Mark,
On 2/4/26 9:11 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
Draft Tomcat 9 LTS announcement follows. Feedback welcome. The plan is
to send this - or something along these lines - to users and announce by
the end of next week.
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Subject: Tomcat 9 long term support plan
I think we need to have "EOL" or "end of life" in the title, to get more
attention.
The Tomcat team has consistently stated that long term support (LTS)
will be provided for Tomcat 9 as it is the last Tomcat version that
supports Java EE. The details of that LTS have been evolving over time.
As we approach the point where we'd normally be announcing end-of-
support (EOS) for Tomcat 9, the Tomcat team is pleased to announce the
following LTS plan for Tomcat 9.
Maybe make these bullets:
Tomcat 9 support will continue until 31 December 2030 - the same date as
EOS for many Java 8 distributions.
Tomcat 9.0.x support will continue until 31 March 2027.
Shortly before 9.0.x support ends, releases from a new 9.1.x branch will
be made available. Releases from the 9.1.x branch will continue until 31
December 2030.
The differences between 9.0.x and 9.1.x will be minimal and users can
start making the necessary transition now. Those changes are:
- the APR/native connectors for HTTP, HTTPS and AJP will not be
available
- Tomcat Native 1.3.x will not be supported (see the separate EOS
announcement for Tomcat Native 1.3.x)
You do so below, but I think we should say 2.x isn't being dropped up here.
Users of the APR/native AJP connector are strongly encouraged to migrate
to the NIO AJP connector and discontinue using Tomcat Native.
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Users of the APR/native HTTP connector are strongly encouraged to
migrate to the NIO HTTP connector and discontinue using Tomcat Native.
Users of the APR/native HTTPS connector are strongly encouraged to
migrate to either the the HTTPS NIO+JSSE connector or the HTTPS
NIO+OpenSSL connector.
Those migrating to the HTTP NIO+OpenSSL connector should then upgrade
Tomcat Native to 2.0.x.
For users that are not using Tomcat Native or are using Tomcat Native
2.0.x, the transition from 9.0.x to 9.1.x will be no different to a
normal Tomcat point release upgrade.
Rather than continuing on 9.1.x, Tomcat 9 users are strongly encouraged
to consider upgrading to a more recent Tomcat version making use of
tools like the Tomcat Migration Tool for Jakarta EE.
-chris
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