The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 8.5.85.
[This post corrects the previous announcement on 2023-01-19 which
contained the wrong version number in the subject line. Both posts refer
to the same actual release from 2023-01-19.]
Apache Tomcat 8 is an open source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java
WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
Apache Tomcat 8.5.85 is a bugfix and feature release. The notable
changes compared to 8.5.84 include:
- The default value of <code>AccessLogValve</code>'s file encoding is
now UTF-8.
- Correct a regression in the refactoring that replaced the use of the
URL constructors. The regression broke lookups for resources that
contained one or more characters in their name that required escaping
when used in a URI path.
- When an HTTP/2 stream was reset, the current active stream count was
not reduced. If enough resets occurred on a connection, the current
active stream count limit was reached and no new streams could be
created on that connection.
- Change the default of the org.apache.el.GET_CLASSLOADER_USE_PRIVILEGED
system property to true unless the EL library is running on Tomcat in
which case the default remains false as the EL library is already
called from within a privileged block and skipping the unnecessary
privileged block improves performance.
Along with lots of other bug fixes and improvements.
Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/changelog.html
Downloads:
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 7.x and 8.0:
https://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
Please note that Tomcat 8.5.x will reach End-of-life (EOL) on 31 March
2024. For more information please visit
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-85-eol.html
Enjoy!
- The Apache Tomcat team
