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The best part about open source projects is you! Many hands make light work and at Ortus we love getting input from the many smart community members out there.  The first way you can help is to report bugs or enhancements in our ticket tracking system.  You can read our guide for that here:

http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/how-to-create-a-jira-account-and-enter-coldbox-tickets

The second thing you can do is to actually submit fixes yourself!  This may seem scary, but it's a pretty straight forward process once you've done it once.  We can never have too many people willing to help. Let's jump in and cover the steps it takes to submit some code to the ColdBox Platform.

We have put out a patch release 2.1.1 for CommandBox today.  This fixes a bug in the "update" and "outdated" commands that caused them to error after you had installed packages from an endpoint other than ForgeBox.  Note, packages installed from HTTP(S) and Git endpoints will always show as outdated and will always update since those endpoints don't provide a way to ...

We at Ortus are excited to announce Gavin Pickin as the new ContentBox evangelist.  He has been involved with the Box Community for a very long time and has always brought great ideas and help to the team and product s...

Following on the heels of our CommandBox 2.1.0 release, we will be hosting a CommandBox Connection webinar this Wednesday (Aug 19th) at 11am CDT.  Come hang out for an informal...

We've just released a minor release of CommandBox, our CLI, REPL, Package Manager, and Embedded server.  This version has a number of small fixes to CommandBox as well as the embedded libraries like Runwar.  We've polished up some things like piping content and new high-res icons. &nb...

For the last 3 years, Ortus Solutions has put on a week-long online training extravaganza called ColdBox Developers Week, or CBDW.  These are completely free webinars that you can watch from the comfort of your home or office, and the best part is they're ALL RECORDED for your belated viewing pleasure.  Obviously we've grown to more than ColdBox despite ...

We are excited to be part of CFCamp 2015 this year.  This is truly an awesome conference with over 26 different sessions, amazing speakers and of course it is hosted in one of my favorite cities in the world,

We are proud to announce today a nice minor release for Ortus DataBoss Version 1.5.0.  This release brings about several important fixes and trial version updates.  DataBoss 2.0.0 is already in the planning stages with a full migration to a ColdBox 4 module and CommandBox integration. 

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• [DATABOSS-93] - Collection Manager not display null as label values but escaped HTML
• [DATABOSS-94] - Internet Explorer support via Bootstrap needs the scripts to load after CSS has loaded
• [DATABOSS-95] - Singular relationships not being ordered correctly on editor lookups
• [DATABOSS-96] - Standalone version acting with trial edition, as build not replacing right content,
• [DATABOSS-97] - one to many relationships not being ordered correctly on collection manager dropdowns

We are so excited to bring our training Bootcamp series back to Munich for 3 days of intense Box training r...

CommandBox 2.0.0 is now available for installation as the latest stable version of the CFML REPL, Package Manager, and Embedded Server.  This is a major release and will required you to update your "box" binary.  It will install itself on first run and can upgrade over a 1.x...