The Best CF Framework Got Even Better: Wheels Version 1.1 Is Here!

After nearly a year of coding countless bug fixes and building some top-notch new features, we are releasing ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.1 today. The best framework for ColdFusion and Railo has gotten a significant upgrade in this stable release. This truly should be a point of pride for both the Wheels and CFML communities. Download version 1.1 now and read the instructions for upgrading from 1.0.x if you’re upgrading. These new features (and more) are here to help you write beautiful code and save time all at once:

• Nested properties allow you to save changes to multiple associated database tables in one form object.
• All database calls are wrapped in transactions by default.
• Automatic validations give Wheels the ability to introspect your database and register validations without your needing to write a single line of code.
• Support for the H2 database engine.
• You can now respond to requests for HTML, JSON, XML, PDF, Excel, and more in a single controller action.
• Automatic dependency handling for your models’ associated data is now available.
• Nested layouts allow you to extend layouts and remove repetition in your view code.
• Even more is outlined in the CHANGELOG.

A Year’s Worth of Growth

It’s interesting to think back on the previous year and reflect on how much we’ve grown in 12 short months. Everything worth mentioning revolves around community.

• Our Google Group is one of the most active in open source CF, and it’s exciting to see so many new faces join each month.
• The core team has really hit its stride. It’s very hard to keep up with all of the activity in our Google Code repo. This project is a team effort, not a one-man show.
• Members of our community had some exposure at CFML conferences, user groups, and meetups all throughout 2010.

Thank you so much everyone for your support and hard work. The community is what makes this project the joy that it is.

Onward to 1.2

While it is awesome to look back on 2010 and the release of the 1.1 cycle, we’re now ready to move on to some bigger and better things. We look forward to working with everyone to make modern ColdFusion development even more fun and approachable with Wheels over the coming months.