On 12/02/2026 22:52, Christopher Schultz wrote:
All,
I have a proposed End of Support announcement.
(I find that turn of phrase odd; I always read EOL although maybe that
term is being phased out?)
Comments welcome.
Having read the announcement, I'm now not sure of the right way to
handle this.
We did have an announcement for 1.1.x but didn't for 1.2.x although the
circumstances look to be similar. That is probably on me.
I think I'd lean more towards approach of:
- the last 1.2.x release was more than 2 years ago
- we should have announced EoS for 1.2.x when 1.3.x was released (more
than a year ago)
- there are no plans for any further 1.2.x releases
- 1.2.x is effectively EoS now
Not sure I'd state this on the users list but if someone can come up
with a *really* good argument why they can't just upgrade to 1.3.x (and
because we depend on a very old, unsupported version of OpenSSL is NOT a
good argument) then I'd consider a 1.2.x release. Thinking about it, it
would likely end up being so similar to 1.3.x that they might as well
just use 1.3.x. Which I guess means I'd consider and then say no so...
Which brings me back to some variation of stating "1.2.x is already EoS
- sorry for no advance notice but no releases for 2+ years should have
been a hint".
Mark
-chris
=== CUT ===
The Apache Tomcat Team announces that support for Apache Tomcat Native
1.2.x will end on 31 March 2027.
[[ I decided to use the same date as 1.3 to avoid confusion. ]]
This means that after 31 March 2027:
- releases from the 1.2.x branch are highly unlikely
- bugs affecting only the 1.2.x branch will not be addressed
- security vulnerability reports will not be checked against the 1.2.x
branch
- Apache Tomcat releases after this date will require 2.0.x as a
minimum
Three months later (i.e. after 30 June 2027)
- the 1.2.x download pages will be removed
- the latest 1.2.x release will be removed from the mirror system
- the links to the 1.2.x documentation will be removed from
tomcat.apache.org
Please also note the following additional information:
Tomcat Native 1.2.x had already effectively reached End of Support with
the release of Tomcat Native 1.3.0 on 2024-02-12. All users were
expected to transition from 1.2.x to 1.3.x at that time, and we should
have announced our End of Support date as 2025-02-12 when 1.3.0 was
released. We apologize for that oversight.
Tomcat 10.1.x onward requires a minimum of Tomcat Native 2.0.x and are
therefore unaffected by this notice.
Tomcat 9.0.x will also reach end of life on 31 March 2027 and is
therefore unaffected by this notice. Recent versions of Tomcat 9.0.x
require Tomcat Native 1.3.x at a minimum.
All 1.2.x releases will always be available from the archive.
=== CUT ===
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