Luis has just posted over on his blog that ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta 1 is ready for download. I have been testing this on several of my apps and so far I have been extremely impressed. Head on over to the download page and get started!

I was chatting with Luis the other day and I had asked a question about how he would handle a certain situation using ColdBox. He promtly replied, "Viewlets!". Viewlets? Why havent I heard of viewlets? I have read most of the documentation on the ColdBox wiki, seriously, probably 90% of it! Why dont I remember anything about viewlets. Well, it turns out that Viewlets are discussed on the very bottom of the Layouts and Views Guide. So Luis sent me a link and I headed over to check them out.

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All of the testing is complete. All of the documentation has been updated. And now its time to enjoy it! Luis has just made available the fastest, most feature rich version of ColdBox to date. Thats right, version 2.5.0 has been released! Here's a few links that will help you out. Whats New In 2.5.0
Compatibility Guide
ColdBox Cheat Sheet
Downloads

Luis Majano has just announced on his blog that the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has adopted ColdBox as their framework of choice for developing ColdFusion applications! This is indeed great news for the ColdBox community! Luis has also announced that there are not one but two ColdBox books in the works as well. All this coming just before the release of the best version of ColdBox yet, 2.5.0 which should be released within the next few days!

I have spent most of the day today working on Skweegee trying to finalize the port over to ColdBox. During the port I decided there were quite a few things I wanted to change or update so that has undoubtedly slowed me down. That coupled with the insane amount of time we have been putting in the last couple months trying to wrap up some projects at work. I hope to spend most of the day Sunday working on it as well in hopes to get a beta out by the end of next week. I will post some screenshots of some of the new screens and features later in the evening Sunday. Its too late to worry with tonight.