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.
- Accessing the prerelease"
- Available prerelease docs: hundreds of pages
- Available prerelease forums
- Implementing the prerelease: via an update or via a new CF2025 installer
- What the new installers offer, if used
- What about CF2023?
- What about CF2026? Seems it will be a CF2027
- When is this CF2025 update coming out? That's NOT been announced. Where to watch
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.