Security vulnerability with CF2021 and SOLR

CF2021 SOLR security warning – how to uninstall

On a form, second select options will depend on the first selection from a drop down.

On a form.  When someone selects on option from a select dropdown, I want the other drop down to change and only show some of the options based on the first dropdown selection.

CF Summit 2021. Any news?

Adobe has been uncharacteristically quiet about this years CF Summit.

Updates available for Java 8 and 11, as of July 20, 2021

Originally posted July 26 2021; updated Aug 5 2021 ColdFusion users should be aware that there were updates released last week (Jul 20) to the long-term support (LTS) versions of Oracle Java, versions 8 and 11. Java 11 is the version currently supported by CF2021 and CF2018. For more on the JVM updates, see the Oracle technotes: Release notes for Java 11.0.12 Release notes for Java 8.0_301 These updates, like most JVM updates, include security-related fixes. Among them are a […]

Videos now posted from Adobe CF Developer Week 2021

Great news: all the session recordings are now posted for CF Dev Week 2021. This includes the 20 sessions (from community members and Adobe engineers) as well as the Adobe keynote. The sessions are posted at the videos page here on the CF Portal, which also has most or all recordings from various (but now all) previous Devweeks and CF Summits. It also offers various Adobe webinar series, like the recent one on the API Manager. The recordings play in […]

Take the “State of the CF Union” Survey, online a little longer

Every year, Teratech offers an online “State of the CF Union” Survey.  The one for 2021 has been open for several weeks and will be for a while longer (no date listed). It’s comprised of several questions about what CF engines, versions, and related apps and tools you may use, as well as a few more general topics. The results are also offered online and are updating as people complete the survey. (You can also view the see in advance […]

ColdFusion Security Code Analyzer now works with CF Standard and Developer editions, as of CF2021

Originally posted July 13, 2021; updated May 3, 2023 (slight rewording, and adding mention of VSCode version of CFBuilder) Here’s news that will interest some: the Adobe ColdFusion Security Code Analyzer tool now works with even the free Developer edition or Standard edition/license, as of CF2021. Prior to CF2021, it worked only with CF’s Enterprise license or Trial edition (2018 and 2016), and specifically NOT with a Standard license or the free Developer edition. Whether you may be currently using […]

What to try when Adobe site downloads or form submissions fail to work properly

Have you perhaps tried to download ColdFusion from the Adobe site, only to find after you fill out the CF dev/trial download form that the download would not start? You’re just left at a page which offers no other means to download (Adobe could and should fix that by offering links on that page in case this could happen). Or perhaps you’ve tried to file a bug report at the Adobe Tracker site, only to find that the bug report […]

Proposal: cached queries should have “fromCache” and “wasCached” indicators

I’d like to make a proposal, and I wonder what others think. Let me expand on the title here. Background If you’ve used CF’s query caching features, you almost surely know that when you run a query (or stored proc call) that uses cachedwithin or cachedafter, there will be a “cached” indicator in the resulting query metadata (if you dump it), or the debug output (if you’ve enabled it), or the RESULT struct (if you named one for the query). […]

SAML Error in CF2021

SSL error during Process SAML Response

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week :: It’s a Wrap

As we close the curtains on another successful edition of the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week, we’re thrilled to have received over 3800+ registrations! Despite the online fatigue putting a damper on most virtual events this year, we have witnessed a participation rate of over 80%. Dev Week 2021 hosted 3000+ participants from over 100 countries around the world. Twenty experts from the ColdFusion Community lined up 20+ sessions on an array of topics like Feature Flags, Web Sockets and so […]

Adobe will support Dockerhub soon and supports AWS ECR now for pulling their images

[Originally posted June 18 2021, updated July 13 2021] Here’s some news that may surprise and delight those interested in using the Adobe CF Docker images, which I just learned yesterday and today: First, you can now pull the Adobe CF images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), including both the CF2021 image and 2018, as well as the add-on and PMT images for CF2021. These are official Adobe images, to be clear. A simple example–that works today–and will give you the CF2021 […]