 Lambda/serverless feature (this feature had been removed shortly after CF2021 was released)
• Support for Tomcat 9.0.43, embedded in CF2021 (I suspect the same is true in CF2018, though I have not yet installed it to confirm)
• "Enhancements in Language, Accessibility, PMT, Installation. Security and other areas"
• Several fixed issues

https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2021/7/19/dont_miss_prerelease_updates_to_CF2021_and_2018

Ortus Webinar for July - Building API Integrations with Hyper - Michael Born

Wednesday, July 21st Time: 11:00 AM CT
Learn how to connect to a public API using Hyper in this webinar by Michael Born, where he'll cover API integrations from storing secrets to writing unit tests, to publishing the finished, reusable library on ForgeBox.
Register https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-GurjMpE9cX63bZoFA-SqC4OXzDw6wK
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Adobe Developer Week Videos - Videos released

Adobe has now published Dev Week videos on their ColdFusion Portal site, on their video page.
This includes the 20 sessions (from community members and Adobe engineers) as well as the Adobe keynote.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/videos/

ICYMI ColdBox 6.5.0 Released

Today we are excited to release ColdBox v6.5.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This release has focused on stability and making sure all bugs are addressed especially when using our schedulers and asynchronous processes.
https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-6.5.0
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-650-released

Reminder - State of the CF Union Survey

Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers.
Spread the news so we can get as many responses as possible.
https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey
331 Results: https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-results

CFCasts Content Updates

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• More What’s new with ColdBox 6
• More What’s new in qb 8
• More Using DocBox
• LogBox 101
• What’s new in Content 5

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Conferences and Training

Into the Box 2021 - live in Person in Texas.

September 23rd and 24th.
No workshops this year.
Selection Committee Met - Speakers and Schedule coming soon.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

https://intothebox.org
https://itb2021.eventbrite.com

ITB Latam 2021 - live in person

December 2nd or 3rd 2021 (confirming dates asap)

More conferences

Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Charlie Arehart - Lots more to the current CF2021, 2018 prerelease than folks may realize
Have you checked out the many things coming in the updates for CF2021 and 2018 in prerelease the past few weeks? Anyone is welcome to join the prerelease, logging in with an Adobe account. It's a lot more substantial than I think most realize.
There's more changes to CF in the prerelease than just "Azul Java support", and indeed it's about more than just CF itself (but the various released CF installers and CFBuilder as well). In this post I list those things, both features and resources, both to inform those who may be interested in the various things that are coming and to help motivate some to check out the prerelease before final release (which could be any day now).