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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> on 2013/08/06 17:48:18 UTC
[ANN] Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha) available
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha).
Apache Tomcat 8 is an open source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java
WebSocket technologies.
Apache Tomcat 8 is aligned with Java EE 7. In addition to supporting
updated versions of the Java EE specifications, Tomcat 8 includes a
number of improvements compared to Tomcat 7. The notable changes
include:
- Support for Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified
Expression Language 3.0 and Java WebSocket 1.0.
- The default connector implementation is now the Java non-blocking
implementation (NIO) for both HTTP and AJP.
- A new resources implementation that replaces Aliases, VirtualLoader,
VirtualDirContext, JAR resources and external repositories with a
single, consistent approach for configuring additional web
application resources. The new resources implementation can also be
used to implement overlays (using a master WAR as the basis for
multiple web applications that each have their own
customizations).
Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/changelog.html
The purpose of this release candidate is to give users an opportunity to
test Tomcat 8 and provide feedback to the Tomcat community. It has been
given an alpha status which means that it is not judged as being ready
for production usage. The implementations of the 4 Java EE 7
specifications are all complete but there is some internal refactoring
to be completed before the alpha label is removed.
Note: 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-80.cgi
Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x, 6.0.x and 7.0.x:
http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
Enjoy!
- The Apache Tomcat team
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Re: [ANN] Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha) available
Posted by Michael-O <19...@gmx.net>.
Am 2013-08-06 17:48, schrieb Mark Thomas:
> The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
> Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 (alpha).
>
> [..]
> The purpose of this release candidate is to give users an opportunity to
> test Tomcat 8 and provide feedback to the Tomcat community. It has been
> given an alpha status which means that it is not judged as being ready
> for production usage. The implementations of the 4 Java EE 7
> specifications are all complete but there is some internal refactoring
> to be completed before the alpha label is removed.
Hi,
I haven't been following the dev list, so I did not know about the
eighth version being developed. I took the liberty to file two tickets
in Bugzilla which would introduce breaking changes but will improve
Tomcat's user experience.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55372
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55373
Will be happy to hear comments.
Michael
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