Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for August 6th, 2024 - Episode 217

2024-08-06 Weekly News — Episode 217

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Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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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