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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:34:17 +0000
From: Mark Thomas <markt@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC9
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On 18/12/2013 00:59, Mark Thomas wrote:
> The proposed Apache Tomcat 8.0.0 release candidate 9 is now available
> for voting.
> 
> Given this is a release candidate I am working on the basis that it is
> equivalent to an alpha. The main changes since RC5 are:
> - Better handling of generic types in the WebSocket 1.0 implementation
> - Refactor resource handling for the class loader
> - Add Cobertura support to the unit tests
> - Remove anti-Jar locking feature and replace it with open stream
>   tracking
> - Update to a post Commons Pool 2.0 release snapshot
> - Complete refactoring of TLD handling including caching of parsed TLDs
> - More consistent handling of XML validation options
> - Much more detailed visibility of DBCP connections pools in JMX
> - Better organisation of JMX beans in the default JConsole view
> - Performance improvements
> - Numerous bug fixes
> 
> It can be obtained from:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.0-RC9/
> The Maven staging repo is:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetomcat-063/
> The svn tag is:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tags/TOMCAT_8_0_0_RC9/
> 
> The proposed 8.0.0-RC9 release is:
> [ ] Broken - do not release
> [X] Alpha - go ahead and release as 8.0.0-RC9 alpha

Unit tests pass on 64-bit Windows, Linux and OSX.

Mark


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