On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 23/09/17 13:15, Alex O'Ree wrote: >> Is there an approximate or estimated date in which ASF will stop >> supporting patches for Tomcat7? > > Best guess that is at least two to three years away. > >> I'm assuming that the tomcat major versions are tied to oracle's >> support for the JRE, which implies that when oracle stops supporting >> JRE7 that tomcat7 support will stop around the same time. Is that more >> or less accurate? > > No. > > Tomcat major versions are tied to Java EE versions and we currently > support 3 versions in parallel. > > Java EE 8 -> Tomcat 9 > Java EE 7 -> Tomcat 8 > Java EE 6 -> Tomcat 7 > > Prior to Oracle's announcement of the Java EE donation to Eclipse, my > answer would have been: > > Tomcat 10 will support Java EE 9. Once the release date for Java EE 9 > looks fairly certain, we'll announce EOL for Tomcat 7. We will give at > least 12 months notice. > > Oracle's donation of Java EE to Eclipse the name of what Tomcat 10 will > support is uncertain at this point. Timing wise things are also > uncertain at this point. Based on previous Java EE timescales, at least > 2-3 years looks likely.
Are we considering shorter lifecycles and more frequent Tomcat major relases to keep up with the potential of faster major releases in java per http://tomcat.10.x6.nabble.com/Moving-Java-Forward-Faster-td5067116.html ? > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
