On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:17 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > It looks like at least one of the specs Tomcat implements, Servlets, is > going to have at least one release between Jakarta EE 9 / Servlet 5.0 / > Tomcat 10.0 and Jakarta EE 10/ Servlet 6.0 / Tomcat 10.1 > > The current plan is for Servlet 5.1 to add same site cookie > configuration and pick up any other low hanging fruit (mostly clean-up & > clarification) from the issues list. > > I'm currently trying to figure out what this means in terms of Tomcat > releases. It may be that other specs do something similar. If enough > specs do that, it may turn into a relatively quick Jakarta EE 10. > > My current thinking is treat such releases the way we used to treat > maintenance releases of the specs. That would mean updating Tomcat to > the 5.1 release once available but not change in major or minor version. > Another way of looking at it is that Tomcat 10.0.x will support the > latest released version of Servlet 5.x and Tomcat 10.1.x will support > the latest released version of Servlet 6.x. > > Thoughts? > What you describe does indeed sound like the Maintenance Releases that happened before for EE specs but with a "scarier" numbering scheme (looking back at the 2.x, 3.0, 3.1 Servlet versions, where all of them were actually major ones). If they are really MRs, it's good to implement them when they happen as part of the current branches. Also I guess it has to be that way since we cannot afford making a separate major Tomcat branch with dedicated ongoing support. So an easy decision ! Rémy > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
