Mark,

On 1/12/26 10:53 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
On 12/01/2026 15:25, Christopher Schultz wrote:
All,

The other day during testing, I wanted to look at the changelog for tnative and I noticed that it doesn't have release dates like Tomcat itself does.

I'd like to add those to the changelog if possible, but I have two questions:

Being pedantic, that is three questions. Or maybe five if I am being *really* pedantic.

:p

1. Is there any reason not to use the same technique as the Tomcat changelog (e.g. rtext="[release date]")?

None I can think of.

ACK

2. What about failed releases? We don't seem to have those listed.

Not listed where? I included the skipped releases in the change logs for the recent 2.0.x and 1.3.x releases.

https://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

I'm not seeing the release date in the "2.0.12" heading, for example (nor any of the previous ones).

3. What is the best source of truth for release dates? https:// reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?tomcat or similar?

I'd always say the mailing list. The release date is the date of the message that states that the release vote has passed.

Sure, but that requires a lot of searching :)

A reasonable alternative could be the date files were added to dist.a.o. The timestamps should be close but aren't always reliable. You'd need to check the svn history to be sure. That will fail once you go back further than the point we started to use svn to publish releases.

Okay. I would like to make sure that the release dates are making it into the HTML changelogs going forward, and then I can opportunistically back-fill.

-chris


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