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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Hareshbhai Desai,Vinaykumar (Vinaykumar)" <de...@avaya.com> on 2014/10/31 04:50:21 UTC
require infomation on tomcat 6.0 EOL and support
Hi All,
As per my understanding tomcat 6.0 is EOL but it's not yet announced. Generally EOL announcement to EOL timeframe would be 1 year. That mean tomcat 6.0 support time frame would be minimum 1 yr from now. Just wanted to confirm that any security vulnerability found in this period then Apache tomcat will provide support of tomcat 6 . Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Regards,
Vinay
Re: require infomation on tomcat 6.0 EOL and support
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
On 31/10/2014 03:50, Hareshbhai Desai,Vinaykumar (Vinaykumar) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As per my understanding tomcat 6.0 is EOL but it's not yet announced.
Nope.
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/TomcatVersions
> Generally EOL announcement to EOL timeframe would be 1 year.
Generally we do aim to give at least 12 months notice of EOL.
> That mean tomcat 6.0 support time frame would be minimum 1 yr from now.
> Just wanted to confirm that any security vulnerability found in this
> period then Apache tomcat will provide support of tomcat 6.
Generally, yes.
> Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Keep in mind that Tomcat committers are volunteers and a release
requires one of those committers to volunteer to do the release. So
while there has always been a volunteer to date, the ASF can offer no
guarantees of what will happen in the future.
Mark
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Re: require infomation on tomcat 6.0 EOL and support
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Vinay,
On 10/30/14 11:50 PM, Hareshbhai Desai,Vinaykumar (Vinaykumar) wrote:
> As per my understanding tomcat 6.0 is EOL but it's not yet
> announced.
This is not yet true. There is likely to be a release of Tomcat 6.0
somewhat soon, as there were recent modifications required to use the
newer protocols in OpenSSL.
Tomcat 6 is is more of a "maintenance mode" in that serious problems
are fixed, but no new features are being added.
> Generally EOL announcement to EOL timeframe would be 1 year.
If you say so.
> That mean tomcat 6.0 support time frame would be minimum 1 yr from
> now.
That sounds logical, based upon your above assertion.
> Just wanted to confirm that any security vulnerability found in
> this period then Apache tomcat will provide support of Tomcat 6.
> Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Tomcat 6 will continue to be supported as long as the community wants
it to be supported. Nobody can forcibly stop anyone from supporting
it. The currently active Tomcat committers are still supporting Tomcat
6 but, for many reasons, are concentrating their efforts on the newer
versions. If you are relying on long-term support for Tomcat 6, you
should probably hire someone to do that.
Let me put it this way: don't wait for an EOL announcement for Tomcat
6 to do anything about it. Start using Tomcat 8 right now.
- -chris
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