Hi Violeta, Mark,

Thank you for clarifying.

Regards,
Inderjeet

-----Original Message-----
From: Violeta Georgieva [mailto:violet...@apache.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 7:26 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need help on Tomcat 9.0.x release

2017-09-21 16:17 GMT+03:00 Rémy Maucherat <r...@apache.org>:
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > On 21/09/17 10:35, Inderjeet Banwait wrote:
> > > Hi Mark,
> > >
> > > Java EE 8 is already released .Can we expect a stable release by 
> > > the
end
> > of September 2017?
> >
> > Servlet 4.0 was released on 5 September 2017.
> > Java EE 8 platform was released on 18 September 2017.
> >
> > It would have been helpful if Oracle had mentioned either of those 
> > releases to the Servlet EG members.
> >
> > I've taken a very quick look and the relevant specifications for 
> > Tomcat
> > are:
> > - Java 8        (complete)
> > - Servlet 4.0   (should be complete but need to check for last minute
> >                  changes)
> > - JSP 2.3       (no change from Java EE 7 / Tomcat 8.x)
> > - EL 3.0        (no change from Java EE 7 / Tomcat 8.x)
> > - WebSocket 1.1 (no change from Tomcat 8.x)
> > - JASPIC 1.1    (no change from Java EE 7 / Tomcat 8.x)
> >
> >
> > The Tomcat team is a little busy elsewhere at the moment. A stable 
> > Tomcat 9 release in September is highly unlikely.
> >
> > Releases are typically on a monthly basis with the process starting 
> > at the beginning of the month. The September releases are complete 
> > for 9.0.x and 8.5.x and would have been announced if it wasn't for 
> > CVE-2017-12617.
> >
>
> Since we'll revote, we could include the option to vote the new 9.0 
> build as beta. Since it's very close to 8.5, I don't see any problem with 
> that.


+1

Regards, Violeta

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