# 1.0.0-Beta27 This release brings **enhanced XML handling, new CLI app support, improved error handling, and expanded interoperability** with Java and CFML runtimes. We've also added **new HTTP event hooks, improved caching strategies, and a streamlined class resolution** process to make your applications more performant, even in debug modes. #### 🌟 Highlights: ✅ **Enhanced XML Support** – Improved cloning, merging, and namespace handling in XML operations.\ ✅ **Unified Template & Script Grammars** – BoxLang now seamlessly integrates both styles, bringing performance updates to the parser.\ ✅ **Improved Java Interop** – Automatic coercion of BoxLang arrays to native Java arrays and `varargs` support.\ ✅ **Better Error Handling** – More robust dump rendering and exception management.\ ✅ **New CLI Features** – Built-in functions like `cliRead()`, `cliGetArgs()`, and `cliExit()` for pure CLI apps.\ ✅ **Improved HTTP Handling** – Proxy support, authentication, and new request/response events. ✅ **Trusted Cache** – Trusted cache is in the house, to get high performance in production. ✅ **Class location caches** – More performance updates for class resolutions for BoxLang classes. With **over 40 improvements, new features, and fixes**, this release makes BoxLang even more powerful and stable! 🔥 ### Improvements [BL-953](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-953) Implement Node pass-through methods to handle cloning and merging of XML objects [BL-955](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-955) Combine template and script grammars for boxlang [BL-956](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-956) Error Getting method keyExists for class ortus.boxlang.runtime.types.XML [BL-958](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-958) StructFindKey returns two findings on the same node if top level key is array [BL-959](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-959) Better error handling when dump template errors [BL-964](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-964) Return callback return value from runThreadInContext() [BL-966](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-966) java interop coerce BL arrays to native arrays [BL-967](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-967) Add toOptional() method to Attempt [BL-968](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-968) coerce return values of proxied methods [BL-983](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-983) output class of non-simple valued fields in class output for cfdump [BL-984](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-984) prefer same mapping for relative class lookups in box resolver [BL-998](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-998) Client scope needs more consistencies like the session scope when validating and expiration determination [BL-999](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-999) Module service record was not registering interceptors with the module settings [BL-1002](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1002) HTTP Component - Implement Proxy Server handling [BL-1010](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1010) add default itnerface helper for the IBoxContext to get the running application name if any [BL-1013](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1013) Servlet to support Jakarta namespace ### New Features [BL-843](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-843) Move defaultCache to the caches section as default, verify it exists, else create it anyways [BL-935](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-935) add http events: onHTTPRequest, onHTTPResponse [BL-952](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-952) Expose buildRegistry() and encapsulate per location registration [BL-989](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-989) CLI BIFS for working with pure cli apps: cliRead(), cliGetArgs(), cliExit() [BL-1009](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1009) Activate box resolvers cache according to request and app settings [BL-1016](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1016) New setting: classResolverCache : boolean \[true] which controls if the class locators caches resolve lookups ### Bugs [BL-389](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-389) varargs not working [BL-931](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-931) CF casts Class instances to a String [BL-947](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-947) Namespaced XML nodes not accessible by their non-namespaced names [BL-949](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-949) XMLSearch Not Finding Correct Results When Namespaces are Present [BL-950](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-950) XML asString Generates trailing line break [BL-951](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-951) StructFindKey Not Returning owner values correctly [BL-960](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-960) ASM compilation error [BL-961](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-961) query with empty column name can't be dumped [BL-965](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-965) WriteDump()/Dump() is broken in current snapshot build [BL-969](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-969) DateCompare on two zero-hour strings fails with long overflow [BL-970](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-970) XMLElemNew Illegal Character exception when using the namespace URI as the second argument [BL-977](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-977) HTTP Component - Implement Basic Authentication [BL-978](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-978) Cannot access variables scope in a static context -- but there is no variables access [BL-981](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-981) timezone not always used in datetime caster [BL-982](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-982) toUnmodifiableStruct() method not threadsafe [BL-985](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-985) directoryList filter param does not accept a closure [BL-991](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-991) Support for guid and uuid type [BL-994](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-994) getDirectoryFromPath returns different result to Lucee and ACF [BL-995](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-995) argument type of binary is not supported [BL-996](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-996) argument type of email is not supported [BL-1000](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1000) CGI scope reporting 0 items [BL-1003](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1003) JSONSerialize pretty prints JSON which blows up outbound NDJSON [BL-1004](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1004) CFHTTParam Encodes Query Strings By Default [BL-1005](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1005) URLEncodedFormat Replaces Spaces with Plus Symbols [BL-1015](https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/BL-1015) Bracket Notation Usage on Java Hashmaps Does not work. 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