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Beware that ColdFusion 2021 end-of-life (and end of updates) is coming Nov 2025, and your options

Are you still running ColdFusion 2021? While it's still supported/updated by Adobe, did you know that its end of life is coming just several months from now, Nov 10, 2025? That's the date when "core" support for that release ends--meaning no more updates from Adobe after that, not even security fixes.

What about more recent releases, if you may wonder? CF 2023 (the current latest release) will get updates into 2028 (5 years after it was release). And there's the coming CF 2025 release, currently in pre-release (as I have recently blogged about), which is of course a great sign for the continued vitality of CF.

But this looming deadline for CF2021 is a reminder that as the years roll on, we not only get new versions but we must say good-bye to old ones.

Wondering what you can do? or when CF2023 or CF2025 support will end also? And what's the difference between "core" support and the available "extended" support which Adobe sells? (The extended support plan does NOT provide updates beyond this coming November.) For more on these, including official Adobe documentation that discusses such things, as well as my thoughts on migration, costs, various options to consider, and more, do read on.

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ColdFusion 2025 Prerelease: resources shared so far

Adobe prerelease icon If you've not yet heard, Adobe has opened the prerelease program for the next CF version, aka ColdFusion 2025--though referred to by them for now as Project CFNext.

Adobe announced the opening of the beta a few weeks ago in a post on the CF Portal as well as in various social media. And you can request to join the prerelease program at Adobe prerelease site section for CFNext.

We're currently in the "beta 1" phase, but Adobe has announced that there is a "beta 2" due out early this month.

No news has been shared to indicate when the final version would be released. And while Adobe doesn't ever share info about pricing or editions before the release, but note that they did announce at CF Summit in Vegas (in Oct) that CF2025 would be sold only via subscription model (more below).

They've also shared (publicly) the details of what features will be deprecated or removed in CF2025 (and it's a list with some fairly significant changes). Again, for more see the resource list below.

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