Matt Woodward put together a fairly comprehensive list of notes from the Washington D.C. ColdFusion 8 "The Future of ColdFusion" session on 5/17. It's worth a read. Keep in mind that 1) things may (and probably will) change for the final ColdFusion 8 release and 2) there's PLENTY more features and details that haven't yet been talked about :) The doc is here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhshbm3s_59cwj9xq Matt's BLOG post is here: http://mattwoodward.com/blog/index.cfm?

Jason Delmore, CF PM is showing Scorpio tonight at the Boston CFUG. It's being held at the Adobe Newton engineering office in Newton, MA, just down the hall from us CF engineering folks. http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/14/Scorpio-Tour-in-Boston-This-Wednesday Tom Jordahl and I (at very least) will be there from the ColdFusion engineering team to help heckle Jason, and maybe help answer a few questions if we can as well :) See you there!

"ColdFusion 8 looks freakin' sweet-a** and I can't wait for it hit the shelves. With every version of ColdFusion brining even more outstanding features to the table, one can't help but think... is there some divine intervention going on here?" More here: http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:707.view It's actually just listening to our customers...intimately, and solving their problems. (Ok, ok, that and a few beers to help the creative process.) Thanks for the kind words, guys.

We haven't yet finished rolling out new features yet in ColdFusion 8 "Scorpio"...there's more to come over the next few weeks. We've been extremely busy, as you can see, but this should be a great release. Enjoy! http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.

Dave Shuck blogs about the new features of Adobe ColdFusion 8 "Scorpio" that Ben Forta showed at the DFW CFUG a few this past Monday: Dave Shuck's BLOG You're starting to get more of a glimpse into what my team has been working on, BUT....there's more...much, much more yet to come in the weeks ahead. Stay tuned!

I've posted this before, but the doc set was $150 previously. But good news...they're now $50, which I think is a great, great deal! Several people had questions about the availability of ColdFusion books, and you may not be aware that 1) the ColdFusion MX 7 doc set is absolutely top-notch excellent, and 2) the full set of all CFMX7 books is available for sale at cost at the Adobe online store here.

We'll be notifying customers about the availability of the Scorpio public beta on Adobe Labs in the coming months. However, in order to receive this notification, you need to have an Adobe membership. Most of you likely already have this; it's what you use to sign in if you want to download trial software or post to the forums. If you don't, you can create a new membership account at https://www.adobe.com/go/gn_your_account.

Note that each week on the Scorpio World Tour we'll be unveiling more and more features, so do keep up with the ColdFusion blogosphere this next month or so, and do get to an event near you....you'll for sure be seeing something new unveiled the public hasn't seen before. Here's a great blog post from a customer who attended one of the Scorpio preview events yesterday: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/24/9-ways-coldfusion-8-will-rule-web-development/ Enjoy!

Get the CF 7.0.2 Hot Fix here: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401239 The Hot Fix addresses two issues: one with JRun 4 and one with ColdFusion 7.0.2. JRun 4 erroneously reused the input stream buffer for some requests, and in ColdFusion 7.0.2, when CFC instances were kept in shared scopes, in some istuations, they were not being released properly. To complete the loop, this issue was also previously reported here, and should now be addressed with this Hot Fix.

The ColdFusion 8 "Scorpio" User Group Tour kicks off next week world-wide, with stops in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Come see the incredible innovations and customer solutions the ColdFusion engineering team has been working on now for the past 2 years. No fluffy features, no features for feature's sake.