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Cold Fusion upgrade 11 Patch 19 versus upgrade to CF 2016 , 2018

  • May 4, 2020
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Team, I am new member to Admin team. I have been tasked to upgrade all windows servers to CF11/patch 19.

 

I do understand V11 is EOL. I need to understand if this would be a major lift planning for CF 2016? or CF2018 from V11. Because of some important seurity fixes and to familirie myself with product. planning on update going in next 3-4 weeks.

 

I am keeping in mind other players involved in my env:

 

Oracle current ver 12c

MySql V 5.7

PowerPDF v3

IIS 8.5

Java....

 

Thank you

 

Jose Duenas

Lead Systems Administrator

 

 

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    BKBK
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    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2020

    haxtbh  has covered the basics. I would also suggest you move to ColdFusion 2018. 

     

    While you're at it, install the latest ColdFusion 2018 update. Take a look the ColdFusion 2018 Support Matrix. It shows you the latest versions of the commonest technologies that integrate with ColdFusion. Talking of integration, nowadays ColdFusion no longer includes the MySQL driver. You have to download the Connector/J JAR file and copy it to ColdFusion's lib directory.

     

     

    J
    josed56603254Author
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2020

    ty you all for your input. Is there anything specific I

    need to check on Licensing?

     

    Much appreciated

     

    Jose Duenas

     

    Charlie Arehart
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    Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2020

    Well, as for licensing, do note that you will NOT be able to get any upgrade discount to go from CF11 up. Adobe (and resellers) only currently offer a discount for CF2016 folks going to 2018. (And Adobe no longer sells CF2016. You'd have to buy 2018 and "backwards license" it to 2016.)

     

    But here's one more reason you should go to 2018 instead: when CF2020 comes out, they will then (if tradition follows) ONLY offer upgrade pricing to those on CF2018. (And they would stop selling or even offering the download of CF2018 on their public site, like currently only CF2018 is offered. Licensees get a special site and login where they  can download older versions they have licensed, even past when they are no longer supported.) 

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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    haxtbh
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2020

    This all depends on the code base. We migrated pretty seamlessly, but then we did not use a lot of things that were deprecated in later versions.

     

    You will need to move to 2018. The easiest way is just get the trial / dev edition and run things on it and see where it falls down. 

     

    The CF Admin has a code analyzer  to check your code for potential issues. Its a good start but you would still want to test it all.

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