Modernize or Die® - CFML News for September 28th, 2021 - Episode 120

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2021-09-28 Weekly News - Episode 120

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rXPASiVo6ks
Hosts:

Eric Peterson - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there.
A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

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Patreon Support

We have 38 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.
We are now 41% of the way to our next goal, fully funding the ForgeBox.io site.
Now offering Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.

News and Events

Into the Box 2021 - Recap

Great Success! Especially the Viral Edgardo Cabezas with his Reggaeton - Video available :D

CBWire v1.0.0 - https://cbwire.ortusbooks.com/

Qb v8.7.0 & v8.7.1 Released - https://qb.ortusbooks.com/whats-new#8-7-0

ForgeBox v6.0.0

Stachebox v1.0.0 - ElasticSearch, LogStash, and FileBeats viewer

ContentBox v5.0.0 - Using Tailwind and AlpineJS got some love from attendees and twitter
MULTI-SITE!!! New CLI installation and manager

New Ortus Github Actions for CFFormat, DocBox, Fixinator, Semantic Release
https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/fixinator-action
https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox-action
https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/semantic-release-action

New Adobe ColdFusion Product Manager - In the Adobe Session Mark Takata had a lot of really encouraging things to say about the new #ColdFusion Product Manager who is gearing up to take over the direction of CF!

For More information:
Keynote Day 1: https://youtu.be/NNYK1-NPBeI
Keynote Day 2: https://youtu.be/jK8RfFLQZjo
Full Session Videos coming to CFCasts soon
https://intothebox.org

CommandBox v5.4.1 released

We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 5.4.1. This is a patch release with 5 small fixes for the 5.4.0 release. There are a few bug fixes, and a couple small enhancements in this release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-541-released

Lucee-Spreadsheet Release and Rename

Just released v3.0 of my spreadsheet library. Two big changes:
1) it's now "spreadsheet-cfml" instead of "lucee-spreadsheet"
2) calls can now be chained for simpler code (yeah for fluent builder patterns!)
Ortus fixed the forgebox slug so builds will not fail anymore and updating ForgeBox to have failover redirects for future issues in other projects
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/spreadsheet-cfml/
New Name - https://www.forgebox.io/view/spreadsheet-cfml
Old Name - https://www.forgebox.io/view/lucee-spreadsheet

Minor Stable Lucee Release Out - 5.3.8.206

Mainly a CFSchedule fix
https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/compare/5.3.8.201...5.3.8.206

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/

Security Alert - Cring ransomware group exploits ancient ColdFusion server (CF9)

Active exploit of cf9 servers leading to ransomware attacks. This is why you should not be running software that's no longer updated!
Thank for heads up from @viviotech email to their clients, including one we share
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/09/21/cring-ransomware-group-exploits-ancient-coldfusion-server/

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
Signup coming soon

Some people think October is pumpkin spice, halloween, but for us, its HACKTOBERFEST

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/

ICYMI - Adobe ColdFusion Updates Released

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:
ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 2
ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 12
Note: The ColdFusion (2021 release) installers have also been refreshed with this update. The new server installers bundle Update 2 and JDK 11.0.11. The ColdFusion Add-Ons and other installers are bundled with JDK 11.0.11. The refreshed installers are available at ColdFusion downloads.
Biggest update here is supporting Big Sur. (A little late with Monterey just around the corner.)
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-september-updates/

ICYMI - Adobe CF 2021 Docker Images finally on DockerHub

Adobe has been putting their ColdFusion Docker images onto Docker hub
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-2021-docker-image-no...