Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Fortuna) is expected to release in the first half of 2023. Yes, you heard it right! The best-ever ColdFusion version was made to be better than most industry-leading programming languages. For those who want to try, the Alpha release of ColdFusion 2023 is ready.
What’s new in ColdFusion 2023 (Fortuna)?
- Cloud Story – Google Cloud Platform
- Central Configuration Server (CCS)
- SSO CF Admin Integration (SAML/LDAP)
- New PDF Engine (PDF Reactor)
- Library Updates (Java, Solr, Hibernate)
- Native GraphQL Query support
- Dozens of bugs fixed already.
- Core Support to 2028, Extended 2029 (tbd)
More details on each feature are as follows.
- Google Cloud Platform:
- Storage Services.
- FireStore
- GCP Common Profile
- GCP PubSub
- CloudSQL (MySQL8, PostGres 14, MSSQL 2019)
- MemStore (Redis, Memcached)
- Central Configuration Server (CCS):
- Syncing of CF Settings via CF admin & CFsetup & Admin API
- Environment
- Multi-Cluster Support
- Versioning
- bat
- CCS Admin Page
- Installation via CFPM
- Auto Discovery
- sh
- CF Admin SSO Support:
- New Admin APIs
- setAdminLdapConfiguration
- getAdminLdapConfiguration
- deleteLdapConfiguration
- setExternalAuthentication
- getExternalAuthentication
- deleteAdminSamlConfig
- getAdminSamlConfig
- LDAP & SAML for login, configuration and user/group setup
- New Admin APIs
- HTMLtoPDF Engine Upgrade:
- Using PDFReactor Engine
- CCS3
- HTML5+
- SVG
- Page breaks, fonts, form elements
- Large HTML files
- Audio & video embedding
- Library Updates:
- Java 17
- SOLR 8.9
- Hibernate 5.6+
- GraphQL:
- Ability to connect to & consume GraphQL endpoints using native GraphQL query Language.
- Queries & mutations
- Arguments
- Variables
- Aliases
- Fragments
- Directives
- Operation Names
- Subscriptions
- Caching (potentially leveraging CF’s caching engines for shared caches & scopes)
- Using the GraphQL specifications: https://graphql.org/learn/
Features available in the Fortuna Alpha version are as follows.
Public Alpha .1 Currently Live:
- Most GCP features available to test
- PDF Engine Upgrade
- SAML/CDAP Admin integration
- Library updates
- Includes update to VS Code to support Fortuna testing
- Missing:
- GraphQL
- Realtime Listeners on FireStore
- ACL/Policy/Requestor Pay features in GCP
References
The recent Adobe event “The Road to Fortuna by Mark Takata”
https://winter-special-preview-of-cf2023.meetus.adobeevents.com/