Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

A substantial new CF update for CF2025 has been released today, May 20, 2026. It's unique/important, in many ways: It's a huge update, with many new features--but it's only an update (update 8), not a new version (there will be no CF2026, but there may be a CF2027) The update is available ONLY (for now) for CF2025, not also CF2023 (though that version is still supported and w...

If you haven't heard, Adobe is planning to release soon a massive update to CF2025 (not a "CF2026": more on that below). The update adds not only AI features but more, including language features, security features, PMT enhancements, and more. (Note also that the AI features are optional, so don't let that keep you from considering it.) In this post, I point out how one can pa...

It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Jan 20, 2026) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, 21, and 25. (Yep, kind of crazy that there are for now 5 current Oracle Java "LTS" releases, for historical reasons.) TLDR: The new updates are 1.8.0_481 (aka 8u481), 11.0.30, 17.0.18, 21.0.10, and 25.0.2, r...