ColdFusion Posts Around the World
Pete Freitag
The recent ColdFusion security hotfix that changed searchImplicitScopes defaults has been keeping developers busy fixing unscoped variables. This can be pretty tedious, and not all variables technically need a scope (such as...
ColdFusion
Adobe ColdFusion Devweek 2025 starts today, June 23 2025. While it has been announced in other places, I noticed there was no blog post here which is where some might seek it out. First up on today, June 23, is a free day-long online workshop, “ColdFusion: From Fundamentals to Advanced Develop...
Lucee Blog
Hi there!
We recently updated our dev environment to the latest version of Lucee. In this context, we've also updated the underlying JVM and Tomcat versions.
Setup now:
OS: Debian 6.1.0-22-amd64
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse ...
FusionReactor
In today's security-conscious environment, authentication isn't just a technical requirement—it's a core component of maintaining system integrity and trust. For the FusionReactor community, where reliability and control are paramount, our latest update brings meaningful improvements design...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
If I leave my page long enough for the user login session to timeout, then reload the page, I get an HTML rendering of the page. Then if I reload it again, the page renders normally. It happens on at least two pages I have tested so far. Firefox gives an engimatic error "Syntax...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores Sortable.js as a way to create effortless drag-and-drop experiences on the web....
Gregory's Blog
Hi all, I have found several bugs after the most recent Adobe updates and will try to address them in the next update.
Lucee Blog
Just letting people know that currently copilot paid versions (which is cheap as chips) have FREE overage. I'm clocking $10 a day in overage fees (for thousands of requests) that I dont have to pay while it's in preview (not really preview IMHO, but anyway.
In other words you ...
Pete Freitag
Recently I was testing a client's rate limiting configuration, so I needed to send a bunch of requests to a URL within a short period of time to see if it was working properly. I wrote up a quick bash script to loop from 1 to 20 with curl requests and sleeping for a short period between each req...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of BoxLang AI v1.2, a major update to the BoxLang AI module that powers intelligent applications with a unified AI abstraction layer across even more providers: OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and more. This release packs new features for providers, tools, debuggi...
Lucee Blog
Hi I'm trying to get the Directory Watcher working I haven't changed any of the default CFC files yet as just wanted to get the basic thing working first.
So far I have create a Gateway instance and it says it's running But If I make any changes to the watched folder I can't s...
FusionReactor
As developers, we’ve all been there – that sinking feeling when a performance issue that wasn’t caught in testing brings down production. What if you could have the same powerful monitoring capabilities in your development environment that you rely on …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm curious if anyone testing out cf2025, that uses CKeditor has figured out what to do about the out of date messages that it produces when using ckeditor? I will probably just convert them all to regular text areas, its just pretty annoying how its not up to date with cf2025. ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use two's complement to allow Adobe ColdFusion to cast FFFFFFFF to a Java signed int....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi All,Hoping someone can provide some pointers to solve this.I was successfully running on CF2023 update 11 but when I went to update 14 Apache Tomcat mod_jk connector stopped working - i've reverted back to update 11 and it still doesn't work - the browser returns 403 Forbidden
Ortus Solutions
Our participation is more than a presence, it is a commitment to represent El Salvador's growing influence in the global tech ecosystem and to inspire others to embrace modern software practices.
This invitation is a recognition of our contributions to open source and a reminder of the importance of...
Lucee Blog
Having a seniors moment, but was there ever a fileRename function?
There is a directory rename function... do we just use fileMove then fileDelete?
Chris
Lucee 6.2/7 series...
1 post - 1 participant
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion can seamlessly access struct keys that contain dots (while other CFML engines require bracket-notation).... ...
Lucee Blog
Hi, after some time I have noticed a problem.
Since I updated to version 6.2.1.122 I have noticed a problem with cfmail.
When I send via localhost everything works fine, while sending via external SMTP server gives me a SASL login authentication error
The...
Lucee Blog
Hi, after some time I have noticed a problem.
Since I updated to version 6.2.1.122 I have noticed a problem with cfmail.
When I send via localhost everything works fine, while sending via external SMTP server gives me a SASL login authentication error
The...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager), a powerful new tool that makes managing multiple BoxLang installations effortless across Mac, Linux, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Whether you're a BoxLang developer working on multiple projects or testing across differ...
Ortus Solutions
ColdBox 19th Anniversary, 7.4 Highlights, and 8.x Preview
As we celebrate 19 years of ColdBox, it's a great time to look at where we are today and what exciting updates are ahead. From major enhancements in the 7.x series to the upcoming ColdBox 8 and deeper BoxLang integration, we're building ...
Lucee Blog
This is a minor LTS release, performance wise, it's really worth upgrading to Lucee 6.2 which will be our next LTS release.
Lucee Blog
Hey everyone, we just published the final release candidate for 6.2.2
This is a minor release, focussed on addressing bugs and improving stability.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We installed HF 20 on our CF 2021 instance (from HF 19) and saw "Security violation: Scheduled task 'XXX' attempted to execute unauthorized path: F:/Tasks_Logs/xxx.log. To allow it, whitelist the path in cf-root/lib/pathfilter.json against key schedulerexecutionpat...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel shares his Adobe ColdFusion 2025 hackathon project: "Sitter Snacks", a food menu system for dog sitters and baby sitters....
Ortus Solutions
On June 20–21, Ortus Solutions and BoxLang are proud to return as Gold Sponsors of Open South Code 2025, one of the premier open source events in Europe, hosted in Málaga, Spain.
Our continued support of this event reflects our strong commitment to the open source ecosystem, software inno...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
In our Coldfusion application there is a PDF form (created in Adobe Professional) that contains a QR code field. The QR code reflects Field X of the form.When I make changes to X in Adobe Professional, a corresponding QR code is printed into the form. However, if I fill out Field X using Co...
FusionReactor
Many developers have struggled with the limitations of RAG systems in production environments. You ask your monitoring AI a specific question about an error, and it returns generic troubleshooting steps that miss your application’s unique context. Here’s how the industry …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi experts, I have an issue with the font size in a pdf file that was generated by .cfm files. With the same .cfm files and .css ( baaically the codes are identical), the font size in the generated report pdf file looks different in UAT and production. I am thinking that i...
Lucee Blog
Am I the only person using the awesome GitHub - jcberquist/aws-cfml: Lucee/ColdFusion library for interacting with AWS API's ?
We've made a few improvements that seem like w...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates one way to work around a namespaced Model bug in the CFWheels ORM when pulling back nested resources in ColdFusion....
Lucee Blog
I've been running into an issue with almost daily lucee restarts. This particular server stack:
OS: Windows Server 2019 Standard
Java Version: 21.0.6 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bit
Tomcat Version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.62
Ortus Solutions
If you missed Into the Box 2025, you can now catch up on all the action with on-demand access to every session from Day 1 and Day 2, now available as a premium series on CFCasts. This year's conference explored everything from BoxLang and ColdBox to AI tools and cutting-edge workflows, with content ...
ColdFusion
Need some help here. Thanks in advance. I have these 2 files. t1.cfm cflocation to t2.cfm and end at t2.cfm. If I ran as https://www.skillon.com/cflocation/t1.cfm it works as expected i.e stop at t2.cfm display “Hello world”. You will see some screen...
Ortus Solutions
The future of development isn't about choosing a single platform or runtime—it's about embracing the dynamic nature of our ever-evolving digital landscape. My presentation "BoxLang - The Future is Dynamic" from DevNexus 2025 is now available on YouTube, and I'm excited to share why B...
Lucee Blog
If this has been addressed, my apologies. I found a posting The State of Lucee - #9 by Igal that may or may not have moved forward. Having said that ...
Encoding a string to base64 is a bree...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates a dumpModel() UDF that he uses in his CFWheels ColdFusion application to reduce the noise in a CFDump....
Lucee Blog
Updated everything on my site recently and started getting lots of errors around invalid dates.
IsDate() does not seem to be working:
<cfif isdate("09/31/1954")>
true
false
This returns true but September only ...
Lucee Blog
Hi. I do have some hurry on this, so thanks for the help.
I do have a website called website.
In this site I call some cfc stored in other directory called componentesIA.
From website I can call to this CFC by a mapping on the ser...
Lucee Blog
Hi all, we're looking into using Duck DB or Motherduck as a database for a large storage for static data, i.e. an logistics dashboard system showing logistical data on a map and such. Duck DB (or Motherduck) is very good at quickly serving static data. As such it needs a datasource c...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel isolates and reproduces an imagePaste() bug in Lucee CFML....
FusionReactor
With the release of ColdFusion Update 2, Adobe has introduced a subtle but significant change to how remote CFC methods handle parameters. If you’re not ready for it, this change could break your API integrations or client calls. If you’re …
Lucee Blog
Am I going crazy, or are the Scheduled tasks completely broken on both the latest Lucee 6 release and Lucee 7 RC?
At every server reboot, all or most scheduled tasks randomize their daily start time and end time so that the tasks won't be executed at all, or only for a few min...
Lucee Blog
Am I going crazy, or are the Scheduled tasks completely broken on both the latest Lucee 6 release and Lucee 7 RC?
At every server reboot, all or most scheduled tasks randomize their daily start time and end time so that the tasks won't be executed at all, or only for a few min...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores various ways to output nested data from a JOIN-based query object in ColdFusion....
FusionReactor
Introduction The open-source AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with new models challenging the status quo almost monthly. Among these, two models have recently captured significant attention from developers, researchers, and businesses alike: Meta’s Llama 4 and DeepSeek AI. Both represent &...
CF Whisperer
What Are These?
Lucee Blog
Hi, I recently upgraded my server to 6.2.1.122 and some very alarming things started happening.
I am getting constant reports of users being logged in as one user, and then loading the next page of my application as they browse and are suddenly logged in as someone else.
ColdFusion
In this blog, we’ll walk through the process of enabling SSL for ColdFusion WebSocket communication. Whether you’re using a self-signed certificate or a CA-signed certificate, the steps are straightforward. We’ll cover both scenarios If you are using a self-signed certifi...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have a server running 7 instances of CF (6 sites plus root instance). If I run a NetStat, I generally see about 1800 ports as "ESTABLISHED" (see below for a sample). Why so many ports connected to itself? Ultimately what happens is the server just kind of di...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Using an old server for our internal APP.We also use ColdFusion and O365. O365 will require OAUTH 2.0 as of SeptemeberThe version of CF will not work so I need to update to v18 or v21Support is telling me I can only purchase CF 2025. ...
FusionReactor
Adobe has just dropped ColdFusion 2025 Update 2 (released May 13, 2025), and it's packed with critical security fixes, key feature updates, and several long-requested bug resolutions. Whether you’re running mission-critical applications or just dabbling in CFML, this update is …
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce a game-changing feature for BoxLang developers: Maven Integration! This powerful addition opens the door to the entire Java ecosystem, allowing you to seamlessly incorporate thousands of Java libraries into your BoxLang applications with just a few simple commands....
cfSimplicity
Even "manual" server setups are easier now with Lucee 6's new json configuration and single mode
James Moberg
Blogging on the dev.to platform was a nice change from Tumblr. I really liked that I could embed my Github and
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
In ColdFusion 2021 update 20, there was a change in access to remote CFC methods, requiring explicit cfarguments tags or defining them directly in the function signature. The -Dcoldfusion.runtime.remotemethod.matchArguments flag set to...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We pushed CF2021 Update 10 with no issues, but four days later a Windows patch was pushed and now we are having an ORM issue. Has anyone ever experience the following error before? ***************************************************************java.lang.ClassNotF...
ColdFusion
How do I create a multidimensional array from a cfquery resultset output as an array (CF2021)? I have a second query that has multiple values that matches a column (many to one) in the first query that would be the subarray. I want them merged to make one array. Is there a way to d...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of the Setup BoxLang GitHub Action – a powerful new tool that makes it incredibly easy to integrate BoxLang into your continuous integration and deployment workflows. Whether you're building applications, running tests, or deploying BoxLang projects, this ...
Lucee Blog
(hmm no events category)...
Just wondering what timeframe cfcamp videos would be released?
asking 'for a friend' in Australia.
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion 2025 can now load Java classes from an explicit set of JAR files....
Lucee Blog
Can someone explain why this:
component tc:schema="4.3" tc:route="/members" {}
and
property name="entity" tc:inject="tc.module.entity" tc:alias="membership";
is fine
but
public struct function newMembers() tc:route="/me...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have updated my ColdFusion2021 installation from update 19 to update 20. Everything looked OK during installation but I see the following error in the logs when I try and install the sqlserver package:An error has occurred while installing the package sqlserver. Exception : Illegal chara...
James Moberg
Xpdf is an open source projects that includes a PDF viewer, but it also includes a collection of command line tools for Linux, Windows and Mac that can perform some helpful functions:
xpdf: PDF vie...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates various ways to render QR codes using the Zxing library in ColdFusion....
FusionReactor
As ColdFusion developers, we’ve all been there – a production issue strikes, users are reporting slowdowns, and suddenly you’re under pressure to find and fix the problem quickly. In these moments, having the right tools can make all the difference …
Lucee Blog
Hey guys!
I see that this has been resolved in Lucee 6.2+, but we have a client running 5.4.7.3. Currently, we cannot move to 6 or 7 (we are looking to do it soon, though). Is there an easy way to fix this across multiple servers? We have written a function to...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to represent an RGBA color as a single, 32-bit integer using inputBaseN() in ColdFusion....
Lucee Blog
Requests to my /tags directory is being internally mapped to a mapping named "/tags" in my application.cfc file. I didn't know that mappings worked this way with http requests... I thought they were only used internally in my code to reference directories fo...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Anyone else using Sendgrid with Coldfusion 2023? We are using the Sendgrid SMTP API, https://www.twilio.com/docs/sendgrid/for-developers/sending-email/inte...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to define and consume CSS utility classes in the CFDocument tag in ColdFusion / Lucee CFML....
Lucee Blog
How does one go about adding a page to lucee Docs?
A link would suffice.
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi thereWe are testing cf2025, found an error with cfdocument and pdf print. The code works fine with cf2023, it could be caused by incompatible bouncecastle library. Can someone help me to solve the issue? ThanksEugene...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We would like to inform users that certain previously deprecated features and associated dependencies will be removed in the next bug ...
Lucee Blog
Just a note on something that caught us out when trying out the single mode in Lucee 6.
We have multiple applications running on the same server using scheduled tasks that get applied programmatically. When switching to single mode, if those scheduled tasks use the same name a...
Pete Freitag
Today, I released Fixinator version 6.1.0 which includes several enhancements to the CFML code security scanning to provide more accurate results. This release also updates the Adobe ColdFusion compatibility scanner to account for the breaking change in the
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates that forms can be submitted to new browser tabs; and how this creates an implicit "choice" whenever we override the native form submissions in a web application.... ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Adobe never fails to disappoint. This latest hotfix for CF Server triggers an email notifying us that such-n-such variable is "not expected" by a cffunction with access="remote" attribute. Doesn't matter if it's a form that is posting to the cfc, or using URL parameters (...
ColdFusion
I've reinstalled twice, whitelisted my local ip address, nothing seems to work.
Ortus Solutions
� BoxLang 1.2 is Here! �
We're excited to announce the release of BoxLang 1.2, a significant milestone that demonstrates our commitment to delivering both cutting-edge features and exceptional performance. This release represents how much innovation the entire BoxLang team can accompli...
Lucee Blog
Just saw that PHP is adopting a pipe operator, following on from several other languages which have adopted this syntax.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3
...
Ortus Solutions
**Ortus Solutions is pleased to announce v1.7.0 of the official BoxLang extension for VSCode!
**
I wanted to share a quick overview with you all of the features we are sending up in this release. In this release I have two new features I would like to draw your attention to....
FusionReactor
Whether you’re running FusionReactor On-Premise or using FusionReactor Cloud, having the right tools to diagnose and resolve server crashes is critical. FusionReactor On-Premise provides powerful crash investigation capabilities — many of which are also accessible to Cloud users. In t...
FusionReactor
Whether you’re running FusionReactor On-Premise or using FusionReactor Cloud, having the right tools to diagnose and resolve server crashes is critical. FusionReactor On-Premise provides powerful crash investigation capabilities — many of which are also accessible to Cloud users. In t...
Lucee Blog
Is there an official endpoint to get lucee versions?
What is the best way to get the lastest version number as a string, or in json?
Is there a way to get the latest java supported version for each release also ? (if we're rolling our own builds)
or should i just...
Lucee Blog
Is there an official endpoint to get lucee versions?
What is the best way to get the lastest version number as a string, or in json?
Is there a way to get the latest java supported version for each release also ? (if we're rolling our own builds)
or should i just...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
if you use the literal word "true" as the value for integer type cfqueryparam, this executes the query with an integer value of "1". <cfif StructKeyExists(arguments, "company_id")> AND tblCompany.company_id = <cfqueryparam v...
FusionReactor
Forgetting your password happens to everyone. If you’re having trouble accessing your FusionReactor account, don’t worry – the password reset process is quick and straightforward. This guide will walk you through the steps to regain access to your account. Option …
FusionReactor
Forgetting your password happens to everyone. If you’re having trouble accessing your FusionReactor account, don’t worry – the password reset process is quick and straightforward. This guide will walk you through the steps to regain access to your account. Option …
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