About the coming (massive) CF2025 "AI update", prerelease links and more
If you haven't heard, Adobe is planning to release soon a massive update to CF2025 (not a "CF2026": more on that below). The update adds not only AI features but more, including language features, security features, PMT enhancements, and more. (Note also that the AI features are optional, so don't let that keep you from considering it.)
In this post, I point out how one can participate in the prerelease (including seeing its substantial docs and obtaining the prerelease update adding the new features). I can't share news of what's IN the new version, per the info available in those prerelease docs. But in a follow-on post I will offer links to the recordings of several recent Adobe webinars, from mid-April 2026, where Adobe CF team members shared several hours of presentations about what's coming (again on more than just the new AI features).
Here are the topics I cover in this post:
Just seems pretty greazy to me (in my best Bubbles impersonation...)
If indeed it ends up only available for cf2025, I'm hoping they'll explain why that was so, rather than being merely a "greazy" "bs" move. Again, time will tell.
I'm just sharing the news. Thankfully those who may want to "vote with their feet" don't have to "leave cfml". Besides Lucee there is now also BoxLang, which can process cfml (not requiring you rewrite to boxlang the language).
As I concluded my post, interesting times ahead.
And Ortus has folded in still more AI capabilities than both into BoxLang, whether accessed from cfml or not.
What I hope is that their ability to build AI tools is a direct result of them having a ton of success using AI tools internally to increase productivity of the CFML platform. And I'd love for them to share more about that. Help the rest of us learn best practices.
As for these my southern roots can't help but think, "bless your heart". Still, a boy can have dreams. :-)