So update 10 just came out (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-2021-update-10.html), but on the release info page it says "Note: If you are on Update 6, you need not download the bundle's folder, and can install Update 9 directly." Is that a typo and should refer to Update "10" ? Also under the offline mode installation it states that "Ensure that the JRE bundled with ColdFusion is used for executing the downloaded JAR. For standalone ColdFusion, this must be at, <cf_root>/jre/bin." but if I updated java and installed it in a different location (e.g., c:\coldfusion2021\jdk11019\) and have CF using that via the admin settings, should I use the java -jar command in the c:\coldfusion2021\jdk11019\bin\ directory or the one that "MUST" be used at <cf_root>/jre/bin ?

And how might that work for WAR installations where there isn’t a Java JRE/JDK with ColdFusion?

Will there be a corresponding update for CF 2018, or is Adobe actually honoring its state end of support date now, even for security issues?

My intent is to not touch this one until we get some clarity from Adobe more generally on the July Java updates and the extent to which they are supported (or not) and/or require configuration changes to work or how they fit with the language in this one’s release notes.

Haven't had a chance yet, and hotfix 10 isn't even showing up in the downloads xml as of this writing (it was in there 3 times a while ago, but now it's showing up 0 times). https://cfdownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/xml/updates.xml

@priyank_adobe do we have any docs that talk about this available? Jim, this is a weird grey area for us. We test and certify with certain versions, but we cannot keep up with all of them. The ones we certify, we're pretty sure are fine. And often the "newer" ones are fine too, but occasionally Oracle has throw us for a loop on a change they've made. They, unfortunately, don't really talk to us as much as we try. This has been a topic of much discussion in our weekly CF meetings and I think we're going to be releasing some guidelines on how/where/what soon but I am unsure of the status of that.

Thanks, Mark. I've seen the messages about 11.0.20 issues, but I am using 11.0.19. I appreciate anything your crew can offer.

FWIW, I used 11.0.19 to install CF2021 Update 10 successfully.

thanks, @hemi345. that is good to know. I’d really like to hear something definitive from Adobe on where things stand with the July Java updates (e.g., 11.0.20) and how those new versions work (or don’t?) with the update mechanism and Adobe update JARs. (Hint, hint… @Mark Takata (Adobe))

I can also confirm that using the java.exe under my 11.0.19 directory resulted in a successful offline method of upgrading cf2021 from u9 to u10. Just finished it and looking thru logs - no errors there. As for using 11.0.20, can't say-sorry.