The first public beta of BlueDragon 7.1 has been released! Enhancements in BlueDragon 7.1 are listed below; details can be found in the What's New in BlueDragon 7.1 document.

All BlueDragon 7.1 Editions

The following enhancments are available in all BlueDragon editions:

• CFIMAGE: added the ability to crop, rotate, add border, adjust brightness and contrast, and apply gray scale filter
• ColdFusion 8 (CF8) compatible enhancements
  • CFTHREAD compatibility
  • onMissingMethod event handler for CFCs
  • CFQUERY added result variables to specify the ID of an inserted row
  • MonthAsString() function added the "locale" parameter
• Added the "Generate UUID as CFTOKEN value" configuration option
• performance enhancements
• bug fixes

The following enhancements are available in BlueDragon.NET:

• IIS 7.0 integrated request pipeline
• IIS 7.0 integrated configuration
• IIS 7.0 integrated administration
• Added the ability to create CFCs from ASP.NET pages without inheriting from the NewAtlanta.BlueDragon.CfmPage class
• Added the NewAtlanta.BlueDragon.CfmUserControl class
• Added support for ASP.NET connection strings

The following enhancements are available in BlueDragon Server JX:

• Upgraded embedded servlet engine to ServletExec 6.0
• IIS 7.0 .NET module replaces C/C++ web server adapter
• Added the CFCProxy class for invoking CFCs from Java/JSP

I'll follow-up with separate blog entries on each of these enhancements. Download the BlueDragon 7.1 beta and let us know what you think.

The final release of BlueDragon 7.1 is planned for April 2009.