Tom Jordahl's musings

JRun 4 Updater 7 is now officially live on Adobe.com and is publicly available to customers. Updater 7 now supports a host of new platforms, upgrades to existing software and bug fixes. Check the release notes for more details.

For those running multi-instance or standalone ColdFusion 8, there is no need to update using this updater. For users deploying on an EAR/WAR configuration on JRun, updater 7 is goodness.

Here is more information on what is in the JRun Updater 7 beta release:

JRun 4 Updater 7 is aimed to enable running JRun4 on newer platforms which include the following

• Apache 2.2 support
• 64 bit support for Solaris / SPARC
• Mac-Intel support
• Microsoft Vista & IIS7 support
• Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 support on Windows, Solaris and Linux;
• Mac OS X 10.4.9
  

It will also consolidate hot fixes and other defects since Updater 6 and upgrade to newer versions of supporting software that include

• Data Direct 3.6
• JDK 1.6.0_01 & JDK 1.6.0_02

To be clear, no one who has installed ColdFusion 8 in any form needs this updater, as catching up to what was shipped in CF8 is the whole purpose of the release, but many customers use JRun independently from ColdFusion so we welcome their help in making sure there are no regressions.

If you want to be part of the beta program for the new JRun 4 Updater (updater 7), we are recruiting ColdFusion customers. Go to this link https://prerelease.adobe.com/callout/default.html?callid=%7b046DAD6A-D2F3-47E5-A745-E1C9F38570DA%7d to sign up.

This updater will roll up all the hotfixes released since U6 as well as synchronizing with any and all changes we made in JRun for the ColdFusion 8 release. This is mostly updates to wsconfig to support new platforms (i.e. 64-bit Solaris) and new OS releases.

Enjoy.