2013/12/18 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
> The proposed Apache Tomcat 8.0.0 release candidate 9 is now available > for voting. > > Given this is a release candidate I am working on the basis that it is > equivalent to an alpha. The main changes since RC5 are: > - Better handling of generic types in the WebSocket 1.0 implementation > - Refactor resource handling for the class loader > - Add Cobertura support to the unit tests > - Remove anti-Jar locking feature and replace it with open stream > tracking > - Update to a post Commons Pool 2.0 release snapshot > - Complete refactoring of TLD handling including caching of parsed TLDs > - More consistent handling of XML validation options > - Much more detailed visibility of DBCP connections pools in JMX > - Better organisation of JMX beans in the default JConsole view > - Performance improvements > - Numerous bug fixes > > It can be obtained from: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.0-RC9/ > The Maven staging repo is: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetomcat-063/ > The svn tag is: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tags/TOMCAT_8_0_0_RC9/ > > The proposed 8.0.0-RC9 release is: > [ ] Broken - do not release > [X] Alpha - go ahead and release as 8.0.0-RC9 alpha > > Rémy
