ColdFusion 2021 Update 2 there is no link to the Hotfix 02 File

I can confirm the confusion related to this, and I'll note I've reported it to Adobe earlier today.

That said, I don't know if it's so much a "mistake" as a change in how they think manual updates should be applied. Let me share some thoughts that may help others who come across this.

First, as you may have noticed, the section on manual updating in the technote for update 2 has changed from a focus from the "old" apprroach of just using the jar (whose URL you offered)--and which is what has been the approach for all updates since CF10, including even in the technote for CF2021 update 1.

Instead, in the technote for update 2 a new (and I'd argue somewhat convoluted) approach is shown (which would indeed be unique to CF2021) of using the new package manager (of extracting the zip, and an xml fule, as well as with references made there to a folder of /bundles, and the cfpm tool).

And note if you look closely in that update 2 technote section on manual updating, they DO mention a few lines down at least USING that jar (with the very filename you mention), but again curiously they do not offer a link to get JUST that jar.

And I agree that they should, both on the update 2 technote (like they had linked to it on the update 1 technote) and also on that general updates overview page for CF2021 (that you link to), which currently offers the zip link for both updates (as "Hotfix and Package repository"), but they only offered the jar for update 1 (as simply "File:").

Again, I have already reached out to Adobe support today about this and they replied that they are looking into it. We can hope they may at least add the link, as you ask (on both that updates overview page, and on the technote for update 2), but I hope they may also clarify whether/when.why one may want to use the "extract a zip and more" approach vs just the "run a jar" approach. 🙂

Or if/as anyone else may come to understand things, this may be as good a place as any to talk it out. (For instance, does it matter perhaps whether one is intending to use the cfpm approach to do updates, rather than the more traditional CF Admin or jar approach? If so, what are the pros/cons? And shouldn't that distinction be made more clear in those "manual" steps of the technote?)

Anyway, I realize you just wanted to see that jar linked to, and I agree that's the least we want to see accomplished. 🙂

Apologies for the hasty post.  I guess the method has been changed from the way that it has always been.  I found that inside of the linked packages zip inside of the bundles folder there is an "\updateinstallers" folder that contains the hotfix files.

\bundles\updateinstallers\hotfix-002-328618

Steve