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May 4, 2020
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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
    Community 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.

     

     

    Inspiring
    May 5, 2020

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

    need to check on Licensing?

     

    Much appreciated

     

    Jose Duenas

     

    Community Expert
    August 27, 2020

    Dave any last comments before I move forward with Update this afternoon?

    Hoping to hear back if  on network install of JDK/JRE.

    much appreciated.

     

    jose

     

     


    I'd just let the Java installer put it wherever it would normally put it. There isn't a huge amount of value in overriding that choice. But you can if you want. I would NOT put it in the CF directory or any subdirectories of that though.

     

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
    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.