Apache Tomcat 7.0.2 beta released

posted by Stacey Schneider on August 20, 2010 08:04 AM

In an email announcement today, the Apache Tomcat team announced the release of the Tomcat 7.0.2 beta.

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.2 beta.

Apache Tomcat 7.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 6.0, including support for the new Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications, web application memory leak detection and prevention, improved security for the Manager and Host Manager applications, Generic CSRF protection, support for including external content directly in a web application (aliases), re-factoring (connectors, life-cycle) and lots of internal code clean-up.

The 7.0.2 release contains numerous bug fixes and an important security fix compared to 7.0.0.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html

Note that this version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems running on different CPU architectures.

Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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Stacey Schneider is the managing principal for Silicon Spark, an internet marketing firm that builds and optimizes websites for software companies that go to market with high-volume, high-traffic websites. Prior to forming Silicon Spark, Stacey led marketing and community management for open source software provider Hyperic. She also held various technical leadership positions at CRM software pioneer Siebel Systems, including Director of Technology Product Marketing, managing the Technology Competency in Europe, and the Globalization professional services practice worldwide. She was also a part of Siebel's Nexus project, which focused on building web applications that could be configured and seamlessly deployed across commercial java application servers as well as .NET. Prior to Siebel Systems, Stacey worked at Unisys Corporation as consultant in the commercial consultancy practice, overseeing the implementation of Siebel and Oracle technologies.