Hi Mark! Thanks for the quick and detailed response - that makes things much easier to plan on our end.
Cheers, Ignat Alexeyenko Atlassian On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 05/06/18 14:58, Ignat Alexeyenko wrote: > > Hello, everyone! > > > > Just found out today that Tomcat 8.0 reaches end of life this months. > Could > > you please advice on approximate timeframe for how long 8.5 version is > > going to be supported, so we could plan our upgrades. > > There is currently no planned EOL date for 8.5.x. > > The Tomcat community currently supports (at least) 3 versions in > parallel. As of 1 July 2018 those versions will be: > 7.0.x > 8.5.x > 9.0.x > > We have also stated that we will give at least 12 months notice of the > EOL of any release line. > > EOL for 7.0.x will depend on the timescales for Tomcat 10. > > Major Tomcat versions have been aligned with releases of the Java EE > specification. With the move of Java EE to Jakarta EE at the Eclipse > Foundation, the future plans and timescales for all components are > uncertain. > > My best guess at this point is that major versions of Tomcat will follow > releases of the Servlet specification. There is currently no timescale > for the next release of the Servlet specification. December 2018 has > been mentioned as a tentative date for the next release but the schedule > that was part of has already slipped so it looks unlikely. > > At this point I don't see EOL for Tomcat 7.0.x being announced before 31 > December 2018 meaning EOL for 7.0.x would not be until at least 31 > December 2019. Those are the earliest possible dates. A slip of at least > 6 to 12 months would not surprise me. > > At this point, dates for 8.5.x EOL are impossible to predict with any > more accuracy than "several years" after 7.0.x EOL. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
