Adobe ColdFusion: Legacy Support and Migration

Yes, but only the two newest versions. ColdFusion 2025 has core support until February 26, 2030, and ColdFusion 2023 until May 16, 2028. ColdFusion 2021 is in extended support until November 10, 2026. ColdFusion 2018 and every earlier version are past end of life and receive no security updates from Adobe.

The latest version is ColdFusion 2025, released on February 25, 2025. Adobe's core support for it runs until February 26, 2030. ColdFusion 2023 is the other fully supported version.

Yes. Adobe released ColdFusion 2025 in February 2025 and supports it until 2030, and the open-source Lucee engine is still actively developed. Lucid supports ColdFusion applications that clients rely on every day, some of them for more than five years.

The application keeps running, but Adobe stops releasing fixes for it. Any security hole found after that date stays open on your server. It also puts you out of step with compliance rules such as PCI DSS, which expects critical security patches within one month of release, and it gets harder to run on current versions of Java and the operating system.

Output the server.coldfusion.productversion variable from any CFML page; Adobe documents it as the ColdFusion version that is currently running. If server.coldfusion.productname returns Lucee, the application runs on the Lucee engine rather than Adobe ColdFusion.

Legacy support covers everything needed to keep an older ColdFusion application safe and working: applying updates, hardening the server, fixing bugs, tracing errors, tuning slow pages, documenting the code and making small changes. It is usually the first step before an upgrade or migration.

Upgrade Adobe ColdFusion if your application depends on Adobe-only features or you want support from Adobe. Migrate to Lucee if licence cost is your main concern and your code is mostly standard CFML. A short code audit shows how many Adobe-only features you use, which usually settles the decision.

Mostly. Lucee runs standard CFML, and its documentation lists the known differences from Adobe ColdFusion, such as some functions and tags that behave differently and Adobe-only features it does not include. A code audit finds those differences before a migration starts.

It depends on the size of the code, how many versions you are jumping and how many Adobe-only features need replacing. After a free audit we give you a written plan with a timeline and a fixed quote for the agreed scope, so the schedule is known before work starts.

No. We build the new environment alongside your live server, test it side by side, then move traffic over in stages with a rollback plan ready. Your users keep working on the current system until the new one has passed testing.

Yes. Inherited ColdFusion applications are common. We start by auditing the code and server, put the code into version control, document how it works, and then take over day-to-day support and fixes.

Yes. Both Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee run on cloud servers and in Docker containers, and Adobe publishes official ColdFusion Docker images. We move ColdFusion applications to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other providers, with separate development and staging environments.

Dedicated ColdFusion developers start at $18 per hour, with a risk-free 14-day trial. Upgrades, Lucee migrations and cloud moves are quoted as fixed-scope projects after a free audit, so you know the cost of the agreed work before it starts.

Yes, when it makes sense. We rebuild ColdFusion applications in PHP (Laravel), Node.js, Python or Java and move the data across intact. A rewrite costs more than an upgrade, so the audit compares both options before you decide.

We sign an NDA before we see any code, and you own 100% of the code and intellectual property we produce. Our quality management is certified to ISO 9001:2015.