craigmcc 01/09/09 22:50:28
Modified: . RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B8.txt RELEASE-PLAN-4.0.txt
Log:
Update "b8" release notes (about to be changed to "rc1") for all the
recent bug fixes.
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Release Notes
=============
-$Id: RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B8.txt,v 1.4 2001/09/09 00:48:11 craigmcc Exp $
+$Id: RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B8.txt,v 1.5 2001/09/10 05:50:27 craigmcc Exp $
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@@ -49,23 +49,84 @@
General New Features:
--------------------
+Made it possible to start Catalina under a JPDA debugging environment via the
+command "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh jpda start".
+It is now possible to share a single instance of Catalina among multiple
+independent executions, by defining a new environment variable named
+CATALINA_BASE. The following directories are now resolved (by default)
+against CATALINA_BASE instead of CATALINA_HOME:
+* conf
+* logs
+* webapps
+* work
+
---------------------
Catalina New Features:
---------------------
+FileDirContext: Sort the directory listing returned when there is no welcome
+file (and directory listings are not suppressed) for webapps that are unpacked
+into a real directory.
+
+WARDirContext: Sort the directory listing returned when there is no welcome
+file (and directory listings are not suppressed) for webapps that are executed
+directly from a WAR file.
+
+Server/StandardServer: Add a singleton (and corresponding static method) that
+will return the top of the component tree, without requiring a reference to
+any component in the tree.
+
+Engine/Service: Add navigational link properties so that the entire Catalina
+component hierarchy can now be navigated. This will be important in
+management applications.
+
+BeanFactory: Add a new JNDI resource factory for resource objects conforming
+to the JavaBeans component model.
+
+When an application web.xml file specifies one or more <welcome-file> elements,
+this list *replaces* (rather than appends to) the default list from
+$CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml.
+
+The "User Web Applications" feature (see the <Host> element documentation) now
+recognizes user "public_html" directories if they exist, are directories, and
+are readable. Previously, this feature also required the existence of a
+/WEB-INF/web.xml file.
+
+The built in servlets that are part of Catalina are now delivered as separate
+JAR files in $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib, so that you can give them individual
+permissions when running Tomcat 4 under a security manager.
+
+StandardContext: Synchronize start/stop/reload processing to avoid some
+nasty race conditions.
+CompressionFilter: Properly flush the compressed output, even if the servlet
+does not close the output stream or writer.
+
-------------------
Jasper New Features:
-------------------
+Generated filenames for the servlets created from JSP pages no longer include
+the complete directory path, since they are stored in directory structures that
+mirror the web application. This substantially reduces problems with path
+length limits on Windows systems.
+
--------------------
Webapps New Features:
--------------------
+All of the Tomcat 4 documentation has been converted to a new standardized
+format, under context path "/tomcat-docs". In addition, *many* new System
+Administrator HOW-TO documents are included.
+
+Servlet mappings for the CGI and SSI servlets have been commented out in
+"$CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml". You can uncomment them here (to enable these
+services for all web applications) or add them to your own web application
+(if they are needed only in specific applications).
==========================
@@ -80,22 +141,110 @@
be CATALINA_HOME. (Thanks to Dennis Doubleday for noticing)
-
------------------
Catalina Bug Fixes:
------------------
+Bootstrap: Do not load "jndi.jar" on a JDK 1.3 or later system, in *any* of
+the class loaders we are creating (because it is built in to the JDK in 1.3).
+Previously, we were only checking this for the common class loader.
+
+Bootstrap: Fix more cases of platform-sensitive classpath paths on Windows.
+
+StandardClassLoader: Make StandardClassLoader sensitive to File.separator.
+
+HttpRequestBase: Fix bugs in ServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher() when
+called with paths that had "/../" elements.
+
+StandardWrapper: Do not allow a servlet unload() operation to begin if there
+are any current requests executing within this servlet.
+
+CGIServlet: Make it not possible to use the "invoker" service to execute
+CGIServlet when it is not mapped.
+
+CGIServlet: Send a 404 when the CGI script does not exist.
+
+InvokerServlet: Synchronize around the initial creation of a new Wrapper for
+the invoked servlet, to avoid race conditions when multiple requests try to
+create the same wrapper at the same time.
+
+StandardServer: Fix a DoS attack against the shutdown port, that could cause
+an "out of memory" exception by sending a continuous stream of characters.
+StandardWrapperValve: Fix handling of UnavailableException thrown by the
+service() method. The spec requires that the servlet instance be taken out
+of service immediately (including a call to destroy()). In addition, return
+status 503 (SC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE) rather than 500 (SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR).
+HttpResponseBase: Make it possible to call sendRedirect() to a URL with a
+protocol not supported by the current server (such as a redirect to an
+"https" URL on another server, when this Tomcat instance does not have the
+JSSE classes installed.
+
+DefaultServlet: A 206 status returned the wrong content length.
+
+WebappClassLoader: Synchronize before calling defineClass().
+
+HttpConnector: Fix race conditions during HTTP connector shutdown.
+
+FormAuthenticator: Do not double up query-string based parameters when
+restoring the original request after a form-based login. This was only
+happening on GET requests -- POST requests were already processed correctly.
+
+Base64: Update Base64 implementation to eliminate trailing 00 bytes from
+the output of decode().
+
+CookieTools: URL encode the name and value of generated cookies, since we
+URL decode them on input.
+
+WebdavServlet: Return status 405 (method not allowed) in response to a
+PROPPATCH request.
+
+SSLServerSocketFactory: Make it possible to specify absolute or relative
+(to $CATALINA_BASE) paths for the "keystoreFile" property.
+
+JDBCRealm/JNDIRealm/MemoryRealm: When comparing the hexadecimal versions of
+digested passwords, perform a case-insensitive comparison to avoid problems
+comparing "a-f" with "A-F".
+
+
----------------
Jasper Bug Fixes:
----------------
+JikesJavaCompiler: Normalize the classpath Jikes is invoked with so that it
+doesn't contain file URLs like "/c:/tomcat/webapps/..." on Windows. Add "+E"
+option to Jikes command line so that error output parsing works.
+
+IncludeGenerator/JspRuntimeLibrary/PageContextImpl: Fix a spec-compliance
+bug in the implementation of PageContext.include(), which was not flushing
+the output stream even though this is explicitly required in the Javadocs.
+
+JspServlet: Change the way that Jasper looks for the "?jsp_precompile"
+request parameter. Previously, it was using request.getParameter(), which
+caused all of the request parameters to be parsed before the JSP page
+would have the opportunity to call request.setCharacterEncoding().
+
+TagBeginGenerator: Fix problems when generating code for custom tag attributes
+of type char, Character, or short.
+
+XmlOutputter: Fix problems in the generated XML view of a JSP page that would
+cause duplicate <jsp:root> elements or attributes when processing a page that
+was already in XML syntax.
+
+JspC: Update web.xml fragments generated by jspc command line compiler
+to use the appropriate DTD header, and generate valid <servlet-mapping>
+elements.
+
+TagGeneratorBase: Create valid custom tag names even when characters not valid
+in Java identifiers are included.
-----------------
Webapps Bug Fixes:
-----------------
+
+Updated all examples to the new DTDs and tag library syntax.
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-$Id: RELEASE-PLAN-4.0.txt,v 1.10 2001/09/09 00:48:11 craigmcc Exp $
+$Id: RELEASE-PLAN-4.0.txt,v 1.11 2001/09/10 05:50:28 craigmcc Exp $
Release Plan for Apache Tomcat 4.0
==================================
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Catalina 3009 Manager cannot install web app
-
-Catalina 3292 Class reloading fails (awaiting test case)
Catalina 3336 ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception when starting and stopping
an app several times through Manager
