The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.0.9, the first stable release of the 8.0.x series.
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 8.0.9 includes numerous fixes for issues identified
in 8.0.8 as well as a number of other enhancements and changes. The
notable changes since 8.0.8 include:
- Start to move towards RFC6265 for cookie handling
- Better error handling when the error occurs after the response has
been committed
- Various Jasper improvements to make it easier for other containers
(e.g. Jetty) to consume
Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/changelog.html
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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