Modernize or Die® - CFML News for October 12th, 2021 - Episode 122

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2021-10-12 Weekly News - Episode 122

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/qESNVAHyTmg

Hosts:

• Brad Wood - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

CommandBox 5.4.2 Released!

There is a new update for CommandBox CLI available. Version 5.4.2 is a patch update that contains a few bug fixes including two important ones.
There is a fix for a regression introduced in 5.4.0 where updating the version of a CF engine doesn't work without forgetting the server first.
There is also an important security improvement to CommandBox servers. Thanks to Abram Adams for reporting this to Ortus so we could address it.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-542-released

CFML REPO - New Google Drive Link fixes Security updates

Google rolls out some security changes / updates recently and all of a sudden Gavin got inundated with emails asking for access to the CFML Repo files that people needed.
It’s awesome to see so many people using it.
After some researching, Gavin found the issue was a google security update, and required changed to drive folders and files. There is a new link released on the website, so hopefully that should solve all the access issues people were having.
http://www.cfmlrepo.com/

More Info on the CF9/8 Ransomware Attack

If you're running CF9 or 8, beware: a recent spate of ransomware attacks have occurred, hitting such old CF servers that were not updated (in ways offered by Adobe in 2010!) This news has been reported in various security industry press, but Charlie wants to share here more that they generally did not.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2021/10/11/beware_ransomware_attacks_cf9_and_earlier/

ICYMI - Into the Box 2021 - Videos are now available
Videos are now available on CFCasts!
https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021

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ICYMI - ContentBox v5 released

We are incredibly excited to announce the release of the ContentBox Modular CMS v5 series. This has been a work over 1 year with a complete refocus and rearchitecturing of the core to take ContentBox to the next 10 years. It is also great to note that we are Professional Open Source, FREE, FOREVER. This series includes tons of great features and updates that will take your content management to the next level. From multi-site support, a companion CLI, to a complete Headless CMS deployment, your will be able to deliver your projects in no time.

Blog post - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/contentbox-v5x-released
Marketing site - https://www.contentboxcms.org/
Docs - https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/v/v5.x/

ICYMI - Modernize Or Die Podcast - SoapBox Edition - Relaunching Oct 7th

Luis Majano is hosting a series of Community Members over the coming months.
Interview format.
Several episodes are recorded and prepped for release.
https://soapbox.modernizeordie.io/

Ortus Webinar for October - Gavin Pickin - Building Quick APIs - the extended version

In this session we will use ColdBox’s built in REST BaseHandler, and with CBSecurity and Quick ORM we will set up a secure API using fluent query language - and you’ll see how quick Quick development can be!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Hacktoberfest 2021

Support open source throughout October!
Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year. Complete the 2021 challenge and earn a limited edition T-shirt.
GIVING TO OPEN SOURCE
Open-source projects keep the internet humming—but they can’t do it without resources. Donate and support their awesome work.
TREES NOT TEES
Rather than receive t-shirts as swag, you can choose to have a tree planted in your name and help make Hacktoberfest 2021 more carbon neutral.
To win a reward, you must sign up on the Hacktoberfest site and make four pull requests on any repositories classified with the 'hacktoberfest 'topic on GitHub or GitLab by October 31.
If an Ortus Solutions repo that you want to contribute to is not marked with the `hacktoberfest` topic, please let us know so we can fix it.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Adobe 1 Day Workshop - Adobe ColdFusion Workshop with Damien Bruyndonckx

Wed, November 10, 2021
09:00 - 17:00 CEST EUROPEAN
Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise.
https://coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Soapbox Relaunch - ColdBox Anniversary Edition with Eric Peterson
• All of the Into the Box 2021 videos

Coming this week

• Up and Running with Quick

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Conferences and Training

VueJS Live

October 20-21, 2021 - Online and London, Uk
Remote and In Person Tickets Available
https://vuejslive.com/

Microsoft Ignite

November 2–4, 2021
Opportunity awaits, with dedicated content spotlighting Microsoft Business Applications and Microsoft Security.
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2021

December 7th and 8th - Virtual
Spea...