Wheels 4.0.5 is out, and together with 4.0.4 it's one of the most substantial hardening passes on the 4.0 line — 100+ changes spanning security (open-redirect and info-disclosure fixes, fail-closed gates, SQL-surface tightening), warm-path performance, a much tougher `wheels deploy`, and Adobe CF / BoxLang cross-engine fixes. 4.0.5 then makes the whole thing installable the same way on every major platform — Homebrew, Scoop, apt, dnf — including arm64 Linux, verified daily.
Wheels 4.0.3 is the third patch on the 4.0 line, focused on making the `wheels` CLI trustworthy in scripts and CI: argument parsing is rebuilt end-to-end (`--no-*` negations and named-only flags finally reach every command), failures exit non-zero, and write-side commands refuse to attach to a different project's server. Plus PostgreSQL/CockroachDB foreign-key migration fixes, pre-23c Oracle support, preserved column casing in model output, and a fix that stops framework helpers from being URL-invokable as controller actions.
Wheels 4.0.2 is the second patch on the 4.0 line. It teaches the migrator how to cope with a database that more than one developer shares — orphan-version detection, a `migrate doctor` health report, and `forget` / `pretend` reconciliation commands — fixes a class of silent migration rollbacks on MSSQL, makes the migrator's column-name helpers consistent, and ships native signed apt.wheels.dev / yum.wheels.dev package repositories so Linux installs and upgrades are a one-liner.
Wheels 4.0.1 is out — the first patch on the 4.0 line. It hardens Adobe ColdFusion 2023/2025 compatibility, fixes the Windows Scoop install regressions reported after GA, adds CSS-framework presets to paginationNav(), short-circuits whereIn([]) so empty filters stop emitting invalid SQL, and threads about a hundred smaller fixes through the rest of the framework.
For years, the same rows showed up red in every framework comparison: no bulk ops, no polymorphic associations, no advisory locks, no middleware, no browser testing. Wheels 4.0 closes those gaps. This is a guided tour of what changed and where the framework still trails.
