Fwd: [ANN] Apache Tomcat 7.0.39 released

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

FYI

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Thomas <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [ANN] Apache Tomcat 7.0.39 released
> Date: March 27, 2013 12:01:13 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Tomcat Users List <[hidden email]>
> Cc: [hidden email], [hidden email], Tomcat Developers List <[hidden email]>
>
> The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
> Tomcat 7.0.39.
> Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java
> Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
>
> This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to
> version 7.0.37. The notable changes include:
>
> - There have been multiple improvements in the bytes to/from characters
>  conversion process. The core conversion process has been refactored
>  to use the NIO APIs. This has resulted in a number of improvements
>  including invalid UTF-8 byte sequences at the end of a series of
>  bytes now trigger a conversion error rather than being silently
>  swallowed. Errors detected in request URIs will be replaced with the
>  replacement character (allowing the application to respond to the
>  invalid URI as it wishes) and errors in request bodies will trigger
>  an IOException. The use of the JVM provided UTF-8 decoder has been
>  replaced by a better UTF-8 decoder derived from Apache Harmony. This
>  improved decoder has earlier detection of error conditions and more
>  closely follows the Unicode specification regarding the use of
>  replacement characters.
> - The annotation scanning process now provides more information if the
>  scan fails due to broken class dependencies. There is now enough
>  information to identify the class(es) at fault. The JAR scanning
>  process that supports annotation scanning has also seen multiple
>  improvements and fixes including the exclusion by default of the
>  Bootstrap class path from the scan.
> - Upgraded a number of Tomcat's dependencies including Commons Daemon to
>  1.0.14, Commons IO to 2.4 and Commons FileUpload to r1458500. A new
>  dependency on Commons Codec was added to replace Tomcat's internal
>  Base64 encoder/decoder.
>
> Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html
>
> Note: This version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three
>      bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems
>      running on different CPU architectures.
>
> Note: If you use the APR/native AJP or HTTP connector you *must* upgrade
>      to version 1.1.24 or later of the AJP/native library and it is
>      recommended that you upgrade to 1.1.27
>
> Downloads:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
>
> Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

In rev. 1461665 I have upgraded the trunk to the latest Tomcat release 7.0.39

Jacopo

On Mar 27, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <[hidden email]> wrote:

> FYI
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Mark Thomas <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: [ANN] Apache Tomcat 7.0.39 released
>> Date: March 27, 2013 12:01:13 PM GMT+01:00
>> To: Tomcat Users List <[hidden email]>
>> Cc: [hidden email], [hidden email], Tomcat Developers List <[hidden email]>
>>
>> The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
>> Tomcat 7.0.39.
>> Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java
>> Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
>>
>> This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to
>> version 7.0.37. The notable changes include:
>>
>> - There have been multiple improvements in the bytes to/from characters
>> conversion process. The core conversion process has been refactored
>> to use the NIO APIs. This has resulted in a number of improvements
>> including invalid UTF-8 byte sequences at the end of a series of
>> bytes now trigger a conversion error rather than being silently
>> swallowed. Errors detected in request URIs will be replaced with the
>> replacement character (allowing the application to respond to the
>> invalid URI as it wishes) and errors in request bodies will trigger
>> an IOException. The use of the JVM provided UTF-8 decoder has been
>> replaced by a better UTF-8 decoder derived from Apache Harmony. This
>> improved decoder has earlier detection of error conditions and more
>> closely follows the Unicode specification regarding the use of
>> replacement characters.
>> - The annotation scanning process now provides more information if the
>> scan fails due to broken class dependencies. There is now enough
>> information to identify the class(es) at fault. The JAR scanning
>> process that supports annotation scanning has also seen multiple
>> improvements and fixes including the exclusion by default of the
>> Bootstrap class path from the scan.
>> - Upgraded a number of Tomcat's dependencies including Commons Daemon to
>> 1.0.14, Commons IO to 2.4 and Commons FileUpload to r1458500. A new
>> dependency on Commons Codec was added to replace Tomcat's internal
>> Base64 encoder/decoder.
>>
>> Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html
>>
>> Note: This version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three
>>     bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems
>>     running on different CPU architectures.
>>
>> Note: If you use the APR/native AJP or HTTP connector you *must* upgrade
>>     to version 1.1.24 or later of the AJP/native library and it is
>>     recommended that you upgrade to 1.1.27
>>
>> Downloads:
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
>>
>> Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x:
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
>