On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > The Jakarta EE project is aiming to align Jakarta EE releases with Java > LTS releases. That would mean a Jakarta EE release every 2 years which > in turn would mean a Tomcat release every 2 years. > > If we stuck to our "support the 3 latest major versions" (ignoring 9.0.x > as a special case) then that would mean the typical support period for a > major Tomcat release dropping from ~10 years to ~6 years. > > What, if anything, do we want to do about that? > > I'll note that the last Servlet API release was May 2024 and, while we > are in May 2026, discussions on the timing of the Jakarta EE 12 release > train haven't started (or at least haven't reached me as project > manager) yet. > > Wait and see seems like the most sensible option at the moment but I > wanted to raise awareness so we could start thinking about possible > options should we need to make some changes. > +1 to wait and see what happens a bit longer, but it seems highly likely that we'll need to shorten the support period to accommodate the more frequent releases. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
