2022-08-09 Weekly News - Episode 160

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/LZtoUnLPU38

Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
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Goal 2 - We are 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

Lucee Release Roadmap, 6.0, 5.3.9 and 5.3.10

5.3.9 - Firstly, we have been working on the open regressions 11 with 5.3.9 and hope to release a quick RC this Friday.
6.0.0-BETA - There are still a number of blockers which we still need to address, but we are getting very close.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-release-roadmap-6-0-5-3-9-and-5-3-10/10810

WireBox Object Delegators are now born!

WireBox Object Delegators are now born!  It's been committed with tests and hopefully this new design pattern will help you create beautiful object DSLs and just allow for less boilerplate in your code.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/WIREBOX-131?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMGY4OTQwZGE2YTU5NGVkNGI2MDk5YzI1ZDM0MDA0ZGQiLCJwIjoiamlyYS1zbGFjay1pbnQifQ

Lucee - Allow reducing the Priority of Concurrent Requests

Micha has been working on a new feature which will help to make uncoordinated DDOS attacks less effective against Lucee, by amongst other things reducing the thread priority
It’s been added to the 5.3.9.151-SNAPSHOT and 5.3.10.39-SNAPSHOTs
https://dev.lucee.org/t/allow-reducing-the-priority-of-concurrent-requests/10807/3

ICYMI - 117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year.”
https://teratech.com/podcast/acf-and-lucee-roundtable-part-3-future-cfml-with-charlie-arehart-gert-franz-mark-drew-and-ben-nadel/

INTO THE BOX - Updates

1 month left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
ITB Pre-Conference Schedule Finalized on the Website (3 sessions TBA)
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

Lucee - Image Extension 1.2.0.1 and 1.0.0.44, isImageFile() invalid file locking fixed

Bugfix: locked temp image files - isImageFile()
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3931
When using isImageFile() for certain formats, if the file wasn’t an image, Lucee was leaving the file locked.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/image-extension-1-2-0-1-and-1-0-0-44-isimagefile-invalid-file-locking-fixed/10808

ICYMI - CFConfig - Now supports Scheduled Tasks in Lucee

Thanks to a sponsor, CFConfig now supports importing/exporting scheduled tasks for #Lucee Server (Adobe already had support)!  Please give it a test with the latest version and remember, tasks need imported into the web context of Lucee! #CommandBox #CFML #ColdFusion

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfconfig

ICYMI - ColdBox 6.8.0 Released!

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.8.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This update includes some important fixes and we managed to squeeze some nice improvements!

Bug

• COLDBOX-1134 Router closure responses not marshaling complex content to JSON
• COLDBOX-1132 New virtual app was always starting up the virtual coldbox app instead of checking if it was running already

Improvement

• COLDBOX-1131 Updated Missing Action Response Code to 404 instead of 405
• COLDBOX-1127 All core async proxies should send exceptions to the error log

New Feature

• COLDBOX-1130 New config/ColdBox.cfc global injections: webMapping, coldboxVersion
• COLDBOX-1126 Funnel all out and err logging on a ColdBox Scheduled Task to LogBox

Task

• COLDBOX-1135 Remove HandlerTestCase as it is no longer in usage.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-680-released/

ICYMI - Adobe CFML VS Code Extension released (in Public Beta)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar - August - Ortus Team - Into the Box Preview and Q&A

August 26th, 2022: Time 11:00AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join some of the Ortus Core Team as they discuss all the great things coming to you from Into the Box, with the Pre Conference Online Sessions, Full Day Workshops and then the 2 day 2 track in Person Conference.
The session will be informal, with Q&A from the chat, with maybe a couple of last minute surprise announcements.
Register now: https://bit.ly/3cW6LlM