Apache Tomcat 7.0.25 released

posted by Stacey Schneider on January 23, 2012 10:47 AM

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.25

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This release includes numerous bug fixes and several new features compared to version 7.0.23. The notable new features include:

• Align the Servlet 3.0 implementation with the changes defined in the first maintenance release (also known as Rev. A.). See the JCP documentation for a detailed list of changes.
• Add support for connectors to automatically select a free port to bind to. This is useful when embedding and for testing.
• Update to Commons Pool 1.5.7, Commons Daemon 1.0.8 and Eclipse JDT compiler 3.7.1.

Please refer to the change log for the complete 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 guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x:
http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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.