An Architect's View

Yesterday Fusebox 5.5 reached feature complete (by adding prefuseaction.cfm / postfuseaction.cfm to implicit circuits-as-directories - to match prefuseaction() / postfuseaction() for implicit circuits-as-CFCs). Today Fusebox 5.5 reached zero bugs for the first time (by deferring the last remaining ticket). That means we have almost reached Public Beta! Build 5.5.0.569 is Public Beta Candidate 0 - and this site is running on it! The core files, extensions and skeleton apps (there are two of them now: one with traditional circuits, one without XML) have all been uploaded to the files area of the Fusebox 5 mailing list (Yahoo! list membership required). Please download and test for compatibility with Fusebox 4.x thru Fusebox 5.1 as well as exercising the new features. Between now and the end of the month, I want folks to find as many bugs as possible so that we can release an official Public Beta in time for MAX. If anyone hits a show-stopping bug, I will fix it and release a new PBC build. Minor bugs will just be rolled into the "final" PB build. For old school Fuseboxers, note that conditionalParse is back! If you are in development-circuit-mode and have conditionalParse set to true, the parsed files will only be overwritten if they change which will speed up execution since ColdFusion will not have to recompile them. This build has not been tested on BlueDragon or Railo yet - volunteers please!