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BoxLang 1.0.0 Beta 12 Launched

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Jon Clausen August 30, 2024

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Jon Clausen

August 30, 2024

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This update contains 9 features and improvements and 8 bug fixes. Thank you for your continued support and stay tuned for more exciting developments!

What is BoxLang?

BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language that can be deployed on multiple runtimes: operating system (Windows/Mac/*nix/Embedded), web server, lambda, iOS, android, web assembly, and more. BoxLang combines many features from different programming languages, including Java, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP, to provide developers with a modern and expressive syntax.

It is also a drop-in replacement for Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee Engines.

How to get started?

Visit our docs at https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com and get coding today. If you want to try it out on the web then go to our online REPL at https://try.boxlang.io. You can also checkout our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNE-ZbNnndB-40LvAbeSeT2Oi3V2gm_B8

Release Notes

Here are the latest release notes: https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/readme/release-history/1.0.0-beta12

New Features

  • BL-438 - Zip Components, Utility and incorporating BIFS
  • BL-487 - Implement pagePoolClear()
  • BL-491 - Add the ability to configure the CF transpiler
  • BL-490 - Transpiler doesn't handle attributeCollection

Improvements

  • BL-486 - Compiler thread safety
  • BL-485 - Implements SystemCacheClear()
  • BL-483 - Allow "object" passed to throw to be a struct representation of an exception
  • BL-480 - Added all missing boxlang types to BoxLangType class
  • BL-479 - Address parser performance by limiting operator reserved words
  • BL-478 - Change template parsers to use SLL prediction mode
  • BL-477 - Improve parsing performance by only calculating lines of code on error
  • BL-474 - Add ValueRequiresOneOf Validator

Bugs

  • BL-484 - Lock expects timeout to be minimum of 1
  • BL-481 - numeric literals with leading zeros are confused with octal values in java source
  • BL-482 - getApplicationMetadata() fails before application listener is defined
  • BL-476 - AST string values incorrectly unescaped outside of cfoutput
  • BL-475 - Pretty printer incorrect for default case ending tag

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