This post is to announce the release of updates for ColdFusion 2016, ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion 10. These updates address a common vulnerability mentioned in security bulletin APSB 16-16, upgrade the Tomcat engine and contain other bug fixes. ColdFusion 2016 Update 1 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 1 addresses an issue mentioned in the security bulletin APSB 16-16. Tomcat has been upgraded to version 8.0.32. This update includes several important bug fixes for security, core language features, server, and other areas. […]
Thank you all for joining us last week at Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week! We hope you were able to gain additional knowledge in the remote sessions.
We would also like to thank our speakers for their time and committment to sharing knowledge with our amazing community in the below sessions.
- Security Enhancements in ColdFusion 2016: Dave Epler
- Mobile Applications Made Easy with ColdFusion: Dave Ferguson
- MVC With and Without a Framework: Nolan Erck
- Realtime with WebSockets: Giancarlo Gomez
- ColdFusion Performance Tuning and Caching: Brian Klaas
- CFML Features for More Modern Coding: Dan Fredericks
- ColdFusion 2016 Overview: Rakshith Naresh
- Exploring PDF Capabilities in ColdFusion: Elishia Dvorak
- Protecting APIs using CF 2016 API Manager: S V Pavankumar
- Extending PDF Capabilities using DDX: Mayur Jain
Call for speakers is now open for Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016!
From now until May 20th, feel free to submit any topics you would like us to consider. We're always looking for new speakers, with a focus on practical application of ColdFusion in solving real world business solutions. So if you're a developer who has leveraged ColdFusion to build a great application or you have an interesting use case we would love you to present that at this year's Summit!
We're also looking for speakers that have knowledge of ColdFusion in specific functionality areas or integrated solutions that can share this through practical examples that would benefit the developer community.
Please submit your proposals here: http://cfsummit.speakerform.com
Remember to submit by May 20th in order to be considered.
For all confirmed speakers, conference pass and hotel will be covered for the conference dates.
We’re excited to bring you ColdFusion Developer Week this year with some great topics for all levels of developers. All of these sessions will be held remotely and we will release links to the recordings after the event in case you miss any. Please try to attend the live sessions for a more engaging experience as you’ll be able to ask questions and interact. We will have 5 days of sessions and 2 sessions per day, with a total of 10 sessions on the following topics:
What: Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week
When: April 24th through 29th
Times: 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday
Schedule and Topics:
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Monday, April 25, 2016 |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
ColdFusion 2016 Overview |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm |
Security Enhancements in ColdFusion 2016 |
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
Mobile Applications Made Easy with ColdFusion |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm |
Exploring PDF Capabilities in ColdFusion |
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
Protecting APIs using CF 2016 API Manager |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm |
MVC With and Without a Framework |
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
Realtime with WebSockets |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm |
ColdFusion Performance Tuning and Caching |
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Friday, April 29, 2016 |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
Extending PDF capabilities using DDX |
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12:00 – 1:00 pm |
CFML Features for More Modern Coding |
We’re pleased to announce the first set of ColdFusion training videos are now available!
Getting Started with ColdFusion 2016
Altogether, 9 hours of training content is now available.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Configuring your work environment
Chapter 3: Variables and data types
Chapter 4: Publishing database content
Chapter 5: Creating a drill down interface
Chapter 6: Inserting new data in the database
Chapter 7: Updating data
Chapter 8: Reusing Code
Chapter 9: The application framework
Chapter 10: Session management
Chapter 11: More security
Chapter 12: Building the site administration
You can find all of the videos here on Adobe KnowHow:
https://www.adobeknowhow.com/courselanding/getting-started-coldfusion-2016
Registration is now open for Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016!
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
This year we’ll be at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada
When:
October 10th and 11th, 2016
** Preconference hands on labs October 9th **
Where:
Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, NV
Cost:
Super Early Bird Rate: $289 for conference and preconference workshop, $!99 for conference pass
Other passes available: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/
Call for speakers will be open very soon as well, so please think about submitting a topic.
With the recent ColdFusion 2016 release we’ve had a few inquiries as to our backward licensing policies. We can license one version back for certain types of volume licenses. Below are the relevant links and contact information to help you navigate the licensing for ColdFusion 11 if needed.
FAQ for ColdFusion:
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/standard/faq.html
Backward License Policy:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/volume-licensing/pdfs/pv_esd_customer_faq.pdf
We will update our sales contact information on the web site and update this blog, but for now feel free to contact Kishore@adobe.com if you want to be directed to a ColdFusion sales resource to assist with further information.
Join us tomorrow for a feature discussion on the newly released Adobe ColdFusion 2016 version!
As you may know, February 16th we released ColdFusion 2016. Please join ColdFusion’s Product Manager, Rakshith Naresh, in a one hour online seminar to review all of the new and improved features of this release.
ColdFusion 2016 includes an all new API Management Platform, CLI, PDF, security improvements, and much more.
Thursday, March 3rd @ 9AM PST
Register Here: https://cfinternal03032016.meetus.adobeevents.com/?sdid=9RQM49ZW&mv=other
Further information on the ColdFusion 2016 version:
What’s New in ColdFusion 2016 Developer Network Article:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/whats-new-cf-2016.html
ColdFusion 2016 Documentation:
The installers for ColdFusion (2016 release) and ColdFusion Builder (2016 release) have been refreshed. The only change between the old and new installers is the refresh of certain branding assets (no change in the underlying code). The new build number for ColdFusion (2016 release) is 298074 (was 297996 earlier) and for ColdFusion Builder (2016 release) is 298077 (was 298004 earlier). Some, if not all, branding assets refresh will also be fixed as a part of the first update so that […]
Last year was the 20th year of ColdFusion and thanks to the enthusiastic participation of the customers it was a great hit. The celebrations culminated at the ColdFusion Summit 2015 which was the largest ColdFusion Summit we had till date. 2016 promises to be great year for ColdFusion with the new release. Some of the activities that we are planning on doing this year are: 1. ColdFusion Champions – We are creating a CF Champions team which would help us […]
I am pleased to announce that we have just launched the new version of ColdFusion, Adobe ColdFusion (2016 release). It was not long ago that I communicated to you via a blog post on how ColdFusion has had a profound impact of web application development over the last two decades when we celebrated twenty years of Adobe ColdFusion. Today we continue to make that impact adding ColdFusion (2016 release) to the list of releases. The highlights of the release are, […]
We’re excited to bring you Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit, a one-day conference happening in Washington, D.C. on March 9th.
The conference is FREE to attend, just register at the link provided below. I need to warn that space is very limited at 50 attendees, so please register now and pass the information along to anyone in the D.C. area.
We will have the product team available, including executive leadership, to bring you information on Adobe ColdFusion 2016 – the newest version which will be released in the first half of this year. We’ll also have a few sessions from experts in the community on security and development topics.
Register Here: http://events.carahsoft.com/event-detail/4658/adobe/register/
Details
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Registration: Begins at 8:00am
Event Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Location: Washington Hilton
1919 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Cost: Complimentary
*Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Agenda
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8:30am – 9:00am |
Breakfast |
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9:00am – 9:50am |
Adobe ColdFusion Welcome Keynote |
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10:00am – 10:50am |
New Features in ColdFusion 2016 |
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11:00am – 11:50am |
Security Enhancements in ColdFusion 2016 |
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12:00pm – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
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1:00pm – 1:50pm |
ColdFusion PDF Capabilities |
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2:00pm – 2:50pm |
Caching and Performance Enhancements |
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3:00pm – 3:50pm |
ColdFusion Features for Modern Coding |
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3:50pm – 4:00pm |
Closing Remarks |

