Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat™ is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. The Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket specifications are developed under the Java Community Process.

Apache Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache License version 2. Apache Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, click here.
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.
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2015-07-06 Tomcat 8.0.24 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 8.0.24 of Apache Tomcat. Apache Tomcat 8.0.24 includes a numerous fixes for issues identified in 8.0.23 as well as a number of other enhancements and changes. The notable changes since 8.0.23 include:

• Provide path parameters to POJO based WebSocket endpoints to the per session javax.websocket.server.ServerEndpointConfig instance as the path parameters will vary between sessions.
• Various fixes to the SlowQueryReport in jdbc-pool.
• Various improvements to how Tomcat implements the requirements of SRV.10.7.2 (not loading Java SE and implemented specification classes from web applications).

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 8 changelog.

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2015-07-06 Tomcat 7.0.63 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 7.0.63 of Apache Tomcat. This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to version 7.0.62. The notable changes since 7.0.62 include:

• Added a workaround for SPNEGO authentication and a JRE regression in Java 8 update 40 onwards
• Added the new HttpHeaderSecurityFilter
• Extended support for the Web Socket permessage-deflate extension to the client implementation

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 7 changelog.

Download | ChangeLog for 7.0.63

2015-05-12 Tomcat 6.0.44 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 6.0.44 of Apache Tomcat. This release includes a number of security and bug fixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.44. The notable changes include:

• Update to Tomcat Native Library version 1.1.33 to pick up the Windows binaries that are based on OpenSSL 1.0.1m.

Note: End of life date for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x is announced. Read more...

Download | ChangeLog for 6.0.44

2015-03-23 Tomcat Native 1.1.33 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.33 of Tomcat Native. The notable changes since 1.1.32 include:

• Fixed a crash when the poller returned multiple events for the same socket.
• Windows binaries are linked with OpenSSL 1.0.1m and APR 1.5.1.

Download | ChangeLog for 1.1.33

2015-03-17 Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.5 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.5 of the Standard Taglib. This tag library provides Apache's implementation of the JSTL 1.2 specification.
Version 1.2.5 is a minor bug fix release reverting a change made in 1.2.1 where <c:import> modified the HTTP method during POST operations, and fixing an issues that resulted in an AccessControlException during startup unless permission was granted to read the accessExternalEntity property.
Please see the Taglibs section for more details.

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2014-04-15 Tomcat Connectors 1.2.40 Released

The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.40 of Apache Tomcat Connectors. This version fixes few bugs found in previous releases.

Download | ChangeLog for 1.2.40

2013-11-11 Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2 Released

The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2. Changelog available here.
The Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin provides goals to manipulate WAR projects within the Apache Tomcat servlet container.
The binaries are available from Maven repositories. You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

or

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>