The ColdFusion 10 Update 5 is now available for install within your administrator. Update 5 is a security update that resolves a vulnerability affecting ColdFusion on Windows Internet Information Services (IIS), which could result in a Denial of Service condition. Adobe recommends users update their product installation. Refer the security bulletin for all the details associated.
I am pleased to announce a brand new community driven training program for ColdFusion – Learn CF in a week! It is great to see Learn CF In a Week live from what started out as a conversation about training resources for ColdFusion between Simon and me at cf.Objective() this year. Huge shout-out to Simon Free and other community experts for making this happen. I would like to call out all contributors from the community for this traning program that […]
There is a ColdFusion e-seminar happening today on ColdFusion Builder at 8 am PT. Title: ColdFusion Builder: The professional IDE to boost your productivity Description: ColdFusion Builder has many features that makes CFML coding easier and faster, like code assist for functions and variables, auto code complete, code insight for CFCs and ORM entities, tighter integration with ColdFusion server, line debugger, advanced search functionality, extensibility using extensions and many more. This session will explain such productivity features, including those that are […]
The ColdFusion 10 Update 4 is now available for install within your administrator. It includes several important bug fixes. ColdFusion 10 Update 4 is a cumulative update. It includes all the bug fixes from previous updates of ColdFusion 10. All the issues reported in Update 3 have been resolved in this update. The details of the update is available here.
There is a mandatory update to ColdFusion 10 that all ColdFusion 10 users need to apply on all platforms. [Update: The mandatory update was refreshed. Take a look at the latest update here ] You can download the update from here: http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html Detailed instructions on how to apply this update is available in the technote here: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-mandatory-update.html You can run the update from the command line either in the GUI or in the silent mode by following the steps outlined here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/Admin/WSe61e35da8d318518-33adffe0134c60cd31c-7ffe.html […]
ColdFusion supports all minor version upgrades to Java. Here’s a KB article that indicates this. As long the ColdFusion supports the major Java version, you can upgrade the minor version updates within the supported major versions.
[Update: Support for Windows 8 and Windows 2012 announced for ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 : link] The support for ColdFusion 10 on Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion is coming. We will be releasing new installers to support these new platforms. While it is not possible to point out the release date for these installers at this time, the installers will be made available in the next 3-5 months time.
Hotfix Installer documentation and technote contains most of the details. However, if you would like to know more details on how it works or if you are looking for clarifications for doubts that you might have on Hotfix/Update mechanism is available @: More Details on Hotfix Installer
Please welcome Kishore Balakrishnan, who will be the new Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion. Minu has decided to move out of ColdFusion PMM role. She will be transitioning the ColdFusion responsibilities and relationships to Kishore. Kishore has been with Adobe for more than 6 years now, performing various roles across multiple Adobe products. Kishore does bring a user level experience of ColdFusion, which is a big plus.
Recent releases of ColdFusion are released only for English and Japanese OSes. However, if your native OS is not in one of these two languages, you can workaround as follows to default to English. On your native OS(Say French OS) install the ColdFusion server product. The installer will guide you through in English. Once it is installed if you try to open administrator it will be blank page. To workaround this stop the server. Then open jvm.config file under <CF_Install_home>cfusionbin […]
Problem Statement: If the username of the machine contains two or more $s in it and if this subdirectory of user-home is the temp directory of your machine(i.e System temp path containing two or more $s in it), then your installation would fail. Example: A system’s username as Admin12$01$ Installation last screen message: “Install failed with some errors, check the Install log for more details” Following are the errors that are result of this issue: Custom Action: …ia.action.PreInstallCheckAction Status: […]
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If you are seeing any of the following exceptions while starting the ColdFusion server on RHEL/Mac OS X. Unable to initialise License service: coldfusion.server.ServiceException Unable to initialise Cryptograpic service: java.lang.NullPointerException Unable to initialise Security service: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError. Then you should first verify if hostname and localhost are properly set-up or not by opening […]

