Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Oct 20, 2026) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java 25, 21, 17, 11, and 8, as well as the newest short-term release, 27. (Yep, there are for now 5 current Oracle Java "LTS" releases, for historical reasons.) TLDR: The new updates are 27.0.1, 25.0.5, 21.0.13, 17.0.21, 11.0....

Adobe has released another set of updates, on Oct 13 2026, for CF2025 (update 14) and CF2023 (update 26). As with other recent updates, these address vulnerabilities "that could result in arbitrary code execution, security feature bypass, arbitrary file system write, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, application denial-of-service, and memory exposure.." <...

I want to offer a heads-up about an issue someone may run into, when using the interactive cfpm CLI shell (meaning, typing "cfpm" then running commands inside it, rather than passing them directly from your host terminal). I just found an annoying bug where it will complain of errors that may not seem to make sense, and I've filed a Tracker ticket about it. [More]

If you've suffered the problem of CF not starting since CF2023 update 25--because you're on Windows and have implemented FusionReactor or another monitor, in this post I offer a workaround as well as an explanation of the root cause problem (a bug, which Adobe will need to fix). [More]

Adobe has released another update today, Sept 23 2026, though this time it's only for CF2023 (update 25). There is NO update today for CF2025 (whose latest is update 13 from earlier this month). And unlike other recent updates, this one has no Adobe Security Bulletin associated with it, so not technically a "security" update, although among its changes are underlying Java libra...