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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/

Micha informed the team today that a new stable build, Railo 3.2.3, is now available. Big thanks to everyone that was involved in helping up write up JIRA tickets and to our installer team for getting us new bits. If you have Railo already installed, don't forget you can just update straight from the admin.

Download: http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/
History: http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/history/

Railo 3.2.3 will be the last of 3.2, we're focusing on getting Railo 3.3 out the door and moving on to Railo 4 next.

Roadmap: http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/documentation/railo-roadmap/

With the release of Amazon's AWS Elastic Beanstalk service, it has never been easier to run Railo in the cloud. Amazon BeanStalk is a way to deploy Java Applications (which is what Railo is essentially) as war files into existing Tomcat containers that AWS manages for you. It also allows for easy scaling and balancing.

This tutorial will take you through setting up an environment that you can develop and deploy a sample application up to Beanstalk, rather than just a single WAR file.

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If you haven't read the news via the Railo Mailing list or Twitter or noticed the announcements on the Railo websites, Railo 3.2.1.000 Final was released on December 24th, 2010. You can read the What's New? to find out everything in this release.

IF YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD RAILO:

Head on over to the download page and you'll find a re-organized download page with the new installers. BIG thanks to Jordan Michaels and Bilal Soylu for the great cross platform installers. Please note, that if you already have Railo installed, you may want to skip to the next section.

Otherwise, if you're looking to re-install or start a new install, you may want to be aware that Tomcat was chosen as the base server. There is a recent discussion on the mailing list to why Railo Server's new installers install Tomcat instead of Resin.

IF YOU HAVE RAILO SERVER INSTALLED:

You can upadate via the server admin ( e.g. http://{{your server name}}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm?action=services.update ) and choosing stable release ( or use update provider: www.getrailo.org ) and executing the update.

Once updated, you may notice a new button that says "Update JARs" available directly underneath. Pushing that button, you'll get the latest JAR files necessary for ORM, etc. Please note that the Railo ORM and Event Gateways are in beta at this time and will be final for Railo 3.3.

PRO TIP: If at any time, you feel that Railo Server isn't updating correctly, you don't need to re-install anything.  Simply go to the download page and download the newest jar files, stop your server and overlay the jar files over the existing ones and start your server back up again and your server will be at 3.2.1.000

If there are any questions or issues, please feel free to join and ask questions on the active Railo Mailing list.

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Railo 3.2 is drawing near to a release. Release Candidate builds are available via the Public Preview in the admin. If you don't have the ORM jars necessary, the admin can retrieve the jars for you.

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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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BIG Thank you to Paul Klinkenberg for taking time to contribute to the Railo wiki and adding the Event Gateway documentation and example.