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.
Other resources about CF2025 shared by Adobe so far
About the change to a subscription licensing model for CF2025
Again, Adobe announced at CF Summit in Vegas (in Oct) that CF2025 would be sold via a subscription model. Sadly, I have not found anywhere online that clarifies that any further. (I welcome clarifications.)
But I can share that the Intergral folks (who make FusionReactor and are CF resellers) folks did have a blog post where they discussed this: Secure Your ColdFusion Perpetual License Before Adobe's Subscription-Only Switch. Granted, that's in the context of a discount deal they offered for those on CF2018 and earlier (something I blogged about in July), and that offer has expired.
Still, considering the blog post title and its content: it's the only public resource I could find online that discussed that the CF2025 licensing would be subscription-only. As they are CF resellers--indeed, able to offer that special deal as they did--it seems the most authoritative resource currently available.
I hope to share more news about CF2025 over time (based on information made public by Adobe before the final release). I may add more Adobe resources here, or I may create posts, depending on the information.
