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Ortus Solutions
We're excited to launch a new video series focused on deploying BoxLang Cloud Servers across the three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
This step-by-step series is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud professionals lo...
CFchimp
I’d like to revisit the CFML Formatter (VSCode extension) that I posted on not too long ago and mention the cfformat-ignore functionality. I had to work on some 15+ year old code today. I won’t say who wrote that code. Cough Me. Cough Embarrassing. Every time I saved a file the CFML Form...
Ortus Solutions
The testing ecosystem at Ortus keeps evolving, and so does TestBox. As BoxLang adoption accelerates, we're proud to announce a major leap forward for the de facto standard in CFML and BoxLang testing.From full native BoxLang support to serverless execution and tighter IDE integration, TestBox i...
Lucee Blog
The latest release breaks Javaloader with Coldbox app
6.2.2.90 works
The Error Occurred in
/var/w...
Lucee Blog
Brad merged a fix from me last night, which addresses the default cache support not working with cfconfig and Lucee 6
Lucee Blog
I can't get the PatternLayout to work. It seems like it just falls back to the Classic layout.
Anyone seen this issue before?
Can anyone demonstrate a working config?
here is what the generated CFConfig.json looks like
"exception": {...
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm using Cold Fusion 2016. I know the ODBC DSN works because I can use Excel to connect to the same AS400 DSN using it.As you can see in the screen shot I can also connect via the C:\ColdFusion2016\cfusion\db\slserver54\tools\ivcheckodbc.exe utility.I've tried restartin...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have created 2 Javascripts to visualize and hid specific fields. These fields have the properties "hidden" When activating the Java script these fileds become visible, exactly how it should. But when de-activing a Java script the properties of these fields changes ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
CF 2021 Windows SErver 2022 -- My setting is curring 20 MB i can not change it - i can noty even lower it if i try i get a message that says in admin Important notice about last submissions... BUT it does not give me any notice. If i try to even change 20MB and lower it i get that message. I need...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Initial Assumptions and Red HerringsThe issue began when an application running on ColdFusion 2023 appeared to stop responding. All signs initially pointed to a .NET or database connection issue. This assumption was made based on the browser developer tools, which show...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel reflects on the life and death of Lucy, his beloved dog and faithful companion of thirteen years....
Lucee Blog
The Lucee Team are very happy to announce our latest stable release
This has been a bug fix focussed release including fixes for
Date Handling
Session Handling
Single Mode fixes
Cookies
Cloudflare cookie problems
Contro...
Lucee Blog
I made a bunch of improvements to lucee_ctl which I've been running in production for more than a year, and I'm sure everyone would benefit from this enhanced version.
@Zackster let me know if it's okay for me to s...
Lucee Blog
One of our servers using the latest release is crashing...
My guess is that is related to the scripted update of a scheduled task, we do this
if ( getSetting("environment") neq "DEVELOPMENT") {
cfschedule( task = 'threaded...
Lucee Blog
One of our servers using the latest release is crashing...
My guess is that is related to the scripted update of a scheduled task, we do this
if ( getSetting("environment") neq "DEVELOPMENT") {
cfschedule( task = 'threaded...
Ortus Solutions
We're absolutely thrilled to announce BoxLang v1.4.0 � – without a doubt, our most significant release to date! This isn't just another incremental update; it's a game-changing release that introduces revolutionary features, massive performance improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes th...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Without going into to much detail, we basically have 0 control over anything at my company. So we're resigned to doing manual Coldfusion 2023 updates on our developement machines. On our actual servers we can use the adobe update site.Manual updates seem to have a lot of quirks, so it woul...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have had a nightmare trying for two weeks to get CF2025 installed on a brand new linux server. I spent 2.5 hours on a call with CFSupport and they could not help me, and in fact made it worse. This has been the worst experience, and I do not think I could ever recommend...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello all,With Code Analyzer scanning our files. With all it fines. Is there a way to export all that is found?So you don't have to go one by one through each finding.Thank you....
Lucee Blog
Anyone besides me still using moment.cfc for datetime processing?
While testing the Lucee 6.2 migration in my dev environment...
Ortus Solutions
Async programming just got a major upgrade. Join us this Wednesday, August 20th at 11:00 AM CDT for a brand-new Ortus Webinar: "Leveling Up Your Async Game with BoxLang" led by Jon Clausen, Ortus Solutions Senior Developer and BoxLang contributor....
CFchimp
ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 20 recently broke multiple autosuggest fields across my organization’s web applications. ColdFusion (2023 release) Update 14 causes the same issue. Many of our organization’s autosuggest fields utilize Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery. This jQuery plugin retr...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
How do I go about updating my cold fusion installtion from CF2021 to the latest version if I have purchased through AWS Marketplace?
Lucee Blog
What would be the best approach to upgrade from Tomcat 9 to Romcat 11 and Lucee 6.2.1.122 (already running)? UNIX system. Can not use the installer
5 posts - 3 participants
Ortus Solutions
July brought another wave of innovation and progress at Ortus Solutions! From exciting updates to the BoxLang ecosystem to fresh releases and community highlights, the momentum keeps building. Whether you're new or a longtime follower, catch up on everything we achieved this month, packed with annou...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Team, I understand new install will go separate drive/folder etc. Also will need run seperate website due to Connector separate instance etc. I know i can share same JDK installation. My question is not clear when documentation says t...
Ortus Solutions
In today's fast-paced web development world, users expect seamless, interactive experiences , and delivering those experiences is essential to stay competitive. If you're a ColdBox developer working with legacy CFML applications, you might feel stuck between maintaining stable backend logic and upda...
Ortus Solutions
The BoxLang global journey continues, and we're beyond excited to share that our mission to evangelize modern software development is about to reach a whole new audience in Japan.
On Friday, 22 August 2025, from 19:00 to 21:00 JST, we'll be presenting "BoxLang: A N...
FusionReactor
Monitoring an app is easy – until something breaks. That's when alerting becomes the MVP of your observability setup. FusionReactor Cloud gives you deep insight into your applications, JVM, infrastructure, and ColdFusion workloads. But with hundreds of metrics to choose …
FusionReactor
Organizations using integrated CF solutions typically resolve performance issues significantly faster while reducing vendor management overhead. Here's why the smartest CF teams are consolidating their toolchain. The Challenge: CF Performance Issues Are Getting More Expensive Industry reality:...
Lucee Blog
An attempted but failed Lucee update from 6.2.1.122 to 7.0.0.202 has somehow broken Lucee's SMTP capability. I have since successfully replaced the 6.2.1.122 jar with the 6.2.2.90-RC jar just to make sure it would update properly, but that obviously did not solve the email problem.
Lucee Blog
The first version of our DuckDB extension is published, requires Lucee 6.2.1 or newer
DuckDB is a powerful database with lots of additional extensions for a large range of data formats like Apache Iceberg and Parquet
Lucee Blog
Due to a number of critical issues, we have deemed critical especially relating to single mode, we are happy to announce yet another RC.
FusionReactor
Some bugs only happen in production. They don't show up in development. They hide during staging tests. And yet, they still find their way to your users – causing frustration, errors, and support tickets. These are the elusive, real-world bugs …
Lucee Blog
Since 6.2 and 7.0 Lucee retrieves the list of available updates from maven, rather than from the Lucee update server.
Due to a hosting change with maven, we had to modify this process, as newer versions since 6.2.2.64-SNAPSHOT and 7.0.0.275-SNAPSHOT no longer show up as upgrad...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel polyfills the bracket notation for both URL and FORM parameter grouping in Adobe ColdFusion....
Lucee Blog
Anyone using Lucee 6.2.x on Jetty 12? I have used Jetty 8, 9 and 10 in production but Jetty 12 seems to be a new beast. Lucee never deploys. I can't even serve static content.
OS: Linux and Windows
Java Version: JDK 21.0.8+9
Lucee Blog
Anyone using Lucee 6.2.x on Jetty 12? I have used Jetty 8, 9 and 10 in production but Jetty 12 seems to be a new beast. Lucee never deploys. I can't even serve static content.
OS: Linux and Windows
Java Version: JDK 21.0.8+9
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Good morning, all. Been getting a flood of error emails generated from production. Related to Apache POI, but something I have never heard of, before. com/zaxxer/sparsebits/SparseBitSet
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError&nbs...
Ortus Solutions
That's where CBWire comes in — a powerful ColdBox module designed specifically to help companies modernize their CFML applications by enabling reactive, dynamic user interfaces without a complete overhaul or the need for heavy front-end tooling....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi All,I can't seem to figure this out, so any help would be appreciated. Might be a bug with CF2021. I got 2 websites with cfapplication name AAA & BBB both under same domain, https, using www If I login through one app usin...
Lucee Blog
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FusionReactor
On 30 September 2025 @ 23:59 UTC we will Disable TLS 1.0 / 1.1 on every public FusionReactor endpoint (licence, downloads, Cloud ingestion). Replace our Sectigo certificate chain with Let's Encrypt ISRG Root X1/X2. If your server already supports TLS …
Ortus Solutions
Modernization in Motion! �
Help us Build a Dynamic Future
The future of web development is now, and Into the Box 2026 is leading the charge! We're calling on developers, architects, and tech trailblazers from around the world to step on stage, share your knowledge, and shape th...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We have been using CF for a long time. Yesterday we had a power cut and after a restart the following is happening (just a test page to identify issues): <cfquery datasource="#mydb#"&g...
CF Whisperer
And Let's Not Forget Ultrasound & Nuclear Medicine = Radiology
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi,I administrate a few ColdFusion 2023 servers on windows. I perform an off-line update whenever a new update comes out. I carry out these following steps:1) Download new hotfix and packages from Adobe Website2) copy these files into the Bundles directory of ColdFusion
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates that explicitly provided arguments always override the argumentCollection in ColdFusion, regardless of where in the parameter list they are defined.... ...
FusionReactor
On 30 September 2025 we will: Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on all public endpoints – license activation and FusionReactor Cloud ingestion. Replace our Sectigo certificate with a Let's Encrypt chain (ISRG Root X1/X2). If your JVM already speaks …
Lucee Blog
OS: Windows Server 2019 (10.0) 64bit
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bit
Tomcat Version: Apache Tomcat/11.0.6
Lucee Version: 6.2.1.112-RC
Using Twilio webhooks to log incoming text messag...
Lucee Blog
OS: Windows Server 2019 (10.0) 64bit
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bit
Tomcat Version: Apache Tomcat/11.0.6
Lucee Version: 6.2.1.112-RC
Using Twilio webhooks to log incoming text messag...
FusionReactor
Take control of your queries with OpsPilot's new Web Search Toggle We're excited to introduce a simple but powerful update to OpsPilot: the Web Search Toggle – designed to give you more control over how your questions are handled, especially …
FusionReactor
Let's face it – debugging in production has always been a bit of a nightmare. You're getting reports of a mysterious bug, maybe it's a null pointer exception or some bizarre edge case that only happens at 3:00 AM when …
Lucee Blog
Guys I really need help with these couple issues we are seeing since changing from Lucee 6.0.3.1 to 6.2.1.122.
Just for context: as part of upgrading to 6.2.1.122 I upgraded Java from 11 to 21 and Tomcat from 9 to 11. Everything worked fine on dev but when applied to our prod ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Getting the error for all rest services on a subset of our production servers: Cannot resolve PropertyFilter with id 'coldfusion.runtime.Struct'; no FilterProvider configured Appears to be the same error as:
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello everyone, I have an error or detail when reloading with reload. I previously added the mapping in REST, but when I run it, it only shows me {} but it doesn't show me if I reload it or any status. I'm using the developer version CF25. Do you know if this is normal or if I need some other add...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi all, I've just purchased a ColdFusion 2025 Standard Edition license, and activated my trial version. From my understanding, it should be valid for one year. However, in the ColdFusion admin panel, the license is showing as valid only until October 20, 2025 whic...
Lucee Blog
As the old mod_cfml repo is somewhat abandoned ( I don't have commit access ), I have forked it under the Lucee org
There is now CI for building the mod_cfml.so (Windows, Linux x64 and arm64) and mod_cfml-v...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I got the infamous architecture mismatch trying to set up an ODBC Data Source from Cold Fusion(2011) to an AS400 data source(1st screentshot).Since it took me two days to track this one down I thought I'd pay it forward by showing you how I fixed it in the hopes of saving someone some time...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores the use of CFInclude and CFModule to define runtime extensions and polyfills in ColdFusion....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Since updating to update 21 from update 20, opening Scheudle Tasks in cfadmin is erroing on some scheduled tasks that were created before update 21. The impacted tasks can be edited and resaved which will clear the error.New scheduled tasks can be created and appea...
Ortus Solutions
We're back and bolder than ever. Into the Box 2026 is officially open for early registration, and we're inviting you to be part of our mission to modernize the world of BoxLang, CFML, and Java development.
This year's theme, Modernization in Motion:Building a Dynamic Future, is more than a sayi...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello all,Others have noted the security issue with Solr and version 7.We don't need it on our servers, so I would like to uninstall, I am not sure yet if I can disable the add-on service cause I think the cfhtml2pdf tag might be used in our code.So if I can just uninstall SOLR...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I just updated CF 2023 from 6 to 15, and applicaton is not working with below error:any idea what's missing? Thanks.Variable HTTP_REFERER is undefinedcoldfusion.runtime.UndefinedVariableException: Variable HTTP_REFERER is undefined.
at coldf...
Lucee Blog
We have a code that uses CFLDAP with timeout="10". The documentation indicates that this value is in seconds.
Starting with Lucee 6, we received a timeout error message indicating a duration greater than 10ms.
We tested on
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
hi, my CF 2023 enterprise license will expire on Nov. 1 2025, I am thinking not to renew because the application is schedule to move to other platform around Dec. 30 2025. Now the question is can my CF server keep up and running until Dec. 30 2025 with expired licens...
FusionReactor
When your hosting company handles server management, you might wonder what value an application performance monitoring (APM) tool like FusionReactor can still provide for your ColdFusion applications. The answer is: plenty. While your hosting provider takes care of the underlying infrastruct...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of bx-jsoup, a powerful new BoxLang module that brings enterprise-grade HTML parsing and cleaning capabilities to your applications. Built on top of the proven Jsoup library, this module provides developers with safe, flexible tools for handling HTML content whi...
Lucee Blog
I'm having a weird issue, where I have a HTML/CSS/JS frontend website doing it's thing, getting data from a CFML backend via an API-call.
It is this website https://ondernemerschap.panteia.nl/ and it...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Jul 15, 2025) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 24. (The previous short-term release, Java ...
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Lucee Blog
After looking into this problem a few weeks ago, it got me thinking
Lucee Blog
Hello folks!
I have been trying to run several websites with Lucee/IIS in our internal network for 2 weeks without success.
The goal is to access a server internally in the browser with the IP address and the website alias. E.g.
Lucee Blog
When we do a fresh install of Lucee 6 or encounter slow request times, we do this as well. We change the server.xml from this:
<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
<Connector protocol="AJP/1.3"
port="8009"
secre...
Lucee Blog
I found this bug on cfformat:
Pete Freitag
Last month at the end of June I was invited to speak at the Adobe Developer Week online conference. My talk was titled: Security 101: Protecting your ColdFusion Applications. The slides are available
FusionReactor
For ColdFusion teams serious about application performance, this integration offers an unprecedented level of insight with minimal setup effort.
Rather than spending hours poring over logs and metrics dashboards, you can have conversations with AI that draws directly from your live monitori...
FusionReactor
The shift to cloud-based application performance monitoring isn’t just about moving your data off-site—it’s about unlocking capabilities that simply aren’t possible with traditional on-premise solutions. FusionReactor Cloud represents a new generation of monitoring tools t...
Ortus Solutions
CBWire isn't just a productivity boost, it's a shift in how we think about building modern web apps in CFML. It empowers developers to create rich, responsive interfaces while keeping development clean, fast, and focused on what matters.
If you're building ColdBox applications and want to streamline...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I could not find discussion on this topic and I think it could be serious for some environments.On IIS cfm handler why there is no use of buffer ? the handlers are configured with responseBufferLimit="0". Is there any reason. It seems it could be a serious issue....
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at how to reflectively access built-in functions in ColdFusion; and, warns against trying to do it....
Lucee Blog
Key Updates to GitHub Copilot AI (Late June–Early July 2025)
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
CFMail will throw error after update 15 applied. Java version: 17.0.15+9-LTS-24 "Error","ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8022-exec-3","07/11/25","13:24:45","","Bad type on operand stackException Details:Location:coldfusion/mail/mod/MailImpl.signMail(Ljavax...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I am observing an outbound connection initiated by the process coldfusion.exe over the SSH port. The destination IP is not flagged as malicious on VirusTotal. Could you please advise if this is a legitimate process behavior by coldfusion, or should I investigate this activity fur...
Lucee Blog
Has anyone run into a situation where scheduled tasks run for a random period of time and then just stop.
I have 2 tasks scheduled; 1 every 5 minutes and 1 every hour. They will run for a day to a week or longer and then just stop.
When stopped, I can run both from the ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi everyone,I've been working with the Adobe ColdFusion 2021 AMI on AWS (Windows) and noticed that Docker is installed by default. However, the ColdFusion documentation and AWS Marketplace listing don't mention Docker as a requirement or dependency....
Lucee Blog
Just a quick heads up, I just noticed and fixed a bug when installing extensions via an ENV var without a version was returning not the latest extension version, due to not using an ordered struct.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Trying to wrap my head around this new error I have popping up trying to send an email. This seems to have worked through update 19. I cannot speak for Update 20 because we updated to 20 and then 21 within a few days of each other. I am running the latest approved JVM 11.0.27 from Adobe's site, o...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
For excel files, we use Apache POI. It worked fine until we applied the latest CF Security patch to our CF2023 server. It must have updated POI to the latest version which deprecated some of the functions. I was able to fix one issue, but am not able to see how I can create XSSF...
ColdFusion
CFMAIL has been working up until update 21 and now I receive this error when an email is trying to be sent. I have updated the JVM to the latest version supported for CF21 as well to see if that resolved the issue, but it doesn’t. This is CF21 Update 21 running on Server 2019. Any though...
Lucee Blog
I tried the last snapshot for the query performance and the pdf extension is throwing an error:
"ERROR","http-nio-80-exec-9","07/10/2025","12:49:37","94218EDE359E41E1C2DB41D04DCFA1A2","class org.lucee.extension.pdf.tag.DocumentSection cannot be cast to class org.lucee.extensio...
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