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description: >-
  BoxLang Betas are released weekly.  This is our fourth beta marker.  Here are
  the release notes.
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# 1.0.0-Beta 4

Beta 4 is a small incremental release which includes improvements and bug fixes.

### Improvements

[BL-299](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-299), [BL-300](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-300), [BL-301](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-301), [BL-302](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-302) Query caching improvements and compatibility updates

[BL-315](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-315) Ensure request attributes are available to the web runtime scope

[BL-164](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-164) [bx-compat-cfml](https://forgebox.io/view/bx-compat-cfml) CFML compatibility module updates to ensure null query column values are returned as empty strings

### Bug Fixes

[BL-305](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-305) Fixes compilation issue with variables name `cfcatch`

[BL-309](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-309) CFML compatiblity for `CGI.QUERY_STRING` when not provided

[BL-314](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-314) Fix null `queryparam` functionality
