Modernize or Die ® Podcast | Episode 231

April 15, 2025 • 24 Minutes

Episode 231 | April 15th, 2025

Join hosts Daniel Garcia and Eric Peterson as they dive into the latest news and updates in the BoxLang and CFML world. Don’t miss out on insights, discussions, and what’s coming next for modern software development! 🚀

#BoxLang #CFML #ColdFusion #Adobe #AdobeColdFusion #Java #JavaScript #Security #Software #Web #App #WebDevelopment #JVM

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Ortus News

ITB

We have just 20 on-site tickets left! - Early bird is now gone
- https://IntotheBox2025.eventbrite.com
- Workshops (Only available for On-site attendees): 3 Spots left for our “Getting Started with BoxLang Workshop” led by Jon, Brad, and Luis. We have other great options to consider as well: HERE
Team Packs are still available until the Ticket Sale ends based on Early bird Pricing:
- Early Duo Pack: Buy 1, Get one 50% Off
- Early Team Pack: Buy 2, Get 1 Free
Online version
- Into the Box 2025 - Virtual Ticket is out: https://ITB_Virtual_2025.eventbrite.com
- Last chance to get Early Bird Online Ticket - prices go up on May 16th, 2025
- General Entry Online Event - Starts April 16th - May 2nd

Products

CommandBox 6.2.0 released. What's New
- This release contains 9 tickets-- several bug fixes and a couple nice new features:
  - Jakarta Servlet support - important for BoxLang, ACF 2025, and Lucee 7
  - Server Warmup URLs
  - More info? https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-620-released
coldbox-vite-plugin updated
- v3.0.0 (v3.0.2)
- Support for Vite 5 + 6
- Get started quickly with our template: https://forgebox.io/view/cbtemplate-vite
Quick v11.2
- Eager loading helpers
  - Automatically load specified relationships for an entity
  - Disable all lazy loading to catch N+1 problems

SPONSOR — ORTUS SOLUTIONS

CommandBox Pro
- Features
  - Support
    - Support, SLA, and trust from Ortus.
  - Service Manager Module
    - Create and manage operating system services for Unix, Mac, and Windows that map to CommandBox websites.
  - FORGEBOX Pro account
    - Get an included PRO account with every CommandBox Pro license you purchase.
  - Multi-server features
    - Deploy 1 or 1000 applications on a single context.
  - Automatic JDK management
    - Manage the JDK and version to use on each specific application you deploy.
  - SNI Support
    - SNI Support for multiple SSL certs on the same IP address
- Website: https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox-pro

If you want to get your product or service in front of our wondering BoxLang and CFML audience, reach out to us on our website.

BoxLang

BoxLang 1.0.0 RC3 has been launched!
- Features
  - Performance
  - bx-orm
  - Virtual Threads
- Scheduler
  - CLI Scheduler(!)
- And More!
- https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-rc3-has-landed
BoxLang Stable Release:
The BoxLang Stable Release is dropping at Into the Box 2025!
Be part of the big reveal on May 1st, whether you're joining us online or in person. We’ll get you up and running with everything you need to start building powerful projects—fast and easy.
- https://boxlang.io/plans
BoxLang Virtual Machines Now on AWS
- https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=boxlang

CFML Updates

Security Updates
- Adobe
  - Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB25-15
    - https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb25-15.html
- Lucee
  - Lucee CVE-2024-55354 Security Advisory, April 2025
    - https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-cve-2024-55354-security-advisory-april-2025/14963
Lucee 6.2.1.112-RC Final Release Candidate
- https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-6-2-1-112-rc-final-release-candidate/14940/1
Blog Posts
- PDF Generation, Bloat and Optimization (James Moberg)
  - Related: https://forgebox.io/view/wkhtmltopdf
HTTP GET And HTTP POST Are Sufficient (For Me) In ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
- Counter argument: Cruddy By Design (Adam Wathan)
Getting the Clients IP Address Using Lucee and ColdFusion (Gregory Alexander)
- Related: https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbsecurity/blob/6dbcdcac3ae651a3406445ba902733bee5a696b2/models/CBSecurity.cfc#L601-L631

Events

Into The Box
- April 30th - May 2nd, 2025 - Washington, DC
- https://www.intothebox.org
CFCamp
- May 22 - 23rd, 2025 - Munich, Germany
- https://www.cfcamp.org
- Luis Majano, Brad Wood will be there!
Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025.
- September 22 - 23rd
- Certification available September 21 or 24th
- https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com

Thank you

Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters!

These individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need,

Their Contributions fund the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like

ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox.

You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

Don’t forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses everyone.

Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription.
All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website
All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website
All Patreon supporters have their own Private Channel access BoxTeam Slack

https://community.ortussolutions.com

And many more Patreons - up to 61 now!!!!!

You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Website

https://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

01:51 Ortus News

03:36 Product Updates

08:47 SPONSOR: CommandBox Pro

10:03 BoxLang Corner

13:42 CFML Updates

24:51 Upcoming Events