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Apache Tomcat

The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations and Jakarta Authentication specifications. These specifications are part of the Jakarta EE platform.

The Jakarta EE platform is the evolution of the Java EE platform. Tomcat 10 and later implement specifications developed as part of Jakarta EE. Tomcat 9 and earlier implement specifications developed as part of Java EE.

The Apache Tomcat software is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache License version 2. The Apache Tomcat project is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, click here.

Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.

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2024-03-14 Tomcat 9.0.87 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 9.0.87 of Apache Tomcat. This release implements specifications that are part of the Java EE 8 platform. The notable changes compared to 9.0.86 include:

  • When restoring a saved POST request after a successful FORM authentication, ensure that neither the URI, the query string nor the protocol are corrupted when restoring the request body.
  • Align error handling for Writer and OutputStream. Ensure use of either once the response has been recycled triggers a NullPointerException provided that discardFacades is configured with the default value of true.
  • The standard thread pool implementations that are configured using the Executor element now implement ExecutorService for better support of NIO2 or others.

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 9 changelog.

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2024-03-14 Tomcat 11.0.0-M18 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 11.0.0-M18 (alpha) of Apache Tomcat. This release is a milestone release and is targeted at Jakarta EE 11.

Users of Tomcat 10 onwards should be aware that, as a result of the move from Java EE to Jakarta EE as part of the transfer of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, the primary package for all implemented APIs has changed from javax.* to jakarta.*. This will almost certainly require code changes to enable applications to migrate from Tomcat 9 and earlier to Tomcat 10 and later. A migration tool is available to aid this process.

The notable changes in this release are:

  • Reduce minimum Java version to Java 17
  • When restoring a saved POST request after a successful FORM authentication, ensure that neither the URI, the query string no the protocol are corrupted when restoring the request body.
  • Align error handling for Writer and OutputStream. Ensure use of either once the response has been recycled triggers a NullPointerException provided that discardFacades is configured with the default value of true.

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 11 (alpha) changelog.

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2024-02-19 Tomcat 8.5.99 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 8.5.99 of Apache Tomcat. This release implements specifications that are part of the Java EE 7 platform. The notable changes compared to 8.5.98 include:

  • Add improvements to the CSRF prevention filter including the ability to skip adding nonces for resource name and subtree URL patterns.
  • Add support for user provided SSLContext instances configured on SSLHostConfigCertificate instances. Based on pull request #673 provided by Hakan Altındağ.
  • Review usage of debug logging and downgrade trace or data dumping operations from debug level to trace.

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 8 changelog.

Please note that Apache Tomcat 8.5.x will reach End-of-life (EOL) on 31 March 2024.

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2024-02-19 Tomcat 10.1.19 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 10.1.19 of Apache Tomcat. This release implements specifications that are part of the Jakarta EE 10 platform.

Applications that run on Tomcat 9 and earlier will not run on Tomcat 10 without changes. Java EE based applications designed for Tomcat 9 and earlier may be placed in the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps-javaee directory and Tomcat will automatically convert them to Jakarta EE and copy them to the webapps directory. This conversion is performed using the Apache Tomcat migration tool for Jakarta EE tool which is also available as a separate download for off-line use.

The notable changes in this release are:

  • Add improvements to the CSRF prevention filter including the ability to skip adding nonces for resource name and subtree URL patterns.
  • Add support for user provided SSLContext instances configured on SSLHostConfigCertificate instances. Based on pull request #673 provided by Hakan Altındağ.
  • Review usage of debug logging and downgrade trace or data dumping operations from debug level to trace.

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 10.1 changelog.

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2024-02-12 Tomcat Native 1.3.0 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.3.0 of Tomcat Native. This is the first release of the 1.3.x branch. The notable changes compared to 1.2.x include:

  • The minimum supported OpenSSL version is 1.1.1
  • The minimum supported APR version in 1.6.3
  • The windows binaries in this release have been built with OpenSSL 3.0.13

Download | Change log for 1.3.0

2024-02-08 Tomcat Native 2.0.7 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 2.0.7 of Tomcat Native. The notable changes compared to 2.0.6 include:

  • Align default pass phrase prompt with httpd on Windows
  • The windows binaries in this release have been built with OpenSSL 3.0.13

Download | Change log for 2.0.5

2024-02-06 Tomcat Migration Tool for Jakarta EE 1.0.8 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of 1.0.8 of the Apache Tomcat Migration Tool for Jakarta EE. This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to version 1.0.7.

The notable changes in this release are:

  • Recognize .ear files as archives
  • Include .jspf and .tagf files in the conversion process
  • Update dependencies

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the changelog.

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2023-10-03 Tomcat Native 1.2.39 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.39 of Tomcat Native. The notable changes since 1.2.38 include:

  • Disable OCSP if the insecure optionalNoCA certificate verification option is used
  • The windows binaries in this release have been built with OpenSSL 3.0.11

Download | Change log for 1.2.39

2023-09-12 Tomcat Connectors 1.2.49 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.49 of Apache Tomcat Connectors. This version fixes a number of bugs found in previous releases.

Download | ChangeLog for 1.2.49

2015-03-17 Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.5 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.5 of the Standard Taglib. This tag library provides Apache's implementation of the JSTL 1.2 specification.

Version 1.2.5 is a minor bug fix release reverting a change made in 1.2.1 where <c:import> modified the HTTP method during POST operations, and fixing an issues that resulted in an AccessControlException during startup unless permission was granted to read the accessExternalEntity property.

Please see the Taglibs section for more details.

Download | Changes

2013-11-11 Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2 Released

The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2. Changelog available here.

The Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin provides goals to manipulate WAR projects within the Apache Tomcat servlet container.

The binaries are available from Maven repositories. You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

or

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

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