Adobe Releases ColdFusion 9 Update (9.01)

by Judith Dinowitz, Master Editor-in-Chief

July 13, 2010 -- Today Adobe released a new updater for ColdFusion 9, and there are some important language and support enhancements in this update that raises this to a must-have. Some of the gems here include:

• support for a "for-in" construct for arrays and structs, including the ability to use a var declaration in the for-in loop to bind variables to the local scope.
• enhancements to CFSCRIPT, including support for creating custom metadata and for cffile action="upload" and cffile action="uploadall"
• the following Script functions implemented as CFCs: dbinfo, imap, pop, ldap, feed.
• a new cacheGetSession function that lets you retrieve the underlying cache object to access cache functionality that is not implemented in the cfcache tag.
• support for IIS 7
• the ability to store data in Amazon S3. Use a prefix s3:// to show that the files are on Amazon S3. For more on using Amazon S3, see their documentation.
• a new SpreadsheetRemoveSheet function that deletes spreadsheets in Microsoft Office
• support for multiple data sources in ColdFusion's native ORM
• multiple enhancements in the ActionScript ORM that persists entities in the SQLite database present within Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
• support for LCDS 3 and BlazeDS 4
• an improved Server Monitor that works better under load.

Get the update at http://www.adobe.com/go/getcf901.

You can download the updated SOLR installer and DW extension at http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html.

The release notes are available at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/releasenotes.html.

This is not a full installer, but an updater that must be applied on top of a previous ColdFusion 9 installation.

Judith Dinowitz is the Master Editor-in-Chief of the House of Fusion magazines and journals, where she enjoys serving up ColdFusion and Flex goodness on a weekly and quarterly basis.

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