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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/

This is a quick tip that can help you improve the performance of CFSILENT.

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Quite often people use the CFLOCATION tag in Railo/CFML and they would like to know how a user actually got to this page and where from. So I created a CFC based custom tag that logs all this.

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As part of the latest Railo update, the format of the task object has changed slightly so, if you have any open tasks in your Administrator (under Services > Tasks), it's probably safer to delete those tasks first, before you update. This applies only to tasks, not scheduled tasks. If you update while such tasks exist, you may encounter a null pointer exception when viewing Services > Tasks in the Administrator. To fix that, simply remove the *.tsk files from the WEB-INF/railo/client-tasks folder tree and restart Railo.

This is a great example of how a project moves from the community into the core of Railo. Starting with version 3.1.2.009 (Bleeding Edge Release), Railo will include the core ajax tags and javascript library. This means that the following tags will be available by default:

• CFAJAXPROXY
• CFAJAXIMPORT
• CFDIV

Railo Ajax project has been broken into what we call CORE and UI. Core means that it will ship with the Railo codebase. UI means that you will be able to further extend your Railo server by downloading additional extensions (cfwindow, cfmap, cflayout) from http://railoajax.org/provider.cfc or http://railoajax.org/extensionProvider.cfc. Please note, when you use the providers listed, you will see 2 Railo Ajax Projects. One is for Railo builds prior to 3.1.2.009 and the other is for builds 3.1.2.009 and after.

So, the recommend steps for upgrading is:

1. Upgrade to Railo 3.1.2.009
2. Remove any previous railoajax instance.
3. Restart Railo ( http://{your host name}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm?action=services.restart )
4. Re-install Railoajax (UI, if needed) from http://railoajax.org/extensionProvider.cfc USING VERSION >=3.1.2.009

Please give Andrea Campolonghi feedback on the Railo-Beta mailing list!

Before we begin the last part of the cache blog, let's do a little review.

In the first part, I have shown how the cache is used as an object cache, how to create a cache and interact with it but not more. The second part was on everything that is possible with the cache, and for what it can be used. In the last part we want to see at some special cases and deliver the promised reference.

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In the first part of the cache blog entry we looked at how we can use the cache directly without entering into great detail. Now let's have a look at what the cache is at capable of. Because it provides much more than just storing data.

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Since version 3.1.2 Railo supports the possibility of using a cache. This blog entry will go into the details of this feature. The blog is divided into 3 parts, the first part will deal with the base functionality, the second part show how the cache is used in backend and the last part takes care of specialties when using the cache and shows a reference.

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We are very proud to present the next minor release of Railo labeled 3.1.2 which you can easily install by following the usual update procedure as described here.

Updating Railo.

What is new in this version?

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Railo 3.1.2.001 in now on public preview ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ ). If you need assistance updating, You can watch a demo on how to update your Railo build. It's easy, I promise.

Edit: I incorrectly reported that it was 3.1.2.002, it's not - it's 3.1.2.001