The bx-image module can now generate and read QR codes. Two new functions, a string member function, and two new bx:image actions. No extra dependencies for you to manage.
QR Codes Come to BoxLang Images
Your application is slow. Something is failing. Where do you start looking?
On October 28, 2026, at 11:00 AM CDT, join Luis Majano, Ortus Solutions CEO and BoxLang creator, for a live, hands-on look at how observability and AI come together in BoxLang.
BoxLang Under the Lens: Observability Meets AI introduces BxLens, Lensy, and the additional monitoring capabilities of BoxLang+.
The bx-image module can now generate and read QR codes. Two new functions, a string member function, and two new bx:image actions. No extra dependencies for you to manage.
Ortus Solutions today announces CBSecurity 3.9, a major step forward for securing ColdBox applications. This release adds 12 ready-made security middleware that you attach directly to routes and route groups, with no firewall rules required.
Adobe ColdFusion 2021 reaches the end of extended support on November 10, 2026. If your application still runs on this release, the time to decide what comes next is now.
Adobe ended core support for ColdFusion 2021 on November 10, 2025. The current extended support period is best effort and does not include security patches or hotfixes. When it ends on November 10 2026, organizations will no longer have that support option from Adobe for ColdFusion 2021.
Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of TestBox 7.2, the biggest TestBox release in years. Built on the new bx-playwright 1.0 module, BoxLang specs can now drive a real browser, assert with web-first matchers that wait until they pass, and keep the screenshots, traces and videos of every failure. Around it, TestBox gains spec retries, a Run Failed option, a rebuilt set of HTML reporters with Ask AI on every failure, and a new Agent reporter that lets AI agents read a test run at minimal token cost.
Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of bx-playwright 1.0, fluent browser automation and testing for BoxLang, powered by Microsoft Playwright. It ships alongside TestBox 7.2 and ColdBox 8.3, which bring real-browser testing straight into your specs. Drive Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, test full user journeys, render PDFs and images, and give your AI agents a real browser to verify the BoxLang applications they build.
Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of ColdBox 8.3, a feature release focused on real-browser testing and route composition. Annotate a BaseTestCase spec with @browser and drive a real browser against your running ColdBox application, with named route helpers that know your routes. And with the Playwright driver behind it, the same browser can render PDFs and screenshots of your ColdBox views. This release also brings named route middleware with registerMiddleware(), route metadata shared by a whole group(), integration tests that run route middleware like a real request, and thread-safe WireBox scope wiring.
Sentry 2.2.0 brings tracing, structured logs, metrics, browser feedback, and a handful of welcome fixes to your CFML and BoxLang applications. There’s quite a bit packed into this minor release!
And yes, it is a minor release. Your existing error reporting continues to work, and all of the new integrations are opt-in. You can upg...
Ortus Solutions today announces the official release of the BoxLang package for Sublime Text 4, the newest member of the BoxLang productivity tool suite.
Ortus Solutions today announces the general availability of RuleBox 2.0.0, a modern, natural-language rules engine for BoxLang and ColdBox applications. It is a BoxLang-only rewrite, and it ships with rules as data, declared rulebooks, dry runs, an audit trail, and a built-in Rule Visualizer.