ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 31

A lot of framework activity this week, including the release of Fusebox 5. Mach-II, Model-Glue and ColdBox each offer us some updated information on their upcoming releases. Also, Andrea Veggiani released a new beta of AVBlog that includes a number of interesting new features that are worth checking out.Fusebox
Version 5 Released
Sean Corfield and a number of others announced that Fusebox 5 is now available on fusebox.org. The recent release was apparently waiting on a "edge case bug" to be fixed. A new skeleton application for version 5 is also available. Updates to the site are already in the works and should be released over the course of the next few weeks. Congrats to Sean and the others who worked on this release.

Mach ii
Version 1.1.1 (or 1.2?) Nearing Public Alpha
Peter Farrell posted to the Mach-II mailing list that the 1.1.1 alpha should be released any day now. There are quite a few improvements as well as bug fixes - enough that Matt and Peter were debating whether the release would be redubbed version 1.2 on ColdFusion Weekly podcast. One of the interesting updates being tested is allowing you to use duck typing on the core files for performance reasons using an ANT script to strip out typing for production ready core files.

Model-Glue
Unity Updated
Joe Rinehart covers the timeline and enhancements he is working on for the Beta 2 release of Model-Glue 2 (aka. Unity). He says that he expects the release to occur in about a month and will contain enhancements to the GenericList functionality as well as some improvements to scaffolding. The update will also take into account some changes that have occurred in Reactor to improve integration.

ColdBox
6.1 Issues and Support
Luis Majano is working on the next point release of his MVC framework which will include fixes to some ColdFusion 6.1 related issues. The post also includes a download of the files that are required for 6.1 support.

AVBlog
Version 1.5 Beta 2 Released
The new features (listed here) include: Ajax support using Dojo; del.icio.us and Flickr plugins; support for Lyla captcha; importing wizards for WordPress and BlogCFC; Google sitemap support; and more. The project is also moving to Google Code Hosting - more details available here.

Galleon
Version 1.6.1 Released
Raymond Camden released an update to his forums application. The major improvement here is that you can optionally send the full text of a message to thread subscribers.