Modernize or Die® - CFML News for March 31st, 2020

2020-03-31 Weekly News - Episode 47

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

Hosts:

Brad Wood - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions
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News and Events

Lucee Announcing Lucee 5.3.5.92 (final) and 5.3.4.80 (hotfix)

First, here’s a big picture update about recent development efforts. First, regarding the previous final release of Lucee–5.3.4.77–most folks by now have noticed there was a “silent release,” and in fact the latest final build of 5.3.4 is 5.3.4.80. This was actually a hotfix, which ended up being related to some especially challenging ongoing bugs, which we’d thought we’d fixed by 5.3.4.77, but hadn’t. Thus, working closely with the community, and in particular a couple of member organizations who really help a ton with iterative testing, we decided the fixes were important enough to warrant a hotfix release, which came out very quickly (~ 2 weeks) after the original final build. So quickly, in fact, that we got behind on a formal post about it (that’s on me; apologies!). In parallel, we were working on finalizing the latest 5.3.5 release candidate. We found some regressions during the RC period, and in addition, many of the 5.3.4 hotfixes made it into 5.3.5 as well. Details on both final builds are below.

https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-5-92-final-and-5-3-4-80-hotfix/6801

Adobe CF2020 -  No more GUI based installers for ColdFusion next? – Need your feedback

Many of you may have also heard about some of the changes that we are making to the product, such as reducing the overall size of the installer to around 200 MB. We are able to accomplish this because we are breaking the CF runtime into tiny modules that can be installed on demand whenever needed.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/03/no-gui-based-installers-coldfusion-next-need-feedback/

cbSecurity 2.3 Released

We are excited to bring you another release for cbSecurity packed with security goodness: version 2.3.0. This version focuses on security contexts from ANY layer of a ColdBox application. It will also enhance your functional skills as well, as it introduces some nice semantics for securing your code.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbsecurity-23-released

Qb v7.6.0 is released

Small quality of life improvements.
https://qb.ortusbooks.com/whats-new#7-6-0

CBGuard v4.1.1 is released

cbguard now allows you to check for authorization at any point in the request lifecycle using the Guard@cbguard component.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbguard

ColdBox 6 Beta is close

Luis has been working on the RestController in ColdBox 6.
Beta could be out as early as next week!!!

What's New In CommandBox 5  Screencast Series - Library Updates

Learn about the new libraries in CommandBox and how to determine the current version of Lucee that your CLI is running.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-library-updates

Matthew Clementes CommandBox Screencast and Live Stream Series

Matthew has done 4 live streams, and released 2 other screencasts already. Usually streams Wednesday at 8:30PM EST
Subscribe to keep up to date with his latest videos and streams.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC09HBVzOOyx1bdgRgo2CB4A

ContentBox CMS Customer Experience Survey

ContentBox, our signature professional open-source modular content management system for ColdFusion (CFML),  recently celebrated 8 years in the market. For sure, it has been a solid base for many companies to easily build websites, blogs, wikis, complex web applications, and RESTFul web services.
We are ramping up our planning for our next generation of the ContentBox platform and we need your feedback.
Please take some time to let us know your opinion, so we can start cooking some CMS goodness!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScs2sbby0zLu6kJSQA_VqT5-ZGYsLpCI7IRgJMepxPk-BG8gw/viewform

Upcoming Adobe Webinar - Journey through the Adobe ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Tool

Presenter: Elishia Dvorak
April 9th, 11am PDT
This session is all about demos, no slides! From start to finish, we’ll take you through the nitty gritty of troubleshooting and setting yourself up in Adobe’s ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Tool to troubleshoot the main issues that keep you awake at night. We’ll run through setting up different types of notifications, threshold settings, auto tuning, and even some simulations to give you a good sense of how the PMT can help you diagnose your craziest ColdFusion issues.
https://cfwebinar-journey-pmt.meetus.adobeevents.com/

In case you missed it - Adobe Webinar - Microservices Architecture: Trends and Challenges
Presenter: Elishia Dvorak
March 25th, 9am PDT
In this session we’ll focus our discussion on microservices trends, architecture, and challenges. The reality for most of us is that our applications have organically grown over the years and exist today in different states. We typically inherit a hybrid of monolith with the addition of services and integrated disparate systems. Much of the time we do not have the opportunity to start from the ground up, rather build from a certain point for modernization and future growth. The ability to completely modernize and decouple the entire architecture is limited by resources and budget constraints among other factors. In this session we’ll review some of the current trends in microservices architecture with a focus on existing application transformation and challenges.
Register and view recording: https://cfwebinar-trends.meetus.adobeevents.com/

In case you missed it - Fusion Reactor Webinar - Installing FusionReactor in dynamic environments

25 March - 3PM EST - 7PM UTC
This session will cover how to au...