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What's new in Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Update 8
Last update:
May 18, 2026
ColdFusion 2025.0.08 adds native AI and LLM integration, Model Context Protocol support, vector stores, RAG, security enhancements, and developer tooling improvements.
ColdFusion 2025.0.08 is an in-place update, not a full version release. You apply it through the standard update mechanism, add a few modules through the package manager, and your existing environment continues to work without changes to the underlying server runtime.
The update introduces six major capability areas: native AI and LLM integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, vector stores and retrieval augmented generation (RAG), security enhancements, developer tooling improvements, and language and performance updates.
Native AI and LLM integration
 | ColdFusion 2025 update 8 adds first-class AI support directly into the language. You access AI providers through built-in CFML functions that integrate with your existing components, built-in functions, and application logic, not through generic HTTP calls. A unified provider framework lets you write one set of code that works across multiple AI providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google Gemini, and Ollama. To switch providers, you update your configuration. No code refactoring is required. View Introduction to models in ColdFusion for more information. |
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
 | Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI models to external systems. It provides a controlled interface layer between an AI agent and your application, giving agents the ability to discover and use tools without unrestricted access to your codebase. ColdFusion 2025 update 8 supports MCP in both directions as client and server. View MCPs in ColdFusion for more information. |
Vector stores and RAG
 | ColdFusion 2025 update 8 adds a native RAG pipeline that grounds AI responses in your own content. It supports five vector stores (InMemory, Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma) and offers three approaches: simpleRAG() for quick setup, agent() with INGESTION for full pipeline control in production, and documentService() for scheduled or shared ingestion jobs.
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Security enhancements
 | ColdFusion 2025 update 8 adds five security improvements: native passkey support (WebAuthn/FIDO2) for passwordless sign-in, an Argon2-default password hashing API, an expanded Security Analyzer that now detects unscoped variable risks and exports PDF/CSV reports, OEM library upgrades addressing underlying vulnerabilities, and AI guardrails in agent() to filter LLM inputs and outputs via CFC-based validators.
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ColdFusion Builder VS Code extension
 | The ColdFusion Builder VS Code extension now supports Linux and Docker (as a first-class server target with full RDS/debugger support), has a rebuilt context-aware CFML grammar that no longer breaks syntax highlighting on mixed-language files, adds code completions for AI, Cloud, and MongoDB services with deprecation warnings, and ships an improved Security Analyzer with new rules, better performance on large codebases, and PDF/CSV export. View What's new and changed in ColdFusion Builder VS Code Extension Update 5 for more information. |
AI services monitoring in PMT
 | PMT now includes an AI Services dashboard (enabled via Settings > Monitoring > Advanced) with seven tabs covering every layer of the AI stack; LLMs, Agents, RAG, MCP Clients, MCP Servers, Vector Stores, and a Trace Viewer that shows a full flamegraph of each AI request to pinpoint pipeline bottlenecks. View AI services monitoring in PMT for more information. |
Language and performance updates
 | ColdFusion 2025 update 8 adds native Sets with set theory operations, CompletableFuture-based async with asyncAllOf(), asyncAnyOf(), and timeout/combining methods, automatic CFML-to-Java functional interface adaptation, member functions on literals, and eight new or enhanced built-in functions. View the following for more information:
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Other changes in the release
- JVM changes in ColdFusion 2025.0.08
- StructFind callback
- Struct.entries
- DirectoryCreate
- ListFindLast
- FileMismatch
- ArrayFindLast
- ArrayGetAt
- FileReadLines
- GetApplicationMetadata changes
- queryNew changes
- ColdFusion <cfhttp> Streaming & SSE Enhancements
- XMLDOCTYPE declaration changes in XML functions
Frequently Asked Questions
- ColdFusion 2025.0.08 Enterprise
- ColdFusion 2025.0.08 Standard
Bugs fixed in ColdFusion 2025.0.08
Known issues in ColdFusion 2025.0.08
System requirements
Support Matrix
New ColdFusion documentation
The ColdFusion documentation has moved to a new platform built on Adobe Experience Manager Guides. The updated docs provide improved navigation and search, deeper topic coverage, and a built-in MCP server for IDE integration. You can connect a supported IDE directly to the documentation using a free Adobe account for authentication.
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 | If you have a question to ask or an idea to share, come and participate in the Adobe ColdFusion Community . We would love to hear from you and address any queries you may have. |
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