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If you've ever updated Railo, you probably found it very easy to do with our one-click install. Just click the update button on the Server admin and you're done! And if you need to remove an installed update, you can easily uninstall the latest (or all) patches with just a few more clicks.

But what if you need to install version 3.2.2.000, or 3.1.2.001, because that's what your client runs on? Or perhaps you'd like to test how much faster Railo Server became between version 1.0 and 3.3?

Well today, we are happy to announce the Railo Server archive, where you can find versions of Railo Server going all the way back to Railo 1.0! The archive is not yet complete, but almost all main versions and all release candidates for 3.3 are now online and downloadable!

Check it out at http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/olderversions/

Did you know that you can use <cfloop collection="anyarray" key="sthg"> in Railo? This is possible since in Railo both structs and arrays are based on the same basic Java object. So I got a tip from our dev team that <cfloop collection="array"> works as well. So let's try it out.

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Probably one of my favorite features about Railo is the ability to update Railo immediately from the server context. Forget about applying patch after patch. Just update the server. Paul Kukiel recently tweeted a link that included a Jing Flash Video to demonstrate it. Thanks to Paul for letting me grab/host a copy here on the Railo blog.

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Hot on the heels of 3.1.1.017, Build 3.1.2.000 is available on the public preview update site ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ ). You can find details on how to update your Railo build here.

As always, you should take caution when updating your Railo server. We're looking for feedback on this build, so if you find any issues - please let us know as it's important to note that 3.1.2 will eventually become the public build.

We just wanted to inform you about the next minor release candidate for Railo 3.1.2 (Railo 3.1.1.017) that we have placed on preview.getrailo.org. It contains several new things and several patches that have been accumulated since the last version 3.1.1.000 that will hereby be replaced. Please note that if you want to test this release, you need to change the update provider to http://preview.getrailo.org

Let's have a closer look at what has changed...

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http://projects.getrailo.org/ is now available for those Open Source projects that extend / enhance Railo. Big thank you to Andrea Campolonghi for the time he spent setting this up. If you have a open source project enhancing or extending Railo and would like to have a project hosting along with access to a public SVN and Trac (wiki), please contact us so that we can get you going!

The Ajax Railo project has been relocated to http://projects.getrailo.org/projects/railoajax/.

This past week, the community recently got a hint of news from Michael Offner-Streit on the mailing list. He mentioned on one of the threads that http://projects.getrailo.org/ will be launching soon. I finally have more information to share about this. Consider this a dumping ground of ideas. One of the issues that recently came up was people wanting to modify / fix tags like cfdump, cfvideoplayer and such. The tags will be posted there so that the community can have easy access to it and further contribute to the development and improvements of the tags. So, if you have a better video player built in flash and you want to share it, it will be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/. The Projects website is also going to host a copy of Railo Admin and the Railo Admin API as well.

Also, forthcoming is Trac. I was just about to send in another request for a wiki to be opened up when Gert sidetracked me with news and it just so happened that this was one of them. This means that the documentation, installation guide and other relevant information can be finally posted somewhere. You will be able to register / sign up for an account to make modifications and contribute new documentation. Railo Technologies will continue to use the existing documentation codex/wiki scaffolding; Railo Technologies will work on figuring out a way to pull documentation from the new Trac to other locations.

I consider this progress as there is still a noticeable grumbling about lack of documentation and such.

Last, but certainly not least -- Two words: Event Gateways. The development of Event Gateways is a sponsored project. I'm told that within the next month or so, we should be expecting the release of a Railo Event Gateways and more importantly, we will be able to create these event gateways via CFC and/or Java. For example, the directory watcher could be written in entirely CFML if you're not familiar enough with Java -- Currently, majority of the event gateways in other engines are java-based and the CFCs are nothing more than listeners. The Railo team wants to get a discussion going about this idea and get some feedback. If you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see, now is the time to put your request in or ask questions. Free/Sample Event Gateway code will also be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/.

New in Railo 3.1 is an interface to interact with the CFML debugger, FusionDebug. Now Railo developers have the opportunity to benefit from using an interactive step debugger.

• Increase your productively
• Improve code quality
• Debug your CFML code faster
• Better understand your code
• Accelerate the learning of CFML and existing CFML applications

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