2024-08-06 Weekly News — Episode 217

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News and Announcements

BoxLang — Dynamic : Modular : Productive

https://boxlang.io/
https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/

New Releases and Updates

CFConfig v2.0.6
Now supports BoxLang servers

Spreadsheet-CFML v4.1.0 – v4.2.0

• Add moveSheet()
• Add sheet position to sheetInfo() properties
• Upgrade POI to 5.3.0, commons-csv to 1.11.0 and excel-streaming-reader to 4.4.0
• Allow datatype to be specified with addColumn()

Sentry v2
Updated to match Sentry’s current event structure design

cbq v3.0.8 – v3.0.9
SyncProvider bug fixes

BoxLang Betas — Beta 2 through 8
Beta 2

New Features

• Encryption module — bx-password-encrypt
• New event: onRequestFlushBuffer
• Ability to coerce BoxLang functions, lambdas, and UDFs, to well-known functional interfaces for Java interop
• Add parallel streams from BoxLang arrays
• Truthy / Falsey completion for boolean caster
• New Fluent Attempt BIF and class
• Add the ability to add member methods to BoxLang classes — built-in class serialization to JSON
• New static helper on Array class: fromString( list, delimiter ) to create quick BoxLang arrays from strings
• New BIFs for registered interceptors into the request pool and the global pool: BoxRegisterRequestInterceptor, BoxRegisterInterceptor
• writeDump abort support
• writeOutput on complex BoxLang types should call the toString() on it
• Native encrypt, decrypt and generateSecretKey() BIFs

Bug Fixes

• writeDump expanded collapsed support
• writeDump top support
• listDeleteAt returns a list with multiple delimiters as a list with whole delimiters
• structNew with localeSensitive flag throws error
• structKeyTranslate returns void
• structGet does not create struct when missing
• structFindValue returning null owner
• No named applications not auto creating name
• Application listener requests interception points not registered
• Ambiguous if statements when not using curly braces
• this.javasettings not expanding to correct pathing
• this.javasettings ignores paths to actual jars and classes
• cfdirectory fails on centOS, converting datetime
• dateAdd() modifies its argument
• toString not formatting doubles correctly
• Attempt to cast instead of expecting strings inside isValid
• Regression on JSON serialization of box classes with JSON exclude annotations

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-2-launched

Beta 3

New Features

• Implement query cache ability
• Coerce java SAMs (Single Abstract Method interface) from BoxLang function interfaces
• AsyncService support for Virtual Thread Executors (create/manage)
• Bifs for module info: getModuleList() and getModuleInfo( module )
• Dumping of Java Classes now includes a dump of the toString() value to visualize values better
• New dump template for BoxLang Functions
• Allow the createDynamicProxy BIF to support the request class loader so it can load classes from loaded libraries in the application.bx, runtime, and more.
• New Script Binaries for bxCFTranspiler, bxCompiler, bxFeatureAudit tools in the distribution bin folder

Improvements

• Refactor JDBC connection retrieval out of the QueryOptions class
• Dynamic method matching discovery algorithms updated to do 2 pass algorithm: exact then loose coercion matching
• Improvement of cache service and cache provider methods for easier BoxLang interactions
• Refactored the dump css to resources/dump/html/Dump.css
• Migrate dynamic proxies to native java implementation from the JDK
• Passing the session id to the onSessionStart listener
• Give better warnings if the sessionStorage is not a valid string

Bug Fixes

• attributecollection not handled properly on cfthrow
• Left in system out calls that need to be removed
• JSR ScriptEngine starting runtime without debug flag if passed
• Creating a default cache was not setting the right name and a "default" already registered exception was being thrown
• Default argument values not always checked for type
• Implements missing from Box Class metadata
• Static Scope missing from metadata

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-3-launched

Beta 4

Improvements

• Query caching improvements and compatibility updates
• Ensure request attributes are available to the web runtime scope
• bx-compat CFML compatibility module updates to ensure null query column values are returned as empty strings

Bug Fixes

• Fixes compilation issue with variables name cfcatch
• CFML compatibility for CGI.QUERY_STRING when not provided
• Fix null queryparam functionality

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-4-launched

Beta 5

New Features

• Data Navigators
• Original Configuration
• StringBind BIF and member function
• At...