6.0.0

December 18, 2023

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6.0.0

December 18, 2023

ContentBox 6 is a major update for this CMS and its supporting libraries. This version includes many improvements and stability enhancements that will make your content fly.

Our release notes are here, and we will discuss our major areas of improvement for this release. If you need to upgrade your previous versions of ContentBox, please see our .

ContentBox CLI

The ContentBox CLI based on CommandBox is also updated to support ContentBox 6 natively:

box install contentbox-cli

That's it. This will install the contentbox namespace to assist you in your ContentBox adventures. Please see the guide on usage.

ColdBox 7 Core

New CFML Engines Support
JDK 11 and 17 Support
Asynchronous programming. We have introduced the concepts of the async package to the core and ContentBox will leverage more of these features for background job processing, automation and much more.
New logging facilities and enhancements
Better exception handling for developers
REST Handlers and highly performant REST Routing
Transient and ORM performance
ColdBox Delegates
App Modes
Date Helpers
Tons of Scheduled task updates
Much more!

CBSecurity 3

Fortified rule engine
Firewall Visualizer
Delegations
JWT enhancements
Cross-site request forgery support

Ortus ORM Lucee Extension

This comes with tons of features, enhancements, and speed.

Content Templates

Most content objects have the same type of content over and over again. ContentBox content templates will allow you to capture this content into a reusable template that can be easily recreated.

Content Templates are stored according to the three main ContentBox types or globally for all content types:

Entry
Page
ContentStore

The content templates will capture the following information:

Title
Content
Description (content store)
Excerpt (page, entry)
Custom Fields
Categories
SEO
Modifiers
Cache Settings
Featured Image
Display Options (Page)
Editor in Use
Markup

This information will be restored once you start a new content object based on the template.

Domain Aliases

You can add as many domain aliases as you want to site definitions. This will allow ContentBox to match 1 or more domain expressions to one site.

Migrations FTW!

You will now find a few valuable scripts in your box.json

contentbox:migrate:up
contentbox:migrate:down

Custom Migrations

You can also create your custom migrations using the default manager and source control additions to your ContentBox installations. They will be stored in the resources/database folder.

CORS

Focus Mode

We have started to introduce focus modes wherever content can be edited. This creates a seamless experience so you can focus on content editing and no distractions.

CBFS Powered Media Manager

// Register the disks on the system
"disks"       : {
  // Your default application storage
  "contentbox" : {
 	provider   : "Local",
	properties : {
		path    : "#controller.getAppRootPath()#modules_app/contentbox-custom/_content",
		diskUrl : function(){
			return application.wirebox
				.getInstance( "CBHelper@contentBox" )
				.site()
				.getSiteRoot()
			&
		"/modules_app/contentbox-custom/_content/"
		}
	}
  }
}

The menu manager has been upgraded to render previews correctly and help you build reusable menu content. We are not done, but it's a step up.

Content History Redirects

If you change the slug a new page redirect will be created for you on any page or blog entry. For SEO purposes, all slug changes will be kept in our new page redirects table. You can also add manual redirects within each content piece if you want as well. A great win for SEO!