# 1.0.0-Beta26

## BoxLang Beta 26 Has Landed!

We’re thrilled to announce the release of **BoxLang 1.0.0 Beta 26**, a monumental update that takes performance and functionality to the next level. This beta officially **certifies the ColdBox HMVC Framework to run on BoxLang**, marking a significant milestone in compatibility. Not only can you now run all ColdBox applications seamlessly on BoxLang, but with the latest ColdBox snapshot, you can also build your entire applications in BoxLang, unlocking the full potential of this dynamic and expressive language for modern application development.

This release also introduces blazing-fast Query of Queries (QoQ) support, delivering speeds up to 70 times faster than Adobe or Lucee in specific scenarios, along with exciting new features like list parameter support in JDBC queries and custom QoQ functions. Over 70 bugs have been resolved, and significant improvements have been made, such as enhanced debugging capabilities, refined Box Script syntax, and robust session and metadata handling. With Beta 26, BoxLang continues to push the boundaries, empowering developers to build robust, efficient, and fully modern JVM-based applications.

Welcome to what could be our last beta before the final release of our initial 1.0.0 version of BoxLang and its multi-runtimes.

### New Features

[BL-94](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-94) Create query of queries support

[BL-883](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-883) Implement list parameters in JDBC queries

[BL-933](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-933) Ability to register custom functions for QoQ

[BL-942](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-942) Interceptor Service now does a service loader load of all interceptors found in the runtime to auto-load them

### Improvements

[BL-852](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-852) dump Lots of UI quality of life improvements: show length of strings, show full classes for some Java integrations, and much more.

[BL-860](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-860) Update `getMetaadata()` for dynamic proxies to leverage the class metadata instead of instances

[BL-865](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-865) CFTranspiler should not turn off accessors for persistent classes

[BL-866](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-866) Exception type matching check cause

[BL-919](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-919) Implement "Quick" algorithm for Hash BIF

[BL-920](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-920) Compat: CacheGet second argument is boolean for Lucee

[BL-926](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-926) ASM error in do/while with a break

[BL-938](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-938) Update the `getOrCreateSession`() to verify if the session has expired, and if so, rotate it.

[BL-939](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-939) Change generic tag-in-script syntax for Box Script to prefix with bx:

### Bugs

[BL-621](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-621) Allow a productivity hack to add ability to pass queries to some struct functions by taking the first row and converting the query to a struct.

[BL-732](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-732) structsort with callback errors

[BL-758](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-758) QofQ shouldn't require global DSN

[BL-764](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-764) xmlsearch - invalid XPath

[BL-801](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-801) ASM Failing test - fix bx:output transformer

[BL-802](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-802) ASM Failing test - fix abort exception

[BL-834](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-834) Dump Top Updates will not dump certain classes without a top argument, top shows as reached for subsequent dumps

[BL-847](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-847) BL GenericProxies cannot have java.lang.Object methods call on them

[BL-849](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-849) Class properties are merged from all inheritance levels in the metadata

[BL-850](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-850) Dumps are not in order of execution

[BL-851](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-851) Java List dumps are not working with top and are off by 1

[BL-854](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-854) Wirebox Block: testbuildJavaClass Methods on Java objects cannot be called with named arguments when using invoke()

[BL-855](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-855) Coercion for constructors from string to numbers are not working

[BL-856](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-856) Coercion from strings to numbers does not exist

[BL-857](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-857) isInstanceOf bif and keyword are not working on createObject("java") proxies. It gives a negative result

[BL-858](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-858) var scoping issues for bleeding scopes on class dump template

[BL-859](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-859) Calling getMetadata() on an instance of dynamic object that has not yet been inited, shows the metadata of DynamicObject instead of the proxy class

[BL-861](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-861) ORM: getter setters are not enabled for persistent CFCs

[BL-863](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-863) ORM: writedump causes ClassInfo not found

[BL-864](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-864) ORM: entityLoad should only require entity name

[BL-867](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-867) Show the right exception type when invoking dynamic objects and there are exceptions from a caused by

[BL-868](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-868) caching does not handle quoted numbers or booleans in config

[BL-869](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-869) ORM: EntityLoad errors when using a filter

[BL-870](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-870) soft reference cannot be stored directly in a struct

[BL-875](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-875) rework onSessionEnd to make sure the application exists when calling the listeners

[BL-877](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-877) Lucee allows params to be passed to cfquery tag via \`params\` attribute

[BL-879](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-879) IsNumeric() returns true for "true" and "false"

[BL-880](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-880) QueryNew() throws exception if row data array is empty

[BL-884](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-884) MSSQL throws error when executing certain queries if language is not English

[BL-885](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-885) Setting a dynamic variable name doesn't work

[BL-886](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-886) Can't cast \[now] to a DateTime

[BL-887](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-887) cfloop step not implemented

[BL-888](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-888) allow "switch" as struct key name in CF script

[BL-889](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-889) The instance \[ortus.boxlang.runtime.types.exceptions.ParseException] has no public field or inner class \[ERRORCODE]

[BL-890](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-890) In function \[numberFormat], argument \[number] with a type of \[java.lang.Boolean] does not match the declared type of \[number]

[BL-891](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-891) Datasources created after module load take on custom DSN parameters defined in bx-mssql

[BL-892](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-892) cfqueryparam with list attribute causes "The index 2 is out of range"

[BL-893](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-893) Queryparam list=true is unsupported

[BL-894](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-894) Key in arguments scope gets lost

[BL-895](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-895) Allow "switch" to be used in dot access

[BL-896](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-896) Can't cast ts to a Number.

[BL-897](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-897) named query params not handled correctly

[BL-898](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-898) Account for placeholder text in comments and quoted strings in SQL

[BL-899](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-899) numberFormat is displaying a leading 0 when formatting integers < 10

[BL-901](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-901) Duplicate() on CGI scope creates empty struct

[BL-902](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-902) CGI-Scope weirdness

[BL-903](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-903) MSSQL connection gets lost

[BL-904](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-904) Empty test fails when using ASM

[BL-905](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-905) MSSQL Query columns have wrong values

[BL-906](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-906) Using <bx:output> inside of <bx:catch> causes bxCatch scope to disappear

[BL-907](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-907) Array Loop with negative step doesn't work

[BL-909](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-909) Cannot invoke "ortus.boxlang.runtime.components.Component$BodyResult.isEarlyExit()" because "bodyResult" is null

[BL-910](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-910) Passing query column to listToArray() BIF fails

[BL-911](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-911) IsNumeric BIF returns true on booleans in compat mode

[BL-912](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-912) getBaseTemplatePath returns \`Application.cfc\` in onRequestStart

[BL-913](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-913) Throw with exception object as unnamed argument fails

[BL-914](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-914) Null session scope when attempting to update the last visit

[BL-917](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-917) Compat GetComponentMetadata Failures with "Can't cast null to a Key".

[BL-918](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-918) String \[1 LTE 5] cannot be cast to a boolean

[BL-923](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-923) Compat: Attributes to Functions Are Scoped in to nested Parameters Struct

[BL-925](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-925) Cannot invoke method \[clearbuffer()] on a null object

[BL-927](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-927) Double variable assignment failing in ASM

[BL-928](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-928) Compat: Invoke method has different required object method

[BL-930](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-930) StructFindKey Returns a Null Value when Struct being searched contains nulls

[BL-932](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-932) toBinary() not lenient enough for decoding with line paddings

[BL-936](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-936) When doing named parameter queries and you send more parameters than required, it should ignore them, not throw an exception that you sent more

[BL-937](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-937) getOrCreateSession() relying on the starting listener for settings, when it should look at the context to reflect changes if any

[BL-941](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-941) WebRequest interceptor in web support is not auto-loading, also will affect any other composable runtimes

[BL-944](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-944) node.xmlText explicit assignment throws error that value is not node or XML instance

[BL-945](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-945) xmlAttributes assignment error - key not found

### Task

[BL-217](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-217) ColdBox Test Suite

[BL-220](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-220) Quick Test Suite

[BL-548](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-548) Parser performance and removing ambiguity

[BL-767](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-767) CFcasts Suite

[BL-837](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-837) UnleashSDK Certification

[BL-908](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-908) Incorporate TestBox test suite

### Stories

[BL-237](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-237) Phase II : Update all the toAST() methods to the new and consolidated approach

[BL-238](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-238) Phase III : Performance tests for phase I + II toolchains

[BL-239](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-239) Phase V : Create the QoQ SQL grammar, parser, and astss