Regarding ColdFusion 2021 Update 19: When our hosting company updated one of our servers to the latest patch, CFHTMLTOPDF stopped working, is it correct that it doesn't work with JDK 11.0.22? They said we'd have to downgrade Java or upgrade to at least ColdFusion 2023...

They said DOWNgrade from 11??

"https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4221200 The fix in that bug is not working though, because jetty.lax is already set to use 11.0.11 JDK from the CF Addon Services. CF 2023 does not have that issue"

I mean if there isnt a major cost change, maybe time to upgrade. Kinda screwy they are forcing it based on their choice of updating a server.

Yeah, I don't really mind upgrading, but it just seems pretty weird, and I'm 99% sure it was working with Update 18. And I don't see anything suggesting it shouldn't be working still.

Too many underlying things to need to investigate that I imagine they wont provide details on in the in environment

Is it possible that this isn't a java version issue, but related to the new "IP-based filtering on the Jetty side"? See here and here for more on that. It's mentioned somewhere I can't locate at the moment that if the file serialfilter.txt doesn't exist in the expected location, you may need to create it. That's been discussed here as well.

I was going to ask them about that, but I'd hope that they are already aware of it. lol

Any sense of how cf savvy they are? You should ask if they know about that issue, that'll give you a clue.

Given they are sponsoring CF conferences... 😉 I hope they are

I was playing around with this back in September, and found that cfhtmltopdf breaks on java 11.0.17+ 11.0.16.1 works. 11.0.17 does not.

@priyank_adobe: Can someone check this ?

FYI, Looks like this is the issue https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4226195 - the server now can generate PDFs again.