Bugs fixed in ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 8
Bug ID | Description | Component |
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CF-4198282 | .NET object failure error while calling the class System/Collections/Specialized/StringCollection. | .Net Support |
CF-4203295 | ColdFusion Administrator does not accept IP Address ::1 for "Debugging IP Addresses", so localhost debugging fails. | Administrator |
CF-4198174 | The icons that handle log files like "Download log file" or "Archive log file" are not displayed properly. | Administrator |
CF-4199836 | Incorrect Alt Text for logo in ColdFusion Administrator. | Administrator |
CF-4199411 | ColdFusion Administrator's "Secure Profile Settings Summary" is missing the "Enable ColdFusion Sandbox Security" option. | Administrator : Administrator Console |
CF-4198839 | Invalid usage of AJAX tag. | AJAX |
CF-4102251 | In cfgrid , the attribute binOnLoad calls the JavaScript even when it is set to "No". | AJAX : UI Components |
CF-4200058 | When trying to update the content of a nested tab via Coldfusion.navigate() call, the content for all tabs after the first tab will be duplicated. | AJAX : UI Components |
CF-4199532 | Issues in height/width in cfgrid. | AJAX : UI Components |
CF-4200533 | When submitting a cfform with richtext via ColdFusion.Ajax.submit, the cftextareavalue is always empty. | AJAX : UI Components |
CF-4198279 | When deploying multiple Coldfusion deployments as a J2EE EAR file on the same server, some of them are unable to start due to a conflict with the port for the Monitoring service. | Application Deployment |
CF-4198394 | There are concurrency issues when writing to mappings returned from getApplicationMetadata() under load. | Application Framework |
CF-4198406 | The built-in AWS S3 functionality only works with version 2 of Amazon's signature versions. | CFComponent |
CF-4198323 | There are issues in time zones when using cfexchangeCalendar, action="create". | CFExchange : Calendar |
CF-4175138 | The imageWrite function applies temp directory permissions in a few cases. | CFIMAGE |
CF-4150354 | The js used to format a pie chart in ColdFusion 11 does not work as expected in the 2016 release. | Charting/Graphing |
CF-4201994 | When using named parameters within queryExecute, a parameter that is the substring of another parameter is incorrectly being inserted in the statement where the latter exists. | Database |
CF-4165262 | A null/blank CLOB value returned as reference cursor from a SELECT statement in Oracle causes produces the error message, No More Data Available To Read. | Database |
CF-4198278 | Issues with queryExecute when using params immediately followed by a semicolon in sql text. | Database |
CF-4198861 | There are errors when inserting, updating, or selecting Oracle 12c Varchar2 columns that are over 4000 characters. | Database : Oracle |
CF-4200663 | XML data type is no longer supported in the 2016 version of Query of Queries. | Database : Query-of-Query(IMQ) |
CF-4198322 | An error occurs when a SQL statement includes literal strings (enclosed in single quotes) contains a colon (:) followed by a space. | Database : CFQuery |
CF-4203068 | Dockable debugger template loads images from CFIDE. | Debugging |
CF-4201097 | When dumping an object deserialized from JSON that has a NULL value and attempting to specify a key to hide, the error"Element [VARIABLENAME] is undefined in a CFML structure referenced as part of an expression" appears. | Debugging : CFDump |
CF-4200137 | Debugging data displays "ExecuteQuery" as the name of the query when using the function queryExecute(). | Debugging : General |
CF-4198420 | cfdocument does not wrap long links without spaces in the display. | Document Management : PDF generation |
CF-4200014 | A pdf generated using cfdocument in a loop does not apply background color style as expected. | Document Management : PDF generation |
CF-4203132 | cfhtmltopdfitem throws an error when more than three special characters are used anywhere in the code. | Document Management : PDF Generation (CFHTML2PDF) |
CF-4201686 | cfpdfform with name attribute makes the PDF unsignable in Reader DC. | Document Management : PDF Form |
CF-4198484 | cfspreadsheet formatting functions do not work as expected. | Document Management : Office Integration |
CF-4203361 | The function spreadsheetSetCellComment(doc,commentStruct,rowNumber,colNumber) causes an error when doc is of type XLSX. However, it works as expected when doc is of type XLS. | Document Management : Office Integration |
CF-4203227 | cfspreadsheet action="update" performs automatic formatting of excel rows. | Document Management :Office Integration |
CF-4198295 | java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when creating instance of ActiveMQ Gateway | Event Gateway |
CF-4198393 | Each time you use cffile to write to a file, the function reproduces the BOM signature. | File Management : CFFile |
CF-4198540 | When passing a function closure to another function, if the argument type is string , the function is allowed to come through. | Functions |
CF-4199452 | queryExecute does not support single-quotes in sql -style comments. | Functions |
CF-4199244 | Unable to create a session after a response has been committed. | General Server |
CF-4199826 | JavaSettings .LoadPaths and ObjectLoad do not work as expected. | Java Integration |
CF-4199825 | getPageContext().getResponse().getContentType() throws UnsupportedOperationException. | JEE Deployment : JSP |
CF-4197174 | In Internet Explorer, trying to set or expire an empty cookie results in a new session cookie. | Language |
CF-4199727 | Query column values resolve incorrectly in a query passed as an argument to a CFC method. | Language |
CF-3731425 | Issues in Built-in Functions as first class functions. | Language |
CF-4100122 | Introduce ISO 8601 support in dayOfWeek function. | Language : Functions |
CF-4199031 | The script variant of cfloop fails to execute for a list. | Language : CFSCRIPT |
CF-4198734 | Exceptions raised from member functions gets wrapped in Application exceptions. | Language : Member Functions |
CF-4200346 | ColdFusion ignores the body content sent via HTTP DELETE requests. | Net Protocols : HTTP |
CF-4198260 | Under a request with thousands of CFLDAP calls the CFLDAP tag fails with this error message" "An error has occurred while trying to execute query :10.242.146.14:3268." | Net Protocols : LDAP |
CF-4190744 | There are a few performances issues w ith strings in underlying Java methods. | Performance |
CF-4198411 | If you call restInitApplication with the option isDefault set to true it errors out instead of refreshing. | REST Services |
CF-4171358 | cfschedule behaves unexpectedly most of the time. | Scheduler |
CF-4201015 | There are a few database-related exceptions that appear on a sandbox setup. | Security |
CF-4200168 | With sandbox security active, the getFreeSpace and getTotalSpace functions throw errors. | Security : Sandbox |
CF-4198528 | Incorrect JSON serialization of certain errors. | Serialization |
CF-4202960 | CFPDF action=archive fails when run on a secondary ColdFusion instance. | Server Manager |
CF-4141711 | The monitoring server listens to port 5500 even when disabled from ColdFusion Administrator. | Server Monitoring |
CF-4198485 | Facebook Oauth response is not formatted properly. | Social : OauthLogin |
CF-4199994 | After creating a deleting a collection multiple times, ColdFusion is unable to create a Solr collection. | Text Search : Solr Integration |
CF-4198405 | Invoking WSPublish causes the session scope to become inaccessible/undefined within any CFC methods that are called during the duration of the request. | Web Socket |
Known issues in this release
Scheduler
Issue #1
A daily/monthly task when modified to set a crontime , does not set as expected.
Issue #2
Scheduled tasks are missing.
queryExecute
Issue #1
If you assign the result of a QueryExecute directly to a bracket style variable reference, an exception occurs.
Issue #2
An exception occurs when returning the result of queryExecute from a function in a CFC.
Collections
You are unable to create collections after upgrading Jetty manually.
Workaround
When using a higher non-default Java with Solr, while starting Solr add the following argument:
--add-opens=java.base/jdk.internal.ref=ALL-UNNAMED to JVM.
For example,
java --add-opens=java.base/jdk.internal.ref=ALL-UNNAMED -jar start.jar
Installer
The update installer looks for the cfscripts folder if the folder is moved toa different location.
ORM
Specifying a datasource on a persistent CFC with secondary caching enabled returns the error:
Another CacheManager with the same name 'cacheName' already exists.
Revision history
2/15/2019: Added known issues for
- queryExecute function
- Task scheduler