[ANN] Apache Tomcat 8.5.99 Available

[Christopher Schultz <sc...@apache.org>]

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.5.99.

Apache Tomcat 8 is an open source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java
WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.

Apache Tomcat 8.5.99 is a bugfix and feature release. 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.

Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/changelog.html

Downloads:
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi

Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 7.x and 8.0:
https://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

Please note that Tomcat 8.5.x will reach End-of-life (EOL) on 31 March 
2024. For more information please visit 
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-85-eol.html

Enjoy!

- The Apache Tomcat team

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