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Posted to announce@apache.org by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> on 2013/12/27 17:40:38 UTC
[ANN] Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC10 (alpha) available
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.0.0-RC10 (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).
Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC10 includes numerous fixes for issues identified
in RC5 as well as a number of other enhancements and changes. The
notable changes since RC5 include:
- Extending the new resources implementation to include resource
handling for class loaders and the addition of a new feature to track
the code responsible for an open file.
- Complete refactoring of TLD handling including the addition of
caching of parsed TLDs to improve performance.
- Improvements to JMX MBeans including better visibility of DBCP
connection pools and improved organisation in the default JConsole
view.
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