On 25/09/17 15:06, Coty Sutherland wrote: > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 23/09/17 13:15, Alex O'Ree wrote: >>> Is there an approximate or estimated date in which ASF will stop >>> supporting patches for Tomcat7? >> >> Best guess that is at least two to three years away. >> >>> I'm assuming that the tomcat major versions are tied to oracle's >>> support for the JRE, which implies that when oracle stops supporting >>> JRE7 that tomcat7 support will stop around the same time. Is that more >>> or less accurate? >> >> No. >> >> Tomcat major versions are tied to Java EE versions and we currently >> support 3 versions in parallel. >> >> Java EE 8 -> Tomcat 9 >> Java EE 7 -> Tomcat 8 >> Java EE 6 -> Tomcat 7 >> >> Prior to Oracle's announcement of the Java EE donation to Eclipse, my >> answer would have been: >> >> Tomcat 10 will support Java EE 9. Once the release date for Java EE 9 >> looks fairly certain, we'll announce EOL for Tomcat 7. We will give at >> least 12 months notice. >> >> Oracle's donation of Java EE to Eclipse the name of what Tomcat 10 will >> support is uncertain at this point. Timing wise things are also >> uncertain at this point. Based on previous Java EE timescales, at least >> 2-3 years looks likely. > > Are we considering shorter lifecycles and more frequent Tomcat major > relases to keep up with the potential of faster major releases in java > per http://tomcat.10.x6.nabble.com/Moving-Java-Forward-Faster-td5067116.html > ?
I think the relationship between Tomcat major versions and Java SE version is very much TBD. My expectation is that after the first stable release, we don't increase the minimum Java version but we do support newer version as they become available. I also expect Tomcat major versions to be driven by the releases of whatever Java EE becomes but even that is only an expectation. It is hard to be certain until we see how Java EE at Eclipse evolves. So I guess that answer is very much wait and see at the moment. The eventual answer will be heavily driven by feedback from the community in terms of what they want. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
