Overview
This page provides a high-level view of each of the past, current and planned major Tomcat versions.
The way Apache is structured and governed it is impossible to say that there will be no further enhancements, bug fixes or releases for a given version. Therefore, rather than use "No" in the tables below "Highly unlikely" has been used. That said, highly unlikely means exactly that and users of versions that are highly unlikely to see another release, even for security fixes, should consider moving to a later version.
It is anticipated that releases will be provided for a maximum of 3 major versions at any one time.
Tomcat 7.0.x
Spec versions: |
Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2 |
Stable: |
Yes |
Enhancements: |
Yes |
Bug Fixes: |
Yes |
Security Fixes: |
Yes |
Releases: |
Yes |
Release Manager: |
Mark Thomas (markt) |
Process: |
CTR |
Listed on download pages: |
Yes |
Tomcat 6.0.x
Spec versions: |
Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1 |
Stable: |
Yes |
Enhancements: |
Unlikely |
Bug Fixes: |
Yes |
Security Fixes: |
Yes |
Releases: |
Yes |
Release Manager: |
Jean-Frederic Clere (jfclere) |
Process: |
RTC |
Listed on download pages: |
Yes |
Tomcat 5.5.x
Spec versions: |
Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0 |
Stable: |
Yes |
Enhancements: |
Highly unlikely |
Bug Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Security Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Releases: |
Highly unlikely |
Release Manager: |
Filip Hanik (fhanik) |
Process: |
RTC |
Listed on download pages: |
No |
Tomcat 4.1.x
Spec versions: |
Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2 |
Stable: |
Yes |
Enhancements: |
Highly unlikely |
Bug Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Security Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Releases: |
Highly unlikely |
Release Manager: |
Mark Thomas (markt) |
Process: |
CTR |
Listed on download pages: |
No |
Tomcat 3.3.x
Spec versions: |
Servlet 2.2, JSP 1.1 |
Stable: |
Yes |
Enhancements: |
Highly unlikely |
Bug Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Security Fixes: |
Highly unlikely |
Releases: |
Highly unlikely |
Release Manager: |
Bill Barker (billbarker) |
Process: |
CTR |
Listed on download pages: |
No |
Unsupported versions
The following versions are no longer supported. The source is still available from SVN and both source and binary downloads are available from the archives.
- Tomcat 3.0.x
- Tomcat 3.1.x
- Tomcat 3.2.x
- Tomcat 3.3.x
- Tomcat 4.0.x
- Tomcat 4.1.x
- Tomcat 5.0.x
RTC Exceptions
Via http://markmail.org/thread/2fgydrrhn4qjye3r
- Allow C-T-R for trivial fixes to English messages that are in resource files and those that are inline in the code. This includes typos and rephrasing, but does not include adding/removing message parameters.
- Allow C-T-R for any fixes for non-English resource files. The files must use 7-bit characters only. Other symbols must be escaped with \u, as does native2ascii.
- Require some indication in the commit message for code that usually is covered by RTC, that this commit was done using C-T-R rule.