ColdFusion Posts Around the World
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Have you had problems installing CF updates, whether the most recent or past ones?
I'll be presenting a talk on this topic, online today, at noon US Eastern, on the CFMeetup Youtube livestream (which will be recorded). Folks who are members of t...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Apr 15, 2025) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 24. (The previous short-term release, Java 23, is ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak at the upcoming Into the Box event (in DC in early May), where I'll be presenting "Hidden Gems in FusionReactor: for BoxLang, ACF, and Lucee Users".
This should not be confused of course w...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to present my "Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2025" talk at both the upcoming Adobe ColdFusion Summit East event (in DC in March), as well as the CFCamp conference (in Germany in late May).
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Now that CF2025 has come out, supporting Java 21--and as ColdFusion and Java versions continue to evolve--you may wonder which version(s) of Java you can use with your current (or a given) version of ColdFusion.
You can't just use "any" jvm versi...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Now that CF2025 has come out, supporting Java 21--and as ColdFusion and Java versions continue to evolve--you may wonder which version(s) of Java you can use with your current (or a given) version of ColdFusion.
You can't just use "any" jvm versi...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
ColdFusion 2025 has been released today, Feb 25 2025. In this post I am not only helping share news of the release, and pointing to available resources, but I also share some thoughts/observations on related matters that may be a bit challenging for ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 21, 2025) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 23. (The previous short-term release, Java 22, is ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's great news for those still running CF2018 or earlier, who may have been holding off upgrading to CF2023 (because you would have to pay full price for it). It's news I first shared back in July, and the deal has been extended one last time, thu...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Are you still running ColdFusion 2021? While it's still supported/updated by Adobe, did you know that its end-of-life is coming just several months from now, Nov 10, 2025? That's the date when "core" support for that release ends--meaning no more upd...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you've not yet heard, Adobe has opened the prerelease program for the next CF version, aka ColdFusion 2025--though referred to by them for now as Project CFNext.
Adobe announced the opening of the beta a few weeks ago in a post on the CF Port...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
An update for ColdFusion has been released today for both cf2023 (update 12) and cf2021 (update 18). In brief, it addresses a P1 (Priority 1, "Critical") security vulnerability, as indicated in the associated ASPB (security bulletin) for the update (...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
An update for ColdFusion has been released yesterday for both cf2023 (as update 11) and cf2021 (as update 17). In brief, the update has no security fixes, but it does fix dozens of issues that folks have stumbled over recently. It also upgrades some ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Oct 15, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 23. (The previous short-term release, Java 22, is ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Though the news is a couple of days old, I want to share with my readers that an update for ColdFusion has been released Tuesday, Sep 10, for both cf2023 (update 10) and cf2021 (update 16). In brief, the "only" change is to address a security vulnera...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you've recently applied CF2021 update 15 or are planning to, you need to be aware of a known issue which can cause unexpected removal of some CF packages (modules) which occurs upon the CF restart after installing the update: specifically it's the...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
An update for ColdFusion has been released today for both cf2023 as update 9 and and cf2021 as update 15. In brief, the only change is an update to Tomcat, which underlies traditional CF installations (whether implemented with the ColdFusion installe...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're considering or have already implemented the latest CF updates from June 2024 (CF2023 update 8 and CF2021 update 14), you might have struggled a bit to understand completely what Adobe was getting at in the update technotes, as they can some...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Don't miss that Adobe had added a useful feature (a "patch", made available in Apr 2024) to help in identifying any CFML code you may have which refers "implicitly" to scopes that would no longer searched (for any variables without a scope prefix), w...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 22.
TLDR: The new updates are 1.8.0_421 (aka 8u...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's great news for those still running CF2018 or earlier, who may have been holding off upgrading to CF2023 because you would have to pay full price.
TLDR; Now through Sep 30, 2024 Feb 28, 2025 those running CF9, 10, 11, 2016 or 2018 can upgrad...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak again (for the 12th straight year) at the upcoming Adobe CF Summit conference, to be held in Las Vegas Sep 30-Oct 1.
Actually, I've had two of my talks selected. The first will be a repe...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you may have missed the news, Adobe recently held an online event over several weeks (Mid-Feb to Mid-March) where they had most of the presenters from the Adobe CF Summit 2023 in Vegas give repeats of their talks. Of course, it's a great way for t...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to share the news that I've been selected to be a presenter again at the wonderful CFCamp event, being held again June 13-14 in Munich, Germany. (I got the news last week but have been overwhelmed with recent work, so I've been behind p...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just wanted to share news for my readers here that tonight (Apr 9 at 7pm US Eastern time) I will be presenting at the online meeting of the Mid-Michigan CFUG, on the topic, "What if no one is monitoring your DB server?".
Anyone can join in live, a...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
This is a very important heads-up for my readers: there was an important security update released today by Adobe for ColdFusion 2023 (update 7) and 2021 (update 13). While as always there's much to say about what's changed in this update, I want to m...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
There has been important news released (this week and last week) about a critical Lucee security vuln (an RCS or remote code execution vuln). You'll want to make sure your Lucee instances are protected either by updates or configuration (or both). Th...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Last week (Feb 15) I gave the first talk in the annual Adobe ColdFusion Online Summit for CF2024, and the recording of that session has now been posted by the Adobe CF team (as the first of many such recordings to come).
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak at Into the Box 2024, in DC, coming up in May. This will be my 5th time presenting at this wonderful event, going back to my first time in 2017.
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I've done a few online presentations in recent weeks, and while I've done a blog post announcing each when it was upcoming, I was torn about also doing a blog post after each, just to mention their recording URL. I don't want people to feel there are...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Do you feel you understand all there is to know about the CF Package Management feature (and cfpm tool), added by Adobe in CF2021? It has far more capabilities than most may realize.
So I'll be presenting a talk on this topic, online this Thursda...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
As most know, ColdFusion runs atop Java (and has since CF6). Did you know that JVM updates come out quarterly (including one just this week)? While some may find the process of doing them to be "old hat", others are often surprised to discover it's t...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you learn there's a new Java update available, it may well be relatively simple for you to apply that update, but if you're running important applications that rely on Java, it's in your interest to give some consideration to various matters relat...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21.
TLDR: The new updates are 1.8.0_401 (aka 8u401), 11.0.22, 17.0.10, and 21.0.2 respect...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Last week I did a talk on MIGRATING to CF2023 (as that's a challenge that many contemplate BEFORE proceeding to install it). This week I will follow-that up with a talk on INSTALLING it, and addressing various challenges in doing that. Some people do...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time of the year...well, I don't mean the holidays: I mean time to talk about migrating to CF2023, which came out several months ago. I'm getting asked more and more about it, as people proceed with making or considering the move--and sorry...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just a heads-up for my readers that there was an important security update released today by Adobe for ColdFusion 2023 (update 6) and 2021 (update 12). (Users of previous versions should note that those are no longer updated, not even for security fi...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you try to apply ColdFusion updates (including the latest released Oct 6) via the CF admin or command line and find that the update fails, the problem may be due to the JVM you're using (within CF or at the command line). There's a simple solution...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Have you ever wanted to test (from the command line) whether a port on another machine can be reached from yours? When some app of your can't seem to connect to a given port, you may want to test things from the command line. (The problem may be that...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Adobe has released today an important security update for each of ColdFusion 2023 and 2021. (Since CF2018 is end of life since July, there is no update for that version.) Note that while the technotes for the updates don't mention/link to any Adobe ...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're using FusionReactor, note that a 10.0.1 update was released last month, Jun 22, with a few bug fixes/improvements. (Sorry for the delay...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 18, 2023) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8,...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just days after a P1 security update released on Jul 11, Adobe has today released yet another.
As with the last update (which I blogged about h...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Folks using CF2023, 2021, or 2018 will want to know that a Priority 1 security update has been released today affecting all 3 releases, update 1 ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
On Jul 28 at 6pm US Eastern, I'll be offering this talk (online) on the Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup (hosted by John Barrett). For more on the topic ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're using FusionReactor, note that a new version 10 (10.0.0) released yesterday, May 18. While it's a new major release number, most of the...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
ColdFusion 2023 has been released today, May 17 2023. For more on the many features, see the following several Adobe blog posts and substantial d...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
TLDR; In case you missed it, FusionReactor 9.2.2 was released on March 1, 2023, and among its new features it can optionally now track CF query c...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
TLDR; In case you missed it, FusionReactor 9.2.2 was released on March 1, 2023, and among its new features it can optionally now track CF query c...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak at CFCamp 2023, in Munich this June. This will be my 7th year in a row presenting at t...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
OK, so in my last post (celebrating my 600th post and 17th year blogging here) I happened to admit that the site still looked like it was from 20...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
After I posted my last entry, I happened to notice that it was exactly my 600th post here at carehart.org/blog. How about that? And in that time ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Apr 18, 2023) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8,...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you've not heard, a new update has been released (March 14, 2023) for ColdFusion 2021 and 2018. Despite what you may hear, this is an URGENT (...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm thrilled to announce that I've been asked to present again at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2023, a free one-day conference being held in ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're using FusionReactor, note that a new 9.2.1 update was released last week, Jan 31, with a couple of bug fixes--including one where you m...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're using FusionReactor, note that a new 9.2.1 update was released last week, Jan 31, with a couple of bug fixes--including one where you m...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
TLDR; the URL for joining the CFML Slack workspace and channels has changed. If you want to join the CFML Slack, use the form at cfml-slack.net. ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Are you still running ColdFusion 2018? Did you know that end-of-life is July 13, 2023? That's the date that "core" support ends--meaning, no more...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm thrilled to announce that I've been selected as a speaker at Devnexus 2023, the long-running professional developer conference held in Atlant...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're a user of the wonderful FusionReactor monitoring and observability solution (for ColdFusion, Lucee, Java servers and more), you may del...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's something new to beware if you may run the Oracle JDK installer for the recently updated Java 11 or 17, whether on Windows, macOS, or via ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's a heads-up that some will want to hear about: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 17, 2023) for the current long-term support (L...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're active in social media you may have heard the news already, but for those who are not, Adobe has started to open the prerelease progra...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
As of the Oct 2022 CF updates (CF2021 update 5 and CF2018 update 15), Adobe has chosen to remove the CF Admin feature to
view, search, download,...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're running CF2016 or earlier, now's your chance (though the end of the year) to save potentially thousands of dollars in upgrading to the latest current version, CF2021. Intergral, the folks who make the FusionReactor monitoring tool and servi...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you're running CF2016 or earlier, now's your chance (though the end of the year) to save potentially thousands of dollars in upgrading to the ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
If you try to download a CF update using the ColdFusion Administrator AND you get an error, "error occurred while installing the update: Failed S...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's a heads-up that some will want to hear about: there are new JVM updates released today (Oct 18, 2022) for the current long-term support (L...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's some surprising news: Adobe has released a "refreshed" installer for CF2021, which includes update 5 (which came out last week) built-in. ...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
This is a call to all the speakers at last week's great Adobe CF Summit. As those there (and others) may know, Adobe was unable to arrange either...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
This topic may (should) interest folks using CF2021 or even OLDER CF versions. Did you know there's a command line tool to help view/manage as we...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Great news for FusionReactor users: FR9 has been released. Those using it may have noticed they are getting a notification in the FR UI about the...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I'm delighted to have been selected again to speak at November's Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2022 conference, which is being held in-person again fin...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just a heads-up to my readers that I'll be giving a talk tomorrow (Thurs, Sep 1 at noon Eastern) on "Comparing and contrasting Docker images from...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just a heads-up to my readers that I'll be giving a talk tomorrow (Thurs, Sep 1 at noon Eastern) on "Comparing and contrasting Docker images from...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's a heads-up that some will want to hear about: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 19, 2022) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well as the new interim update 18. (Note that prior to Jav...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Here's a heads-up that some will want to hear about: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 19, 2022) for the current long-term support (L...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just thought I'd post a reminder for folks that I am giving the opening session for the 2022 CF Dev Week, running July 18-22. Registration is free, of course.
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Just thought I'd post a reminder for folks that I am giving the opening session for
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Did you know that Java 10 (and above) has added use of a "var" keyword in variable declaration? Note that it's quite different from CFML's var keyword.
This is NOT something that CF developers NEED to know, and it WILL NOT affect anyone's CFML co...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Did you know that Java 10 (and above) has added use of a "var" keyword in variable declaration? Note that it's quite different from CFML's var ke...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Good news for FusionReactor users: a new version, 8.8.0, has just been released. You can see a list of several bullet points about it in the release notes. Most of the improvements will benefit those using the traditional on-premise version of FR, wh...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Good news for FusionReactor users: a new version, 8.8.0, has just been released. You can see a list of several bullet points about it in the rele...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
In a post today on his blog, Ben Nadel did an experiment "Looking At The Performance Overhead Of A Read-Only Lock". (He happened to do it in Lucee, but the concept applies equally to CF.)
And I wanted to offer some additional thoughts--first plann...
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Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
In a post today on his blog, Ben Nadel did an experiment "Looking At The Performance Overhead Of A Read-Only Lock". (He happened to do it in Luce...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
New JVM updates have been released today (Apr 19, 2022) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well a...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
The FusionReactor folks will offer a webinar this Thurs, Mar 24, at noon US Eastern, "Introducing Distributed tracing and on-prem observability"....
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
I had blogged in early November about how FusionReactor 8.7.4 had added at that time a new feature where it lists on request summary pages the DB...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
New JVM updates have been released last week (Jan 18, 2022) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17. (Note...
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