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ColdFusion Versions

Historical information about ColdFusion Versions and releases.

Allaire Cold Fusion 1.0 - July 1995

• Database Connectivity
• Tag-based programming templates (DBML)

Allaire Cold Fusion 1.5 - February 1996

• Email DBMAIL
• CFX Tags C/C++

Allaire Cold Fusion 2 - November 1996

• CFML (tags were switched from dbif to cfif)
• Significantly expanded language capabilities
• Advanced function library
• File Upload and Management
• Application Framework (Application.cfm)
• Client Management

Allaire Cold Fusion 3 - June 1997

• Full text searching and indexing (Verity)
• COM integration
• Template Encryption
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Custom Tags
• Java Form Controls
• Server Scope Added
• Operator short cuts: GTE LTE LT GT
• Version 3.1 released November 1997 added RDS and Solaris Support

Allaire ColdFusion 4.0 - November 1998

• Added cfscript
• ColdFusion 4 New Tags and Functions

Allaire ColdFusion 4.5 - November 1999

• url, cgi, form, and cookie scopes are now structures
• Added lots of Java Integration features (CFX, createObject, cfservlet)
• ColdFusion 4.5 New Tags and Functions

Macromedia ColdFusion 5 - June 2001

• ColdFusion 5 Release Notes
• ColdFusion 5 Language Reference
• UDF's / cfscript function
• ColdFusion 5 New Tags and Functions

Macromedia ColdFusion 6 - June 2002 (aka ColdFusion MX or Neo)

• Rewritten in Java
• Added Components / CFCs
• SOAP Web Services
• ColdFusion 6 New Tags and Functions

Macromedia ColdFusion 7 - February 2005 (Merrimack)

• Enhanced Crypto
• ColdFusion 7 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 8 - July 2007 (Scorpio)

• Implicit array and structs, e.g. x = [1,2,3]
• ColdFusion 8 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 7/31/2012, Extended Support Ended 7/31/2014

Adobe ColdFusion 9 - October 2009 (Centaur)

• Added Script Components
• Added local scope and var no longer needs to be at top of function
• Added ORM via Hibernate
• ColdFusion 9 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 12/31/2014, Extended Support Ended 12/31/2016

Adobe ColdFusion 10 - May 2012 (Zeus)

• Ditched JRun, Moved to Tomcat
• ColdFusion 10 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 10 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 5/16/2017, Extended Support Ended 5/16/2019

Adobe ColdFusion 11 - April 2014 (Splendor)

• Member functions e.g. structName.keyExists("k") instead of structKeyExists(structName, "k")
• Full script support for all tags e.g. cftagName(attribute=value)
• ColdFusion 11 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 11 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 4/30/2019, Extended Support Ended 4/30/2021

Adobe ColdFusion 2016 - February 2016 (Raijin)

• Security Analyzer
• API Manager
• ColdFusion 2016 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 2016 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 2/17/2021, Extended Support Ended 2/17/2022

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 - July 2018 (Aether)

• Semicolons optional
• Asynchronous Programming runAsync()
• Typed Arrays [type][element1,element2,etc]
• Array Negative Indices lastItem = a[-1]
• Array Slices
• Member Functions on String Literals "string".len()
• Component Enhancements: Abstract, Final, Default Functions, Covariance
• Performance Monitoring Toolset
• Lockdown Installer
• ColdFusion 2018 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 2018 New Tags and Functions
• EOL: Core Support Ended 7/13/2023, Extended Support Ends 7/13/2024

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 - November 2020 (Stratus)

• Added Package Manager (cfpm)
• Cloud Abstraction Functions for Azure and AWS
• NoSQL Support - DynamoDB and MongoDB
• ColdFusion 2021 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 2021 What's New
• ColdFusion 2021 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 2023 - May 2023 (Fortuna)

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Storage, Pub/Sub, FireStore
• Central Configuration Server (CCS)
• SSO CF Admin Integration (SAML/LDAP) including CF Admin API updates
• JSON Web Tokens
• Avro & Protocal Buffer Serialization
• New PDF Engine
• Library Updates (Java, Solr, Hibernate)
• Native GraphQL Query support
• ColdFusion 2023 Updates & Hotfixes
• ColdFusion 2023 What's New
• ColdFusion 2023 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 2025 - February 2025 (Project CFNext)

• New licensing and activation changes (requires annual subscription)
• New spreadsheet and CSV functions
• Language enhancements
• Charting enhancements
• Deprecations and removals
• Release Notes
• Destructuring changes
• Support for final static methods
• Bitwise Operator Support in Query of Queries
• Modulus operator in Query of Queries
• Case-sensitive deserialization
• Changes in Hash function
• Support for compound assignment operators in expressions
• Support for multi-dimensional arrays in JavaCast function
• ArrayInsertAt enhancements
• Password protection in cfspreadsheet
• Changes to scriptProtect property
• Changes to JEE configuration deployment
• Thread management enhancements
• cfthread tag "action" changes
• New attribute cacheMaxIdleTime in cfquery
• FileUpload changes (continueOnError)
• Spreadsheet visibility
• Support for Content-Security-Policy (CSP) in ColdFusion tags
• DirectoryList function enhancements
• getTimeZoneInfo enhancements
• Null coalescing operator
• Multiple exception handling in catch statements
• Trailing comma on last element in arrays
• Deepcopy parameter in the duplicate function
• ListSort function changes
• Additional information on cfdump output of a Java class
• Deserialize JSON to query
• Changes to createObject function and cfobject tag
• Default value of cfproperty can be valid CFML expressions
• cfoauth changes
• cfexchangeconnection changes
• Microsoft Graph: User Store in ColdFusion

Lots of additional historical and version information can be found on the ColdFusion Wikipedia Page