Apache Tomcat 6.0.39 Released

posted by Stacey Schneider on February 3, 2014 04:01 PM

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.39 stable.

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Apache Tomcat 6.0.39 is primarily a security and bug fix release. The notable changes include:

• Various improvements to XML configuration file validation.
• Better adherence to RFC2616 for Content-Type and Content-Length headers.
• Avoid CVE-2013-1571 when generating Javadoc.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:

Note that is version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three bundled with Tomcat native binaries for different CPU architectures.

Downloads:
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

Migration guide from earlier releases:
http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

Enjoy!

- The Apache Tomcat team

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Stacey Schneider is focused on helping evangelize how cloud technologies are transforming application development and delivery by managing the blog and social media for Pivotal. Prior to its acquisition, Stacey led marketing and community management for application management software provider Hyperic, now a part of VMware’s management portfolio. Before her work in the cloud, she also held various technical leadership positions at CRM software pioneer Siebel Systems, including work on the Nexus project, which focused on building portable web applications that worked across Java and .NET. Stacey is also the managing principal of SiliconSpark, a consulting agency that has helped over 12 software companies go to market on the web and across the cloud over the past 5 years.