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It has been a busy past few months here at Ortus Solutions and we have some cool new stuff to share with the world today.  We have updates for all our major open source libraries this week. Some are minor releases and some are cool enhancement releases thanks to everybody's feedback and contributions.  You can find much more about the releases in our ColdBox engineering blog or in our online documentation wiki:

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We are proud to announce CacheBox version 1.5. This is a minor update. You can read our What's new with CacheBox 1.5 to get a better idea of this release.

This release contains an update to internal core files and LogBox v1.7.  It also has improvements ...

We are proud to announce LogBox version 1.7.0. This is a very small update release. You can read in detail about this release in our What's new with LogBox 1.7.0.

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We are proud to announce MockBox 2.1. This version of MockBox includes some important fixes for your mocking adventures. You can read our What's new with MockBox 2.1 to get a better idea of this release.

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We are so proud to announce our general availability of ColdBox LITE!  Hmm, what is ColdBox LITE?

ColdBox LITE (CBL) is an MVC framework with a subset of features of the ColdBox Platform that deal with MVC only. Thus, providing a light-weight conventions based MVC framework. Since ColdBox itself is built with modularity, CBL was the last piece we wanted to decouple from the platform to provide yet another standalone library for ColdFusion. CBL focuses on providing developers a light weight MVC engine in two flavors:

• CBL Standard
• CBL Standard with ORM

The ORM flavor includes all of our ORM additions such as Active Entity, ORM base and virtual services, Hibernate criteria and detached criteria builders and ORM Dependency Injection. CBL also includes WireBox as the standard engine that provides access to the model, dependency injection and persistence.

We are proud to announce WireBox version 1.7.0. This is minor release that brings some important fixes but also some cool new enhancements. You can read in detail about this release in our What's new with WireBox 1.7.0.

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We are proud to announce ColdBox Platform release version 3.7.0 and ColdBox DevBox 2.4. This is an important release that addresses many important issues, but also introduces some great enhancements. There are no compatibility updates needed and here are our "What's New" guideline:

• What's new with ColdBox 3.7.0

This update includes updates to all of our major internal libraries as well (blog posts coming as well):

• WireBox 1.7
• CacheBox 1.5
• MockBox 2.1
• LogBox 1.7

The most considerable new features in this release are done in the areas of the HTML helper and generation, RESTFul services, rendering data, ORM relationship compositions via population, i18n enhancements and integration testing enhancements.

If you're using external Jar files in your project, you may be loading them at run time with Mark Mandel's JavaLoader project.  (CF10 allows for dynamic loading of Jar files, but for people still on CF8, or 9, JavaLoader is the defacto method)
If you're manually creating and using the JavaLoader CFC, please remember that WireBox has a dedicated "JavaLoader" namespace in its mapping DSL to handle this for you using ColdBox's JavaLoader Plugin.  Here all you have to do:

Thanks to Adobe for allowing us to present on DataBoss Dynamic ORM Administrator this past July 3rd.  Here is our recording and slide deck so you can download and view it online.

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Today was the final day of our second annual week of free ColdBox/ContentBox training.  We are very pleased with the success of the event and want to thank each of our wonderful speakers as well as all you attendees who showed up and had a great time with us while learning about our platform.  This year we had almost 250 people registered from 15 countries around the world including Germany, Brazil, India, Ukraine, and Pakistan.