On 04/11/2021 13:50, David J Pearson wrote:
Hi - What are the end of life / end of support dates for v8.5 and v9
please ?
They haven't been set yet.
The Tomcat project will provide at least 12 months notice of EOL for any
major Tomcat version.
That said, major versions have been reaching EOL about once every three
years. Tomcat 7 was EOL earlier this year so sometime in 2024 for Tomcat
8 seems like a reasonable guess at the moment.
Tomcat 9 is a special case. It would normally be ~3 years after EOL for
Tomcat 8 (so ~2027) but as the last Tomcat release that supports Java EE
(Tomcat 10 onwards supports Jakarta EE with the associated change in API
package names) the Tomcat community intends to support it for as long as
there is community interest in doing so.
The rough plan is that rather than EOL Tomcat 9, we will provide Tomcat
9.10.x that will track the Tomcat 10 releases (but with the Java EE
APIs). When Tomcat 10 reaches EOL 9.10.x will become 9.11.x and track
the Tomcat 11 releases (but with the Java EE APIs) and so on as long as
there is interest/demand for Java EE support.
Note that this is only a rough plan for Tomcat 9 and that we are
probably 5 to 6 years away from implementing it so lots of things might
happen between now and then.
HTH,
Mark
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