LIVE! Introducing the 2023 Release of Adobe ColdFusion

Report · May 17, 2023

We are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated release of 2023 release of Adobe ColdFusion! Packed with cutting-edge features and enhanced performance, this release takes ColdFusion to new heights of innovation. Experience accelerated development, robust security measures, and seamless integration with modern technologies.

Upgrade to the latest version now and harness the true potential of ColdFusion. Elevate your coding experience with Adobe ColdFusion – the ultimate platform for unmatched productivity and success.

What is new in this release?

LDAP and SAML integration
Integrate LDAP and SAML authentication seamlessly with ColdFusion, enabling secure and centralized user management, authentication, and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for your applications, enhancing security and user experience.

Central Configuration Server
Utilize ColdFusion's Central Configuration Server to manage and centralize configuration settings across multiple instances, simplifying administration, enhancing scalability, and ensuring consistency in your ColdFusion deployment.

GraphQL client
Leverage ColdFusion's GraphQL client capabilities to easily consume and interact with GraphQL APIs, empowering efficient data retrieval, flexible querying, and seamless integration with GraphQL-powered services and applications.

HTML to PDF
Convert HTML to PDF effortlessly using ColdFusion, preserving the layout, styles, and formatting of the original HTML content, enabling easy generation of professional-looking PDF documents from web pages or templates.

Cloud Services
Leverage ColdFusion's cloud capabilities to effortlessly deploy and scale applications, access cloud-based services, integrate with cloud platforms, and ensure seamless performance and availability in the cloud environment.

JWT integration in ColdFusion
Implement JSON Web Token (JWT) integration in ColdFusion to provide secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, enabling efficient and trusted data exchange between client applications and servers, enhancing overall security and reliability.

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Report · May 18, 2023

Hi,

Having difficulties getting CF2023 installed on Windows.

Running installer as administrator the GUI ends up displaying:

After closing that there is a note to start the CF service then browse port 8500.

Services.msc does not have a ColdFusion service to start.

CMD prompt cfstart - works ok.

CFadmin after that works ok.

Wondering should I add my own service with Windows SC command?

Regards, Carl.

Report · May 22, 2023

Hello,

Please note CF2023 install and service difficulties went away after first installing Visual C++ Redistributable then performing CF installation.

Hope that may help others, Carl.

Report · May 19, 2023

Can't seem to find any language changes or performance improvements documented... are there?

Report · May 21, 2023

Thanks for reaching out, @Tim2842955474bi

As far as language changes are concerned, we've fixed some bugs that are listed in Bug fixes.

We've also added support for Avro and Protocol Buffer serialization and deserialization. For more information, see the following docs:

Avro and Protocol Buffer

As far as performance improvements are concerned, we've ensured that the performance of CF 2023 is at par with that of Cf 2021.

Please post if there are more queries.

Regards,

Saurav

Report · May 25, 2023

What about the VS Code extension? It looks like a new version hasn't been released. I therefore can't set the CFML Dictionary Version to 2023 in VSC and can't code against 2023 server.

There was a newer beta version of the VSC extension during the beta for 2023 server, whatever happened to that?

Report · May 25, 2023

Until they may respond to or resolve this, you absolutely can "code against 2023 server". As you may know, there's no connection between the cf version you run and the code you can edit in the editor. You'll lack the code insight features, sure. And you may be referring to that, but again one CAN "code against 2023 server" with that original vscode extension, or even the old cf2018 cf builder, or indeed any editor.

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart.org)

Report · May 25, 2023

I'd just use any previous version of this extension. If you have the 2023 beta one, use that. If you have the one for 2018, use that. There aren't that many changes in CFML in the last few versions.

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC