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Tip of the Week: ColdBox Now More Secure By Default

Brad Wood |  December 19, 2013

We try not to break backwards compatibility in the ColdBox framework, but sometimes there's a compelling reason to do so.  In the notes for the 3.8 release you may have seen [COLDBOX-218] - Default reinit and debug hashed passwords.

Taking a cue from recent breaches on the Internet, we're focusing on making things more "secure by default".  Th...

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Announcing Into The Box - The First Box-Centric CFML Conference

Brad Wood |  December 19, 2013

For everyone going to cf.Objective() in 2014, you won't to miss the one-day Into The Box conference which will cover all things 'Box including ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and much more!  In...

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ColdBox Platform v3.8.0 + Libraries Released

Luis Majano |  December 18, 2013

It is a happy day here at Ortus Solutions as we bring you yet again a plethora of releases of all our major open source libraries.  This is the culmination of over 6 months of hard work to get you updates for all of our major open source libraries and even a new library, TestBox.  You can read more about our releases in our engineering blog:


TestBox 1.0.0 BDD and TDD Framework Released

Luis Majano |  December 18, 2013

Much work and dedication has gone by these past few months in order to bring you the final release of TestBox v1.0.0.  For those of you that do not know what TestBox is, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing framework,...

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TestBox BDD/xUnit Testing v1.0.0 Final

Luis Majano |  December 18, 2013

We are so tremendously happy to finally bring you the final version of: TestBox 1.0.0.  We have been working tremendously hard to get this release out before the holidays, so please enjoy it.  We have also introduced two new ref cards for TestBox, which are available now as well.  For those of you who do not know about Tes...

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ColdBox LITE v1.2.0 Released

Luis Majano |  December 18, 2013

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:

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.

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