Claude Englebert

Title says it all.  You can download it from here.

I also recommend you read the FAQ for 9.0.1 and download the release notes.

What's included in the ColdFusion 9 Update 1?
The following are the top features in this release:

• ORM support for multiple data sources
• Amazon S3 support
• Support for IIS 7
• New script functions implemented as CFCs
• Support for BlazeDS 4 and LCDS 3
• Configurable seed for password encryption 
• Server monitoring enhancements to handle load conditions

In addition, there are some enhancements related to Language, Caching, Ajax, SpreadSheet, Solr, and Logging and scores of bug fixes.

You can read the details of what's new in the updater here.

Now let me answer the most common question I had about the updater's installation :

If I buy a new copy of ColdFusion 9 today, will I still need to install the update?
Yes. ColdFusion 9 Update 1 is not part of the latest ColdFusion 9 installer. One has to download relevant ColdFusion 9 Update Installer and apply it on existing ColdFusion 9 Installation.

Can I download a version of ColdFusion 9 that already includes the update?
No. Adobe does not plan to ship a full installer for ColdFusion 9 Update1.

My fellow ColdFusion Product Specialist Josh Adams recently published a very interesting blog post about all CF related installers, well worth reading it here.

ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder are still free for education.  And so is Flash Builder 4.

Adobe ColdFusion 9 for Education is available for free to educational customers to use for learning purposes only and not for production purposes. This includes all qualified students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

Proof of Eligibility
To receive the product, you must upload a valid proof of eligibility to get the serial numbers to activate the product. Valid proof of eligibility includes:
   1. your student ID showing current enrollment, or
   2. your faculty ID showing current employment, or
   3. your non-faculty employee ID showing current employment, or
   4. a letter on an educational institution letterhead stating that you are either a current student, a current faculty member or a current non-faculty employee of the institution.

Terms and conditions

You will comply with the product license agreement included with the product, if any. Education versions of Adobe products are available only to qualified educational customers and may not be distributed by the original licensee to any institution, organization or person that is not a qualified educational user. ColdFusion is made available for free under this program only for use for learning purposes and not for production purposes by any person or organization.

You can apply on https://freeriatools.adobe.com/.

I had an interesting question from a Belgian user recently : do we have a CFSRIPT version of CFPOP and CFIMAP ?

Well the answer is no.  And yes :-)

In addition to core language level support for various programming elements in cfscript, we have added support for only selected functionality already available thru tag syntax like ftp, http, mail, pdf, query, storedproc.

They are all implemented as CFCs and are present in CustomTags\com\adobe\coldfusion folder.

And these CFCs are all open source and can be extended as per customers requirement. One can easily extend cfscript support for unsupported tags by writing and dropping the CFCs in these folders and these CFCs would automatically be imported into default namespace and available with syntax like new someCFC() directly.

PS.: Thanks to Sanjeev for helping me out on this one.

I've been through this issue earlier this week, so simply let me reproduce Josh Adam's blog entry about this :

We've recently seen an issue where the ColdFusion 9 installation program on 64-bit Linux will not accept valid ColdFusion 9 Standard license keys (we have not seen any issue with it accepting valid ColdFusion 9 Enterprise license keys). The workaround for this issue is to install ColdFusion 9 as Trial (that is, do not enter the license key during installation) and then enter the license key via the ColdFusion Administrator after the installation has completed.