2023-01-31 Weekly News - Episode 182

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/_iPdrW9iVa4

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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News and Announcements

CommandBox settings Sync Feature

A new CommandBox feature has been born to sync your config settings to your ForgeBox account! New commands:
config sync push
config sync pull
config sync diff
From the ticket: CommandBox settings sync – like VSCode settings sync.  BUT, I propose we use people's Forgebox account to tie the data to.  This encourages people to:

• have ForgeBox accounts
• stay logged in everywhere

https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMANDBOX-1434

Ortus Community Forum now has Chat!

The Community Forum recently got an update that includes a chat feature. There are notifications you can turn on so you see when people message you.
The forum is pretty active these days which is great to see, a lot better content retention and search compared to slack.
Give it the community forum a try!
https://community.ortussolutions.com/

ICYMI - New updates released for Java 8, 11, 17, and 19 as of Jan 17 2023

Here's a heads-up that some will want to hear about: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 17, 2023) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well as the current interim update 19. (Note that prior to Java 9, releases of Java were known technically as 1.x, so 8 is referred to in resources below as 1.8.)
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2023/1/17/java_updates_Jan_2023

ICYMI and CLARIFICATION: Beware that latest Oracle JDK installers will REMOVE older JDK installs of that version

Here's something new to beware if you may run the Oracle JDK installer for the recently updated Java 11 or 17, whether on Windows, macOS, or via RPM: the new Oracle jdk installer WILL REMOVE any older previous versions of that JVM version created by previous JDK installers of the same major version. (Note that this issue does not affect those who implement java by extracting it from a compressed file, like a zip or tar.gz.)
Fortunately for some, this issue does NOT affect those running Java 8 or below, or Java 19 or above
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2023/1/23/beware_latest_oracle_JDK_installers_will_remove_older_JDK_installs

Clarification from Charlie regarding the Podcast discussion of this post last week:
 
Brad said that this behavior is “not new”, and I have to say: that’s not correct. As the post goes on to clarify, this change IS documented in last week’s release notes for the Oracle JVM. I’ve updated my post with this new paragraph at the top to clarify that point:

Since I posted this last night, I've heard some people assert "this is not new behavior: Java's always popped up and offered to remove old versions". Those folks are misunderstanding something: that was true of past JRE installers (like in Java 8 and earlier, which don't exist for Java 11), but it was never the case for Oracle JDK installers (even for Java 8). THAT's what's new about the JDK 11 and 17 installers, and it's DOCUMENTED in the release notes, as I discuss below. But it may surprise those who never saw a JDK installer do that, thus this post. (The rest of this post remains unchanged.)

Thanks Charlie for Clarifiying!

ICYMI - CBWire Poll about a CFCasts Series

I’m in the planning stage of developing an ongoing video series for CBWIRE on https://cfcasts.com/. I have several ideas and would like to put it out to the community to vote what you’d like to see most. All series would feature 5-7 minute bit-sized videos posted regularly (probably weekly) until the series is finished.
https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/poll-cbwire-cfcasts-com-series/9513

New Releases and Updates

ICYMI - CBSecurity - V 3.0.0

This module will enhance your ColdBox applications by providing out-of-the-box security.
Now with a cool Security Visualizer too!!!

Change Log is packed - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbsecurity#changeLog

https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbsecurity

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Event Calendar for Google
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

Ortus Fridays are back in Full Effect in 2023

• ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - Jan 20th 2023 - CBWIRE Coding Session - Let’s build an app with CBWIRE with Grant Copley - 11 AM CST https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2023/videos/cbwire-live-coding-session-with-grant-copley 
• Ortus Office Hours - Feb 3rd, 2023 - 11 AM CST
  • Registration
    • https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO-hrz8iHNS0C3o0aw2x3JMtmBrKwzfA 
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