Charlie Arehart talks about “What's New In CF 10, 11, and 2016 That You May Have Missed?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will help fill these gaps for you, highlighting the top features of 10, 11, and 2016, along with some hidden gems. (Whereas his classic "hidden gems" talks have gone deep to uncover a few dozen features per release, this talk will necessarily focus on just some key ones.) With demos and resources for learning more, you'll be in a better position to take full advantage of your new CF installation.
Show notes
Why should CFers care about new features CF10?
When it was released 5 years ago and has gone end of life earlier this year
Because some people may only now be moving from 9 or earlier to 10 or later
Or people on 10 or above may not have paid attention to what was new then
Highlighting the top features of CF10, CF11 and CF 2016 along with the hidden gems
Tags, functions
Admin features
Security features
Installer improvements
more
Don’t some updaters also add new features? Yep, as well as bug fixes, security fixes
Sometimes functionality is removed in updaters (like YUI-based features removed with new CF2016 installer released in Dec 2016)
But what about Compatibility issues?
Adobe tries to remain backward compat, but some problems in each version
In CF10 especially, charting engine changed, causing many issues for some
Good news about trying updates: single click to install AND to uninstall
If update fails, try stopping CF and doing manual installation
Licensing issues differences between versions
There are changes related to this in each release
Some missed that in CF9, Adobe allowed for use of prod license for dev, staging and testing (in addition to long-existing Developer edition)
Some aspects of that tightened up in CF 11, 2016
Also often changes about cores, vm’s, cloud deployment
Read the ColdFusion EULA to know what’s changed
JVM updates: each release comes on latest JVM version at the time of CF installer build
Adobe always supports updating to latest available jvm update for that version
Certain updates also support moving to next major JVM version
Learning what’s new/different helps you take full advantage of your CF installation
Resources for learning more
Charlie and Michael also talked about some recent travels
Are you moving up to CF2016, or maybe 11? In doing so, are you skipping over 11, or perhaps even 10, in that move?
Shops often drag their feet upgrading from one version of CF to another and may well skip multiple releases in the process, so that they may not have paid attention to what was new in the release(s) skipped. Can you name the top 5 or 10 features/changes in these three most recent releases?
Mentioned in this episode
Charlie Arehart's Ultimate List of 200+ New ColdFusion 10 Features
ColdFusion 11 New Functions and Tags
ColdFusion 11 Hidden Gems
ColdFusion 2016 What is new
ColdFusion 2016 Hidden Gems
Adobe products End of Life and Release dates
CF10 End of Life 5/16/2017
CF 11 End of Life 4/30/2019
ColdFusion EULA
All of Charlie’s presentations (over 100!)
CF2016: What's deprecated and/or 'no longer supported' (note: nothing 'removed')
With the Update of ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11 the underlying chart engine changed from WebCharts3D to ZingCharts.
Adobe bug tracker
Dave Epler
CF-oriented Troubleshooting Consultants
CF-oriented Application Development Consultants
FusionReactor
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Bio
Charlie Arehart
A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote,
