Changelog

Tomcat 8.5.24 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: When running under Java 9 or later, and the urlCacheProtection option of the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener is enabled, use the API added in Java 9 to only disable the caching for JAR URL connections. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix possible SecurityException when using TLS related request attributes. (markt)
  • Fix: 61597: Extend the StandardJarScanner to scan JARs on the module path when running on Java 9 and class path scanning is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 61601: Add support for multi-release JARs in JAR scanning and web application class loading. (markt)
  • Fix: 61681: Allow HTTP/2 push when using request wrapping. (remm)
  • Add: Provide the SessionInitializerFilter that can be used to ensure that an HTTP session exists when initiating a WebSocket connection. Patch provided by isapir. (markt)
  • Fix: 61682: When re-prioritising HTTP/2 streams, ensure that both parent and children fields are correctly updated to avoid a possible StackOverflowError. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve concurrency by reducing the scope of the synchronisation for javax.security.auth.message.config.AuthConfigFactory in the JASPIC API implementation. Based on a patch by Pavan Kumar. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a possible NullPointerException when timing out AsyncContext instances during shut down. (markt)
  • Fix: 61777: Avoid a NullPointerException when detaching a JASPIC RegistrationListener. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61778: Correct the return value when detaching a JASPIC RegistrationListener. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61779: Avoid a NullPointerException when a null RegistrationListener is passed to AuthConfigFactory.getConfigProvider(). Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61780: Only include the default JASPIC registration ID in the return value for a call to AuthConfigFactory.getRegistrationIDs() if a RegistrationContext has been registered using the default registration ID. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61781: Enable JASPIC provider registrations to be persisted when the layer and/or application context are null. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61782: When calling AuthConfigFactory.doRegisterConfigProvider() and the requested JASPIC config provider class is found by the web application class loader, do not attempt to load the class with the class loader that loaded the JASPIC API. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61783: When calling AuthConfigFactory.removeRegistration() and the registration is persistent, it should be removed from the persistent store. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61784: Correctly handle the case when AuthConfigFactoryImpl.registerConfigProvider() is called with a provider name of null. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Add: 61795: Add a property to the Authenticator implementations to enable a custom JASPIC CallbackHandler to be specified. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Enable ALPN and also, therefore, HTTP/2 for the NIO and NIO2 HTTP connectors when using the JSSE implementation for TLS when running on Java 9. (markt)
  • Add: 60762: Add the ability to make changes to the TLS configuration of a connector at runtime without having to restart the Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: 61568: Avoid a potential SecurityException when using the NIO2 connector and a new thread is added to the pool. (markt)
  • Fix: 61583: Correct a further regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contained multiple keys that did not all have the same password. This fixes PKCS11 key store handling with multiple keys selected with an alias. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce default HTTP/2 stream concurrent execution within a connection from 200 to 20. (remm)
  • Fix: 61668: Avoid a possible NPE when calling AbstractHttp11Protocol.getSSLProtocol(). (markt)
  • Fix: 61673: Avoid a possible ConcurrentModificationException when working with the streams associated with a connection. (markt)
  • Fix: 61719: Avoid possible NPE calling InputStream.setReadListener with HTTP/2. (remm)
  • Fix: 61736: Improve performance of NIO connector when clients leave large time gaps between network packets. Patch provided by Zilong Song. (markt)
  • Fix: 61740: Correct an off-by-one error in the Hpack header index validation that caused intermittent request failures when using HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 61816: Invalid expressions in attribute values or template text should trigger a translation (compile time) error, not a run time error. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 61604: Add support for authentication in the websocket client. Patch submitted by J Fernandez. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: Enable Javadoc to be built with Java 9. (markt)
  • Fix: 61603: Add XML filtering for the status servlet output where needed. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct the description of how the CGI servlet maps a request to a script in the CGI How-To. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Fix incorrect behavior that attempts to resend channel messages more than the actual setting value of maxRetryAttempts. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the remaining Sender can send channel messages by avoiding unintended ChannelException caused by comparing the number of failed members and the number of remaining Senders. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that remaining SelectionKeys that were not handled by throwing a ChannelException during SelectionKey processing are handled. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Improve the fix for 61439 and exclude the JPA, JAX-WS and EJB annotations completely from the Tomcat distributions. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of endorsed directories. The endorsed directory mechanism will only be used if the JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS system property is explictly set or if $CATALINA_HOME/endorsed exists. When running on Java 9, any such attempted use of the endorsed directory mechanism will trigger an error and Tomcat will fail to start. (rjung)
  • Code: Refactoring in preparation for Java 9. Refactor to avoid using some methods that will be deprecated in Java 9 onwards. (markt)
  • Add: 51496: When using the Windows installer, check if the requested service name already exists and, if it does, prompt the user to select an alternative service name. Patch provided by Ralph Plawetzki. (markt)
  • Fix: Add necessary Java 9 configuration options to the startup scripts to prevent warnings being generated on web application stop. (markt)
  • Fix: 61590: Enable service.bat to recognise when JAVA_HOME is configured for a Java 9 JDK. (markt)
  • Fix: 61598: Update the Windows installer to search the new (as of Java 9) registry locations when looking for a JRE. (markt)
  • Add: Add generation of a SHA-512 hash for release artifacts to the build script. (markt)
  • Fix: 61658: Update MIME mappings for fonts to use font/* as per RFC8081. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.16 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.3 and OpenSSL 1.0.2m. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.02.1. (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update the Windows installer to use "The Apache Software Foundation" as the Publisher when Tomcat is displayed in the list of installed applications in Microsoft Windows. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 61803: Remove outdated SSL information from the Security documentation. (remm)

2017-10-01 Tomcat 8.5.23 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Use the correct path when loading the JVM logging.properties file for Java 9. (rjung)
  • Fix: Add additional validation to the resource handling required to fix CVE-2017-12617 on Windows. The checks were being performed elsewhere but adding them to the resource handling ensures that the checks are always performed. (markt)
  • Fix: 61554: Exclude test files in unusual encodings and markdown files intended for display in GitHub from RAT analysis. Patch provided by Chris Thistlethwaite. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 61563: Correct typos in Spanish translation. Patch provided by Gonzalo Vásquez. (csutherl)

not released Tomcat 8.5.22 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 60963: Add ExtractingRoot, a new WebResourceRoot implementation that extracts JARs to the work directory for improved performance when deploying packed WAR files. (markt)
  • Add: Add an option to reject requests that contain HTTP headers with invalid (non-token) header names with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 61542: Fix CVE-2017-12617 and prevent JSPs from being uploaded via a specially crafted request when HTTP PUT was enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 (and RFC 2616) that HTTP/1.1 requests must include a Host header and any request that does not must be rejected with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 that any HTTP/1.1 request that specifies a host in the request line, must specify the same host in the Host header and that any such request that does not, must be rejected with a 400 response. This check is optional but disabled by default. It may be enabled with the allowHostHeaderMismatch attribute of the Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 that any HTTP/1.1 request that contains multiple Host headers is rejected with a 400 response. (markt)

Coyote

  • Update: Add a way to set the property source in embedded mode. (remm)
  • Fix: 61557: Correct a further regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contain multiple keys that do not all have the same password. The regression broke support for some FIPS compliant key stores. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 61545: Correctly handle invocations of methods defined in the PooledConnection interface when using pooled XA connections. Patch provided by Nils Winkler. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Update fix for 59904 so that values less than zero are accepted instead of throwing a NegativeArraySizeException. (remm)

2017-09-19 Tomcat 8.5.21 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Before generating an error page in the ErrorReportValve, check to see if I/O is still permitted for the associated connection before generating the error page so that the page generation can be skipped if the page is never going to be sent. (markt)
  • Add: 61189: Add the ability to set environment variables for individual CGI scripts. Based on a patch by jm009. (markt)
  • Fix: 61210: When running under a SecurityManager, do not print a warning about not being able to read a logging configuration file when that file does not exist. (markt)
  • Add: 61280: Add RFC 7617 support to the BasicAuthenticator. Note that the default configuration does not change the existing behaviour. (markt)
  • Fix: 61424: Avoid a possible StackOverflowError when running under a SecurityManager and using Subject.doAs(). (markt)

Coyote

  • Update: The minimum required Tomcat Native version has been increased to 1.2.14. This version includes a new API needed for correct client certificate support when using a Java connector with OpenSSL TLS implementation and support for the SSL_CONF OpenSSL API. (rjung)
  • Add: Add support for the OpenSSL SSL_CONF API when using TLS with OpenSSL implementation. It can be used by adding OpenSSLConf elements underneath SSLHostConfig. The new element contains a list of OpenSSLConfCmd elements, each with the attributes name and value. (rjung)
  • Fix: When using a Java connector in combination with the OpenSSL TLS implementation, do not configure each SSL connection object via the OpenSSLEngine. For OpenSSL the SSL object inherits its settings from the SSL_CTX which we have already configured. (rjung)
  • Fix: When using JSSE TLS configuration with the OpenSSL implementation and client certificates: include client CA subjects in the TLS handshake so that the client can choose an appropriate client certificate to present. (rjung)
  • Fix: If an invalid option is specified for the certificateVerification attribute of an SSLHostConfig element, treat it as required which is the most secure / restrictive option in addition to reporting the configuration error. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of client disconnections during the TLS renegotiation handshake. (markt)
  • Fix: Prevent exceptions being thrown during normal shutdown of NIO connections. This enables TLS connections to close cleanly. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix possible race condition when setting IO listeners on an upgraded connection. (remm)
  • Fix: 48655: Enable Tomcat to shutdown cleanly when using sendfile, the APR/native connector and a multi-part download is in progress. (markt)
  • Fix: 58244: Handle the case when OpenSSL resumes a TLS session using a ticket and the full client certificate chain is not available. In this case the client certificate without the chain will be presented to the application. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the warning message when JSSE and OpenSSL configuration styles are mixed on the same SSLHostConfig. (markt)
  • Fix: 61415: Fix TLS renegotiation with OpenSSL based connections and session caching. (markt)
  • Fix: Delay checking that the configured attributes for an SSLHostConfig instance are consistent with the configured SSL implementation until Connector start to avoid incorrect warnings when the SSL implementation changes during initialisation. (markt)
  • Fix: 61450: Fix default key alias algorithm. (remm)
  • Fix: 61451: Correct a regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contained multiple keys that did not all have the same password. The regression broke support for any key store that did not store keys in PKCS #8 format such as hardware key stores and Windows key stores. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60523: Reduce the number of packets used to send WebSocket messages by not flushing between the header and the payload when the two are written together. (markt)
  • Fix: 61491: When using the permessage-deflate extension, correctly handle the sending of empty messages after non-empty messages to avoid the IllegalArgumentException. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Show connector cipher list in the manager web application in the correct cipher order. (rjung)

Tribes

  • Fix: To avoid unexpected session timeout notification from backup session, update the access time when receiving the map member notification message. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Add member info to the log message when the failure detection check fails in TcpFailureDetector. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Avoid Ping timeout until the added map member by receiving MSG_START message is completely started. (kfujino)
  • Fix: When sending a channel message, make sure that the Sender has connected. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Correct the backup node selection logic that node 0 is returned twice consecutively. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Fix race condition of responseMap in RpcChannel. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 61391: Ensure that failed queries are logged if the SlowQueryReport interceptor is configured to do so and the connection has been abandoned. Patch provided by Craig Webb. (markt)
  • Fix: 61425: Ensure that transaction of idle connection has terminated when the testWhileIdle is set to true and defaultAutoCommit is set to false. Patch provided by WangZheng. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: 61439: Remove the Java Annotation API classes from tomcat-embed-core.jar and package them in a separate JAR in the embedded distribution to provide end users with greater flexibility to handle potential conflicts with the JRE and/or other JARs. (markt)
  • Fix: 61441: Improve the detection of JAVA_HOME by the daemon.sh script when running on a platform where Java has been installed from an RPM. (rjung)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.14 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2l. (markt)
  • Update: 61599: Update to Commons Daemon 1.1.0 for improved Java 9 support. (markt)

2017-08-08 Tomcat 8.5.20 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Revert the fix for 49464 since it continued to trigger regressions. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a bug in the PushBuilder implementation that meant push URLs containing %nn sequences were not correctly decoded. Identified by FindBugs. (markt)
  • Add: 61164: Add support for the %X pattern in the AccessLogValve that reports the connection status at the end of the request. Patch provided by Zemian Deng. (markt)
  • Fix: 61351: Correctly handle %nn decoding of URL patterns in web.xml and similar locations that may legitimately contain characters that are not permitted by RFC 3986. (markt)
  • Add: 61366: Add a new attribute, localDataSource, to the JDBCStore that allows the Store to be configured to use a DataSource defined by the web application rather than the default of using a globally defined DataSource. Patch provided by Jonathan Horowitz. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61086: Ensure to explicitly signal an empty request body for HTTP 205 responses. Additional fix to r1795278. Based on a patch provided by Alexandr Saperov. (violetagg)
  • Update: 61345: Add a server listener that can be used to do system property replacement from the property source configured in the digester. (remm)
  • Add: Add additional logging to record problems that occur while waiting for the NIO pollers to stop during the Connector stop process. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 61364: Ensure that files are closed after detecting encoding of JSPs so that files do not remain locked by the file system. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Add: 57767: Add support to the WebSocket client for following redirects when attempting to establish a WebSocket connection. Patch provided by J Fernandez. (markt)

2017-07-28 Tomcat 8.5.19 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Performance improvements for service loader look-ups (and look-ups of other class loader resources) when the web application is deployed in a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: 61253: Add warn message when Digester.updateAttributes throws an exception instead of ignoring it. (csutherl)
  • Fix: Correct a further regression in the fix for 49464 that could cause an byte order mark character to appear at the start of content included by the DefaultServlet. (markt)
  • Fix: 61313: Make the read timeout configurable in the JNDIRealm and ensure that a read timeout will result in an attempt to fail over to the alternateURL. Based on patches by Peter Maloney and Felix Schumacher. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct the documentation for how StandardRoot is configured. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 61316: Fix corruption of UTF-16 encoded source files in released source distributions. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.18 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 61232: When log rotation is disabled only one separator will be used when generating the log file name. For example if the prefix is catalina. and the suffix is .log then the log file name will be catalina.log instead of catalina..log. Patch provided by Katya Stoycheva. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61264: Correct a regression in the refactoring to use Charset rather than String to store request character encoding that prevented getReader() throwing an UnsupportedEncodingException if the user agent specifies an unsupported character encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 49464 that could cause an incorrect Content-Length header to be sent by the DefaultServlet if the encoding of a static is not consistent with the encoding of the response. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Enable TLS connectors to use Java key stores that contain multiple keys where each key has a separate password. Based on a patch by Frank Taffelt. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of HTTP/2 stream resets due to excessive headers when a continuation frame is used. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: 53031: Add support for the fork option when compiling JSPs with the Jasper Ant task and javac. (markt)

Other

  • Add: 52791: Add the ability to set the defaults used by the Windows installer from a configuration file. Patch provided by Sandra Madden. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.17 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 49464: Improve the Default Servlet's handling of static files when the file encoding is not compatible with the required response encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: 61214: Remove deleted attribute servlets from the Context MBean description. Patch provided by Alexis Hassler. (markt)
  • Fix: 61215: Correctly define addConnectorPort and invalidAuthenticationWhenDeny in the mbean-descriptors.xml file for the org.apache.catalina.valves package so that the attributes are accessible via JMX. (markt)
  • Fix: Make asynchronous error handling more robust. In particular ensure that onError() is called for any registered AsyncListeners after an I/O error on a non-container thread. (markt)
  • Fix: Additional permission for deleting files is granted to JULI as it is required by FileHandler when running under a Security Manager. The thread that cleans the log files is marked as daemon thread. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61229: Correct a regression in 8.5.15 that broke WebDAV handling for resources with names that included a & character. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Restore the ability to configure support for SSLv3. Enabling this protocol will trigger a warning in the logs since it is known to be insecure. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not log a warning when a null session is returned for an OpenSSL based TLS session since this is expected when session tickets are enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: When the access log valve logs a TLS related request attribute and the NIO2 connector is used with OpenSSL, ensure that the TLS attributes are available to the access log valve when the connection is closing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60461: Sync SSL session access for the APR connector. (remm)
  • Add: To ease migration from 8.0.x to 8.5.x, if the HTTP or AJP BIO connector is explicitly configured, rather than failing to start the connector because BIO has been removed, automatically switch to NIO and continue. A warning will be logged to alert the user to the switch. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove references to the Loader attribute searchExternalFirst from the documentation since the attribute is no longer supported. (markt)

2017-06-26 Tomcat 8.5.16 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 61072: Respect the documentation statements that allow using the platform default secure random for session id generation. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct the javadoc for o.a.c.connector.CoyoteAdapter#parseSessionCookiesId. Patch provided by John Andrew (XUZHOUWANG) via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61101: CORS filter should set Vary header in response. Submitted by Rick Riemer. (remm)
  • Add: 61105: Add a new JULI FileHandler configuration for specifying the maximum number of days to keep the log files. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61125: Ensure that WarURLConnection returns the correct value for calls to getLastModified() as this is required for the correct detection of JSP modifications when the JSP is packaged in a WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the SSLValve so it is able to handle client certificate headers from Nginx. Based on a patch by Lucas Ventura Carro. (markt)
  • Fix: 61134: Do not use '[' and ']' symbols around substituted text fragments when generating the default error pages. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61154: Allow the Manager and Host Manager web applications to start by default when running under a security manager. This was accomplished by adding a custom permission, org.apache.catalina.security.DeployXmlPermission, that permits an application to use a META-INF/context.xml file and then granting that permission to the Manager and Host Manager. (markt)
  • Fix: 61173: Polish the javadoc for o.a.catalina.startup.Tomcat. Patch provided by peterhansson_se. (violetagg)
  • Add: A new configuration property crawlerIps is added to the o.a.catalina.valves.CrawlerSessionManagerValve. Using this property one can specify a regular expression that will be used to identify crawlers based on their IP address. Based on a patch provided by Tetradeus. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61180: Log a warning message rather than an information message if it takes more than 100ms to initialised a SecureRandom instance for a web application to use to generate session identifiers. Patch provided by Piotr Chlebda. (markt)
  • Fix: 61185: When an asynchronous request is dispatched via AsyncContext.dispatch() ensure that getRequestURI() for the dispatched request matches that of the original request. (markt)
  • Fix: 61197: Ensure that the charset name used in the Content-Type header has exactly the same form as that provided by the application. This reverts a behavioural change in 8.5.15 that caused problems for some clients. (markt)
  • Fix: 61201: Ensure that the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable for CGI executables is populated in a consistent way regardless of how the CGI servlet is mapped to a request. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61086: Explicitly signal an empty request body for HTTP 205 responses. (markt)
  • Fix: 61120: Do not ignore path parameters when processing HTTP/2 requests. (markt)
  • Fix: Revert a change introduced in the fix for bug 60718 that changed the status code recorded in the access log when the client dropped the connection from 200 to 500. (markt)
  • Fix: Add additional syncs to the SSL session object provided by the OpenSSL engine so that a concurrent destruction cannot cause a JVM crash. (remm)
  • Fix: 61195: Backport, with deprecation where appropriate, the endpoint and protocol property changes from 9.0.x to ease migration from 8.5.x to 9.0.x. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 44787: Improve error message when JSP compiler configuration options are not valid. (markt)
  • Fix: 61137: j.s.jsp.tagext.TagLibraryInfo#uri and j.s.jsp.tagext.TagLibraryInfo#prefix fields should not be final. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Correct the log message when a MessageHandler for PongMessage does not implement MessageHandler.Whole. (rjung)
  • Add: Introduce new API o.a.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#suspend/ o.a.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#resume that can be used to suspend/resume reading of the incoming messages. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Improve thread-safety of Futures used to report the result of sending WebSocket messages. (markt)
  • Fix: 61183: Correct a regression in the previous fix for 58624 that could trigger a deadlock depending on the locking strategy employed by the client code. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Better document the meaning of the trimSpaces option for Jasper. (markt)
  • Fix: 61150: Configure the Manager and Host-Manager web applications to permit serialization and deserialization of CRSFPreventionFilter related session objects to avoid warning messages and/or stack traces on web application stop and/or start when running under a security manager. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the TLS configuration documentation to remove SSLv2 and SSLv3 from the list of supported protocols. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add JMX support for Tribes components. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: 45832: Add HTTP DIGEST authentication support to the Catalina Ant tasks used to communicate with the Manager application. (markt)
  • Fix: 45879: Add the RELEASE-NOTES file to the root of the installation created by the Tomcat installer for Windows to make it easier for users to identify the installed Tomcat version. (markt)
  • Fix: 61055: Clarify the code comments in the rewrite valve to make clear that there are no plans to provide proxy support for this valve since Tomcat does not have proxy capabilities. (markt)
  • Fix: 61076: Document the altDDName attribute for the Context element. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct typo in Jar Scan Filter Configuration Reference. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61145: Add missing @Documented annotation to annotations in the annotations API. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (markt)
  • Fix: 61146: Add missing lookup() method to @EJB annotation in the annotations API. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct typo in Context Container Configuration Reference. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)

2017-05-10 Tomcat 8.5.15 (markt)

General

  • Add: Allow to exclude JUnit test classes using the build property test.exclude and document the property in BUILDING.txt. (rjung)

Catalina

  • Fix: Review those places where Tomcat re-encodes a URI or URI component and ensure that that correct encoding (path differs from query string) is applied and that the encoding is applied consistently. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException when reading attributes for a initialised HTTP connector where TLS is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: Always quote the hostName of an SSLHostConfig element when using it as part of the JMX object name to avoid errors that prevent the associated TLS connector from starting if a wild card hostName is configured (because * is a reserved character for JMX object names). (markt)
  • Code: Switch to using Charset rather than String to store encoding settings (including for configuration and for the Content-Type header) to reduce the number of places the associated Charset needs to be looked up. (markt)
  • Fix: Use a more reliable mechanism for the DefaultServlet when determining if the current request is for custom error page or not. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that when the Default or WebDAV servlets process an error dispatch that the error resource is processed via the doGet() method irrespective of the method used for the original request that triggered the error. (markt)
  • Fix: If a static custom error page is specified that does not exist or cannot be read, ensure that the intended error status is returned rather than a 404 or 403. (markt)
  • Fix: When the WebDAV servlet is configured and an error dispatch is made to a custom error page located below WEB-INF, ensure that the target error page is displayed rather than a 404 response. (markt)
  • Add: 61047: Add MIME mapping for woff2 fonts in the default web.xml. Patch provided by Justin Williamson. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Correct the logic that selects the encoding to use to decode the query string in the SSIServletExternalResolver so that the useBodyEncodingForURI attribute of the Connector is correctly taken into account. (markt)
  • Fix: Within the Expires filter, make the content type value specified with the ExpiresByType parameter, case insensitive. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: When a TrustManager is configured that does not support certificateVerificationDepth only log a warning about that lack of support when certificateVerificationDepth has been explicitly set. (markt)
  • Fix: 60970: Extend the fix for large headers to push requests. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not include a Date header in HTTP/2 responses with status codes less than 200. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: When no BOM is present and an encoding is detected, do not skip the bytes used to detect the encoding since they are not part of a BOM. (markt)
  • Update: 61057: Update to Eclipse JDT Compiler 4.6.3. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61065: Ensure that once the class is resolved by javax.el.ImportHandler#resolveClass it will be cached with the proper name. (violetagg)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 61003: Ensure the flags for reading/writing in o.a.t.websocket.AsyncChannelWrapperSecure are correctly reset even if some exceptions occurred during processing. (markt/violetagg)

Web Applications

  • Add: Add documents for maxIdleTime attribute to Channel Receiver docs. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: Modify the Ant build script used to publish to a Maven repository so that it no longer requires artifacts to be GPG signed. This is make it possible for the CI system to upload snapshot builds to the ASF Maven repository. (markt)
  • Code: Review i18n property files, remove unnecessary escaping and consistently use [...] to delimit inserted values. (markt)

2017-04-18 Tomcat 8.5.14 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 59825: Log a message that lists the components in the processing chain that do not support async processing when a call to ServletRequest.startAsync() fails. (markt)
  • Fix: 60926: Ensure o.a.c.core.ApplicationContextFacade#setSessionTimeout will invoke the correct method when running Tomcat with security manager. (markt)
  • Update: Update the early access Servlet 4.0 API implementation to reflect the change in method name from getPushBuilder() to newPushBuilder(). (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the X to comma refactoring that broke JMX operations that take parameters. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException when reading attributes for a running HTTP connector where TLS is not enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 60940: Improve the handling of the META-INF/ and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF entries for Jar files located in /WEB-INF/lib when running a web application from a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Pre-load the ExceptionUtils class. Since the class is used extensively in error handling, it is prudent to pre-load it to avoid any failure to load this class masking the true problem during error handling. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid potential NullPointerExceptions related to access logging during shutdown, some of which have been observed when running the unit tests. (markt)
  • Fix: When there is no javax.servlet.WriteListener registered then a call to javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream#isReady will return false instead of throwing IllegalStateException. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When there is no javax.servlet.ReadListener registered then a call to javax.servlet.ServletInputStream#isReady will return false instead of throwing IllegalStateException. (violetagg)

Coyote

  • Fix: Align cipher configuration parsing with current OpenSSL master. (markt)
  • Fix: 60970: Fix infinite loop if application tries to write a large header to the response when using HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60925: Improve the handling of access to properties defined by interfaces when a BeanELResolver is used under a SecurityManager. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Code: Refactor the creating a constructor for a proxy class to reduce duplicate code. (kfujino)
  • Fix: In StatementFacade, the method call on the statements that have been closed throw SQLException rather than NullPointerException. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Correct comments about Java 8 in Jre8Compat. Patch provided by fibbers via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60932: Correctly escape single quotes when used in i18n messages. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the custom Ant task that integrates with the Symantec code signing service to use the now mandatory 2-factor authentication. (markt)

2017-03-30 Tomcat 8.5.13 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 54618: Add support to the HttpHeaderSecurityFilter for the HSTS preload parameter. (markt)
  • Fix: 60853: Expose the SSLHostConfig and SSLHostConfigCertificate objects via JMX. (markt)
  • Fix: 60876: Ensure that Set-Cookie headers generated by the Rfc6265CookieProcessor are aligned with the specification. Patch provided by Jim Griswold. (markt)
  • Fix: 60882: Fix a NullPointerException when obtaining a RequestDispatcher for a request that will not have any pathInfo associated with it. This was a regression in the changes in 8.5.12 for the Servlet 4.0 API early preview changes. (markt)
  • Update: Align PushBuilder API with changes from Servlet expert group. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the various implementations of X to comma separated list to a single utility class and update the code to use the new utility class. (markt)
  • Fix: 60911: Ensure NPE will not be thrown when looking for SSL session ID. Based on a patch by Didier Gutacker. (violetagg)

Coyote

  • Add: 60362: Add a new Connector configuration sendReasonPhrase. When this attribute is set to true, a reason phrase will be sent with the response. By default a reason phrase will not be sent. This option is deprecated and is not available in Tomcat 9. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fix HTTP/2 incorrect input unblocking on EOF. (remm)
  • Fix: Close the connection sooner if an event occurs for a current connection that is not consistent with the current state of that connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Speed up shutdown when using multiple acceptor threads by ensuring that the code that unlocks the acceptor threads correctly handles the case where there are multiple threads. (markt)
  • Fix: 60852: Correctly spell compressible when used in configuration attributes and internal code. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60900: Avoid a NullPointerException in the APR Poller if a connection is closed at the same time as new data arrives on that connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve HPACK specification compliance by fixing some test failures reported by the h2spec tool written by Moto Ishizawa. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve HTTP/2 specification compliance by fixing some test failures reported by the h2spec tool written by Moto Ishizawa. (markt)
  • Fix: 60918: Fix sendfile processing error that could lead to subsequent requests experiencing an IllegalStateException. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve sendfile handling when requests are pipelined. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Improve the error handling for simple tags to ensure that the tag is released and destroyed once used. (remm, violetagg)
  • Fix: 60844: Correctly handle the error when fewer parameter values than required by the method are used to invoke an EL method expression. Patch provided by Daniel Gray. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 60764: Implement equals() and hashCode() in the StatementFacade in order to enable these methods to be called on the closed statements if any statement proxy is set. This behavior can be changed with useStatementFacade attribute. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Refactor the build script and the NSIS installer script so that either NSIS 2.x or NSIS 3.x can be used to build the installer. This is primarily to re-enable building the installer on the Linux based CI system where the combination of NSIS 3.x and wine leads to failed installer builds. (markt)

2017-03-13 Tomcat 8.5.12 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 60469: Refactor RealmBase for better code re-use when implementing Realms that use a custom Principal. (markt)
  • Fix: 60490: Various formatting and layout improvements for the ErrorReportValve. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Update: 60596: Improve performance of DefaultServlet when sendfile feature is disabled on connector. (kkolinko)
  • Code: Make it easier for sub-classes of Tomcat to modify the default web.xml settings by over-riding getDefaultWebXmlListener(). Patch provided by Aaron Anderson. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce the contention in the default InstanceManager implementation when multiple threads are managing objects and need to reference the annotation cache. (markt)
  • Code: 60674: Remove final marker from CorsFilter to enable sub-classing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60683: Security manager failure causing NPEs when doing IO on some JVMs. (csutherl)
  • Fix: 60688: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to r1782855 to add early access Java 9 support to the annotation scanning code. (markt)
  • Fix: 60694: Prevent NPE during authentication when no JASPIC AuthConfigFactory is available. (markt)
  • Fix: 60697: When HTTP TRACE requests are disabled on the Connector, ensure that the HTTP OPTIONS response from custom servlets does not include TRACE in the returned Allow header. (markt)
  • Fix: 60718: Improve error handling for asynchronous processing and correct a number of cases where the requestDestroyed() event was not being fired and an entry wasn't being made in the access logs. (markt)
  • Fix: 60720: Replace "WWW-Authenticate" literal with static final AUTH_HEADER_NAME in SpnegoAuthenticator. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (violetagg)
  • Fix: The default JASPIC AuthConfigFactory now correctly notifies registered RegistrationListeners when a new AuthConfigProvider is registered. (markt)
  • Code: Improve the performance of AuthenticatorBase when there is no JASPIC configuration available. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When HTTP TRACE requests are disabled on the Connector, ensure that the HTTP OPTIONS response from the WebDAV servlet does not include TRACE in the returned Allow header. (markt)
  • Fix: 60722: Take account of the dispatchersUseEncodedPaths setting on the current Context when generating paths for dispatches triggered by AsyncContext.dispatch(). (markt)
  • Fix: 60728: Make the separator Tomcat uses in the Tomcat specific war:file:... URL protocol customizable via a system property. The separator is equivalent to the use of the ! character in jar:file:... URLs. The default separator of * remains unchanged. (markt)
  • Update: Update the org.apache.catalina.servlet4preview package that can be used to gain early access to Servlet 4.0 features to align with the latest proposals from the Servlet 4.0 expert group. This includes updates to the new Servlet mapping API, new methods on the ServletContext to make the available API more equivalent to the deployment descriptor, updates to the HTTP push API and the ability to set default request and response character encoding per web application. Note that the Servlet 4.0 API is still a work in progress and further changes are likely. (markt)
  • Fix: 60798: Correct a bug in the handling of JARs in unpacked WARs that meant multiple attempts to read the same entry from a JAR in succession would fail for the second and subsequent attempts. (markt)
  • Fix: 60808: Ensure that the Map returned by ServletRequest.getParameterMap() is fully immutable. Based on a patch provided by woosan. (markt)
  • Fix: 60824: Correctly cache the Subject in the session - if there is a session - when running under a SecurityManager. Patch provided by Jan Engehausen. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure request and response facades are used when firing application listeners. (markt/remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Improve handling of case when an HTTP/2 client sends more data that is subject to flow control than the current window size allows. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve NIO2 look-ahead parsing of TLS client hello for SNI with large client hello messages. (markt)
  • Fix: 59807: Provide a better error message when there is no SSLHostConfig defined with a hostName that matches the defaultSSLHostConfigName for the associated Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: Include the value of SslHostConfig.truststoreAlgorithm when warning that the algorithm does not support the certificateVerificationDepth configuration option. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that executor thread pools used with connectors pre-start the configured minimum number of idle threads. (markt)
  • Add: 60594: Allow some invalid characters that were recently restricted to be processed in requests by using the system property tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow. (csutherl)
  • Fix: 60627: Modify the Rfc6265CookieProcessor so that in addition to cookie headers that start with an explicit RFC 2109 $Version=1, cookies that start with $Version=0 are also parsed as RFC 2109 cookies. (markt)
  • Fix: 60716: Add a new JSSE specific attribute, revocationEnabled, to SSLHostConfig to permit JSSE provider revocation checks to be enabled when no certificateRevocationListFile has been configured. The expectation is that configuration will be performed via a JSSE provider specific mechanisms. (markt)
  • Fix: Modify the cookie header generated by the Rfc6265CookieProcessor so it always sends an Expires attribute as well as a Max-Age attribute to avoid problems with Microsoft browsers that do not support the Max-Age attribute. (markt)
  • Fix: 60761: Expose a protected getter and setter for NioEndpoint.stopLatch to make the class easier to extend. (markt)
  • Fix: Prevent blocking reads after a stream exception occurs with HTTP/2. (remm)

Jasper

  • Fix: Follow up to the fix for 58178. When creating the ELContext for a tag file, ensure that any registered ELContextListeners are fired. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor code generated for JSPs to reduce the size of the code required for tags. (markt)
  • Fix: 60769: Correct a regression in the XML encoding detection refactoring carried out for 8.5.10 that incorrectly always used the detected BOM encoding in preference to any encoding specified in the prolog. (markt)
  • Update: Update to the Eclipse JDT Compiler 4.6.1. (markt)

Cluster

  • Add: Make the accessTimeout configurable in BackupManager and ClusterSingleSignOn. The accessTimeout is used as a timeout period for PING in replication map. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60806: To avoid ClassNotFoundException, make sure that the web application class loader is passed to ReplicatedContext. (kfujino)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60617: Correctly create a CONNECT request when establishing a WebSocket connection via a proxy. Patch provided by Svetlin Zarev. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add log message that PING message has received beyond the timeout period. (kfujino)
  • Fix: When a PING message that beyond the time-out period has been received, make sure that valid member is added to the map membership. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that NoRpcChannelReply messages are not received on RpcCallback. (kfujino)

Web Applications

  • Fix: Add Specification and Javadoc references for JASPIC to the Docs application. (csutherl)

Other

  • Fix: Spelling corrections provided by Josh Soref. (violetagg)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.12 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k. (violetagg)
  • Add: 60784: Update all unit tests that test the HTTP status line to check for the required space after the status code. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.01. (markt)

2017-01-16 Tomcat 8.5.11 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 60620: Extend the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener to provide protection against ForkJoinPool.commonPool() related memory leaks. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure UpgradeProcessor instances associated with closed connections are removed from the map of current connections to Processors. (markt)
  • Fix: Remove a workaround for a problem previously reported with WebSocket, TLS and APR that treated some error conditions as not errors. The original problem cannot be reproduced with the current code and the work-around is now causing problems. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60497: Follow up fix using a better variable name for the tag reuse flag. (remm)
  • Fix: Revert use of try/finally for simple tags. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Prevent potential processing loop on unexpected WebSocket connection closure. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Add: Enable reset the statistics without restarting the pool. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Spelling corrections provided by Josh Soref. (violetagg)

not released Tomcat 8.5.10 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 53602: Add HTTP status code 451 (RFC 7725) to the list of HTTP status codes recognised by the ErrorReportValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 60446: Handle the case where the stored user credential uses a different key length than the length currently configured for the CredentialHandler. Based on a patch by Niklas Holm. (markt)
  • Update: Update the warnings that reference required options for running on Java 9 to use the latest syntax for those options. (markt)
  • Fix: 60513: Fix thread safety issue with RMI cleanup code. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Expand the search process for a server certificate when OpenSSL is used with a JSSE connector and an explicit alias has not been configured. (markt)
  • Fix: 60450: Improve the selection algorithm for the default trust store type for a TLS Virtual Host. In particular, don't use PKCS12 as a default trust store type. Better document how the default trust store type is selected for a TLS virtual host. (markt)
  • Fix: 60451: Correctly handle HTTP/2 header values that contain characters with unicode code points in the range 128 to 255. Reject with a clear error message HTTP/2 header values that contain characters with unicode code points above 255. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the logic that selects an address to use to unlock the Acceptor to take account of platforms what do not listen on all local addresses when configured with an address of 0.0.0.0 or ::. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the refactoring to make wider use of ByteBuffer that caused an intermittent failure in the unit tests. (markt)
  • Fix: 60482: HTTP/2 shouldn't do URL decoding on the query string. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix an HTTP/2 compression error. Once a new size has been agreed for the dynamic HPACK table, the next header block must begin with a dynamic table update. (markt)
  • Fix: 60508: Set request start time for HTTP/2. (remm)

Jasper

  • Update: Implement a simpler JSP file encoding detector that delegates XML prolog encoding detection to the JRE rather than using a custom XML parser. (markt)
  • Fix: 60497: Restore previous tag reuse behavior following the use of try/finally. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve the error handling for simple tags to ensure that the tag is released and destroyed once used. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Correctly handle blocking WebSocket writes when the write times out just before the write is attempted. (markt)

Web Applications

  • Add: In the documentation web application, be explicit that clustering requires a secure network for all of the cluster network traffic. (markt)
  • Update: Update the ASF logos to the new versions.
  • Fix: 60344: Add a note to BUILDING.txt regarding using the source bundle with the correct line endings. (markt)
  • Fix: 60468: Correct the format of the sample ISO-8601 date used to report the build date for the documentation. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the ASF logos used in the Apache Tomcat installer for Windows to use the new versions.

2016-12-08 Tomcat 8.5.9 (markt)

Catalina

  • Update: 60202: Add an available flag to realms, to indicate the state, or the realm backend. Update lockout realm to only register auth failures if the realm is available. (remm)
  • Fix: 60340: Readability improvements for CSS used in DefaultServlet and ErrorReportValve. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60351: Delay creating META-INF/war-tracker file until after the WAR has been expanded to address the case where the Tomcat process terminates during the expansion. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly generate URLs for resources located inside JARs that are themselves located inside a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle the configClass attribute of a Host when embedding Tomcat. (markt)
  • Fix: 60368: Restore egde case for embedded allowing the connector to be removed. (remm)
  • Fix: 60379: Dispose of the GSS credential once it is no longer required. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60380: Ensure that a call to HttpServletRequest#logout() triggers a call to TomcatPrincipal#logout(). Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60387: Correct the javadoc for o.a.catalina.AccessLog.setRequestAttributesEnabled. The default value is different for the different implementations. (violetagg)
  • Code: 60393: Use consistent parameter naming in implementations of Realm#authenticate(GSSContext, boolean). (markt)
  • Fix: 60395: Log when an Authenticator passes an incomplete GSSContext to a Realm since it indicates a bug in the Authenticator. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60400: When expanding the buffer used for reading the request body, ensure the read position will be restored to the original one. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60410: Ensure that multiple calls to JarInputStreamWrapper#close() do not incorrectly trigger the closure of the underlying JAR or WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: 60411: Implement support in the RewriteValve for symbolic names to specify the redirect code to use when returning a redirect response to the user agent. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60413: In the RewriteValve write empty capture groups as the empty string rather than as "null" when generating the re-written URL. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 60372: Ensure the response headers' buffer limit is reset to the capacity of this buffer when IOException occurs while writing the headers to the socket. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure that the availability of configured upgrade protocols that require ALPN is correctly reported during Tomcat start. (markt)
  • Fix: 60386: Implement a more sophisticated pruning algorithm for removing closed streams from the priority tree to ensure that the tree does not grow too large. (markt)
  • Fix: 60409: When unable to complete sendfile request, ensure the Processor will be added to the cache only once. (markt/violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure that the endpoint is able to unlock the acceptor thread during shutdown if the endpoint is configured to listen to any local address of a specific type such as 0.0.0.0 or ::. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new configuration option, ipv6v6only to the APR connectors that allows them to be configure to only accept IPv6 connections when configured with an IPv6 address rather than the default which is to accept IPv4 connections as well if the operating system uses a dual network stack. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the logic that unlocks the acceptor thread so a better choice is made for the address to connect to when a connector is configured for any local port. This reduces the likelihood of the unlock failing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60436: Avoid a potential NPE when processing async timeouts. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce the window in which an async request that has just started processing on a container thread remains eligible for an async timeout. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60431: Improve handling of varargs in UEL expressions. Based on a patch by Ben Wolfe. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Fix JDK version number documented in BUILDING.txt. (rjung)
  • Fix: Correct a typo in Host Configuration Reference. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60412: Add information on the comment syntax for the RewriteValve configuration. (markt)
  • Fix: 60467: remove problematic characters from XML documentation. Based upon a patch by Michael Osipov. (schultz)

Tribes

  • Fix: Reduce the warning logs for a message received from a different domain in order to avoid excessive log outputs. (kfujino)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60437: Avoid possible handshake overflows in the websocket client. (remm)

jdbc-pool

  • Add: 58816: Implement the statistics of jdbc-pool. The stats infos are borrowedCount, returnedCount, createdCount, releasedCount, reconnectedCount, releasedIdleCount and removeAbandonedCount. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60194: If validationQuery is not specified, connection validation is done by calling the isValid() method. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60398: Fix testcase of TestSlowQueryReport. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Allow customization of service.bat, such as heap memory size, service startup mode and JVM args. Patch provided by isapir via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60366: Change catalina.bat to use directly LOGGING_MANAGER and LOGGING_CONFIG variables in order to configure logging, instead of modifying JAVA_OPTS. Patch provided by Petter Isberg. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60383: JASPIC API is added as a dependency to the org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina maven artifact. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Update the comments associated with the TLS Connector examples in server.xml. (markt)
  • Add: New property is added test.verbose in order to control whether the output of the tests is displayed on the console or not. Patch provided by Emmanuel Bourg. (violetagg)
  • Code: TestOpenSSLCipherConfigurationParser.testSpecification - if there are test failures, provide more detailed information. Patch provided by Emmanuel Bourg. (violetagg)

2016-11-08 Tomcat 8.5.8 (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Check that threadPriority values used in AbstractProtocol are valid. (fschumacher)

not released Tomcat 8.5.7 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: When creating a new Connector via JMX, ensure that both HTTP/1.1 and AJP/1.3 connectors can be created. (markt)
  • Fix: Include the Context name in the log message when an item cannot be added to the cache. (markt)
  • Fix: Exclude JAR files in /WEB-INF/lib from the static resource cache. (markt)
  • Fix: When calling getResourceAsStream() on a directory, ensure that null is returned. (markt)
  • Fix: 60161: Allow creating subcategories of the container logger, and use it for the rewrite valve. (remm)
  • Fix: Correctly test for control characters when reading the provided shutdown password. (markt)
  • Fix: 60297: Simplify connector creation in embedded mode. (remm)
  • Fix: Refactor creation of containers in embedded mode for more consistency and flexibility. (remm)
  • Add: Introduce new methods read(ByteBuffer)/ write(ByteBuffer) in o.a.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream/ o.a.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When configuring the JMX remote listener, specify the allowed types for the credentials. (markt)

Coyote