Just a heads up for anyone running ColdFusion 2018/2021 and updating the JDK to the latest release: I went from 11.0.15 to 11.0.19 and I couldn't get the ColdFusion service to start back up. When 11.0.19 is installed, it removes the previous version entirely and installs in a different folder name (old folder was

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.15

, new folder is

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11

. I had to manually fix the path in my jvm.config file before ColdFusion would start up again. Not sure if this change happened at 11.0.19 or on of the prior releases post-11.0.15. This is probably a good thing long-term. Once installed and jvm.config is corrected, probably won't have to worry about the path again.

I think @carehart touched on this in his blog posts on both this most recent and the previous Java updates.

Yep, Ron, thanks. https://www.carehart.org/blog/2023/1/23/beware_latest_oracle_JDK_installers_will_remove_older_JDK_installs And Carl, I'd not seen your question. Sorry, just can't keep up on all the discussion here. Thanks for the shout out, Ron

@carehart I don't think I finished reading that post, so I didn't get the "thar be dragons" part. Should have guessed you'd already caught that.

Always a challenge writing a post with lots to cover. And I see I didn't add a tldr to that one. Will do that. Thx

Arg. Follow That Page didn't tell me about this java update, didn't know about it at all. I see that's just out today, hopefully I'll get pinged tomorrow. I've subbed to your (Charlie's) blog now, which I should have done long ago. But really Adobe should be announcing compatible Java updates too. That said, I always do Java updates manually -- download the zip, unzip, change the path in cf admin, save, restart cf. Old version should be right where I left it, next to the new one, in case I have to roll back for some reason, and if all is well after a little bit, I'll delete the older one. Is that not a good approach?

That's a fine approach. I offer it as an alternative in my post. I don't expect adobe will offer notifications about jvm updates. As for your use of follow that page, if you mean you had that (helpful free service which I love) pointing at the Adobe jvm downloads page, it's that Adobe only changed it today after I prodded them. I've also complained that since they are scheduled, they should not need me to do that each time. They are every 3 months. You could put it in your calendar also...though I welcome the subscribes :-)

@saghosh can we please add language related to this someplace in our docs on the update page?

@Mark Takata (Adobe) Just to say it, if you learn about and do updates from the admin UI, you won't see a notification on the downloads page. Ideally notification about both CF and java updates would show there.

Pretty sure you can run a call with updateAvailable = AdminAPI.administrator.checkForUpdate() with a scheduled task that sends an email out when something is available

@carehart I work on adding them to ColdFusion downloads page however this it was delayed due some internal issue. I have been updating the installers timely and try not to wait for someone reach out to us. As far as notifications are concerned, we will not be able to notify if there is any Java update released by Oracle and same has been updated in Adobe page.