Railo 3.2 released

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Railo Server 3.2 Final. (3.2.1.000). We have worked for over a year since Railo Server version 3.1 in order to provide you with many exciting new features and compatibility enhancements.

Railo 3.2 releasedWhat's new in Railo 3.2

Two of the main focuses for this release were the extensibility of Railo and the caching options. We have introduced a set of new tags and functions and of course we fixed several bugs collected in our bug tracking system. Many of the new improvements and features raise Railo Server 3.2 to a must have update. Here’s a list of things we have introduced and improved in Railo Server 3.2:

  • AJAX tags & functions, MAP support
    Our thanks for these extensions go to Andrea Campolonghi who single-handedly created all the new tags that come with these functions
  • Application.cfc Enhancements
    Global Datasources
    OnCFCRequest() support
  • Auto Import CFC’s
    These CFC’s provide script support for several protocol-based tags, such as cfmail. Many thanks here to Andrea Campolonghi and Mark Drew.
  • Full scripting support with enhancements
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  • New caching features
    Railo 3.2 implements the new CFML cache functions and extends them by allowing the defininition of several caches per context globally (server admin) or locally (web admin).
    Next to the normal RAM, Railo supports several different Cache engines such as Memcached and EHCache as well as several NoSQL databases like: CouchDB (Mark Drew), Membase, MongoDB and Riak (all Andrea Campolonghi)
  • Lots of new functions
    Extensions to existing tags and function
  • ORM support (beta)
  • Event Gateway support (beta)
  • Performance improvements
  • New features in the Railo administrator
    • New administrator layout
    • Cache, ORM and Gateway support
    • Caching/Performance settings
    • Check out the wiki page about the changes in the Railo administrators.
  • Other administrator enhancements
    • CFC cache
    • Custom tag cache

This and more can be found in the new Railo Server 3.2 release. Have a look at our wiki pages which gives you all the details about this exciting release and at our continuing roadmap for Railo.

We thank everyone who contributed to this marvellous release:

  • Andrea Campolonghi, Responsible for the complete AJAX integration and several cache implementations.
  • Jordan Michaels and Bilal Soylu for the great cross platform installers
  • AJ Mercer, Railo Community Manager Australia
  • Todd Rafferty, Railo Community Manager
  • Paul Klinkenberg, Railo Extension Manager
  • Pete Freitag (Foundeo Inc: http://foundeo.com) for discovering some XSS security vulnerabilities
  • And everyone else who helped and we did not mention