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Overview
This page provides a high-level view of each of the past, current and planned major Tomcat versions.
The way Apache is structured and governed it is impossible to say that there will be no further enhancements, bug fixes or releases for a given version. Therefore, rather than use "No" in the tables below "Highly unlikely" has been used. That said, highly unlikely means exactly that and users of versions that are highly unlikely to see another release, even for security fixes, should consider moving to a later version.
It is anticipated that releases will be provided for a maximum of 3 major versions at any one time. It is currently planned that the last Tomcat 4.1.x release will occur no later than June 2009. However, there are currently no firm plans for Tomcat 7 therefore, depending on demand, Tomcat 4.1.x releases may continue beyond June 2009
Draft
Need to resolve TBDs. Specifically:
- Do we want to continue to provide support (currently only security fixes) for 3.3.x?
- markt: Suggest we drop all support for 3.x
- If yes, who is release manager for 3.3.x?
- If no, do we want to remove 3.3.x from the main download page?
- markt: Yes, if it is agreed to drop support for it
- What level of support do we want to provide for 5.5.x?
- markt: Bug fixes and security fixes, no enhancements
- markt: Bug fixes and security fixes, no enhancements
Overview
This page provides a high-level view of each of the past, current and planned major Tomcat versions.
Tomcat 3.3.x
Spec versions: | Servlet 2.2, JSP 1.1 | ||
Stable: | Yes | ||
Enhancements: | NoHighly unlikely | ||
Bug Fixes: | NoHighly unlikely | ||
Security Fixes:: | Highly unlikely | ||
Releases: | Highly unlikely | ||
Release Manager: | Bill Barker (billbarker)TBD - currently yes | ||
Process: | RTC | ||
Listed on download pages | Yes | Release Manager: | ???No |
Tomcat 4.1.x
Spec versions: | Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2 | ||
Stable: | Yes | ||
Enhancements: | NoUnlikely | ||
Bug Fixes: | YesUnlikely | ||
Security Fixes: | Yes | ||
Process: | RTC | ||
Releases: | As required until at least June 2009. Driven by security fixes | Listed on download pages | Yes |
Release Manager: | Mark Thomas (markt) | ||
Process: | RTC | ||
Listed on download pages | Yes |
Tomcat 5.5.x
Spec versions: | Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0 |
Stable: | Yes |
Enhancements: | TBD - currently ???Unlikely |
Bug Fixes: | Yes |
Security Fixes: | Yes |
Process: | RTC |
Listed on download pagesReleases: | Yes |
Release Manager: | Filip Hanik (fhanik) |
Process: | RTC |
Listed on download pages | Yes |
Tomcat 6.0.x
Spec versions: | Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1 |
Stable: | Yes |
Enhancements: | TBD - currently Yes |
Bug Fixes: | TBD - currently Yes |
Security Fixes: | TBD - currently Yes |
Process: | RTC |
Listed on download pagesReleases: | Yes |
Release Manager: | Remy Maucherat (remm) |
Process: | RTC |
Listed on download pages | Yes |
Tomcat 6.2.x
Spec versions: | Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1 |
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- 6.x plus
- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/NOTES-FOR-TOMCAT-7.txt
- TBD - additional features will be added to the above file
- Anything from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/NOTES-FOR-TOMCAT-6.2.txt that doesn't make it into 6.x
Unsupported versions
The following versions are no longer supported. The source is still available from SVN and both source and binary downloads are available from the archives.
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