Hi,

As Release Manager for Tomcat 3.3, I'm the one in charge of
the date. At this point, there is a planned beta 2.  The goal
is to have reasonable, documentation available.  At the moment,
there is still too much incorrect information present to
release beta 2.  When beta 2 will be released is a little bit
up in the air.  Progress depends a lot on my available time and
that of the other committers.  Other demands have eaten into the
time I had planned for Tomcat 3.3, so this week is probably not
practical for beta 2.  Hopefully some time next week.

Currently no new features are being added Tomcat 3.3.  Only bug
fixes and minor usability improvements are being incorporated.
Thus, the current "nightly" build should be fairly close to what
the final Tomcat will be.  It is currently available at:

<http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/nightly-3.3/>

Note that the "nightly" builds are off-line and it is uncertain
when they will be back on-line.  For now, I will post updated
builds manually as needed.

Following beta 2, assuming we can go for at least a couple of
weeks with only very minor code updates, I will propose Tomcat
3.3 be released as final.  Documentation will continue to be
updated during this period.  If too big or too many changes are
needed, then a beta 3 will be proposed, etc.

Sorry I can't give you a date for the Tomcat 3.3 final release
other than to suggest it will likely happen sometime in September.
I don't see something major happening that would push it beyond
that.

If you are using Tomcat 3.3 and encounter a problem, please
do you best to make sure its due to a bug in Tomcat 3.3.  If
so, please log a bug in the Bugzilla database (see
<http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html>).  Also please
include enough detail in the report to the bug make clear and
hopefully easy to duplicate.  If at all possible, attach a small
web application the demonstrates the bug.  I'm afraid we just
don't have much time to spend trying to duplicate bugs. Especially
if we don't have much more to go on than "I tried this and it
didn't work".

Thanks for your interest in Tomcat 3.3.

Cheers,
Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jess Holle and Wendy Vidlak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat 3.3 Release Date?
> 
> 
> Can anyone shed any light as to when Tomcat 3.3 will actually 
> be released
> (i.e. as a non-beta release)?
> 
> What are the open/known issues?
> 
> [I checked CVS, dev-mailing list, and Bugzilla to no avail.]
> 
> --
> Jess Holle
> 

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