ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 Beta 1 Is Now Available

After tons of work on some exciting new features, the core team is happy to release the <a href="https://cfwheels.org/download">first beta of ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1</a> today. Now we are turning to the community to help us find bugs and put the new features through their paces. We need your help!<!--more--> Here is a taste of some of the new features: <ul> <li><a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/nested-properties">Nested properties</a> allow you to save changes to an object and all of its children in a single call to <code>save()</code>, <code>create()</code>, or <code>update()</code>.</li> <li>All database calls are wrapped in <a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/transactions">transactions</a> by default.</li> <li>Wheels now supports <a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/requirements">SQLite and H2</a> databases.</li> <li><a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/object-validation">Automatic validations</a> give Wheels the ability to introspect your database and automatically validate max lengths, presence of, and numericality of your data.</li> <li>You can now <a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/responding-with-multiple-formats">respond with multiple output formats</a> in a single controller action.</li> <li><a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/associations">Automatic dependency handling</a> for your models' associated data is now available.</li> <li><a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/using-layouts">Nested layouts</a> allow you to extend layouts and keep your view code <acronym title="Don't Repeat Yourself">DRY</acronym>.</li> <li>A testing framework for your applications and plugins. (Documentation and details coming soon.)</li> <li><a href="../../">cfwheels.org</a> now allows you to browse reference guides and <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> documentation for both <a href="../../docs/1-0">1.0.x</a> and <a href="../../docs/1-1">1.1.x</a> versions of Wheels (and beyond).</li> <li>Many other major and minor improvements. See the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/cfwheels/source/browse/trunk/wheels/CHANGELOG">changelog</a> for more details.</li> </ul> The core team will be fixing bugs and improving documentation over the next few weeks. We appreciate any feedback that you can give us in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/cfwheels">Google Group</a> or the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/cfwheels/issues/list">issue tracker</a>. We have started a chapter in the docs on <a href="https://cfwheels.org/docs/1-1/chapter/upgrading-wheels">upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1.x</a> and will be adding to the instructions as we run across more gotchas. Now let's get going on continuing to improve the best ColdFusion framework out there!