Cumulative Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion 8.0.1?

Question

We've been feeling a little leery about Adobe's stance with
CF8 for a while now due to the lack of patches and updates compared
to what we've been used to expecting from Macromedia. We've been
checking the patch and security pages a couple times a week looking
to see if there have been any changes. I noticed a change date on
the CF8 patch page the other day but no new patches showed up.
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html
Then today I noticed the date changed again at the bottom and
now there was a new patch at the top replacing the 2 that were
there before. Cumulative Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion 8.0.1
The patch says it's from 10/20/2008 and if you decompress the
file it gives a date of 10/17/2008 on the file. This patch was new
to the public as of this week though. The reason I'm posting is to
try to understand why this patch has been sitting unreleased for
nearly 5 months now? There clearly have not been any changes to the
file in that time frame so that was either the best written patch
with the most exhaustive testing ever or someones been neglecting
posting the patches that have been completed.

Answer 1

@brentil, ah, ok. I understand now. Yep, that is curious. I
can confirm that it wasn't there on Mar 17, per the Google cache
page:
http://74.125.93.104/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS291US306&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:h ttp://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do%3FexternalId%3Dkb402604%26sliceId%3D1
Of course, by the time someone reads this in the future, it's
possible that the cached page will be different again. One would
want to note the date offered by Google at the top of the page it
shows.
So the real question is why the CHF link was note posted here
until now. I'm with you that some resources are not always updated.
I blogged about it:
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2008/7/16/beware_technotes_may_not_be_listed _elsewhere
Perhaps more dismaying is that the CHF2 technote lists many
more HFs included than appear in the main hotfix page (the URL you
pointed to). So one might ask why we should have had to wait for a
CHF to get those hotfixes.
Also, I notice that the main cf8 downloads page (which you
pointed to originally) does not, in fact, refer to the 8.0.1 CHF
(though it does list 8.0 CHFs). That should be address.
I agree that we should expect the hotfixes page to list any
hotfixes or CHFs as soon as they're available. Sorry I missed your
main point.
Sadly, I don't know that we can expect too much to come of
this discussion here. There's just no guarantee that anyone
responsible would see it. But here's good news. A couple of blog
entries have raised the concern:
http://www.creative-restraint.co.uk/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-8-0-1-cumulative-hotfix-2
http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2009/3/18/ColdFusion-v801-Hot-Fix-2-released-in-Oct-2 008
And Ben Forta is a party to the second one, where I've just
added a comment asking to find who we can press about this.
Finally, just an FYI: that URL you offered is indeed the same
page that I'd offered. The URL I gave (
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb402604)
comes from the "permanent link" offered at the bottom of all Adobe
technotes, which is just a nice shorter URL.