The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 11.0.0-M4 (alpha).
Apache Tomcat 11 is an open source software implementation of the
Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language,
Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Authentication and Jakarta Annotations
specifications.
Users of Tomcat 10 onwards should be aware that, as a result of the move
from Java EE to Jakarta EE as part of the transfer of Java EE to the
Eclipse Foundation, the primary package for all implemented APIs has
changed from javax.* to jakarta.*. This will almost certainly require
code changes to enable applications to migrate from Tomcat 9 and earlier
to Tomcat 10 and later. A migration tool is under development to aid
this process.
Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M4 is a milestone release of the 11.0.x branch and
has been made to provide users with early access to the new features in
Apache Tomcat 11.0.x so that they may provide feedback. The notable
changes compared to 11.0.0-M3 include:
- Revert the switch to using the ServiceLoader mechanism to load the
custom URL protocol handlers that Tomcat uses. The original system
property based approach has been restored.
- Provide an implementation of the sub-set of JavaBeans support that
does not depend on the java.beans package. This for use by Expression
Language when the java.desktop module (which is where the java.beans
package resides) is not available.
- Restore inline state after async operation in NIO2, to account the
fact that unexpected exceptions are sometimes thrown by the
implementation. Patch submitted by zhougang.
Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-11.0-doc/changelog.html
Downloads:
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-11.cgi
Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 8.5.x, 9.0.x and 10.1.x:
http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
Enjoy!
- The Apache Tomcat team
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