Wednesday, November 21, 2007

64 bit Support on ColdFusion 8 (Windows, Linux and Leopard)

ColdFusion team is working to get ColdFusion 8 working on 64 Bit platforms(Windows, Linux and Leopard). If you are interested and want to participate in the testing of early releases of 64 Bit support on ColdFusion 8 on these platforms, please enroll yourself for prerelease program here.

JRun updater 7 released

JRun 4 updater 7 got released last week and is publicly available for download. It now supports a host of new platforms, includes upgrades to existing software components and fixes for many critical bugs.

Some of the important platform support include

  • JDK 1.6 support
  • Support for Windows Vista.
  • Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel
  • 64-bit Support on Solaris-SPARC.
  • IIS7 support.
  • Apache 2.2.x support
  • SunOne Webserver 7
  • IBM JDK 1.5

Another important reason why you might want this is - a very significant performance improvement in web clustering. Check out the detailed release notes here.