2025-02-11 Weekly News — Episode 228

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/-08ciY2kW4c?feature=share
 
Hosts: 

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

Big Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions
The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there including BoxLang.
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News and Announcements

Ortus announce BoxLang to the Java Community and Jfokus
Jfokus has been the birth of BoxLang for the Java community. So Incredibly well received. We even had folks coding on their phones on https://try.boxlang.io for some sweet hoodies. What an amazing event. So much great feedback and amazing response to finally having momentum in the dynamic JVM space.
We will definitely be back in 2026 In force.
hashtag#boxlang hashtag#jfokus hashtag#dynamicJVM hashtag#community
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lmajano_boxlang-jfokus-dynamicjvm-activity-7292961359632240640-N1nc?

Get a Free BoxLang+ License with Your ITB 2025 Ticket!
At Ortus Solutions, we are dedicated to delivering the best experience for our Into the Box attendees. This year’s event will be an exciting opportunity to explore BoxLang and modern CFML development, and we want to ensure that attending in person is even more rewarding.

Exclusive On-Site Attendee Benefit: Free 1-Year BoxLang+ License!
As a special incentive, all on-site attendees will receive a free 1-year subscription to BoxLang+.

BoxLang+ is a professional subscription that enhances development across multiple runtimes, including CLI, web, CommandBox, and serverless environments.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/get-a-free-boxlang-license-with-your-itb-2025-ticket
 
Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025
Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025 is here—join us in Las Vegas on Sept 22-23 (optional certification days on Sept 21 or 24). Grab your early bird tickets for just $99 before they're gone. Secure your spot today!
Register now: https://bit.ly/414pLF6

Team Plans and Exclusive Deals: Into the Box 2025!
Thinking about attending Into the Box 2025 but don’t want to go alone? Or are you looking to train your team with the latest modern software development tools? We’ve got you covered. Take advantage of our exclusive team deals and bring your team for an even better experience.

Get 50% off your second Into the Box on-site ticket.
Buy 2, Get 1 Free – Purchase two on-site tickets, and the third one is on us.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/team-plans-and-exclusive-deals-into-the-box-2025

TeraTech release Free Online Course for Modernizing CF Apps
A Call to the #ColdFusion Keepers of Middleware-Earth! ⚔️🔥After a year of forging in the digital fires, I’m thrilled to announce our ColdFusion Legacy to Modernization E-Course! 🏗️ This free, 13-lesson journey is your map to transforming legacy CF apps into modern, resilient systems—because let’s be real, some of these apps have been running longer than the Third Age.
https://teratech.com/sign-up-legacy-coldfusion-2-modern-e-course/

ICYMI - Into the Box Round 1 of Sessions and Workshops are now out!
Our first round of sessions and workshops for Into the Box 2025 is here! Get ready to dive into a world of modern web development with hands-on workshops and engaging sessions led by Ortus Solutions and Community CFML and BoxLang experts. Visit intothebox.org to explore what’s in store—this is just the beginning, with much more content coming soon!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-round-1-of-sessions-and-workshops

New Releases and Updates

BoxLang Beta 27

Highlights:

• ✅ Enhanced XML Support – Improved cloning, merging, and namespace handling in XML operations.
• ✅ Jakarta EE Support – Latest Jakarta EE support for the servlet runtime and CommandBox
• ✅ Unified Template & Script Grammars – BoxLang now seamlessly integrates both styles, bringing performance updates to the parser.
• ✅ Improved Java Interop – Automatic coercion of BoxLang arrays to native Java arrays and varargs support
• ✅ Better Error Handling – More robust dump rendering and exception management.
• ✅ New CLI Features – Built-in functions like cliRead(), cliGetArgs(), and cliExit() for pure CLI apps.
• ✅ Improved HTTP Handling – Proxy support, authentication, and new request/response events.
• ✅ Trusted Cache – Trusted cache is in the house, to get high performance in production
• ✅ Class location caches – More performance updates for class resolutions for BoxLang classes

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-27-launched
https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/readme/release-history/1.0.0-beta27
 
ColdFusion 2025 Prerelease - Beta 2

We are excited to announce the release of CFNext Beta2, which brings a host of new features and improvements to enhance your experience.

This will be the final pre-release version before the main release.

Please take this opportunity to explore the build, test key functionalities, and find critical issues so they can be fixed before the release. Thank you for your continued support.