The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.5.89.
Apache Tomcat 8 is an open source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java
WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
Apache Tomcat 8.5.89 is a bugfix and feature release. The notable
changes compared to 8.5.88 include:
- Many improvements to the JSON access log valve.
- Deprecate support for the HTTP Connector settings rejectIllegalHeader
and allowHostHeaderMismatch and reject HTTP headers without names.
- Add a RateLimitFilter which can be used to mitigate DoS and Brute
Force attacks.
Along with lots of other bug fixes and improvements.
Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/changelog.html
Downloads:
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 7.x and 8.0:
https://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
Please note that Tomcat 8.5.x will reach End-of-life (EOL) on 31 March
2024. For more information please visit
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-85-eol.html
Enjoy!
- The Apache Tomcat team
