posted by Stacey Schneider on January 4, 2012 07:31 AM

2011 has been a great year for the Tomcat Expert community. After almost 2 years of operating, the Tomcat Expert has hit its stride, unloading an array of new information, as well as keeping you up to date with the newest releases for Apache Tomcat 6 and Apache Tomcat 7. With the addition of two new Tomcat Expert Contributors, (Channing Benson and Daniel Mikusa), the Tomcat Expert community continues to build on its reputation for being the leading source for fresh perspectives and new information on how to best leverage Apache Tomcat in the enterprise.

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posted by Stacey Schneider on August 18, 2011 02:49 PM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.33 stable.

Apache Tomcat 6.0.33 is primarily a security and bug fix release. All users of older versions of the Tomcat 6.0 family should upgrade to 6.0.33.

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

Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html

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

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

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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posted by Stacey Schneider on August 12, 2011 04:19 AM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.20

Apache Tomcat 7.0.20 includes bug fixes and the following new features compared to version 7.0.19:

• JSP files with dependencies in JARs are no longer recompiled on every access thereby improving performance.
• Update to version 1.1.22 of the native component of the AJP and HTTP APR/native connectors.
• Update to Commons Daemon 1.0.7.
• Converted unit tests to JUnit 4.

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 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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posted by Stacey Schneider on August 10, 2011 08:38 AM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces that support for Apache Tomcat 5.5.x will end on 30 September 2012.

This means that after 30 September 2012:

• releases from the 5.5.x branch are highly unlikely
• bugs affecting only the 5.5.x branch will not be addressed
• security vulnerability reports will not be checked against the 5.5.x branch

Three months later (i.e. after 31 December 2012)

• the 5.5.x download pages will be removed
• the latest 5.5.x release will be removed from the mirror system
• the 5.5.x branch in svn will move from /tomcat/tc5.5.x to /tomcat/archive/tc5.5.x
• the links to the 5.5.x documentation will be removed from tomcat.apache.org
• The bugzilla project for 5.5.x will be made read-only

Note that all 5.5.x releases will always be available from the archive.

It is anticipated that the final 5.5.x release will be made shortly before 30 September 2012.

Thank you,

-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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posted by Stacey Schneider on July 29, 2011 12:09 PM

13 months ago today marked the initial release of the Apache Tomcat 7 beta. Proving itself to be very backwards compatible with Apache Tomcat 6, Tomcat 7 is wealth of add-on features and bug fixes that purely builds on the success of Tomcat 6. Many of these features were not around 13 months ago, many of which we have covered here including:

• Session Fixation Protection
• Cross-site Request Forgery
• Crawler Session Manager Valve
• Parallel Deployment
• NIO Implementation of the AJP Connector
• Windows Authentication
• Windows Installer Improvements

Originally presented in the SpringSource S2F Forum in Amsterdam, Mark Thomas recorded a new update on the overall status of the Tomcat 7 project for the Tomcat Expert community. This update is slightly more current and gives good insight as to what is now in Tomcat 7 and what will be coming (and how to influence what gets worked on!). Some interesting points Mark brings up:

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posted by Stacey Schneider on July 19, 2011 09:23 AM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.19

Apache Tomcat 7.0.19 includes security fixes, bug fixes and the following new features compared to version 7.0.16:

• JSP recompilation is now triggered by any change (backwards as well as forwards) in the last modified time of the JSP or any of its dependencies
• Support for installing multiple instances with the Windows Installer
• Include jdbc-pool (an alternative database connection pool)

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

The following known issues in 7.0.19 are noteworthy:

• The AJP NIO connector does not use persistent connections. To workaround this, use a large value for connectionTimeout
• There is a typo in the list of JARs to skip in catalina.properties. Apply http://s.apache.org/catalina.properties-r1146623 to fix it

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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posted by Stacey Schneider on June 17, 2011 09:28 AM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.16.

Apache Tomcat 7.0.16 includes bug fixes and the following new features compared to version 7.0.14:

• NIO implementation of the AJP connector
• Enable Servlet 3 asynchronous processing support when using clustering
• Add parallel deployment support to the Manager's Ant tasks

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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posted by Stacey Schneider on May 13, 2011 08:43 AM

Announced this morning by the Apache Tomcat team:

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.14.

Apache Tomcat 7.0.14 includes bug fixes and the following new features compared to version 7.0.12:

• new StuckThreadDetectionValve to identify long running requests
• JAAS authentication support for the JMXRemoteLifecycleListener
• updated MIME type mappings to align with those of Apache httpd

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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