The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 8.5.3.
This is the first stable release of the 8.5.x branch. Tomcat 8.x users should now use 8.5.x releases in preference to 8.0.x releases. Apache Tomcat 8 is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers technologies. Apache Tomcat 8.5.x is intended to replace 8.0.x and includes new features pulled forward from the 9.0.x branch. The notable changes since 8.5.2 include: - Ensure error will not be thrown during deployment when scanning jar files with no or invalid MANIFEST.MF files. - Improvements to memory leak detection and prevention - The HTTP Server header is no longer set by default Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/changelog.html Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.0.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html Enjoy! - The Apache Tomcat team
