ColdBox 2.6.0 Final Release is now available.


ColdBox 2.6.0 Final Release is now available.

Posted by Luis Majano
Jul 20, 2008 00:00:00 UTC

ColdBox 2.6.0 is finally out and in final release. You can now download it from the downloads section of the website.  This has been a much anticipated journey and it would have not been possible without all the collaboration from contributors, team members and the community. It would take so many lines to thank everybody, but for this release I want to thank Sana Ullah for a TREMENDOUS amount of work and dedication to the team.  We also welcomed Matt Quackenbush to the team and more might be joining the efforts soon, especially Ernst van der Linden for always helping out and creating tons of sample applications.  So thank you for your time and dedication to this project and making it a true world collaboration project.

As you can see from the image below, ColdBox has become more than just a framework but into a robust application development platform composed of several pieces that when used in conjunction, they can be an incredibly powerful development platform.  ColdBox 2.6.0 introduces tons of new features and optimizations that can be read in the What's New Guide in the official wiki site.


The ColdBox Platform

I also recommend reading the compatibility guide for pre 2.6.0 applications. This guide will show you if there are any compatibility issues with your application when upgrading. It can show you the workarounds and even guide you from version 2.0 if necessary.  Our vision for version 2.6.0 was to solidify our 2.5 features such as caching, interceptions, conventions, stability and tools.  We have included more than 100 cfeclipse snippets, an enhanced insight dictionary for both CFEclipse and Dreamweaver, a new eclipse documentation and reference plugin that will help you read all the documentation about the framework's API and configuration file from within Eclipse Help, a new enhanced ColdBox Dashboard with even more code generation features, more cheatsheets and help.  There are over 500 pages worth of documentation in the ColdBox wiki, searchable and indexed in such a manner that you can find all the information you need.  The entire documentation set has been revised and ready for reading. It has been a long project I undertook more than 2 months ago and finally finalized.  The entire documentation is up to date with version 2.6.0 and also prepared for the upcoming versions.  Version 2.7.0 has already have a few tickets already assigned and the wheels will be spinning to still provide a community based development environment and help developers around the world create better ColdFusion applications. In summary, thank you for the support and contributions to this project, as they are absolutely of the utmost importance to such a community project. 

Also, take note that ColdBox Platform Training Seminars begin this October 4th and 5th in Dallas, Texas. You will be able to register online at our training section of the website and take advantage of our early bird pricing until July 31st.  You will be able to get more than 16 hours of training and several hours of QA with us and discuss your specific needs.  We are extremely excited about how ColdBox will be able to help your business in the future.  So once again, thank you for the support and please enjoy this release.

FAITH

 


Oscar Arevalo

Congratulations to you and the team, I went through the new features guide and everything looks really awesome.

O?uz Demirkap?

Great work! Thanks! :)

Luis Majano

@Tom, Yes as of now the dashboard is closed source. It has been patched over the years and it will be revamped to a 3.0 version for the next release. This release will be open source and be a modules format application. Big plans for the dashboard for the future

bill shelton

Hey Luis,

Thanks for working so hard to make an outstanding framework. ColdBox's quality is truly exceptional and an inspiration!

bill shelton mxunit.org

Tom

great work, congratulation! I remember you mentioned (in a blog entry talking about business model) that the dashboard would be open-sourced in version 2.6, but it's still closed in the release. will it stay in closed?

Qasim Rasheed

Luis,

Congrats to you and the team. I am looking forward to start playing with ColdBox for an upcoming project.

Tony Garcia

Awesome stuff -- thanks!

justin

I really appreciate all the effort Luis. I think what you are doing is absolutely fantastic.

Today, as I was rereading some of the tutorials to broaden my knowledge of CB, I went to some blog sites where ColdBox is mentioned, demonstrated, etc.

Sean Corfield seems to pop in sometimes with a very suspect attitude. Is there some history there? He doesn't seem very happy with ColdBox pulling at people's heart strings.

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