Thanks Greg. This is really helpful!

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 2:24 AM Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 23:29, Yicheng Wang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi team,
>>
>> We're migrating to Jetty and we do have some questions related with Jetty
>> maintenance.
>>
>> 1. Does Jetty have separate security patches or bugs are fixed within a
>> new
>> release?
>>
>
> Occasionally we have had specific security patches, but our most common
> response to security issue is to release a new version.  Typically this
> will be on all active branches (9.4 and 10.0), but if the issue is
> significant we also will do 9.2 and 9.3 releases as well.
>
> There are no security fixes for jetty < 9
>
>>
>> 2. If Jetty does have security patches, how often are they provided?
>>
>
> As above, they are included in regular releases unless there is a very
> special case.  I can recall only a single instance of us needing to provide
> a patched jar for existing releases.
>
>
>> 3. Does Jetty have a fixed schedule of upgrades? I looked at the release
>> log
>> of 9.4.x versions, and it's updated approximately monthly
>>
>
> No. We release as often as necessary - frequency varies from several weeks
> to several months
>
>
>
>> 4. We're running a standalone Jetty server, how can we upgrade Jetty to a
>> newer version? Just replace the ZIP file?
>>
>
> The intention of the jetty-home vs jetty-base layout is that you should
> not put any of your modifications into the unpacked jetty distribution -
> instead you put them all into a jetty-base directory.    You can then
> upgrade simply by changing which jetty-home directory you are using.   The
> following command sequence illustrates this:
>
> # set the jetty version
> JETTY_HOME=/opt/jetty-9.4.25
>
> # create your application base directory
> mkdir myapp-base
> cd myapp-base
>
> # configure a server in the base directory
> java -jar $JETTY_HOME --create-startd --add-to-start=http,webapp,deploy
> vi start.d/server.ini
>
> # deploy your application
> cp $HOME/src/myapp/target/myapp.war webapp
>
> # start the server
> java -jar $JETTY_HOME
>
> # stop the server
> ^C
>
> # upgrade jetty
> JETTY_HOME=/opt/jetty-9.4.27
>
> # start the upgraded server
> java -jar $JETTY_HOME
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Any help would be highly appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>> Yicheng
>>
>>
>>
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