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Hi everyone, great news! Ortus is rolling out our new Ortus Community site to help consolidate all of our community support and interaction. As part of that effort, all our Google Group threads have been imported to the new Ortus Community and effective immediately, our Google Groups are closed for further posting.

After many many months of development, testing and waiting, we are finally able to release a major major update to our localization and internationalization library for ColdBox: cbi18n version 2.x. This release is a huuuge advancement for building localized applications and websites and partly thanks to Mr Wil de Bruin (shiftinsert.nl). This release introduces the ability to use json resource bundles, multiple bundles per module, cbStorages for tracking locales, property inheritance and so much more! There are a few compatiblity issues, so make sure you read them to upgrade to version 2.x if not you can easily update using CommandBox

install cbi18n
update cbi18n

Today we released ColdBox v6.2.2 as a minor path. Please update if you are affected by the issues shown in the release notes.

update coldbox

# If you are using standalone libraries, then update those
update wirebox
update cachebox
update logbox

Release Notes [6.2.2] => 2021-JAN-1...

VS Code is the hottest IDE out there, and the most asked question I get at every conference I attend is: "What VS Code extensions are you using?". Since I got this question so much, we decided to dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to VS Code Hints, Tips and Tricks. We had 50 episodes in 2020, each with a VS Code hint tip or trick, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.

ForgeBox is the NPM of the ColdFusion world, and with CommandBox, CFML's CLI, you can easily add new functionality to your project with a simple `box install packageName`. 

We dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to ForgeBox Modules. We had approximately 50 episodes in 2020, each with a ForgeBox Module, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.

This week we debuted the Windows 2019+Boncode+Tomcat AMI. Complete with optimized Windows 2019 and Tomcat 9 settings, CFML applications will be highly performant and secure. This stack will also allow users to build high-performance production or development machines based on Lucee 5.3.6.61 CFML and with CommandBox 5 as the CLI companion.

This is another step completed in our initiative to build and offer several cloud server images to help our customers run scalable ColdFusion (CFM...

We are so excited to bring you another great release of the ColdBox Platform v6.2.0!

Today we are announcing the release of CommandBox 5.2.1.  This is a patch release for 5.2.0 that fixes a few small regressions and adds a few features.

We find beauty in the ordinary, and that was what some of our team members in El Salvador were tasked with, finding the beauty in everyday life. Our photography contest featured breathtaking images that took our breath away to say the least. 

The team ventured out and captured images in an internal contest. Given their amazing response, we decided to share the winners with you all: