What's New in 3.7.0

What's New

• Task Runners - Run ad-hoc builds from the CLI written in CFML (Read more)

• Manage System Packages - update, list, and uninstall system modules (Read more)

• File Globbing - Use place holders like **.cfc for file operations to affect more than one file at a time. (Read more)

• Command Aliases - Alias your favorite commands for easy access in the future (Read more)

• Global Command Parameter Defaults - Set common parameters to have a given value at a global level (Read more)

• System Settings - Utilize environment variables to make your package and servers more dynamic (Read more)

• Testbox Run - Improved, minimalist output to the "testbox run" command (Read more)

• TestBox Watchers - Watch a directory for file changes and run your unit tests (Read more)

• Customize REST Servlets - Customize or disable the REST servlet paths on Lucee and Adobe servers (Read more)

• Custom Java Versions - Start your CF servers with any version of Java you want (Read more)

• Property files - New commands and helper libs for dealing with property files (Read more)

• Basic Authentication - Enable basic security on your servers with unlimited users (Read more)

• Custom URL to Open - Customize the browser URL that opens when you start a server (Read more)

• Disable Tray Icon - Turn off the system tray icon for your servers entirely (Read more)

• Show Proxy IP - Servers pass through the original user IP through proxies

• Jar Endpoint - Install 3rd party jars into your projects (Read more)

Release Notes

Bug

• [COMMANDBOX-176] - Server start tries to open HTTP URL even if it's disabled

• [COMMANDBOX-474] - testbox run with runner urls that have a query string fail

• [COMMANDBOX-525] - cf_scripts folder not working on Adobe 2016

• [COMMANDBOX-600] - Catastrophic runner errors in testbox run don't fail tests

• [COMMANDBOX-611] - errors if you start second CLI while first one is using the temp dir

• [COMMANDBOX-616] - TestBox scaffolds are missing super calls for beforeAll/afterAll

• [COMMANDBOX-621] - Prevent two servers from getting the same name

• [COMMANDBOX-625] - Basic auth doesn't set cgi.remote_user

• [COMMANDBOX-651] - unregister method in interceptor service doesn't work

New Feature

• [COMMANDBOX-15] - Allow file globbing patterns in file/folder operations

• [COMMANDBOX-50] - Create BaseTask

• [COMMANDBOX-51] - Add "task" command to run tasks

• [COMMANDBOX-54] - Create watchers

• [COMMANDBOX-459] - Create the --system argument to all package commands for system wide packages

• [COMMANDBOX-513] - Allow REST servlet to be configured

• [COMMANDBOX-548] - Allow custom JRE version for server starts

• [COMMANDBOX-560] - Support Basic Auth

• [COMMANDBOX-564] - Allow placeholders in for env vars and system props

• [COMMANDBOX-585] - Provide convenient command to do simple token replacements from the CLI

• [COMMANDBOX-589] - Checksum Command

• [COMMANDBOX-590] - Property files commands support

• [COMMANDBOX-599] - Add MinHeapSize setting

• [COMMANDBOX-608] - Support for viewing/installing private packages

• [COMMANDBOX-610] - Finalize box.json testbox runner options

• [COMMANDBOX-613] - Allow Command DSL to set working directory

• [COMMANDBOX-614] - Implement "testbox watch" command

• [COMMANDBOX-638] - Simple Jar endpoint

• [COMMANDBOX-642] - Ability to disable tray icons

• [COMMANDBOX-644] - Allow ad-hoc aliases to be created for commands

• [COMMANDBOX-645] - Allow global defaults to be set for command parameters

• [COMMANDBOX-647] - Automatic collection from parameter names containing a colon

• [COMMANDBOX-648] - Implement the equiv of Tomcat's remoteIPValve

• [COMMANDBOX-649] - Support missing Tuckey config settings

• [COMMANDBOX-655] - Command to remove trailing whitespace from files

• [COMMANDBOX-656] - Command to add final EOL to files

Task

• [COMMANDBOX-568] - Better error message for invalid JSON in a server.json file

Improvement

• [COMMANDBOX-429] - Update debian build signing to be higher than SHA-256

• [COMMANDBOX-586] - If publishing but not logged into forgebox, prompt for login instead of just erroring

• [COMMANDBOX-597] - Clean up SSL cert and key file parameters for server start

• [COMMANDBOX-601] - Improve HTML to ANSI conversion on larger strings

• [COMMANDBOX-602] - Refactor JSON formatter to separate lib for reuse

• [COMMANDBOX-606] - Add trace flag for starting server

• [COMMANDBOX-612] - Improve output of "testbox run" command

• [COMMANDBOX-617] - Remove deprecated and unused properties from box.json with init

• [COMMANDBOX-618] - Don't try to output binary data in REPL

• [COMMANDBOX-622] - Show "last started" datetime for servers

• [COMMANDBOX-623] - Customize URL that opens when starting server

• [COMMANDBOX-626] - Allow commandbox-modules to register endpoints

• [COMMANDBOX-646] - Enhance parser to allow quoted spaces in parameter names

• [COMMANDBOX-650] - WireBox injection DSL allow to drill down into Config Settings

• [COMMANDBOX-652] - Command to remove trailing spaces from code files

• [COMMANDBOX-657] - Allow console flag to be stored in server.json like every other setting

• [COMMANDBOX-658] - Allow publishing of private packages