This release introduces several new features aimed at enhancing the usability and functionality of BoxLang. We have closed a tremendous amounts of bugs on this release in order to bring more compatibility and stability to BoxLang. We have also started to introduce performance enhancements and more innovations as we progress towards final release. Enjoy!
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.
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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-beta13
New Features
BL-142 Writedump output support
We have finalized the console
output for the dump component, but we have also added the following ticket:
BL-508 New dump event to listen when an non-core output is detected so modules can handle it. onMissingDumpOutput
Which will allow module developers to collaborate their own output destinations for any dump in the language. This is something we have wanted for years and it's now a possibility. Just listen to the onMissingDumpOutput
interception point, you get all the arguments to the BIF or component and you decide where things will go. VScode Dump Panel, here we come.
The console
output has also been enhanced where everything will be pretty printed, including labels.
BL-489 Ability to mark a @BoxBif as excluded from documentation
This is more of an internal documentation process for the team.
BL-504 New dump template for Java instants
Java Instants will now be dumped nicely with an internal representation and a human readable representation.
BL-507 dump showUDFs
All the arguments for dumps are now available including this one for controlling the dumping of UDFs on classes.
Improvements
BL-497 Simplify BoxLang class dumps
BL-499 Add output and format to dump
BL-501 Some BIFs not fully supporting BigDecimal values
BL-517 access e.cause as shortcut for e.getCause()
BL-518 When creating an abstract class a new `AbstractClassException` is thrown. Great for testing frameworks
Bugs
BL-223 queryaddcolumn ignores the datatype
BL-471 Issue with #dateTimeFormat(now(),'mm-dd-yyyy')# function returning incorrect results
BL-492 structnew( "linked" ) doesn't work
BL-493 argumentCollection doesn't work with implicit constructor
BL-494 directory component must always return query
BL-498 BoxNewTransformer using hard-coded context name
BL-500 toNumeric() not accepting radix values of 2-36
BL-502 cannot cast [x to object] on generic caster when using `QuerySetCell()`
BL-505 Issue with `Duplicate()` Function Causing Null Pointer Exception in BoxLang
BL-506 final keyword not working on this scope
BL-509 directoryList() filters are not working as closures/lambdas as they are hardcoded as strings
BL-510 Cannot invoke "ortus.boxlang.runtime.types.Query.isEmpty()" because "this.query" is null
BL-511 Multiple pipe-delimited glob patterns are not working as directoryList filters
BL-512 DuplicationUtil not doing deep clones of structs according to all types
BL-513 Throwing custom type exceptions just shows `custom` as the type instead of the actual type in the throw
BL-514 remote access not treated as public but as private for functions
BL-515 Interfaces don't support multiple inheritance
BL-516 CFC source type not detected correctly for abstract or final classes
BL-521 Metadata with : in them in cfml mode not treated correctly
BL-522 xml entity parsing issue when calling `toString()` on Java objects
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