What's New in 5.8.0
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To be more useful, CommandBox now bundles the following system modules
They will be automatically installed (or updated) when you start the CLI for the first time. You can still update or uninstall them, just like any system module. Note: If you have any of these modules currently linked into the CommandBox core, any uncommitted changes will be overwritten when you upgrade box. Please unlink the repos first before upgrading.
The CommandBox Update Check modules can be disabled if you don't like it via
It will also automatically obey the
CommandBox will automatically set the content type in the HTTP response for common static file types. If you come across a file extension that doesn't have the correct type, you can set it like so in your server.json:
Which creates the following
In the above example, hitting a file such as foo.log would come back with a text/plain content type header.
This setting will override any <mime-mapping> tag in your web.xml file.
If you are authenticated to ForgeBox in the CLI, you can synchronize your config settings to and from your ForgeBox account. This is a great way to get up and running on a new PC or keep multiple CommandBox installs in sync. In addition to synchronizing your Config Settings, this feature will also track your installed system modules, such as CFConfig, etc.
This command will push your local settings and modules up to your ForgeBox account.
By default, the settings are "merged" so new local settings will be added to ForgeBox, but nothing will be removed. To remove config that only exists on ForgeBox, you can use the --overwrite flag to force a full sync.
This command will pull your settings and modules from your ForgeBox account and set/install them locally.
By default, the settings are "merged" so missing settings will be added locally, and missing system modules will be installed, but nothing will be removed. To remove config and modules that only exist locally, you can use the --overwrite flag to force a full sync. This will remove local config settings and uninstall local system modules which were not on ForgeBox.
This command will not change anything, but gives you a full report of all settings which are different between your local CommandBox CLI and ForgeBox. It will show you "Remote Only," "Local Only," and "Changed" settings and modules. Use this to see what you're about to change before pushing or pulling.
This is the same as onServerInstall, but it only runs the VERY FIRST time a CF engine is installed. This is helpful if you want to install Lucee extensions or ACF modules and only need to do it the first time. This interceptor is easier than using onServerInstall and inspecting the installDetails.initialInstall flag.
This has been an experimental feature of CommandBox servers for a while, but we've finalized the feature and added a proper setting to enable it in server.json. By default, the web server in CommandBox will follow the case sensitivity of the underlying file system. So, when on Windows /FiLe.TxT will still load an actual file called /file.txt. But on Linux, the case in the browser would need to match that of the file system. CommandBox allows you to force case sensitivity to be ON or OFF for a server, overriding the server's file system.
To force CommandBox's web server to be case sensitive, even on operating systems like Windows, use the following setting. There is a nominal performance benefit in doing this, and it can allow a Windows CommandBox server to mimic a Linux server for testing.
To force CommandBox's web server to be case insensitive, even on operating systems like Linux, use the following setting. There is a nominal performance overhead in doing this, and it can allow a Linux CommandBox server to mimic a Windows IIS server. In this mode, CommandBox will use an internal cache of file system lookups to improve performance. If there are two files of the same name using different case, then you will get whatever file is found first.
If using CommandBox's SSL, you can now use a PFX file (PKCS #8 format) which contains the public and private key in one file.
Most of the Server Rule predicates are case-sensitive, which poses a problem when using them for security on Windows since they will only match one specific spelling of a folder or file. We have added "-nocase" versions of several popular predicates which perform case-insensitive checks.
regex-nocase()
path-suffix-nocase()
path-prefix-nocase()
path-nocase()
equals-nocase()
contains-nocase()
There is already a Config Setting for the preferred browser when opening up sites. You can now customize this on a per-server basis with this server.json setting
You can now control the Log4j appender layout for CommandBox servers, which includes formats such as JSON, which allows your server logs to be automatically imported into Elastic Search
There is a helpful command called forgebox version-debug which will show you what version of a package will be installed without actually installing it. It can also be useful to test a semver range and see what packages it matches.
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Undertow's reverse-proxy() handler would not connect to a back-end server using SSL. We've given up on , and added a new load-balanced-proxy() handler which works with SSL.
Due to in the Lucee evaluate() function that seem like they'll , we've finally put a workaround in the REPL, which captures the return value of member functions chained to literals and expressions using closures. Ex:
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Experimental feature force insensitive web server has stopped working in some cases
Hide Felix error messages in console on startup
Custom tray options calling box with space in path fail
Add load-balanced-proxy() handler to replace Undertow's broken reverse-proxy() because they refuse to fix it
Capture return value from some REPL expressions because Lucee refuses to fix evaluate()'s parser
Two instance of CLI cause class loading issues from OSGI bundles
server start port check doesn't take web.http.enable into accout
CommandBox settings sync feature
Add onServerInitialInstall package/server script
Add `.webp` as a default mime type for CommandBox to support this new image format
Formalize setting for case sensitivity of web server
Add "nocase" versions of regex(), path-suffix(), path-prefix(), equals(), contains(), and path() predicates
Improve forgebox whoami command
Allow CommandBox to customize console appender Layout
New "forgebox version-debug" command
Bundle super helpful modules in box core
onConfigSettingSave and onEndpointLogin interception announcements
Ability to pass file name to "more" command
Add a method in server.json to add MIME type mappings to Undertow
Improve message when starting second server with single server mode enabled
system setting serverinfo namespace use interceptdata if running inside of server script
Allow `web.webroot` to be changed in single server mode
Authentication failures don't send custom error pages
Add directory param to coldbox watch-reinit command
Support PKCS #8 format private keys
Allow preferredBrowser to be set on a per-server basis
Add file and directory completion to the ID param of the install command
Add installExtension() for commands and task runners to install Lucee extensions on the fly to the CLI
Update Lucee to 5.3.10.120 in CLI core
Improve upgrade command
Load libdirs in system classloader
Check for default branch of "main" in Git endpoint
Try removing JAX API classes from runwar
Update to Undertow 2.2.22-Final
Update bundled JRE to jdk-11.0.18+10
Remove stopgap for COMMANDBOX-1459
