ColdFusion Versions

Historical information about ColdFusion Versions and releases.

Allaire Cold Fusion 1.0 - 1995

Allaire Cold Fusion 1.5 - 1996

Allaire Cold Fusion 2 - November 1996

Allaire Cold Fusion 3 - June 1997

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, eg x = [1,2,3]
• ColdFusion 8 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 9 - October 2009 (Centaur)

• Added Script Components
• Added ORM via Hibernate
• ColdFusion 9 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 10 - May 2012 (Zeus)

• Ditched JRun, Moved to Tomcat
• ColdFusion 10 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 11 - April 2014 (Splendor)

• Member functions eg structName.keyExists("k") instead of structKeyExists(structName, "k")
• Full script support for all tags eg: cftagName(attribute=value)
• ColdFusion 11 New Tags and Functions

Adobe ColdFusion 2016 - February 2016 (Raijin)

• ColdFusion 2016 New Tags and Functions

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