Did you know a hot fix for ColdFusion was released this week?

I didn't. I really wish there was some type of service (perhaps using a web application - anyone know how to build those?) where I could ask Adobe to email on each and every ColdFusion update. I definitely get that some hot fixes are not for everyone. Adobe recommends you only get a hot fix typically if it applies to an issue you are having, but this weeks release was a cumulative hot fix - something most folks probably want to install. You can find it here:

ColdFusion 8.0.1 cumulative hot fix 1

Anyway - if there is a service like I described somewhere up on Adobe.com - someone let me know. Thanks go to Todd Sharp for blogging on this earlier.

By the way - there is an RSS feed: http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_cf.xml - I use it ColdFusionPortal.org - but this hot fix isn't even listed there yet. The cumulative hot fix is listed under the total list of hot fixes, but I'm surprised there isn't an entry in the RSS feed just for this new release.

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I'll settle for a rss feed somewhere or if I have to a twitter I can follow. :p

# Posted By Todd Rafferty | 5/17/08 8:08 AM

Considering how many things you have shown me I want to share this and i hope it helps.

ColdFusion Support Center
Option 2: Top ColdFusion Support Solutions
at: http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/
There is a "Top TechNotes" RSS feed there:
http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_cf....

# Posted By JeffG | 5/17/08 8:47 AM

Jeff - did you see the last paragraph of my post? :)

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/17/08 9:01 AM

Dhoo!
I need more coffee
My bad.
Sigh.

JG

# Posted By JeffG | 5/17/08 9:07 AM

Suprised you didnt blog about the need for this sooner. A good part of the imageutils were not working without this fix.

# Posted By Emmet | 5/17/08 10:46 AM

Thanks for the heads-up t you Ray, and Todd Sharp! Yes, an RSS feed of hotfixes and updates would be nice t have...

A question on the topic of updating CF:
Do you know if it is OK to just drop the hotfix .jar file into the {cf_root}/lib/updates/ directory (obviously, after stopping the service first)?
Does one HAVE to go through CF Admin to install a hotfix? I mean, the installation instructions on the chf pages on adobe.com tell you to remove all priorly installed individual and cumulative hf first, to do which you need to go to the above updates dir and delete the files. Can I at the same time just drop the new file in there? Or does CF Admin perform some additional operations apart from just copying the .jar file into the updates folder?

Thanks!

# Posted By Azadi Saryev | 5/17/08 10:48 AM

Oops... somehow clicked "Post" too quickly...

Forgot to add: I did try it, and it 'seems' to work - the CF service restarted and the SysInfo page in CF Admin lists correct Update Level... - but does this way of updating 'really' work?

# Posted By Azadi Saryev | 5/17/08 10:52 AM

@azadi - what you did is normally all I do as well.

@emmet - I never ran across the image bug myself - but it was pretty serious

@all - So do notice that the RSS feed still doesn't list this new hotfix. One link does go to a page where the hotfix can be found, but there isn't an entry for this hotfix itself. I wonder who "content manages" the feed?

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/17/08 11:28 AM

A heads up, apparently if you're running on Leopard it has a habit of automatically unjaring the .jar file at the same time it unzips it...which is a PITA.

You can get around that by going into the terminal and doing 'unzip /path/to/chf8010001.zip'

# Posted By Baka-Rakuda | 5/17/08 12:33 PM

I'm puzzled - that RSS feed includes each of the individual bug hot fixes as well as updates to cumulative hot fixes. Whenever a new CHF is added to the page of hot fixes, the RSS feed is updated. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. What am I missing here?

I ignored the patch for cfimage since I don't use it. I checked out the update to the CHF page and saw it included the patch for cfimage and the patch for Apache on Linux (which I already had - and which had been announced in the RSS feed earlier).

# Posted By Sean Corfield | 5/17/08 1:21 PM

You see the CHF on the RSS feed? I don't.

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/17/08 1:27 PM

As I said "Whenever a new CHF is added to the page of hot fixes, the RSS feed is updated" so you get notification that there is a new CHF. You also get notification of each and every individual hot fix. That seems very reasonable to me - the patch entries explain whether you might need an individual patch but for CHF I think you *should* go to the main page and read what is available.

# Posted By Sean Corfield | 5/17/08 1:34 PM

I may be misreading you. You said that when a new CHF is added, the RSS is updated. Do you mean a new entry is added to the feed? The 'top' entry is a FAQ about 801. I see nothing in the RSS (http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_cf....) about the CHF. Unless I'm missing something.

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/17/08 1:36 PM

The entry immediately prior to the FAQ entry is a "bump" of the CHF page for when the latest one was added. Each time a CHF is added, the RSS feed gets a "bump" of the CHF page so folks know to go and read it again.

# Posted By Sean Corfield | 5/17/08 2:44 PM

Ahhh. Ok. So - maybe I'm slow. Would it hurt to just add an entry for the CHF? How many people know that they simply bump up that main page to reflect a change on it? I know I didn't. :) Either way - I'll look for that bump in the future.

What I'd really like to see is a simple web service that could be added to the CF Admin. Imagine logging on to your admin and being told an update was available.

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/17/08 2:51 PM

If you go to the main Adobe RSS page (http://www.adobe.com/support/rss/) then click ColdFusion news (http://rss.adobe.com/resources_coldfusion.rss?loca...) that is the feed that used to contain good notifications. Yet it hasn't been updated since over a year ago :(

# Posted By MrBuzzy | 5/17/08 9:13 PM

We have installed the hotfix on one of our servers and now our <cfdocument> tags are outputting "gooble dee gook" instead of the content they should be.

Has anyone else had this problem?

# Posted By SamNUK | 5/19/08 6:45 AM

I haven't seen this. Do you get bad output even for simple cfdocument examples? Ie

<cfdocument>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</cfdocument>

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/19/08 8:09 AM

We have removed the hot fix for now and I plan on setting up another instance on one of our dev servers to put it through more testing. Once we had removed the hot fix and restarted CF, the PDF's were outputting fine again.

The actual problem with the content was when the PDF was printed, it was fine on the screen but when printed, all the text was just gibberish

I will play with it again once I have cleared my to-do list (sigh).

# Posted By SamNUK | 5/19/08 8:21 AM

After coming off a 3 week run of trying to correct odd issues from patch 8.01, a hotfix scares me =)

# Posted By DanaK | 5/19/08 8:36 AM

It's a ham-fisted way of getting there, but a little more accessible than nothing, I drop the following into the 'custommenu.xml' in the {instance}\CFIDE\administrator directory:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<menu>
   <submenu label="ColdFusion Hotfixes">
      <menuitem href="http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?ext...; target="content">ColdFusion 8</menuitem>
      <menuitem href="http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?ext...; target="content">ColdFusion 7</menuitem>
<menuitem href="http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?ext...; target="content">ColdFusion 6</menuitem>
   </submenu>
</menu>

It ain't pretty, but it keeps it in front of me.

# Posted By JaxSpace | 4/9/09 4:12 PM

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