Modernize or Die® - CFML News for April 21st, 2020

2020-04-21 Weekly News - Episode 50

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AyBjJHOLqv8

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Luis Majano - CEO of Ortus Solutions - Creator of the Box Family

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

ColdBox 6 Beta Released

We are so excited to bring you the first public beta of the next generation of ColdBox HMVC , version 6.0. This version has been in development for quite some time now and it is introducing some revolutionary new programming techniques for ColdFusion (CFML) developers. This major bump is a huge leap into modern programming and breaksthrough to the next generation of apps we are building at Ortus. Enjoy!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-6-beta-released

Lucee Announced new Release Candidate C v5.3.6-RC

Please give it a whirl to see if it's stable before it drops.  You can spin it up easily on CommandBox with
> server start [email protected]
https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-6-53-release-candidate/6907

Ortus Solutions released Ortus Lucee AMI in AWS Marketplace

After several weeks of hard work, Ortus Solutions is proud to release its Lucee CFML Hardened AMI. Ortus long saw the need to bring Lucee CFML servers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Now, users will have a server up and running in seconds without going through configuration hell. As innovation and modernization are key pillars for Ortus, the team decided to provide a smoother and secure experience for developers and devops alike.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ortus-solutions-debuts-its-lucee-ami

Upcoming Ortus Webinar - What's New with CommandBox 5 with Brad Wood
April 30th 11:00 AM EST (GMT -5:00)
Registration is open for April's webinar! You may have noticed that #CommandBox 5.0 released recently and it has many new features and enhancements to improve your development workflow.
Register today
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

In Case You Missed It ( like us ) - Pete’s CFML Newsletter Released - April 1st - Issue No 36

Pete Freitag published a new CFML newsletter: tinyletter.com/cfml featuring the first ever #BoxCorner (thanks @ortussolutions).
Also featuring content from: @michaelborn_me @carehart  @gamesover @mjclemente84 @BenNadel @zackster @bdw429s @jclausen @gpickin @_elpete and more!
Aprils Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/cfml/letters/cfml-news-issue-36
Register for the newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/cfml/archive

In case you missed it: Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 9 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 15 released
In this update, apart from fixing the security vulnerabilities, we’ve also added SameSite cookie support for cfcookie.
CommandBox updates for these versions were released last week as well.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/04/coldfusion-2018-release-update-9-coldfusion-2016-release-update-15-released/

What's New In CommandBox 5  Screencast Series

Brad recorded a series of Screencasts being released every Tuesday and Thursday, this is what has been released so far.

New -  File Globbing Enhancements - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-file-globbing-enhancements

New - Server Start Optimization (Docker) - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-server-start-optimization-docker

Undertow Options https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-undertow-options

Tuning Web Server Max Requests https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-tuning-web-server-max-requests

Lucee Extension Management - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-lucee-extension-management

Git Access Tokens - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-git-access-tokens

Library Updates - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-library-updates

The Community CFML 2020 training project.

We are taking project suggestions. We want to build some tangible solutions, but different members of the community will volunteer for different solutions.
Anyone interested can send John Farrar an email [email protected]
He will be posting details Wed. or Thur. this week.
#community_courses channel on cfml slack
https://cfml-slack.herokuapp.com/

Reminder: State of the CF Union 2020 Survey
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https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2020/
Partial Results: https://teratech.com/state-of-the-CF-Union-2020-partial-Results

Conferences

Adobe CF Summit East 2020 - Cancelled
https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/

Adobe - ColdFusion Specialist Certification POST Conference - CANCELLED
https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Custom?id=3408

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