TLDR: The new updates are 1.8.0_411 (aka 8u411), 11.0.23, 17.0.11, 21.0.3, and 22.0.1 respectively). Crazy that there are now 5 current Java releases, I realize. More below, including more on each of them including what changed and the security fixes they each contain (including their CVE scores regarding urgency of concerns), offered in Oracle resources I list below. Oracle calls these updates "critical patch updates" (yep, CPU), but they are in fact scheduled quarterly updates, so that "critical" nomenclature may sometimes be a bit overstated. And as is generally the case with these Java updates, most of them have the same changes and fixes across the four JVM versions, though not always.

For some folks, that's all they need to hear. For others, read on.

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And the recordings are all available online, and here's how to find them.

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As one of the premier conferences for both Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee, I highly recommend you attend the event if you can. Plus, if you don't live in Europe it's a great excuse to vacation on the continent and be tax-deductible at the same time! :-)

My talk this year (my 8th straight appearance at the event) will be a new one for me. Here are the details:

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Anyone can join in live, and the meeting will also be recorded and posted eventually at their Youtube Channel.

Here's the description for my talk, which is also offered on my site's presentations page:

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It's very important that people read the technote before "just applying this update". There is a very important (and fundamental) change in how CFML processes variables, with regard to searching for scopes when no scope is indicated on a variable name. It's NOT that you "must scope all your variables", as some are asserting. But it's still almost certainly a BREAKING change in many CF apps, if they use unscoped variables under certain conditions (that I discuss below). The change is for the sake of security, but it's just one aspect of the security fixes in this update.

Anyway, there are 3 things you can consider doing to rectify/work-around this breaking change, as I discuss below (or see the update technote, for this and more). And you may reasonably wonder what the implications would be of using the workarounds. You may also wonder if this scope matter relates to the CVE listed in the APSB (linked to below). That's currently unclear. It does not. As well, note that the Adobe security bulletin (link below) shows the security fix to be only a P3 (priority 3, the lowest severity), not a P1 (priority 1, the highest), though it IS regarded as "critical".¹

But then there are still other aspects of the update beyond this scope matter, and you should be aware of those also.

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Description and slide deck/PDF

Recording (see also embedded video below)

Sorry that I didn't get a chance to offer a blog post announcing this talk (or the Online Summit). My wife had some rather significant surgery early last week (planned for, and she's ok), which had me quite busy taking care of her and my work. The announcing of this talk slipped between the cracks (but Adobe had announced it and the Online Summit themselves, of course). I have a few more posts to offer that have been delayed.

About the CF Online Summit

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My talk will be...

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But some people seem to notice when news is shared of a recording being made available, so here you go.:-) These are 4 sessions I've done in Jan 2024 and Dec 2023.

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So I'll be presenting a talk on this topic, online this Thursday, at noon US Eastern, on the CFMeetup youtube livestream (which will be recorded). Folks who are members of the Online ColdFusion Meetup will have already gotten email notification about this, including the meeting URL, but for those who are not members here are the details:

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