Thanks! -- Bob
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:41 AM Olaf Kock <tom...@olafkock.de> wrote: > > On 18.10.19 17:25, Robert Hicks wrote: > > Management is asking me if there is an end of life for Tomcat 9 > reported. I > > don't see anything on the tomcat web site. > > Mark recently answered this to a the same question for Tomcat 8.5: > > > There is no official date. > > The Tomcat project maintains 3 major versions in parallel. Currently > these are: > - 9.0.x > - 8.5.x > - 7.0.x > > We always provide at least 12 months notice of EOL. > > Major releases are aligned with releases of the Servlet specification. > The current timetable for the next Servlet spec is TBD. > > We haven't even announced EOL for 7.0.x yet so you have: > - x years until Tomcat 10 / Servlet 4.next is released > - 1 year for 7.0.x EOL > - y years until Tomcat 11 / Servlet 4.next+1 is released > - 1 year for 8.5.x EOL > > Taking low estimates for x and y of 1 and 2 respectively, you have at > least 5 years before 8.5.x is EOL. > > Take that figure as an "Engineering Estimate". Also known as a "wild > guess". > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
