Adobe ColdFusion Changelog

What's new in Adobe ColdFusion 2018

• New User Interface for ColdFusion Administrator:
• ColdFusion Administrator now sports a cleaner, more intuitive User Interface. The interface is arranged in tabs for easy navigation. The search experience is also enhanced in this release. When you enter a search string, you can see recommendations for the search term.
• Performance Monitoring Toolset:
• The 2018 release of Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise and Standard editions now offer you the Performance Monitoring Toolset, an all-new solution that ensures that your applications are as optimized as the high-performing ColdFusion engine.
• Server Auto-Lockdown:
• Secure your ColdFusion server against vulnerabilities and other malicious attacks. Run the Auto-Lockdown tool and lock down ColdFusion instances.
• Command Line Interface and REPL:
• ColdFusion (2018 release) introduces Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL). REPL, a shell, is an interactive programming environment that takes single user inputs, evaluates them, and returns the result to the user.
• REST Playground:
• Try out your ColdFusion REST services in the new REST Playground. Use the REST Playground to test, develop, and document web services.
• New caching engines:
• Boost performance through caching with the newly added engines: Memcached, JCS, Redis, Custom cache plugin.
• Changes in ColdFusion Builder:
• Access codes from remote systems
• Import code profiler data
• Introduction of Cordova
• Eclispse upgrade to Oxygen
• Bug fixes:
• CF-4202547: In earlier versions of ColdFusion, cfthrow could be used to send a custom REST response as JSON. In the 2018 release, this fails (returns HTML of error handler page).
• CF-4202450: IsNumericDate() returns unexpected results.
• CF-4202006: The SerializeJSON function loses type info from properties defined in the parent class when serializing a subclass.
• CF-4201978: The evaluate() function must accept an array of expressions.
• CF-4201686: If cfpdfform with the name attribute is used to populate a PDF object and passed to the user, the user will not be able to sign the form in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
• CF-4201629: The getFunctionList() function must display Spreadsheet* instead of SpreadSheet*.
• CF-4201481: The getMetadata() function throws an exception on an unsynchronized array.
• CF-4201329: If you have a cfoutput tag with encodeFor specified, then it does not apply the encoding to nested cfoutput tags.
• CF-4201173: If you run isValid("variableName") on an invalid variable name that has a period in it, you will get a true (is valid) response.
• CF-4201015: There are exceptions when running any query in a sandboxed environment in Oracle, MySQL, DB2, and Sybase.
• CF-4200994: If you have a CFC with no methods or properties, the metadata for this CFC does not contain a functions or a properties array.
• CF-4200663: The data type XML is no longer supported in 2016 version of Query of Queries
• CF-4200446: Indexed file locations do not update when moved from one location to other.
• CF-4200186: Include member functions for numeric functions.
• CF-4200066: Include support for systemd environments in addition to sysVinit, which is the current default for RHEL distributions.
• CF-4200015: cfchart causes JavaScript to be prepended to requests, causing invalid json responses.
• CF-4199974: The setMetadata() function is not chainable.
• CF-4199973: Some string, struct, and array member function support must be added to XML variables.
• CF-4199905: cfargument does not validate an array of components as expected.
• CF-4199894: There must not be any underscores in an attribute in for example, isValid.
• CF-4199859: Numeric data type needs member functions.
• CF-4199855: A tag allows "." in typed array arg path, whereas a script does not.
• CF-4199746: cfschedule returns unexpected exception message.
• CF-4199640: Allow negative offsets for right() and left() functions.
• CF-4199617: ColdFusion service does not start when cfclasses folder has 50K or 75K class files cached.
• CF-4199484: The hbmxml files seem to be generated with an out of date DTD reference.
• CF-4199482: A cfhttp call fails if there is a white space in the url.
• CF-4199409: If you use comment based annotations and and spacing or tabs to align them, the parser will not trim the selections and the data is lost.
• CF-4199255: Issues when allowing IP addresses in ColdFusion Administrator.
• CF-4199232: The placement of a few icons in the Administrator must be aligned properly.
• CF-4199061: There are issues when deleting a datasource using Admin APIs.
• CF-4199029: Casting switch case values causes internal exceptions, which slows down execution.
• CF-4198996: CFMAIL does not show body of an email message in iPad, iPhone email clients.
• CF-4198981: If you create functions with metadata that contains either colons (:) or dashes (-), the execution fails.
• CF-4198939: When setting the properties for a cache, the function cacheSetProperties ignores the property memoryevictionpolicy.
• CF-4198866: The CFChart tag does not allow to specify a percentage-based width and height of a chart.
• CF-4198864: If a query has the cachedWithin attribute, it does not appear to sort using the sort member method with a callback.
• CF-4198848: cfftp's existsfile returnValue is True/False instead of YES/NO.
• CF-4198847: cfftp's existsfile attribute treats populated directory as file.
• CF-4198840: There is an error while trying to assign default value for function arguments using JavaDoc notation.
• CF-4198821: Implicit accessor method is invoked from extending component when the accessor method is explicitly implemented.
• CF-4198716: You are unable to set the default value of the attribute expires of the tag cfcookie.
• CF-4198705: Generated accessors are not available to included CFM templates.
• CF-4198661: The member function Date.compare does not work identical as the function dateCompare.
• CF-4198611: Interfaces do not work as expected.
• CF-4198587: You cannot change the path of Disk cache location in ColdFusion Administrator.
• CF-4198586: Add support for != and == in .
• CF-4198575: When a simple copy is performed on a remote AWS S3 file 6 MB or larger, the following exception occurs: java.io.IOException: Multipart upload failed.
• CF-4198572: The higher order functions for sorting must return the sorted object, not simply "YES".
• CF-4198548: Implicit array creation within a function throws a Null Pointer Exception.
• CF-4198534: Repeated use of cfchart keeps increasing memory use until ColdFusion stops responding to requests.
• CF-4198485: The OAuth response of Facebook is not formatted properly.
• CF-4198481: In ColdFusion 10 and earlier versions, a boolean value could be passed as a value for a numeric argument to a function. It stopped accepting boolean as args in ColdFusion 11.
• CF-4198463: The ParseDateTime() functions with custom format produces incorrect results.
• CF-4198442: You cannot have argument named default in a script function.
• CF-4198427: The cfupdate tag requires the datasource parameter.
• CF-4198412: The replacement with replaceNoCase does not return the correct value, if the string contains too many unicode characters.
• CF-4198411: Calling restInitApplication with isDefault = true fails to reload.
• CF-4198408: Deserialization of a string returns unexpected results.
• CF-4198405: Invoking WSPublish causes the session scope to become inaccessible/undefined within any CFC methods that are called during the duration of the request.
• CF-4198399: Chaining Elvis operators fails in ColdFusion 11.
• CF-4198394: There are concurrency issues when writing to mappings returned from getApplicationMetadata() under load.
• CF-4198393: There are issues using Cffile and BOM (Byte order mark) characters.
• CF-4198378: The application.log file include a lot of entries with text "Detected Character encoding is UTF-8."
• CF-4198364: Unexpected behavior when using cfloop query + ArrayAppend + ['column'] syntax.
• CF-4198362: "Unable to reset the page encoding" with long comments in CFCs.
• CF-4198354: Abort in callback triggers onError() instead of onAbort().
• CF-4198322: Error in QueryExecute when parsing SQL including literal strings with colons.
• CF-4198298: RestSetResponse() ignored if returntype is non-void.
• CF-4198295: Every attempt to create an instance of ActiveMQ gateway in the Coldfusion Administrator of a Coldfusion instance fails.
• CF-4198278: Issue with queryExecute when using params immediately followed by a semicolon in sql text.
• CF-4198266: RequestTimeout has not been removed.
• CF-4198260: Under a request with thousands of CFLDAP calls, the CFLDAP tag fails with this error message "An error has occurred while trying to execute query."
• CF-4198218: IsBoolean returns true for invalid strings.
• CF-4198217: cflock must serve on the basis of FIFO.
• CF-4198194: Invalid cfsqltypes are ignored.
• CF-4198174: PNG files are incorrectly named as GIF in ColdFusion Administrator.
• CF-4198171: A border does not appear in pie charts.
• CF-4198082: CFMAIL fails with IDN domains and German imlauts and other special characters.
• CF-4197582: When using cfmailparam with a attachment that needs character encoding, the generated attachment header is not generated with the RFC 2231 standard.
• CF-4197259: this.sameFormFieldsAsArray=true ignored when enctype="multipart/form-data".
• CF-4195754: When adding a new application task, the task will generate an exception saying Error: Eventhandler MyEventHandler does not implement required interface if the component extends another component implementing CFIDE.scheduler.ITaskEventHandler.
• CF-4194596: Passing a struct literal as the second operand to the Elvis operator returns the string "{" instead of an empty struct.
• CF-4190744: Using a String Underlying Java Method for String impacts the performance of a web page processing if they are used.
• CF-4190163: There are parse errors with += operator.
• CF-4187503: String member functions do not cast values as expected.
• CF-4185107: The callback for arrayFindNoCase do not work as expected.
• CF-4184965: Variable ___IMPLICITARRYSTRUCTVAR2 is undefined.
• CF-4184641: A few list member functions return incorrectly inside headless functions.
• CF-4181591: URLs with /api/ Fails with 500.0 - Internal Server Error.
• CF-4169991: Page response byte buffer cannot be Garbage Collected when storing CFC in a session.
• CF-4165262: Null/blank CLOB value returned as reference cursor from select statement in Oracle causes No More Data Available To Read.
• CF-4160098: Adobe must release ColdFusion Docker images.
• CF-4152447: Sort member functions must return a useful value for chaining.
• CF-4150938: When using isValid, with regex, to validate a string, the result returned is incorrect.
• CF-4141282: You are unable to use Admin APIs with CLI.
• CF-4138764: Incorrect casting in Query of Queries (QoQ).
• CF-4126504: ColdFusion Administrator Coexistence With Earlier Administrators Session Issue
• CF-4126455: The Enable/Disable Servlets Installer UI must include better description.
• CF-4126449: Wrong Server Profile applied in the installation wizard (Japanese Ver.)
• CF-4126423: Linux Installer does not allow you to specify builtin server port.
• CF-4126385: WDDX produces unexpected results in ordered structs.
• CF-4126132: ColdFusion Class Path disappears from GUI if path includes {application.home}
• CF-4120127: Files with a .cfs extension would contain only CFScript, and would not require the tags.
• CF-4118947: ColdFusion ships with two versions of Jetty.
• CF-4118773: fileCopy fails to correctly copy meta data between resources on S3.
• CF-4118462: The pdfg service does not get not installed when Solr is not selected to be installed on Linux.
• CF-4117243: queryNew() does not honor column type.
• CF-4110354: CFM templates do not parse == and/or != operators.
• CF-4098395: isnull with argument struct["key"] causes an element is undefined error.
• CF-4081499: When reading .png files using s3:// paths, imageRead(), and hangs the thread after the 20th read.
• CF-4048126: When entering a value in a search field and filtering the grid data, the value of the field doesn't get passed to the cfc query for the grid as before.
• CF-4019629: Numeric literals must be Double, not String.
• CF-4010516: Introduce support for NULL.
• CF-3992039: When installing Coldfusion 11 developer in with a silent install, there is an error.
• CF-3928293: The option Use internal cache to store queries in ColdFusion Administrator must mention that a server restart is required.
• CF-3863594: The function getHTTPRequestData() returns Null Pointer Exception for non Http requests.
• CF-3859367: $VALUE$ , $ITEMLABEL$ and $SERIESLABEL$ for attribute URL of CFCHART only work with PNG/JPG and not FLASH/HTML.
• CF-3849138: cfgrid with boolean groupfield doesn't show Yes/No and number of entries in group header.
• CF-3842831: While installing ColdFusion, the Install disk space step checks the root file system, not the installation folder.
• CF-3754578: Error messaging with cfloop() is not up to the mark.
• CF-3712122: Member functions cannot be called on literals.
• CF-3648781: Closures cannot be declared outside of cfscript.
• CF-3498448: Log entries have CRLF stripped.
• CF-3134331: Inconsistencies when casting to a date.
• CF-3041724: You can click Stop on logs that are not stoppable.
• Further information on this release is available at:
• https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/release-note/coldfusion-2018-release-notes.html