Welcome to issue #4 of my CFML open source update and github report. My highlights for this update were PayPal releasing a CFML SDK for their API, Mango and CFWheels getting some plugins, Railo making ColdBox (plus related projects) available as extensions and Xindi getting another release.
Contents
New projects
Adaptive Payments SDK ColdFusion 
x.commerce (PayPal) 
This is the Adaptive Payments ColdFusion SDK for making API calls to PayPal’s API.
Beans
Miles Rausch
Collection of specialised beans, useful for extending ColdFusion objects.
Helper Factory
Chris Blackwell (d1rtym0nk3y)
A simple factory to load and autowire CFC’s containing helper methods.
MXUnit-Jenkins
André Luis Gomes
Appears to be code to help hook MXUnit into Jenkins
Releases
BugLogHQ 1.7.2 
Oscar Arevalo 
BugLogHQ has received some bug fixes (Disgest not being sent, error on clicking ‘show all’). It’s a tool designed to centralize automated bug reports that from multiple applications and displaying that information via a web UI.
YouTube CFC 14
Raymond Camden
A CFML Component desgined to make interacting with the YouTube API, has been updated with some keyword modifications.
Xindi CMS 2012.12.8 
Simon Bingham
This CMS appears to be pretty active recently. This time around it had DI/1 upgraded to the latest release among some other changes.
Project news
Mango Blog
Multiple Mango plugins
Bret Feddern 
Bret has been pretty busy releasing a load of Mango Blog plugins. Covering Facebook likes, twitter follow, Google translate, Tynt, Lorem Ipsum, Twtpoll, Google Weather and an MP3 player.
CFWheels
The CFWheels team
CFWheels plugins
James Gibson
James has put together two plugins for CFWheels. CFWheels-Encrypt-Property, designed to encrypt and decrypt properties in your models. CFWheels-YAML for integrating YAML functionality.
Railo
Railo
Railo 4.1 fully supports nulls
Michael Offner-Streit
Announced via the Railo mailing list, Railo 4.1 (currently in development) now has improved support for handling nulls. See the linked post for more information but one of the main changes is the null literal that would be available. y = null;
Constants for CFML?
Gert Franz
Spotted over on Adam Cameron’s blog that Gert mentioned the Railo team have constants on the drawing board for a future version of Railo. Appears to be a definite feature that they’ll be looking to include, with it being a matter of how and when, instead of if.
Ortus products available as Railo Extensions
Ortus-Solutions
All of the *Box family of projects from Ortus Solutions are now available as Railo extensions. This means you should see the likes of ContentBox, ColdBox (differet flavors), CacheBox, WireBox, LogBox and MockBox in your Railo admin.
github report
With the 4th week of the ColdFusion github report, I’d like to congratulate Slatwall (E-Commerce system for Mura CMS) for breaking into the top 5 most forked repositories for ColdFusion on github.
Entypo pictograms by Daniel Bruce – www.entypo.com
Thanks for compiling this update. Good to see new things happening in the CFML world.