Changelog

Tomcat 8.5.89 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 66567: Fix missing IllegalArgumentException after the Tomcat code was converted to using URI instead of URL. (remm)
  • Fix: Escape timestamp output in AccessLogValve if a SimpleDateFormat is used which contains verbatim characters that need escaping. (rjung)
  • Update: Change output of vertical tab in AccessLogValve from \v to \u000b. (rjung)
  • Update: Improve performance of escaping in AccessLogValve roughly by a factor of two. (rjung)
  • Update: Improve JsonAccessLogValve: support more patterns like for headers and attributes. Those will be logged as sub objects. (rjung)
  • Fix: #613: Fix possible partial corrupted file copies when using file locking protection or the manager servlet. Submitted by Jack Shirazi. (remm)
  • Add: Add RateLimitFilter which can be used to mitigate DoS and Brute Force attacks. (isapir)

Coyote

  • Add: Add support for a new character set, gb18030-2022 - introduced in Java 21, to the character set caching mechanism. (markt)
  • Code: The default for the HTTP Connector attribute allowHostHeaderMismatch has been changed from true to false to harden the default configuration. (markt)
  • Code: The default for the HTTP Connector attribute rejectIllegalHeader has been changed from false to true to harden the default configuration. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix an edge case in HTTP header parsing and ensure that HTTP headers without names are treated as invalid. (markt)
  • Update: Deprecate the HTTP Connector settings rejectIllegalHeader and allowHostHeaderMismatch as they have been removed in Tomcat 11 onwards. (markt)
  • Fix: 66591: Fix a regression introduced in the fix for 66512 that meant that an AJP Send Headers was not sent for responses where no HTTP headers were set. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 66582: Account for EL having stricter requirements for static imports than JSPs when adding JSP static imports to the EL context. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 66574: Refactor WebSocket session close to remove the lock on the SocketWrapper which was a potential cause of deadlocks if the application code used simulated blocking. (markt)
  • Fix: 66575: Avoid unchecked use of the backing array of a buffer provided by the user in the compression transformation. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve exception handling when flushing batched messages during WebSocket session close. (markt)
  • Fix: 66581: Update AsyncChannelGroupUtil to align it with the current defaults for AsynchronousChannelGroup. Pull request #612 by Matthew Painter. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. (lihan)
  • Update: Update Checkstyle to 10.10.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update Jacoco to 0.8.10. (markt)

release in progress Tomcat 8.5.88 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65995: Implement RFC 9239 and use text/javascript as the media type for JavaScript rather than application/javascript. (markt)
  • Add: Add an access log valve that uses a json format. Based on pull request #539 provided by Thomas Meyer. (remm)
  • Add: Harden the FORM authentication process against DoS attacks by using a reduced session timeout if the FORM authentication process creates a session. The duration of this timeout is configured by the authenticationSessionTimeout attribute of the FORM authenticator. (markt)
  • Fix: 66527: Correct the Javadoc for the Tomcat.addWebapp() methods that incorrectly stated that the docBase parameter could be a relative path. (markt)
  • Fix: 66524 Correct eviction ordering in WebResource cache to by LRU as intended. (schultz)
  • Update: Use server.xml to reduce the default value of maxParameterCount from 10,000 to 1,000. If not configured in server.xml, the default remains 10,000. (markt)
  • Add: Update Digest authentication support to align with RFC 7616. This adds a new configuration attribute, algorithms, to the DigestAuthenticator with a default of SHA-256,MD5. (markt)
  • Update: Add support code for custom user attributes in RealmBase. Based on code from #473 by Carsten Klein. (remm)
  • Fix: 66541: Improve handling for cached resources for resources that use custom URL schemes. The scheme specific equals() and hashCode() algorithms, if present, will now be used for URLs for these resources. This addresses a potential performance issue with some OSGi custom URL schemes that can trigger potentially slow DNS lookups in some configurations. Based on a patch provided by Tom Whitmore. (markt)
  • Fix: When using a custom session manager deployed as part of the web application, avoid ClassNotFoundExceptions when validating session IDs extracted from requests. (markt)
  • Fix: 66543: Give StandardContext#fireRequestDestroyEvent its own log message. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 66554: Initialize Random during server initialization to avoid possible JVM thread creation in the webapp context on some platforms. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: JSON filter should support specific escaping for common special characters as defined in RFC 8259. Based on code submitted by Thomas Meyer. (remm)
  • Fix: 66511: Fix GzipOutputFilter (used for compressed HTTP responses) when used with direct buffers. Patch suggested by Arjen Poutsma. (markt)
  • Fix: 66512: Align AJP handling of invalid HTTP response headers (they are now removed from the response) with HTTP. (markt)
  • Fix: 66530: Correct a regression in the fix for bug 66442 that meant that streams without a response body did not decrement the active stream count when completing leading to ERR_HTTP2_SERVER_REFUSED_STREAM for some connections. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor synchronization blocks locking on SocketWrapper to use ReentrantLock to support users wishing to experiment with project Loom. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 66536: Fix parsing of tag files that meant that tag directives could be ignored for some tag files. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: 66535: Redefine the maxValidTime attribute of FarmWarDeployer to be the maximum time allowed between receiving parts of a transferred file before the transfer is cancelled and the associated resources cleaned-up. A new warning message will be logged if the file transfer is cancelled. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 66508: When using WebSocket with NIO2, avoid waiting for a timeout before sending the close frame if an I/O error occurs during a write. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Contributed by Shirayuking and tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Contributed by totoo. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor code using MD5Encoder to use HexUtils.toHexString(). (markt)
  • Fix: 66507: Fix a bug that $JAVA_OPTS is not passed to the jvm in catalina.sh when calling version. Patch suggested by Eric Hamilton. (lihan)
  • Fix: Improve the error messages if JRE_HOME or JAVA_HOME are not set correctly. On windows, align the handling of JRE_HOME and JAVA_HOME for the start-up scripts and the service install script. (markt)
  • Update: Update UnboundID to 6.0.8. (markt)
  • Update: Update Checkstyle to 10.9.3. (markt)
  • Update: Update Jacoco to 0.8.9. (markt)
  • Fix: Enhance PEMFile to load from an InputStream. Patch provided by Romain Manni-Bucau. (schultz)

2023-03-03 Tomcat 8.5.87 (schultz)

General

  • Fix: Fix a bug that memory allocation is larger than limit in SynchronizedStack to reduce memory footprint. (lihan)

Catalina

  • Update: Add support for txt: and rnd: rewrite map types from mod_rewrite. Based on a pull request #591 provided by Dimitrios Soumis. (markt)
  • Update: Provide a more appropriate response (501 rather than 400) when rejecting an HTTP request using the CONNECT method. (markt)
  • Fix: 66488: Correct a regression introduced in the fix for bug 66196 that meant that the HTTP headers and/or request line could get corrupted (one part overwriting another part) within a single request. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Add a check for the validity of the scheme pseudo-header in HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: 66482: Restore inline state after async operation in NIO2, to account the fact that unexpected exceptions are sometimes thrown by the implementation. Patch submitted by zhougang. (remm)

2023-02-24 Tomcat 8.5.86 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Allow a Valve to access cookies from a request that cannot be mapped to a Context. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor uses of String.replaceAll() to use String.replace() where regular expressions where not being used. Pull request #581 provided by Andrei Briukhov. (markt)
  • Add: Add error report valve that allows redirecting to of proxying from an external web server. Based on code and ideas from pull request #506 provided by Max Fortun. (remm)
  • Add: 66470: Add the Shared Address Space defined by RFC 6598 (100.64.0.0/10) to the regular expression used to identify internal proxies for the RemoteIpFilter and RemoteIpValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 66471: Fix JSessionId secure attribute missing When RemoteIpFilter determines that this request was submitted via a secure channel. (lihan)

Coyote

  • Add: Log basic information for each configured TLS certificate when Tomcat starts. (markt)
  • Fix: 66442: When an HTTP/2 response must not include a body, ensure that the end of stream flag is set on the headers frame and that no data frame is sent. (markt)
  • Fix: 66455: Fix the cause of a potential ClassCastException when processing a WINDOW_UPDATE frame on an HTTP/2 connection where the flow control window for the overall connection has been exhausted. (markt)
  • Add: Provided dedicated loggers (org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.certificate / org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint.certificate / org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.certificate) for logging of configured TLS certificates. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 66419: Fix calls from expression language to a method that accepts varargs when only one argument was passed. (markt)
  • Fix: 66441: Make imports of static fields in JSPs visible to any EL expressions used on the page. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 66429: Documentation. Limit access to the documentation web application to localhost by default. (markt)
  • Fix: 66429: Examples. Limit access to the examples web application to localhost by default. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Apache Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.36 to pick up the Windows binaries built with with OpenSSL 1.1.1t. (markt)

2023-01-19 Tomcat 8.5.85 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Improve the behavior of the credential handler attribute that is set in the Servlet context so that it actually reflects what is used during authentication. (remm)
  • Fix: 66359: Update javadoc for RemoteIpValve and RemoteIpFilter with correct protocolHeader default value of "X-Forwarded-Proto". (lihan)
  • Fix: 66388: Correct a regression in the refactoring that replaced the use of the URL constructors. The regression broke lookups for resources that contained one or more characters in their name that required escaping when used in a URI path. (markt)
  • Fix: 66392: Change the default value of AccessLogValve's file encoding to UTF-8 and update documentation. (lihan)
  • Fix: 66393: Align ExtendedAccessLogValve's x-P(XXX) with the documentation. (lihan)

Coyote

  • Fix: When an HTTP/2 stream was reset, the current active stream count was not reduced. If enough resets occurred on a connection, the current active stream count limit was reached and no new streams could be created on that connection. (markt)
  • Fix: 66196: Align HTTP/1.1 with HTTP/2 and throw an exception when attempting to commit a response with an header value that includes one or more characters with a code point above 255. (markt)
  • Fix: 66388: Correct a regression in the refactoring that replaced the use of the URL constructors. The regression broke lookups for resources that contained one or more characters in their name that required escaping when used in a URI path. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 66370: Change the default of the org.apache.el.GET_CLASSLOADER_USE_PRIVILEGED system property to true unless the EL library is running on Tomcat in which case the default remains false as the EL library is already called from within a privileged block and skipping the unnecessary privileged block improves performance. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 21 (with the value 21) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an Eclipse JDT compiler version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the default will used. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 66348: Update the JARs listed in the class loader documentation and note which ones are optional. (markt)
  • Fix: Documentation. Replace references in the application developer's guide to CVS with more general references to a source code control system. (markt)

Other

  • Code: Refactor code base to replace use of URL constructors. While they are deprecated in Java 20 onwards, the reasons for deprecation are valid for all versions so move away from them now. (markt)
  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.3.3. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Contributed by Shirayuking and tak7iji. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons FileUpload to 34eb241 (2023-01-03, 2.0-SNAPSHOT). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to 2ee2bff (2023-01-03, 6.7.1-SNAPSHOT). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Codec to 3eafd6c (2023-01-03, 1.16-SNAPSHOT). (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Contributed by Shirayuking. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Portuguese translations. Contributed by Guilherme Custódio. (markt)
  • Update: Update Checkstyle to 10.6.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update Unboundid to 6.0.7. (markt)
  • Update: Update SpotBugs to 4.7.3. (markt)

2022-11-21 Tomcat 8.5.84 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 66330: Correct a regression introduced when fixing 62897 that meant any value configured for skipMemoryLeakChecksOnJvmShutdown on the Context was ignored and the default was always used. (markt)
  • Fix: 66331: Fix a regression in refactoring for Stack on the SystemLogHandler which caught incorrect exception. (lihan)
  • Fix: 66338: Fix a regression that caused a nuance in refactoring for ErrorReportValve. (lihan)
  • Fix: Escape values used to construct output for the JsonErrorReportValve to ensure that it always outputs valid JSON. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct the date format used with the expires attribute of HTTP cookies. A single space rather than a single dash should be used to separate the day, month and year components to be compliant with RFC 6265. (markt)
  • Add: Include the name of the current stream state in the error message when a stream is cancelled due to an attempt to write to the stream when it is in a state that does not permit writes. (markt)
  • Code: NIO writes never return -1 so refactor CLOSED_NIO_CHANNEL not to do so and remove checks for this return value. Based on #562 by tianshuang. (markt)
  • Code: Remove unnecessary code that exposed the asyncTimeout to components that never used it. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 66294: Make the use of a privileged block to obtain the thread context class loader added to address 62080 optional and disabled by default. This is now controlled by the org.apache.el.GET_CLASSLOADER_USE_PRIVILEGED system property. (markt)
  • Fix: 66325: Fix concurrency issue in evaluation of expression language containing lambda expressions. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 66346: Ensure all JDBC pool JARs are reproducible. Pull request #566 provided by John Neffenger. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.3.2. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Contributed by DigitalCat and lihan. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. Contributed by Mathieu Bouchard. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Contributed by Shirayuking. (markt)

2022-10-11 Tomcat 8.5.83 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 66183: When logging cookie values in an access log valve and there are multiple cookies with the same name, log all cookie values rather than just the first. Based on pull request #541 by Han Li. (markt)
  • Fix: 66184: Ensure that JULI root loggers have a default level of INFO. Pull request #533 provided by Piotr P. Karwasz. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of stack overflow errors when parsing SSI expressions. (markt)
  • Fix: 66120: Enable FORM authentication to work correctly if session persistence and restoration occurs during the authentication process. (markt)
  • Fix: 66233: Include an error message when sending a 400 response because a request has too many cookies. (markt)
  • Fix: When web application deployment fails due to JARs with duplicate fragment names, improve the error message by listing the JARs that contain the duplicates. Based on pull request #535 by Mads Rolsdorph. (markt)
  • Fix: Replace logging thread for JULI's AsyncFileHandler with an executor to protect against failure of the logging thread. Based on pull request #545 by Piotr P. Karwasz. (markt)
  • Add: Add JsonErrorReportValve that extends the ErrorReportValve that returns response as JSON instead of HTML. Back-porting kfujino's implementation. (lihan)
  • Fix: Update the RewriteValve to perform pattern matching using dotall mode to avoid unexpected behaviour if the URL includes encoded line terminators. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Make parsing of invalid filename directives in Content-Disposition headers more robust. Invalid filename directives will now be ignored rather than triggering a 500 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 66194: Log HTTP/2 stream closures (usually caused by client errors) via a UserDataHelper to broadly align it with the behaviour of HTTP/1.1 for parsing issues and exceeding limits. (markt)
  • Fix: 66236: Implement support for the special values zero and minus one when configuring maxSavePostSize for a Connector when used in conjunction with TLS renegotiation. (markt)
  • Fix: 66240: Avoid int overflow when parsing octets by limiting the maximum value to 255. Based on a PR #548 by Stefan Mayr. (lihan)
  • Fix: #550: Correctly handle case where a Servlet responds to a request with an expectation with a 2xx response without reading the request body. Pull request provided by Malay Shah. (markt)
  • Fix: #551: Avoid potential IndexOutOfBoundsException by fixing incorrect check when matching HTTP/2 preface. Submitted by 刘文章. (lihan)
  • Fix: 66276: Fix incorrect class cast when adding a descendant of HTTP/2 streams. (lihan)
  • Fix: 66281: Fix unexpected timeouts that may appear as client disconnections when using HTTP/2 and NIO2. (markt)
  • Fix: Enforce the requirement of RFC 7230 onwards that a request with a malformed content-length header should always be rejected with a 400 response. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Improve handling of stack overflow errors when parsing EL expressions. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct parsing of integer and floating point literals in EL expressions so that larger values are correctly parsed to BigInteger and BigDecimal respectively. (markt)
  • Add: 66203: Log an error message when the JSP compiler is unable to create the output directory for the generated code. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the performance of the ImportHandler in the Expression Language implementation. This removes a previous optimisation that is now detrimental rather than helpful. Pull request #547 provided by rmannibucau. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of EL error messages so instances of Number are not formatted in unexpected ways. (markt/kkolinko)
  • Fix: Switch to using ELException rather than IllegalArgumentException when a type conversion fails during an EL arithmetic operation. This is an EL error so ELException seems more appropriate. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a bug in MethodExpression handling that triggered an error when invoking a static method on an instance of the class rather than directly on the class. (markt)
  • Fix: Use BigInteger.remainder() rather than BigInteger.mod() when performing the modulus operation for instances of BigInteger as part of an EL expression. (markt)
  • Fix: 66277: Fix regressions in refactoring from Stack ArrayDeque.
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 20 (with the value 20) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an Eclipse JDT compiler version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the default will used. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: To aid future additions of new functionality, rather than throw an IllegalArgumentException if a DeltaRequest is passed an unrecognised action type, a warning message will now be logged. (markt)
  • Fix: 66120: Enable FORM authentication to work correctly if session failover occurs during the authentication process. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Add: 62312: Add support for authenticating WebSocket clients with an HTTP forward proxy when establishing a connection to a WebSocket endpoint via a forward proxy that requires authentication. Based on a patch provided by Joe Mokos. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Documentation. Document the nonceRequestParameterName attribute for the CsrfPreventionFilter. Based on #553 by Mert Ülkgün. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Ensure that zip archives use UTC for file modification times to ensure repeatable builds across time zones. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. (lihan)
  • Add: Improvements to Czech translations. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to German translations. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Contributed by tak7iji and Shirayuking. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. Contributed by 수현. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Russian translations. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Spanish translations. (markt)
  • Add: Further automation to the build process to reduce the number of manual steps that release managers must perform. (markt)
  • Update: Update Objenesis to 3.2. (markt)
  • Update: Update UnboundID to 6.0.6. (markt)
  • Update: Update Checkstyle to 10.3.4. (markt)
  • Update: Update JaCoCo to 0.8.8. (markt)
  • Update: Update SpotBugs to 4.7.2. (markt)
  • Update: Update JSign to 4.2. (markt)

2022-08-13 Tomcat 8.5.82 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Correct handling of HTTP TRACE requests where there are multiple instances of an HTTP header with the same name. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the clarification in RFC 9110 that the units in HTTP range specifiers are case insensitive. (markt)
  • Fix: Properly-escape role and group information when writing MemoryUserDatabase to an XML file. (schultz)
  • Fix: Move control of XML-export logic from individual support classes into MemoryUserDatabase.save(). Deprecate and discontinue use of MemoryUser, MemoryRole, and MemoryGroup classes. (schultz)

Coyote

  • Add: Provide dedicated loggers (org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.handshake / org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint.handshake) for TLS handshake failures. (markt)
  • Add: Enable the use of the FIPS provider for TLS enabled Connectors when using Tomcat Native 1.2.34 onwards built with OpenSSL 3.0.x onwards. (markt)
  • Fix: Address an edge case in HTTP header parsing that allowed CRCRLF to be used as a valid line terminator. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure HTTP/2 requests that include connection specific headers are rejected. (markt)
  • Fix: When processing HTTP/2 requests, allow a host header to be used in place of an :authority header. (markt)
  • Fix: When processing HTTP/2 requests, allow a host header and an :authority header to be present providing they are consistent. (markt)
  • Fix: When processing HTTP/2 requests, reject requests containing multiple host headers. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Documentation. 62245: Include contextXsltFile when discussing options for configuring directory listings. (markt)
  • Fix: Examples. Fix CVE-2022-34305, a low severity XSS vulnerability in the Form authentication example. (markt)

Other

  • Update: The minimum Ant version required to perform a release build for Tomcat 8.5.x is now 1.10.2. (markt)
  • Add: Add additional automation to the build process to reduce the number of manual steps that release managers must perform. (schultz)
  • Add: Implement support for reproducible builds. Reproducible builds are independent of operating system but require the same Ant version and same JDK (vendor and version) to be used as associated version information is embedded in a number of build outputs such as JAR file manifests. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.34 to improve the support for building with OpenSSL 3.0.x.(markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by tak7iji. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.35 to pick up Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.1.1q.(markt)

2022-06-11 Tomcat 8.5.81 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Correct a regression in the 8.5.80 (not released) that broken or unexpectedly modified some TLS configurations when running on a Java 8 JDK. (markt)
  • Fix: 66134: The NSIS based Tomcat installer for Windows now correctly handles the combination of TomcatAdminRoles defined in a configuration file and selecting the Manager and/or Host Manager web applications in the installer's GUI. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.80 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Update the memory leak protection code to support stopping application created executor threads when running on Java 19 and later. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the error message if a required --add-opens option is missing. (markt)
  • Fix: Disable the memory leak correction code enabled by the Context attribute clearReferencesObjectStreamClassCaches when running on a JRE that includes a fix for the underlying memory leak. (markt)
  • Fix: 66068: Ensure that the changes made to a request by the RemoteIPValve persist after the request is put into asynchronous mode. (markt)
  • Add: Include the major version in the recommended version used for Tomcat Native with the AprLifecycleListener. (markt)
  • Fix: 66104: Avoid error message by not trying to clean up old files from the logging directory before the directory has been created. Based on #521 by HanLi. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Additional fix for 65118. Fix a potential NullPointerException when pruning closed HTTP/2 streams from the connection. (markt)
  • Fix: 66076: When using TLS with non-blocking writes and the NIO connector, ensure that flushing the buffers attempts to empty all of the output buffers. (markt)
  • Fix: 66084: Correctly calculate bytes written to a response. Pull request #516 provided by aooohan HanLi. (markt)
  • Add: Correct a regression in the support added for encrypted PKCS#1 formatted private keys in the previous release that broke support for unencrypted PKCS#1 formatted private keys. (jfclere/markt)
  • Update: Remove support for NPN when using the Tomcat Native Connector as NPN was never standardised and browser support for NPN was removed several years ago. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Update ImportHandler optimisation for new classes introduced in Java 19. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 19 (with the value 19) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an Eclipse JDT compiler version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the default will used. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 66064: Update the building page in the documentation web application to reflect changes in required Java version and source repository. (markt)
  • Fix: Documentation. Make the description of the HTTP/1.1 configuration attributes that control the maximum allowed HTTP header size more specific. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Increase the default buffer size for replication messages from 43800 to 65536 bytes. This is expected to improve performance for large messages when running on Linux based systems. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by Shirayuking and tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations contributed by Dingzi2012. (markt)

2022-05-23 Tomcat 8.5.79 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65736: Disable the forceString option for the JNDI BeanFactory and replace it with an automatic search for an alternative setter with the same name that accepts a String. This is a security hardening measure. (markt)
  • Code: 65853: Refactor the CsrfPreventionFilter to make it easier for sub-classes to modify the nonce generation and storage. Based on suggestions by Marvin Fröhlich. (markt)
  • Fix: 65991: Avoid NPE with SSLAuthenticator when boundOnInit is used on a connector, during the check for client certificate authentication availability. (remm)
  • Fix: 66009: Use getSubjectX500Principal().toString() rather than getSubjectX500Principal().getName(...) to retrieve a certificate DN, to match the output of the deprecated getSubjectDN().getName() that was used previously. (remm)
  • Add: Revert the change in 8.5.76 that added a mapping of Shift_JIS for the ja locale to the default mappings used by ServletResponse.setLocale() as it caused regressions for applications using UTF-8. (markt)
  • Add: Provide a property source that sources values from Kubernetes service bindings. Pull request #512 provided by Sumit Kulhadia and Gareth Evans. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: #501: Add new maxHttpRequestHeaderSize and maxHttpResponseHeaderSize attributes which allow setting the maximum HTTP header sizes independently. If not specified, the value of the maxHttpHeaderSize connector attribute will be used. Submitted by Zhongming Hua. (remm)
  • Fix: The root cause of the Linux kernel duplicate accept bug has been identified along with the version of the kernel that includes the fix. The error message displayed when this bug occurs has been updated to reflect this new information and to advise users to update to a version of the OS that uses kernel 5.10 or later. Thanks to Christopher Gual for the research into this issue. (markt)
  • Fix: 66023: Improve the fix for 65726 and support HTTP upgrade with a request body for a wider set of use cases. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for encrypted PKCS#1 formatted private keys when configuring the internal, in memory key store. Based on #511. (jfclere/markt)
  • Fix: Remove the prestartminSpareThreads attribute of the StandardThreadExecutor since all core threads are always started by default making this attribute meaningless. Pull request #510 provided by Aooohan. (markt)

Webapps

  • Fix: 66008: In the documentation web application, remove the recommendation for the use the trimSpaces option for Jasper in production environments. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the documentation web application to state that the EncryptInterceptor does not provide sufficient protection to run Tomcat clustering over an untrusted network. This is CVE-2022-29885. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to German translations contributed by Thomas Hoffmann. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by Shirayuking. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.3.1. This fixes a known regression in 1.3.0 when configuring the Windows service with custom scripts as described in 66055. (markt)
  • Update: Update to JSign 4.1. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.33 to pick up Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.1.1o.(markt)

2022-04-01 Tomcat 8.5.78 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 41007: Add the ability to specify static HTML responses for specific error codes and/or exception types with the ErrorReportValve. (markt)
  • Code: Harden the CredentialHandler implementations by switching to a constant-time implementation for credential comparisons. (schultz/markt)
  • Add: Effectively disable the WebappClassLoaderBase.getResources() method as it is not used and if something accidentally exposes the class loader this method can be used to gain access to Tomcat internals. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: #487: Improve logging of unknown settings frames. Pull request by Thomas Hoffmann. (remm)
  • Add: 65975: Add a warning if a TLS virtual host is configured with optional certificate authentication and the containing connector is also configured to support HTTP/2 as HTTP/2 does not permit optional certificate authentication. (markt)
  • Add: 65975: Add a warning if a TLS virtual host is configured for TLS 1.3 with a JSSE implementation and a web application is configured for CLIENT-CERT authentication. CLIENT-CERT authentication requires post-handshake authentication (PHA) when used with TLS 1.3 but the JSSE TLS 1.3 implementation does not support PHA. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the recycling of Processor objects to make it more robust. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 65959: Serialize Function as String[] rather Class[]. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: 65952: Align --add-opens configuration for jsvc with the current Tomcat scripts. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the AJP and HTTP/1.1 Connector configuration pages in the documentation web application to show which attributes are applicable to all Connectors and which are implementation specific. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.3.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update to Checkstyle 10.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update to SpotBugs 4.6.0. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the spotbugs Ant task to also cover test code. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the resource files for the Apache Tomcat installer for Windows so that all the resource files are located in a single directory in the source tree. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.32 to pick up Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.1.1n.(markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations contributed by 15625988003. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Expand coverage of translations for jakarta.el package. Based on #488 from Volodymyr Siedlecki. (markt)

2022-03-17 Tomcat 8.5.77 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65921: The type substitution flag for the rewrite valve should set the content type for the response, not the request. (markt)
  • Fix: #479: Enable the rewrite valve to redirect requests when the original request cannot be mapped to a context. This typically happens when no ROOT context is defined. Pull request by elkman. (markt)
  • Fix: 65940: Fix NullPointerException if an exception occurs during the destruction of a Servlet. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Fix regression introduced with 65757 bugfix which better identified non request threads but which introduced a similar problem when user code was doing sequential operations in a single thread. Test case code submitted by Istvan Szekely. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix potential thread-safety issue that could cause HTTP/1.1 request processing to wait, and potentially timeout, waiting for additional data when the full request has been received. (markt)
  • Fix: Throw IOException rather than IllegalStateException when the application attempts to write to an HTTP/2 stream after the client has closed the stream. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: When resolving methods in EL expressions that use beans and/or static fields, ensure that any custom type conversion is considered when identifying the method to call. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Correct a spelling mistake in the German translations. Thanks to Thomas Hoffmann. (markt)

2022-02-28 Tomcat 8.5.76 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Add: 61171: Add the portOffset attribute to the Server element which is added to the configured shutdown and Connector ports. Based on a patch by Marek Czernek. (markt)
  • Add: 64080: Enhance the graceful shutdown feature. Includes a new option for StandardService, gracefulStopAwaitMillis, that allows a time to be specified to wait for client connections to complete and close before the Container hierarchy is stopped. (markt/remm)
  • Add: Add ha-api-*.jar and jaxws-rt-*.jar to the list of JARs to skip when scanning for TLDs, web fragments and annotations. (michaelo)
  • Add: Expand the default mappings used by ServletResponse.setLocale() to include a mapping from the ja locale to the Shift_JIS encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: 65806: Improve the handling of session ID generation when the default algorithm for SecureRandom (SHA1PRNG) is not supported by the configured providers as will be the case for a FIPS compliant configuration. (markt)
  • Fix: #464: Fall back to the class loader used to load JULI when the thread context class loader is not set. In a normal Tomcat configuration, this will be the system class loader. Based on a pull request by jackshirazi. (markt)
  • Fix: #469: Include the Java Annotations API in the classes that Tomcat will not load from web applications. Pull request provided by ppkarwasz. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential StringIndexOutOfBoundsException exception when generating a WebDAV multi-status response after an error during a copy or delete. Report the paths relative to the server root for any resources with an error. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the format of WebDAV XML responses to make them easier for humans to read. The change ensures that there is always a line break before starting a new element. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve validation of the Destination header for WebDAV MOVE and COPY requests. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 65408: Backport the socket close refactoring - along with supporting changes - that ensures that a socket is only closed once. Pooled objects associated with the socket are now replaced with dummy instances to protect against applications that attempt to continue to use the socket after it has been closed. (markt/remm)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 65454 that meant that minSpareThreads and maxThreads settings were ignored when the Connector used an internal executor. (markt)
  • Fix: 65776: Improve the detection of the Linux duplicate accept bug and reduce (hopefully avoid) instances of false positives. (markt)
  • Fix: 65848: Revert the change that attempted to align the behaviour of client certificate authentication with NIO or NIO2 with OpenSSL for TLS between MacOS and Linux/Windows as the root cause was traced to configuration differences. (markt)
  • Fix: #467: When system time moves backwards (e.g. after clock correction), ensure that the cached formatted current date used for HTTP headers tracks this change. Pull request provided by zhenguoli. (markt)
  • Update: Remove pollerThreadCount Connector attribute for NIO. One poller thread is sufficient. (remm/markt)
  • Fix: Avoid creating and using object caches when they are disabled. (remm/markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: #474: Prevent a tag file from corrupting the ELContext of the calling page. Pull request provided by Dmitri Blinov. (markt)
  • Fix: Minor optimisation of serialization for FunctionMapperImpl in response to pull request #476. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove the applet example from the example web application as applets are no longer supported in any major browser. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor a small number of pages in the examples web application to avoid an issue with reproducible builds due to differences in file ordering across different operating systems with Ant's zip task. (markt)
  • Fix: Better documentation for the protocol attribute of the JNDIRealm. (markt)
  • Fix: Clarify the some custer settings described in the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Add: Add information on the OpenSSLConf and OpenSSLConfCmd elements to the HTTP SSL configuration page in the documentation web applications. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Code: Use LF line endings for text files in JARs to support reproducible builds across different operating systems. (markt)

Other

  • Code: Switch to building with Java 11 and using --release to target Java 8. Once back-ported to all currently supported branches, this will reduce the number of Java versions developers need to juggle. (markt)
  • Code: Use LF line endings for text files in JARs to support reproducible builds across different operating systems. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix dependencies for individual test targets in Ant build file. Based on #468 provided by Totoo chenyonghui. (markt)

2022-01-17 Tomcat 8.5.75 (schultz)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 65785 that broke HTTP/2 server push. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.74 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Make SPNEGO authentication more robust for the case where the provided credential has expired. (markt)
  • Fix: 65684: Fix a potential NullPointerException when using JULI. (markt)
  • Docs: Document conditions under which the AprLifecycleListener can be used to avoid JVM crashes. (michaelo)
  • Fix: Refactor the AsyncFileHandler to reduce the possibility of log messages being lost on shutdown. (markt)
  • Update: Refactor the AsyncFileHandler to remove the need for the org.apache.juli.AsyncLoggerPollInterval. If set, this property now has no effect. (markt)
  • Add: Add debug logging to the RestCsrfPreventionFilter. Based on pull request #452 by Polina Georgieva. (markt)
  • Add: 65710: Implement a workaround for a JVM bug that can trigger a file descriptor leak when using multi-part upload and the application does not explicitly close an input stream for an uploaded file that was cached on disk. (markt)
  • Fix: Add recycling check in the input and output stream isReady to try to give a more informative ISE when the facade has been recycled. (remm)
  • Update: Remove the deprecated JmxRemoteLifecycleListener. (markt)
  • Fix: Make the calculation of the session storage location more robust when using file based persistent storage. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Fix a potential JVM crash when using the APR/Native connector with TLS. A crash could occur if the connector was stopped whilst a connection was performing a TLS handshake. (markt)
  • Add: Provide protection against a known OS bug that causes the acceptor to report an incoming connection more than once. (markt)
  • Fix: 65677: Improve exception handling for errors during HTTP/1.1 reads with NIO2. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor APR/native connector shutdown to remove a potential source of JVM crashes on shutdown when sendfile is used. (markt)
  • Fix: When an error occurs that triggers a stream reset, ensure that the first RST frame sent to the client is the one associated with the error that triggered the reset. (markt)
  • Fix: 65714: Fix exceptions when the security manager is enabled and the first request received after starting is an HTTP request to a TLS enabled NIO2 connector. (markt)
  • Add: Ensure that using NIO or NIO2 with OpenSSL for TLS behaves the same way on MacOS as it does on Linux and Windows when no trusted certificate authorities are configured and reject all client certificates. (markt)
  • Fix: 65726: Implement support for HTTP/1.1 upgrade when the request includes a body. The maximum permitted size of the body is controlled by maxSavePostSize. (markt)
  • Fix: Restore pre-starting of minSpareThreads lost in the fix for 65454. (markt)
  • Fix: 65757: Missing initial IO listener notification on Servlet container dispatch to another container thread. (remm)
  • Fix: Expand the fix for 65757 so that rather than just checking if processing is happening on a container thread, the check is now if processing is happening on the container thread currently allocated to this request/response. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a potential deadlock during the concurrent processing of incoming HTTP/2 frames for a stream and that stream being reset. (markt)
  • Add: 65767: Add support for certificates that use keys encrypted using PBES2. Based on a pull request provided by xiezhaokun. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor testing whether a String is a valid HTTP token. (markt)
  • Fix: 65785: Perform additional validation of HTTP headers when using HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: When a Connector or Endpoint is paused, ensure that only new connections and new requests on existing connections are stopped while allowing in progress requests to run to completion. (markt)
  • Fix: Explicitly release ByteBuffer instances associated with pooled channels when stopping the NioEndpoint and Nio2Endpoint. (markt)
  • Fix: Narrow the scope of the logging of invalid cookie headers to just the invalid cookie rather than the whole cookie header. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 65724: Fix missing messages for some PropertyNotWritableExceptions caused by a typo in the name used for a resource string. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 18 (with the value 18) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an Eclipse JDT compiler version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the default will used. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Add: Add support for POJO WebSocket endpoints to the programmatic upgrade that allows applications to opt to upgrade an HTTP connection to WebSocket. (markt)
  • Fix: 65763: Improve handling of WebSocket connection close if a message write times out before the message is fully written. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Switch from Cobertura to JaCoCo for code coverage as Cobertura does not support code coverage for code compiled for Java 11 onwards. It also removes the need to use a single thread to run the tests. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations contributed by zhnnn. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by Shirayuking, yoshy and tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update the NSIS installer to 3.08. (markt)
  • Update: Update UnboundID to 6.0.3. (markt)

2021-11-17 Tomcat 8.5.73 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Improve robustness of JNDIRealm for exceptions occurring when getting the connection. Also add missing close when running into issues getting the passord of a user. (remm)
  • Docs: Add Javadoc comment which listeners must be nested within Server elements only. (michaelo)
  • Update: Log warning if a listener is not nested inside a Server element although it must have been. (michaelo)

Coyote

  • Code: Improve performance of Connector shutdown - primarily to reduce the time it takes to run the test suite. (markt)
  • Add: #457: Add a toString() method to MimeHeader to aid debugging. (dblevins)
  • Fix: Do not ignore the error condition if the APR connector is not able to open a server socket as continuing in this case will trigger a JVM crash. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve error handling if APR/Native fails to attach TLS capabilities to a TLS enabled client connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve error handling if APR/Native fails to accept an incoming connection. (markt)
  • Add: Hard code all connectors to use a single acceptor thread. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Update: Add a new method WsServerContainer.upgradeHttpToWebSocket() to align with the new method that will be available from WebSocket 2.1 onwards. (markt)

2021-10-06 Tomcat 8.5.72 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65553: Implement a work-around for a JRE bug that can trigger a memory leak when using the JNDI realm. (markt)
  • Fix: #451: Improve the usefulness of the thread name cache used in JULI. Pull request provided by t-gergely. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Further improvements in the management of the connection flow control window. This addresses various bugs that caused streams to incorrectly report that they had timed out waiting for an allocation from the connection flow control window. (markt)
  • Fix: 65577: Fix a AccessControlException reporting when running an NIO2 connector with TLS enabled. (markt)
  • Update: Reclassify TLS ciphers that use AESCCM8 as medium security rather than high security to align with recent changes in OpenSSL. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix an issue that caused some Servlet non-blocking API reads of the HTTP request body to incorrectly use blocking IO. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Fix the implementation of MethodExpression.getMethodInfo() so that it returns the expected value rather than failing when the method expression is defined with the parameter values in the expression rather than the types being passed explicitly to ExpressionFactory.createMethodExpression(). (markt)
  • Update: Regenerate the EL parser using JavaCC 7.0.10. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a bug that prevented the EL parser correctly parsing a literal Map that used variables rather than literals for both keys and values. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: The internal upgrade handler should close the associated WebConnection on destroy. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: Clarify the JASPIC configuration options in the documentation web application. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 65585: Update obsolete comments at the start of the build.properties.default file. (markt)

2021-09-13 Tomcat 8.5.71 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: Enable Tomcat to start if an (old) XML parser is configured that does not support allow-java-encodings. A warning will be logged if such an XML parser is detected. (markt)
  • Fix: Change the behaviour of custom error pages. If an error occurs after the response is committed, once the custom error page content has been added to the response the connection is now closed immediately rather than closed cleanly. i.e. the last chunk that marks the end of the response body is no longer sent. This acts as an additional signal to the client that the request experienced an error. (markt)
  • Fix: 65479: When handling requests using JASPIC authentication, ensure that PasswordValidationCallback.getResult() returns the result of the password validation rather than always returning false. Fixed via pull request #438 provided by Robert Rodewald. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the authenticators to delegate the check for preemptive authentication to the individual authenticators where an authentication scheme specific check can be performed. Based on pull request #444 by Robert Rodewald. (markt)
  • Add: Add derby-*.jar to the list of JARs to skip when scanning for TLDs, web fragments and annotations. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct a logic error that meant setting certificateKeystoreFile to NONE did not have the expected effect. NONE was incorrectly treated as a file path. Patch provided by Mikael Sterner. (markt)
  • Fix: 65505: When an HTTP header value is removed, ensure that the order of the remaining header values is unchanged. (markt)
  • Fix: 65563: Correct parsing of HTTP Content-Range headers. Tomcat was incorrectly requiring an = character after bytes. Fix based on pull request #449 by Thierry Guérin. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 65506: Fix write timeout check that was using the read timeout value. Patch submitted by Gustavo Mahlow. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove unnecessary Context settings from the examples web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Document default value for unpackWARs and related clean-up. Pull request #439 provided by Robert Rodewald. (markt)
  • Fix: Clarify the documentation of the compressionMinSize and compressibleMimeType HTTP Connector attributes. Pull request #442 provided by crisgeek. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Fix failing build when building on non-English locales. Pull request #441 provided by Dachuan J. (markt)
  • Update: Update to JSign version 4.0 to enable code signing without the need for the installation of additional client tools. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to 40d5eb4 (2021-09-01, 6.6.0-SNAPSHOT). Code clean-up only. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Codec to fd44e6b (2021-09-01, 1.16-SNAPSHOT). Minor refactoring. (markt)
  • Add: 65661: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons FileUpload to 33d2d79 (2021-09-01, 2.0-SNAPSHOT). Refactoring and code clean-up. As a result of Commons File Upload now using java.nio.file.Files, applications using multi-part uploads need to ensure that the JVM is configured with sufficient direct memory to store all in progress multi-part uploads. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool to 0da5c54 (2021-02-02, 2.9.1-SNAPSHOT). Refactoring and code clean-up. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP to c6d5cd9 (2021-06-05, 2.9.0-SNAPSHOT). Refactoring and code clean-up. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.31 to pick up Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.1.1l.(markt)
  • Update: Switch to the CDN as the primary download location for ASF dependencies. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations contributed by syseal, wolibo, ZhangJieWen and DigitalFatCat. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)

2021-08-16 Tomcat 8.5.70 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65411: Always close the connection when an uncaught NamingException occurs to avoid connection locking. Submitted by Ole Ostergaard. (remm)
  • Fix: 65433: Correct a regression in the fix for 65397 where a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException could be triggered if the canonical path of the target of a symlink was shorter than the canonical path of the directory in which the symlink had been created. Patch provided by Cedomir Igaly. (markt)
  • Add: 65443: Refactor the CorsFilter to make it easier to extend. (markt)
  • Fix: To avoid unnecessary cache revalidation, do not add an HTTP Expires header when setting adding an HTTP header of CacheControl: private. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct bugs in the HTTP/2 connection flow control management that meant it was possible for a connection to stall waiting for a connection flow control window update that had already arrived. Any streams on that connection that were trying to write when this happened would time out. (markt)
  • Fix: 65454: Fix a race condition that could result in a delay to a new request. The new request could be queued to wait for an existing request to finish processing rather than the thread pool creating a new thread to process the new request. (markt)
  • Fix: 65460: Correct a regression introduced in the previous release in the change to reduce the number of small HTTP/2 window updates sent for streams. A logic error meant that small window updates for the connection were not flushed. This meant that the connection flow window may not update quite as quickly as the ideal. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations contributed by ZhangJieWen and chengzheyan. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations contributed by tak7iji. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)

2021-07-05 Tomcat 8.5.69 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Code: Refactor the RemoteIpValve to use the common utility method for list to comma separated string conversion. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix serialization warnings in UserDatabasePrincipal reported by SpotBugs. (markt)
  • Fix: 65397: Calls to ServletContext.getResourcePaths() no longer include symbolic links in the results unless allowLinking has been set to true. If a resource is skipped because of this change, a warning will be logged as this typically indicates a configuration issue. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 65368: Improve handling of clean closes of inbound TLS connections. Treat them the same way as clean closes of non-TLS connections rather than as unknown errors. (markt)
  • Fix: Modify the HTTP/2 connector not to sent small updates for stream flow control windows to the user agent as, depending on how the user agent is written, this may trigger small writes from the user agent that in turn trigger the overhead protection. Small updates for stream flow control windows are now combined with subsequent flow control window updates for that stream to ensure that all stream flow control window updates sent from Tomcat are larger than overheadWindowUpdateThreshold. (markt)
  • Add: Add additional debug logging to track the current state of the HTTP/2 overhead count that Tomcat uses to detect and close potentially malicious connections. (markt)
  • Update: Many HTTP/2 requests from browsers will trigger one overhead frame and one non-overhead frame. Change the overhead calculation so that a non-overhead frame reduces the current overhead count by 2 rather than 1. This means that, over time, the overhead count for a well-behaved connection will trend downwards. (markt)
  • Update: Change the initial HTTP/2 overhead count from -10 to -10 * overheadCountFactor. This means that, regardless of the value chosen for overheadCountFactor, when a connection opens 10 overhead frames in a row will be required to trigger the overhead protection. (markt)
  • Update: Increase the default overheadCountFactor from 1 to 10 and change the reduction in overhead count for a non-overhead frame from -2 to -20. This allows for a larger range (0-20) to be used for overheadCountFactor providing for finer-grained control. (markt)
  • Fix: Modify the parsing of HTTP header values that use the 1#token to ignore empty elements as per RFC 7230 section 7 instead of treating the presence of empty elements as an error. (markt)
  • Fix: Expand the unit tests for HttpServlet.doHead() and correct the flushing of the response buffer. The buffer used to behave as if it was one byte smaller than the configured size. The buffer was flushed (and the response committed if required) when the buffer was full. The buffer is now flushed (and the response committed if required) if the buffer is full and there is more data to write. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix an issue where concurrent HTTP/2 writes (or concurrent reads) to the same connection could hang and eventually timeout when async IO was enabled (it is enabled by default). (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 65390: Correct a regression in the fix for 65124 and restore code that was removed in error leading to JSP compilation failures in some circumstances. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 17 (with the value 17) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an Eclipse JDT compiler version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the latest supported version will used. (markt)
  • Fix: 65377: Update the Java code generation for JSPs not to use the boxed primitive constructors as they have been deprecated in Java 9 and marked for future removal in Java 16. valueOf() is now used instead. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Code: Refactor the DigestAuthenticator to reuse a shared SecureRandom instance rather than create a new one to generate the cnonce if required. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 65385: Correct the link in the documentation web application the Maven Central repository. (markt)
  • Fix: 65404: Correct a regression in the fix for 63362 that caused the server status page in the Manager web application to be truncated if HTTP upgrade was used such as when starting a WebSocket connection. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update JUnit to version 4.13.2. (markt)
  • Update: Update UnboundID to 6.0.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update CheckStyle backport to 8.43 . (markt)

2021-06-15 Tomcat 8.5.68 (schultz)

Other

  • Update: Update to the Java 7 compatible build of JSign 3.1 to pick up a fix for SHA-512 signatures. (markt)
  • Fix: 65369 / #422: Add the additional --add-opens=... options required for running Tomcat on Java 16 onwards to the service.bat script to align it with the other start-up scripts. PR provided by MCMicS. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.67 (schultz)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65301: RemoteIpValve will now avoid getting the local host name when it is not needed. (remm)
  • Fix: 65308: NPE in JNDIRealm when no userRoleAttribute is given. (fschumacher)
  • Add: #412: Add commented out, sample users for the Tomcat Manager app to the default tomcat-users.xml file. Based on a PR by Arnaud Dagnelies. (markt)
  • Add: #418: Add a new option, pass-through, to the default servlet's useBomIfPresent initialization parameter that causes the default servlet to leave any BOM in place when processing a static file and not to use the BOM to determine the encoding of the file. Based on a pull request by Jean-Louis Monteiro. (markt)
  • Update: Add cookieName attribute to the SSO valve to configure the SSO cookie name. (remm)
  • Fix: #419: When processing POST requests of type multipart/form-data for parts without a filename that are added to the parameter map in String form, check the size of the part before attempting conversion to String. Pull request provided by tianshuang. (markt)
  • Fix: 62912: Don't mutate an application provided content header if it does not contain a charset. Also remove the outdated workaround for the buggy Adobe Reader 9 plug-in for IE. (markt)
  • Fix: AprLifecycleListener does not show dev version suffix for libtcnative and libapr. (michaelo)
  • Update: Refactor principal handling in UserDatabaseRealm using an inner class that extends GenericPrincipal. (remm)
  • Fix: Enable the default doHead() implementation in HttpServlet to correctly handle responses where the content length needs to be represented as a long since it is larger than the maximum value that can be represented by an int. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid synchronization on roles verification for the memory UserDatabase. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix the default doHead() implementation in HttpServlet to correctly handle responses where the Servlet calls ServletResponse.reset() and/or ServletResponse.resetBuffer(). (markt)
  • Fix: Fix the default doHead() implementation in HttpServlet to correctly handle responses generated using the Servlet non-blocking API. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 65303: Fix a possible NullPointerException if an error occurs on an HTTP/1.1 connection being upgraded to HTTP/2 or on a pushed HTTP/2 stream. (markt)
  • Fix: 65311: Fix a race condition in the NioBlockingSelector that could cause a delay to select operations. (markt)
  • Update: Simplify AprEndpoint socket bind for all platforms. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 65340: Add missing check for a negative return value for Hpack.decodeInteger in the HpackDecoder, which could cause a NegativeArraySizeException exception. Submitted by Thomas, and verified the fix is present in the donated hpack code in a further update. (remm)
  • Add: Add debug logging for HTTP/2 HPACK header decoding. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct parsing of HTTP headers consisting of a list of tokens so that a header with an empty token is treated consistently regardless of whether the empty token is at the start, middle or end of the list of tokens. (markt)
  • Fix: Remove support for the identity transfer encoding. The inclusion of this encoding in RFC 2616 was an error that was corrected in 2001. Requests using this transfer encoding will now receive a 501 response. (markt)
  • Fix: Process transfer encoding headers from both HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 clients. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that if the transfer encoding header contains the chunked, that the chunked encoding is the final encoding listed. (markt)

Jasper

  • Code: Review code used to generate Java source from JSPs and tags and remove code found to be unnecessary. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor use of internal ChildInfo class to use compile time type checking rather than run time type checking. (markt)
  • Fix: 65358: Improve expression language method matching for methods with varargs. Where multiple methods may match the provided parameters, the method that requires the fewest varargs is preferred. (markt)
  • Add: 65332: Add a commented out section in catalina.policy that provides the necessary permissions to compile JSPs with javac when running on Java 9 onwards with a security manager. It is commented out as it will cause errors if used with earlier Java versions. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 65317: When using permessage-deflate, the WebSocket connection was incorrectly closed if the uncompressed payload size was an exact multiple of 8192. Based on a patch provided by Saksham Verma. (markt)
  • Fix: 65342: Correct a regression introduced with the fix for 65262 that meant Tomcat's WebSocket implementation would only work with Tomcat's implementation of the Java EE WebSocket API. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Improve the description of the maxConnections and acceptCount attributes in the Connector section of the documentation web application. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.30. Also update the minimum recommended version to 1.2.30. (markt)
  • Add: Use JSign to integrate the build script with the code signing service to enable release builds to be created on Linux as well as Windows. (markt)

2021-05-12 Tomcat 8.5.66 (markt)

Catalina

  • Code: Expand coverage of unit tests for JNDIRealm using the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java. (markt)
  • Fix: 65224: Ensure the correct escaping of attribute values and search filters in the JNDIRealm. (markt)
  • Fix: 65235: Add missing attributes to the MBean descriptor file for the RemoteIpValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 65244: HandlesTypes should include classes that use the specified annotation types on fields or methods. (remm)
  • Fix: 65251: Correct a regression introduced in 8.5.64 that meant that the auto-deployment process may attempt a second, concurrent deployment of a web application that is being deployed by the Manager resulting in one of the deployments failing and errors being reported. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the SSLValve so it is able to handle escaped client certificate headers from Nginx. Based on a patch by Florent Guillaume. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that all HTTP requests that contain an invalid character in the protocol component of the request line are rejected with a 400 response rather than some requests being rejected with a 505 response. (markt)
  • Fix: When generating the error message for an HTTP request with an invalid request line, ensure that all the available data is included in the error message. (markt)
  • Fix: 65272: Restore the optional HTTP feature that allows LF to be treated as a line terminator for the request line and/or HTTP headers lines as well as the standard CRLF. This behaviour was previously removed as a side-effect of the fix for CVE-2020-1935. (markt)

Jasper

  • Code: Review code used to generate Java source from JSPs and tags and remove code found to be unnecessary. (markt)
  • Update: <servlet> entries in web.xml that include a <jsp-file> element and a negative <load-no-startup> element that is not the default value of -1 will no longer be loaded at start-up. This makes it possible to define a <jsp-file> that will not be loaded at start-up. (markt)
  • Fix: Allow the JSP configuration option useInstanceManagerForTags to be used with Tags that are implemented as inner classes. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Code: Refactor the way Tomcat passes path parameters to POJO end points to simplify the code. (markt)
  • Fix: 65262: Refactor the creation of WebSocket end point, decoder and encoder instances to be more IoC friendly. Instances are now created via the InstanceManager where possible. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 65235: Correct name of changeLocalName in the documentation for the RemoteIpValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 65265: Avoid getting the boot classpath when it is not available in the Manager diagnostics. (remm)

Other

  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.28. (markt)
  • Fix: Move SystemPropertySource to be a regular class to allow more precise configuration if needed. The system property source will still always be enabled. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Provided by bytesgo. (mark)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)

2021-04-06 Tomcat 8.5.65 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Avoid NPE when a JNDI reference cannot be resolved in favor of a NamingException. (remm)
  • Fix: Avoid using reflection for setting properties on the webapp classloader. Based on a patch submitted by Romain Manni-Bucau. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Improve consistency of OpenSSL error stack handling in the TLS engine, and log all errors found as debug. (remm)
  • Code: Re-factor the HTTP/2 implementation classes to better align with 9.0.x and 10.0.x to make maintenance simpler. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that HTTP/2 streams are only recycled once as multiple attempts to recycle an HTTP/2 stream may result in NullPointerExceptions. (markt)
  • Code: Simplify the closing on an HTTP/2 stream when an error condition is present. (markt)
  • Fix: 64771: Prevent concurrent calls to ServletInputStream.isReady() corrupting the input buffer. (markt)
  • Fix: 65179: Ensure that the connection level flow control window from the client to the server is updated when handling DATA frames received for completed streams else the flow control window may become exhausted. (markt)
  • Fix: 65203: Fix a regression introduced in 8.5.64 that meant that an error during an asynchronous read broke all future asynchronous reads associated with the same request instance. (markt)
  • Fix: Disable keep-alive when inconsistent content delimitation is present in a request. (remm)

Other

  • Add: Implement the first phase of reproducible builds. Sequential builds on the same machine now produce identical output provided that the Ant property ant.tstamp.now is set. The minimum required Ant version is now 1.9.10. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Provided by Ruan Wenjun. (mark)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Japanese translations. Provided by kfujino and Shirayuking. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.27. (markt)

2021-03-10 Tomcat 8.5.64 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Revert an incorrect fix for a potential resource leak that broke deployment via the Ant deploy task. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the AsyncListener.onError() event is triggered when a I/O error occurs during non-blocking I/O. There were some cases discovered where this was not happening. (markt)
  • Add: Make the non-blocking I/O error handling more robust by handling the case where the application code swallows an IOException in WriteListener.onWritePossible() and ReadListener.onDataAvailable(). (markt)
  • Fix: 64938: Align the behaviour when null is passed to the ServletResponse methods setCharacterEncoding(), setContentType() and setLocale() with the recent clarification from the Jakarta Servlet project of the expected behaviour in these cases. (markt)
  • Code: Make the StandardContext.postWorkDirectory() protected rather than private to help users wishing to customise the default work directory behaviour. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 65118: Fix a potential NullPointerException when pruning closed HTTP/2 streams from the connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid NullPointerException when a secure channel is closed before the SSL engine was initialized. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve error message for failed ConfigFileLoader lookups. (remm)
  • Fix: Ensure that the ReadListener's onError() event is triggered if the client closes the connection before sending the entire request body and the server is ready the request body using non-blocking I/O. (markt)
  • Fix: 65137: Ensure that a response is not corrupted as well as incomplete if the connection is closed before the response is fully written due to a write timeout. (markt)
  • Fix: Related to bug 65131, make sure all errors from OpenSSL are fully cleared, as there could be more than one error present after an operation (confirmed in the OpenSSL API documentation). (remm)
  • Fix: Make handling of OpenSSL read errors more robust when plain text data is reported to be available to read. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct handling of write errors during non-blocking I/O to ensure that the associated AsyncContext was closed down correctly. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 65136: Remove the restriction that prevented the Manager web application deploying different web applications in parallel. This required some refactoring, most notably to HostConfig.check() and how it is used. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Add: Improvements to Russian translations. Provided by Azat. (mark)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Provided by shawn. (mark)

2021-02-03 Tomcat 8.5.63 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 65106: Fix the ConfigFileLoader handling of file URIs when running under a security manager on some JREs. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that SNI provided host names are matched to SSL virtual host configurations in a case insensitive manner. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.62 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 50175: Add a new attribute to the standard context implementation, skipMemoryLeakChecksOnJvmShutdown, that allows the user to configure Tomcat to skip the memory leak checks usually performed during web application stop if that stop is triggered by a JVM shutdown. (markt)
  • Fix: 60781: Escape elements in the access log that need to be escaped for the access log to be parsed unambiguously. (fschumacher/markt)
  • Add: 64110: Add support for additional TLS related request attributes that provide details of the protocols and ciphers requested by a client in the initial TLS handshake. (markt)
  • Add: Let the RemoteCIDRValve inherit from RequestFilterValve and support all of its features. Especially add support for connector specific configuration using addConnectorPort. (rjung)
  • Add: Add peerAddress to coyote request, which contains the IP address of the direct connection peer. If a reverse proxy sits in front of Tomcat and the protocol used is AJP or HTTP in combination with the RemoteIp(Valve|Filter), the peer address might differ from the remoteAddress. The latter then contains the address of the client in front of the reverse proxy, not the address of the proxy itself. Support for the peer address has been added to the RemoteAddrValve and RemoteCIDRValve with the new attribute usePeerAddress. This can be used to restrict access to Tomcat based on the reverse proxy IP address, which is especially useful to harden access to AJP connectors. The peer address can also be logged in the access log using the new %{peer}a syntax. (rjung)
  • Fix: Avoid uncaught InaccessibleObjectException on Java 16 trying to clear references threads. (remm)
  • Fix: 65033: Fix JNDI realm error handling when connecting to a failed server when pooling was not enabled. (remm)
  • Fix: 65047: If the AccessLogValve is unable to open the access log file, include information on the current user in the associated log message (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Additional fix for 64830 to address an edge case that could trigger request corruption with h2c connections. (markt)
  • Fix: 64974: Improve handling of pipelined HTTP requests in combination with the Servlet non-blocking IO API. It was possible that some requests could get dropped. (markt)
  • Fix: 65001: Fix error handling for exceptions thrown from calls to ReadListener and WriteListener. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid possible infinite loop in OpenSSLEngine.unwrap when the destination buffers state is changed concurrently. (remm)

Jasper

  • Add: Add a new StringInterpreter interface that allows applications to provide customised string attribute value to type conversion within JSPs. This allows applications to provide a conversion implementation that is optimised for the application. (markt)
  • Fix: 64965: JspContextWrapper.findAttribute should ignore expired sessions rather than throw an IllegalStateException. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: 65007: Clarify that the commands shown in the TLS documentation for importing a signed TLS certificate from a certificate authority are typical examples that may need to be adjusted in some cases. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Provided by leeyazhou and Yi Shen. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.26. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool to 2.9.1-SNAPSHOT (2021-01-15). (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP to 2.9.0-SNAPSHOT (2021-01-15). (markt)
  • Update: Migrate to new code signing service. (markt)
  • Code: Use java.nio.file.Path to test for one directory being a sub-directory of another in a consistent way. (markt)
  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.2.4. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Russian translations. Provided by Polina and Azat. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.06.1. (kkolinko)

2020-12-08 Tomcat 8.5.61 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 56181: Update the RemoteIpValve and RemoteIpFilter so that calls to ServletRequest.getRemoteHost() are consistent with the return value of ServletRequest.getRemoteAddr() rather than always returning a value for the proxy. (markt)
  • Fix: 56890: Align the behaviour of ServletContext.getRealPath(String path) with the recent clarification from the Servlet specification project. If the path parameter does not start with / then Tomcat processes the call as if / is appended to the beginning of the provided path. (markt)
  • Fix: 64921: Ensure that the LoadBalancerDrainingValve uses the correct setting for the secure attribute for any session cookies it creates. Based on a pull request by Andreas Kurth. (markt)
  • Fix: 64947: Don't assume that the Upgrade header has been set on the HttpServletResponse before any call is made to HttpServletRequest.upgrade(). (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that values are not duplicated when manipulating the vary header. Based on a pull request by Fredrik Fall. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 64944: Ensure that the bytesSent metric is correctly updated when compression is enabled. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 64951: Fix a potential file descriptor leak when WebSocket connections are attempted and fail. Patch provided by Maurizio Adami. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct a regression in the addition of the HTTP header security filter to the examples web application that prevented the Servlet examples that depend on the asynchronous API from functioning correctly. (kkolinko/markt)

Tribes

  • Code: Start all core threads when starting the receiver and dispatch interceptor. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: 64931: Implement validation of changelog.xml file at build time. (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update to Maven Ant Resolver Tasks 1.3.0. (markt)
  • Fix: 62695: Provide SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums for files published via Maven. (markt)

2020-11-17 Tomcat 8.5.60 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 55559: Add a new attribute, localJndiResource, that allows a UserDatabaseRealm to obtain a UserDatabase instance from the local (web application) JNDI context rather than the global JNDI context. This option is only useful when the Realm is defined on the Context. (markt)
  • Update: Add connection pooling to JNDI realm. (remm)
  • Fix: 64805: Correct imports used by JMXProxyServlet. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix JNDIRealm pooling problems retrying on another bad connection. Any retries are made on a new connection, just like with the single connection scenario. Also remove all connections from the pool after an error. (remm)
  • Fix: JNDIRealm connections should only be created with the container classloader as the thread context classloader, just like for the JAAS realm. (remm)
  • Add: 64871: Log a warning if Tomcat blocks access to a file because it uses symlinks. (markt)
  • Update: Rename JDBCStore to DataSourceStore and remove bottlenecks for database backed session store. The JDBCStore is deprecated but remains unchanged. Patch submitted by Philippe Mouawad. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Refactor the HTTP/2 window update handling for padding in data frames to ensure that the connection window is correctly updated after a data frame with zero length padding is received. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix processing of URIs with %nn encoded solidus characters when encodedSolidusHandling was set to passthrough and the encoded solidus was preceded by other %nn encoded characters. Based on a pull request by willmeck. (markt)
  • Fix: 63362: Add collection of statistics for HTTP/2, WebSocket and connections upgraded via the HTTP upgrade mechanism. (markt)
  • Add: Provide messages for some SocketTimeoutException instances that did not have one. (markt)
  • Add: Add additional debug logging for I/O issues when communicating with the user agent. (markt)
  • Fix: 64830: Fix concurrency issue in HPACK decoder. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 64848: Fix a variation of this memory leak when a write I/O error occurs on a non-container thread. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 64799: Added missing resources to host-manager web app. (isapir)
  • Fix: 64797: Align manager.xml template file in Host-Manager with context.xml of real Manager web application. (isapir)
  • Add: Configure the examples web applications to set SameSite=strict for all cookies, including session cookies, created by the application. (markt)
  • Add: Configure the examples, Manager and Host Manager to use the HTTP header security filter with default settings apart from no HSTS header. Based on a suggestion by Debangshu Kundu. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Add: Improvements to Russian translations. Provided by Azat. (markt)

2020-10-09 Tomcat 8.5.59 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Fix race condition when saving and recycling session in PersistentValve. (kfujino)
  • Update: Deprecate the JDBCRealm. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct numerous spellings throughout the code base. Based on a pull request from John Bampton. (markt)
  • Fix: 64715: Add PasswordValidationCallback to the JASPIC implementation. Patch provided by Robert Rodewald. (markt)
  • Fix: Throw SQLException instead of NullpointerException when failing to connect to the database. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 64735: Ensure that none of the methods on a ServletContext instance always fail when running under a SecurityManager. Pull request provided by Kyle Stiemann. (markt)
  • Fix: 64765: Ensure that the number of currently processing threads is tracked correctly when a web application is undeployed, long running requests are being processed and renewThreadsWhenStoppingContext is enabled for the web application. (markt)
  • Add: Improve the error messages when running under JPMS without the necessary options to enable reflection required by the memory leak prevention / detection code. (markt)
  • Fix: When estimating the size of a resource in the static resource cache, include a specific allowance for the path to the resource. Based on a pull request by blueSky1825821. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Do not send an HTTP/2 PING frame to measure round-trip time when it is known that the HTTP/2 connection is not in a good state. (markt)
  • Fix: 64743: Correct a regression introduced in 8.5.57 that caused a Connection: close header to be added to the response if the Connector was configured with maxSwallowSize=-1. (markt)
  • Fix: When logging HTTP/2 debug messages, use consistent formatting for stream identifiers. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct some double counting in the code that tracks the number of in-flight asynchronous requests. The tracking enables Tomcat to shutdown gracefully when asynchronous processing is in use. (markt)
  • Fix: Don't send the Keep-Alive response header if the connection has been explicitly closed. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the handling of closed HTTP/2 streams to reduce the heap usage associated with used streams and to retain information for more streams in the priority tree. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Use lazy instantiation to improve the performance when working with listeners added to the ELContext. Pull request provided by Thomas Andraschko. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: Configure the Manager and Host Manager applications to set SameSite=strict for all cookies, including session cookies, created by the application. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the Manager How-To in the documentation web application to clarify when a user may wish to deploy additional instances of the Manager web application. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update to Commons Daemon 1.2.3. This adds support to jsvc for --enable-preview and native memory tracking (Procrun already supported these features), adds some addition debug logging and adds a new feature to Procrun that outputs the command to (re-)configure the service with the current settings. (markt)
  • Add: When building, only rebuild JAR files if the contents has changed. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Pull request provided by Yang Yang. (markt)
  • Add: Expand coverage of Russian translations. Pull request provided by Nikolay Gribanov. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix running service.bat when called from $CATALINA_HOME. (markt)
  • Fix: Complete the fix for 63815. Users wishing to use system properties that require quoting with catalina.sh and the debug option must use a JRE that includes the fix for JDK-8234808. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to Chinese translations. Provided by leeyazhou. (markt)
  • Add: Improvements to French translations. (remm)
  • Add: Improvements to Korean translations. (woonsan)
  • Add: Improvements to Spanish translations. Provided by Andrewlanecarr. (markt)

2020-09-15 Tomcat 8.5.58 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 53411: Improve the handling of HTTP requests that do not explicitly specify a host name when no default host is configured. Also improve the tracking of changes to the default host as hosts are added and removed while Tomcat is running. (markt)
  • Fix: 64582: Pre-load the CoyoteOutputStream class to prevent a potential exception when running under a security manager. Patch provided by Johnathan Gilday. (markt)
  • Fix: 64593: If a request is not matched to a Context, delay issuing the 404 response to give the rewrite valve, if configured, an opportunity to rewrite the request. (remm/markt)
  • Add: Refactor the Default servlet to provide a single method that can be overridden (generateETag()) should a custom entity tag format be required. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the validation of entity tags provided with conditional requests. Requests with headers that contain invalid entity tags will be rejected with a 400 response code. Improve the matching algorithm used to compare entity tags in conditional requests with the entity tag for the requested resource. Based on a pull request by Sergey Ponomarev. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the description of the storage format for salted hashes in the Javadoc for MessageDigestCredentialHandler and refactor the associated code for clarity. Based on a patch provided by Milo van der Zee. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the path validation to allow the use of the file system root for the docBase attribute of a Context. Note that such a configuration should be used with caution. (markt)
  • Add: Added filtering expression for requests that are not supposed to use session in PersistentValve. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Use the correct method to calculate session idle time in PersistentValve. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 64712: The JASPIC authenticator now checks the ServerAuthModule for jakarta.servlet.http.authType and, if present, uses the value provided. Based on a patch by Robert Rodewald. (markt)
  • Fix: 64713: The JASPIC authenticator now checks the value of jakarta.servlet.http.registerSession set by the ServerAuthModule when deciding whether or nor to register the session. Based on a patch by Robert Rodewald. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: 57661: For requests containing the Expect: 100-continue header, add optional support to delay sending an intermediate 100 status response until the servlet reads the request body, allowing the servlet the opportunity to respond without asking for the request body. Based on a pull request by malaysf. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the implementation of ServletInputStream.available() to provide a more accurate return value, particularly when end of stream has been reached. (markt)
  • Fix: 64614: Improve compatibility with FIPS keystores. When a FIPS keystore is configured and the keystore contains multiple keys, the alias attribute will be ignored and the key used will be implementation dependent. (jfclere)
  • Fix: 64621: Improve handling HTTP/2 stream reset frames received from clients. (markt)
  • Fix: 64660: Avoid a potential NPE in the AprEndpoint if a socket is closed in one thread at the same time as the poller is processing an event for that socket in another. (markt)
  • Fix: 64671: Avoid several potential NPEs introduced in the changes in the previous release to reduce the memory footprint of closed HTTP/2 streams. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the HTTP/2 implementation to more consistently return a stream closed error if errors occur after a stream has been reset by the client. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of HTTP/2 stream level flow control errors and notify the stream immediately if it is waiting for an allocation when the flow control error occurs. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that window update frames are sent for HTTP/2 connections to account for DATA frames containing padding including when the associated stream has been closed. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that window update frames are sent for HTTP/2 connections and streams to account for DATA frames containing zero-length padding. (markt)
  • Fix: 64710: Revert the changes to reduce the memory footprint of closed HTTP/2 streams as they triggered multiple regressions in the form of NullPointerExceptions. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the HTTP/2 overhead protection check is performed after each HTTP/2 frame is processed. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Requests received via proxies may be marked as using the ws or wss protocol rather than http or https. Ensure that such requests are not rejected. PR provided by Ronny Perinke. (markt)
  • Fix: 64848: Fix a potential issue where the write lock for a WebSocket connection may not be released if an exception occurs during the write. (markt)
  • Add: 64644: Add support for a read idle timeout and a write idle timeout to the WebSocket session via custom properties in the user properties instance associated with the session. Based on a pull request by sakshamverma. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove the localization of the text output of the Manager application list of contexts and the Host Manager application list of hosts so that the output is more consistent. PR provided by Holomark. (markt)
  • Fix: Clean-up / standardize the XSL files used to generate the documentation. PR provided by John Bampton. (markt)
  • Fix: 62723: Clarify the effects of some options for cluster channelSendOptions. Patch provided by Mitch Claborn. (schultz)
  • Fix: Remove the out of date functional specification section from the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Extracted CSS styles from the Manager we application for better code maintenance and replaced the GIF logo with SVG. (isapir)
  • Add: Add document for PersistentValve. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: Improve the quality of the Japanese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Includes contributions from Yuki Shira. (markt)
  • Fix: 64645: Use a non-zero exit code if the service.bat does not complete normally. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to 6.5.0. Code clean-up only. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Codec to 53c93d0 (2020-08-18, 1.15-SNAPSHOT). Code clean-up. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons FileUpload to c25a4e3 (2020-08-26, 2.0-SNAPSHOT). Code clean-up and RFC 2231 support. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool to 2.8.1. Code clean-up and improved abandoned pool handling. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP to 6d232e5 (2020-08-11, 2.8.0-SNAPSHOT). Code clean-up various bug fixes. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.25. (markt)

2020-07-05 Tomcat 8.5.57 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: Remove the error message on start if java.io.tmpdir is missing and add an explicit error message on application deployment when the sole feature that depends on it (anti-resource locking) is configured and can't be used. (markt)
  • Update: Implement a significant portion of the TLS environment variables for the rewrite valve. (remm)
  • Fix: 64506: Correct a potential race condition in the resource cache implementation that could lead to NullPointerExceptions during class loading. (markt)
  • Add: Add application/wasm to the media types recognised by Tomcat. Based on a PR by Thiago Henrique Hüpner. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a bug in HttpServlet so that a 405 response is returned for an HTTP/2 request if the mapped servlet does implement the requested method rather than the more general 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 64541: Refactor the DTD used to validate mbeans-descriptors.xml files to avoid issues when XML entity expansion is limited or disabled. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Include a Connection: close HTTP header when committing a response and it is known that the maxSwallowSize limit is going to be exceeded. (markt)
  • Fix: 64509: Correctly parse RFC 2109 version 1 cookies that use a comma as a separator between cookies when using the RFC 6265 cookie processor. Based on a patch by W J Carpenter. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix the utility code that converted IPv6 addresses to a canonical form to correctly handle input addresses that ended with a pair of colons. Based on a patch by syarramsetty-skyhook. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly parse RFC 2109 version 1 cookies that have additional linear white space around cookie attribute names and values when using the RFC 6265 cookie processor. (markt)
  • Fix: Once an HTTP/2 stream has been closed, ensure that the code that cleans up references that are no longer required is called. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce the memory footprint of closed HTTP/2 streams. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the HTTP/1.1 processor is correctly recycled when a direct connection to h2c is made. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: 64560: Refactor the replication of a changed session ID for a replicated session so that the list of changes associated with the session is not reset when the session ID changes. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 64563: Add additional validation of payload length for WebSocket messages. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the calculation of payload length when four or more bytes are required to represent the payload length. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 64501: Refactor the handling of the deprecated LOGGING_CONFIG environment variable to avoid using a POSIX shell feature that is not available by default on Solaris 10. (markt)
  • Fix: 64514: Fixes some missing class dependency issues in bootstrap to address packaging/dependency concerns for JPMS and OSGi. Pull request provided by Raymond Augé. (markt)
  • Fix: 64521: Avoid moving i18n translations into classes dir since they are packaged into separate jars. Pull request provided by Raymond Augé. (markt)
  • Fix: 64522: Package jars in effective dependency order. Pull request provided by Raymond Augé. (markt)
  • Add: Improve the quality and expand the coverage of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (remm)

2020-06-07 Tomcat 8.5.56 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 64432: Correct a refactoring regression that broke handling of multi-line configuration in the RewriteValve. Patch provided by Jj. (markt)
  • Update: Add the special internal rewrite maps for case modification and escaping. (remm/fschumacher)
  • Fix: 64470: The default value of the solidus handling should reflect the associated system property. (remm)
  • Fix: Implement a few rewrite SSL env that correspond to Servlet request attributes. (remm)
  • Update: 64442: Be more flexible with respect to the ordering of groups, roles and users in the tomcat-users.xml file. (fschumacher)

Coyote

  • Update: Add support for ALPN on recent OpenJDK 8 releases. (remm)
  • Fix: 64467: Improve performance of closing idle HTTP/2 streams. (markt)
  • Add: 64483: Log a warning if an AJP request is rejected because it contains an unexpected request attribute. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 64488: Ensure that the ImportHandler from the Expression Language API is able to load classes from the Java runtime when running under a SecurityManager. Based on a patch by Volodymyr Siedleck. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Consistently throw a DeploymentException when an invalid endpoint path is specified and catch invalid endpoint paths earlier. (markt)
  • Add: Include the target URL in the log message when a WebSocket connection fails. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: 61127Allow human-readable names for channelSendOptions and mapSendOptions. Patch provided by Igal Sapir. (schultz)

Other

  • Update: Update the list of known Charsets in the CharsetCache to include ISO-8859-16, added in OpenJDK 15. (markt)
  • Add: Improve the quality and expand the coverage of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (remm)
  • Add: 64430: Add support for the CATALINA_OUT_CMD environment variable that defines a command to which captured stdout and stderr will be redirected. Patch provided by Harald Dunkel. (markt)
  • Update: Switch from the unsupported Maven Ant Tasks to the supported Maven Resolver Ant Tasks to upload artifacts to the ASF Maven repository (and from there to Maven Central). (markt)

2020-05-11 Tomcat 8.5.55 (markt)

Catalina

  • Code: Remove the remainder of the deprecated Servlet 4 Preview API. Users still depending on this feature should ideally upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.x. If upgrade is not possible, application code should cast to the internal Tomcat implementation classes. (markt)
  • Fix: Rework the fix for 64021 to better support web applications that use a custom class loader that loads resources from non-standard locations. (markt)
  • Update: Remove redundant sole path/URI from error page message on SC_NOT_FOUND. (michaelo)
  • Add: Log a warning if a CredentialHandler instance is added to an instance of the CombinedRealm (or a sub-class) as the CombinedRealm doesn't use a configured CredentialHandler and it is likely that a configuration error has occurred. (markt)
  • Add: Add more descriptive error message in DefaultServlet for SC_NOT_FOUND. (michaelo)
  • Add: 59203: Before calling Thread.stop() (if configured to do so) on a web application created thread that is not stopped by the web application when the web application is stopped, try interrupting the thread first. Based on a pull request by Govinda Sakhare. (markt)
  • Fix: 64309: Improve the regular expression used to search for class loader repositories when bootstrapping Tomcat. Pull request provided by Paul Muriel Biya-Bi. (markt)
  • Fix: 64384: Fix multipart configuration ignoring some parameters in some cases. (schultz)
  • Add: 64386: WebdavServlet does not send "getlastmodified" property for resource collections. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 64398: Change default value separator for property replacement to :- due to possible conflicts. The syntax is now ${name:-default}. (remm)
  • Add: Improve validation of storage location when using FileStore. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Move SocketProperties mbean to its own type rather than use a subType to improve robustness with tools. (remm)
  • Fix: Include the problematic data in the error message when reporting that the provided request line contains an invalid component. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of requests that use an expectation. Do not disable keep-alive where the response has a non-2xx status code but the request body has been fully read. (rjung/markt)
  • Fix: 64403: Ensure that compressed HTTP/2 responses are not sent with a content length header appropriate for the original, uncompressed response. (markt)

Jasper

  • Update: Remove redundant sole path/URI from error page message on SC_NOT_FOUND. (michaelo)
  • Add: Add more descriptive error message in DefaultServlet for SC_NOT_FOUND. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 64373: When a tag file is packaged in a WAR and then that WAR is unpacked in /WEB-INF/classes ensure that the tag file can still be found. Patch provided by Karl von Randow. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the Jasper code that interfaces with the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ) enables Jasper to compile JSPs using ECJ 4.14 onwards when the JSPs have inner classes. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Fix the saving of a Context configuration file via the scripting interface of the Manager web application. (markt)
  • Add: Add a section to the TLS Connector documentation on different key store types and how to configure them. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update JUnit to version 4.13. (markt)
  • Fix: Add missing entries to test class path in sample NetBeans configuration files. Patch provided by Brian Burch. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor to use parameterized Collection constructors where possible. Pull request provided by Lars Grefer. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor to use empty arrays with Collections.toArray(). Pull request provided by Lars Grefer. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor loops with a condition to exit as soon as the condition is met. Pull request provided by Lars Grefer. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor bulk addition to collections to use addAll() rather than a loop. Pull request provided by Lars Grefer. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Chinese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contributions provided by winsonzhao, ZhangJieWen and Lee Yazhou. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.24. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor to use enhanced for loops where possible. Pull request by Lars Grefer. (markt)
  • Add: Improve IDE support for IntelliJ IDEA. Patch provided by Lars Grefer. (markt)

2020-04-08 Tomcat 8.5.54 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Ensure all URL patterns provided via web.xml are %nn decoded consistently using the encoding of the web.xml file where specified and UTF-8 where no explicit encoding is specified. (markt)
  • Update: Allow a comma separated list of class names for the org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.PROPERTY_SOURCE system property. (remm)
  • Fix: 64149: Avoid NPE when using the access log valve without a pattern. (remm)
  • Fix: 64226: Reset timezone after parsing a date since the date format is reused. Test case submitted by Gary Thomas. (remm)
  • Fix: 64247: Using a wildcard for jarsToSkip should not override a possibly present jarsToScan. Based on code submitted by Iridias. (remm)
  • Fix: 64265: Fix ETag comparison performed by the default servlet. The default servlet always uses weak comparison. (markt)
  • Fix: Add support for default values when using ${...} property replacement in configuration files. Based on a pull request provided by Bernd Bohmann. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: When configuring an HTTP Connector, warn if the encoding specified for URIEncoding is not a superset of US-ASCII as required by RFC7230. (markt)
  • Fix: 64240: Ensure that HTTP/0.9 requests that contain additional data on the request line after the URI are treated consistently. Such requests will now always be treated as HTTP/1.1. (markt)
  • Add: Expose the HTTP/2 connection ID and stream ID to applications via the request attributes org.apache.coyote.connectionID and org.apache.coyote.streamID respectively. (markt)
  • Add: Replace the system property org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH with the Connector attribute encodedSolidusHandling that adds an additional option to pass the %2f sequence through to the application without decoding it in addition to rejecting such sequences and decoding such sequences. (markt)
  • Add: Expose the associated HttpServletRequest to the CookieProcessor when generating a cookie header so the header can be tailored based on the properties of the request, such as the user agent, if required. Based on a patch by Lazar Kirchev. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 14 (with the value 14) and Java 15 (with the value 15) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an ECJ version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the latest supported version will used. (markt)

Cluster

  • Code: Refactor the creation of DeltaRequest objects to make it simpler to use custom implementations. Based on a pull request provided by Thomas Stock. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct the documentation web application to remove references to the org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH system property changing how the sequence %5c is interpreted in a URI. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Improve the quality and expand the coverage of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contribution provided by Tom Bens. (remm)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Chinese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contribution provided by Lee Yazhou. (markt)
  • Fix: 64270: Set the documented default umask of 0027 when using jsvc via daemon.sh and allow the umask used to be configured via the UMASK environment variable as it is when using catalina.sh. (markt)
  • Fix: Deprecated the LOGGING_CONFIG environment variable and replace it with the CATALINA_LOGGING_CONFIG environment variable to avoid clashes with other components that use LOGGING_CONFIG. (markt)

2020-03-16 Tomcat 8.5.53 (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 64210: Correct a regression in the improvements to HTTP header validation that caused requests to be incorrectly treated as invalid if a CRLF sequence was split between TCP packets. Improve validation of request lines, including for HTTP/0.9 requests. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 64206: Correct a regression introduced in 8.5.51 that meant that the HTTP port specified when using the Windows Installer was ignored and 8080 was always used. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.52 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Store config compatibility with HostWebXmlCacheCleaner listener. (remm)
  • Fix: Modify the RewriteValve to use ServletRequest.getServerName() to populate the HTTP_HOST variable rather than extracting it from the Host header as this allows HTTP/2 to be supported. (markt)
  • Code: Remove PushBuilder from the deprecated Servlet 4 Preview API. Users still depending on this feature should ideally upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.x. If upgrade is not possible, application code should cast to the internal Tomcat implementation classes. (markt)
  • Fix: Switch Tomcat embedded to loading MIME type mappings from a property file generated from the default web.xml so the MIME type mappings are consistent regardless of how Tomcat is started. (markt)
  • Fix: Missing store config attributes for Resources elements. (remm)
  • Fix: 64153: Ensure that the parent for the web application class loader is set consistently. (markt)
  • Fix: 64166: Ensure that the names returned by HttpServletResponse.getHeaderNames() are unique. (markt)
  • Code: Rename org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester$EnvironmentPropertySource to org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.EnvironmentPropertySource. The old class is still available but deprecated. Patch provided by Bernd Bohmann. (markt)
  • Add: Add new attribute persistAuthentication to both StandardManager and PersistentManager to support authentication persistence. Patch provided by Carsten Klein. (markt)
  • Fix: 64184: Avoid repeated log messages if a MemoryUserDatabase is configured but the specified configuration file is missing. (markt)
  • Add: 64189: Expose the web application version String as a ServletContext attribute named org.apache.catalina.webappVersion. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: When the NIO or APR/native connectors were configured with useAsyncIO="true" and a zero length read or write was performed, the read/write would time out rather than return immediately. (markt)
  • Fix: 64141: If using a CA certificate, remove a default value for the truststore file when not using a JSSE configuration. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve robustness of OpenSSLEngine shutdown. Based on code submitted by Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento. (remm)
  • Fix: Add the TLS request attributes used by IIS to the attributes that an AJP Connector will always accept. (markt)
  • Fix: A zero length AJP secret will now behave as if it has not been specified. (remm)
  • Fix: 64188: If an error occurs while committing or flushing the response when using a multiplexing protocol like HTTP/2 that requires the channel to be closed but not the connection, just close the channel and allow the other channels using the connection to continue. Based on a suggestion from Alejandro Anadon. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the semantics of getEnableSessionCreation and setEnableSessionCreation for OpenSSLEngine. Pull request provided by Alexander Scheel. (markt)
  • Fix: Allow async requests to complete cleanly when the Connector is paused before complete() is called on a container thread. (markt)

Jasper

  • Code: Parameterize JSP version and API class names in localization messages to allow simpler re-use between major versions. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that TLD files listed in the jsp-config section of web.xml that are registered in the uriTldResourcePathMap with the URI specified in web.xml are also registered with the URI in the TLD file if it is different. Patch provided by Markus Lottmann. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: Expand the documentation for the address attribute of the AJP Connector and document that the AJP Connector also supports the ipv6v6only attribute with the APR/Native implementation. (markt)

Other

  • Add: Expand the coverage of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (remm)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Chinese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contribution provided by BoltzmannWxd. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Korean translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contributions provided by B. Cansmile Cha. (markt)
  • Add: 64190: Add support for specifying milliseconds (using S, SS or SSS) in the timestamp used by JULI's OneLineFormatter. (markt)

2020-02-11 Tomcat 8.5.51 (markt)

Catalina

  • Code: Remove part of the deprecated Servlet 4 Preview API. Users still depending on this feature should ideally upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.x. If upgrade is not possible, application code should cast to the internal Tomcat implementation classes. (markt)
  • Update: Do not store username and password as session notes during authentication if they are not needed. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Avoid useless environment restore when not using GSSCredential in JNDIRealm. (remm)
  • Fix: 58577: Respect the argument-count when searching for MBean operations to invoke via the JMXProxyServlet. (schultz)
  • Add: 62755: Add ability to opt out of adding the default web.xml config when embedding Tomcat and adding a context via addWebapp(). Call setAddDefaultWebXmlToWebapp(false) to prevent the automatic config. (isapir/markt)
  • Update: 63691: Skip all jar and directory scanning when the wildcard pattern "*" or "*.jar" is set or added to tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip. (isapir)
  • Fix: 64005: Correct a regression in the static resource caching changes introduced in 8.5.28. Avoid a NullPointerException when working with the URL provided for the root of a packed WAR. (markt)
  • Fix: 64008: Clarify/expand the Javadoc for the Tomcat#addWebapp() and related methods. (markt)
  • Code: Deprecate the JmxRemoteLifecycleListener as the features it provides are now available in the remote JMX capability included with the JRE. This listener will be removed in Tomcat 10 and may be removed from Tomcat 8.5.x some time after 2020-12-31. (markt)
  • Fix: 64011: JNDIRealm no longer authenticates to LDAP. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 64021: Ensure that container provided SCIs are always loaded before application provided SCIs. Note that where both the container and the application provide the same SCI, it is the application provided SCI that will be used. (markt)
  • Fix: SCI definitions from JARs unpacked into WEB-INF/classes are now handled consistently and will always be found irrespective of whether the web application defines a JAR ordering or not. (markt)
  • Fix: 64023: Skip null-valued session attributes when deserializing sessions. (schultz)
  • Fix: Do not throw a NullPointerException when an MBean or operation cannot be found by the JMXProxyServlet. (schultz)
  • Update: 64067: Allow more than one parameter when defining RewriteMaps. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 64074: InputStreams for directories obtained from resource URLs now return a directory listing consistent with the behaviour of FileURLConnection. In addition to restoring the behaviour that was lost as a result of the introduction of CachedResourceURLConnection, it expands the feature to include packedWARs and to take account of resource JARs. (markt)
  • Update: Refactor recycle facade system property into a new connector attribute named discardFacades. (remm)
  • Fix: 64089: Add ${...} property replacement support to XML external entity definitions. (markt)
  • Code: Deprecate MappingData.contextPath as it is unused. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a problem that meant that remote host, address and port information could be missing in the access log for an HTTP/2 request where the connection was closed unexpectedly. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that Servlet Asynchronous processing timeouts fire when requests are made using HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix the corruption of the TLS configuration when using the deprecated TLS attributes on the Connector if the configuration has already been set via the new SSLHostConfig and SSLHostConfigCertificate elements. (markt)
  • Fix: 63966: Switch the message shown when using HTTP to connect to an HTTPS port from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for RFC 5915 formatted, unencrypted EC key files when using a JSSE based TLS connector. (markt)
  • Add: When reporting / logging invalid HTTP headers encode any non-printing characters using the 0xNN form. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression introduced in 8.5.48 that meant invalid tokens in the Transfer-Encoding header were ignored rather than treated as an error. (markt)
  • Fix: Rename the HTTP Connector attribute rejectIllegalHeaderName to rejectIllegalHeader and expand the underlying implementation to include header values as well as names. (markt)
  • Update: Disable (comment out in server.xml) the AJP/1.3 connector by default. (markt)
  • Update: Change the default bind address for the AJP/1.3 connector to be the loopback address. (markt)
  • Add: Rename the requiredSecret attribute of the AJP/1.3 Connector to secret and add a new attribute secretRequired that defaults to true. When secretRequired is true the AJP/1.3 Connector will not start unless the secret attribute is configured to a non-null, non-zero length String. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new attribute, allowedRequestAttributesPattern to the AJP/1.3 Connector. Requests with unrecognised attributes will be blocked with a 403. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Update the performance optimisation for using expressions in tags that depend on uninitialised tag attributes with implied scope to make the performance optimisation aware of the new public class (java.lang.Record) added in Java 14. (markt)
  • Fix: 64097: Replace the faulty custom services lookup used for ExpressionFactory implementations with ServiceLoader. (markt)
  • Add: Add a META-INF/services entry to jasper-el.jar so that the Expression Language implementation can be discovered via the services API. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: 64043: Ensure that session ID changes are replicated during form-authentication. (kfujino)

Web applications

  • Fix: 64000: In the examples web application, where a Servlet example includes i18n support, the Locale used should be based on the request locale and not the server locale. (markt)
  • Add: Add additional information on securing AJP/1.3 Connectors. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 63995: Ensure statements are closed when a pooled JDBC connection is passivated in Tomcat's fork of Commons DBCP2. (markt)

2019-12-12 Tomcat 8.5.50 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: Improvements to CsrfPreventionFilter: additional logging, allow the CSRF nonce request parameter name to be customized. (schultz)
  • Add: 63681: Introduce RealmBase#authenticate(GSSName, GSSCredential) and friends. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 63964: Correct a regression in the static resource caching changes introduced in 8.5.48. URLs constructed from URLs obtained from the cache could not be used to access resources. (markt)
  • Fix: 63968: Fix ClassCastException in the Expires filter which was a regression in the fix for 63909. (markt)
  • Fix: 63970: Correct a regression in the static resource caching changes introduced in 8.5.48. Connections to URLs obtained for JAR resources could not be cast to JarURLConnection. (markt)
  • Add: 63937: Add a new attribute to the standard Authenticator implementations, allowCorsPreflight, that allows the Authenticators to be configured to allow CORS preflight requests to bypass authentication as required by the CORS specification. (markt)
  • Fix: 63939: Correct the same origin check in the CORS filter. An origin with an explicit default port is now considered to be the same as an origin without a default port and origins are now compared in a case-sensitive manner as required by the CORS specification. (markt)
  • Fix: 63982: CombinedRealm makes assumptions about principal implementation (michaelo)
  • Fix: 63983: Correct a regression in the static resource caching changes introduced in 8.5.48. A large number of file descriptors were opened that could reach the OS limit before being released by GC. (markt)
  • Update: 63987: Deprecate Realm.getRoles(Principal). (michaelo)
  • Code: Add a unit test for the session FileStore implementation and refactor loops in FileStore to use the ForEach style. Pull request provided by Govinda Sakhare. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor FORM authentication to reduce duplicate code and to ensure that the authenticated Principal is not cached in the session when caching is disabled. This is the fix for CVE-2019-17563. (markt/kkolinko)

Coyote

  • Code: Refactor the APR poller to always use a single pollset now that the Windows operating systems that required multiple smaller pollsets to be used are no longer supported. (markt)
  • Update: Add vectoring for NIO in the base and SSL channels. (remm)
  • Add: Add async API to the NIO and APR connector. (remm)
  • Fix: 63931: Improve timeout handling for asyncIO to ensure that blocking operations see a SocketTimeoutException if one occurs. (remm/markt)
  • Fix: 63932: By default, do not compress content that has a strong ETag. This behaviour is configurable for the HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 connectors via the new Connector attribute noCompressionStrongETag. (markt)
  • Fix: Simplify regular endpoint writes by removing write(Non)BlockingDirect. All regular writes will now be buffered for a more predictable behavior. (remm)
  • Fix: Send an exception directly to the completion handler when a timeout exception occurs for the operation, and add a boolean to make sure the completion handler is called only once. (remm/markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Ensure a couple of very unlikely concurrency issues are avoided when writing WebSocket messages. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Fix the broken re-try link on the error page for the FORM authentication example in the JSP section of the examples web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the documentation for the maxConnections attribute of the Connector in the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Add: Add the ability to set and display session attributes in the JSP FORM authentication example to demonstrate session persistence across restarts for authenticated sessions. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Correct the fix for 63815 (quoting the use of CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS when used in shell scripts to avoid the expansion of *) as it caused various regressions, particularly with daemon.sh. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the search made by the Windows installer for a suitable Java installation to include the 64-bit JDK registry entries and the JAVA_HOME environment variable. Pull request provided by Alexander Norz. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the German translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contribution provided by Jens. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (remm)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Japanese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Korean translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (woonsan)
  • Add: Expand the coverage of the Chinese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contributions provided by lins and 磊. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to ff6941e (2019-12-06, 6.4.2-dev). Code clean-up only. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Codec to 9637dd4 (2019-12-06, 1.14-SNAPSHOT). Code clean-up and a fix for CODEC-265. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons FileUpload to 2317552 (2019-12-06, 2.0-SNAPSHOT). Refactoring. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool 2 to 6092f92 (2019-12-06, 2.8.0-SNAPSHOT). Clean-up and minor refactoring. (markt)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP 2 to a36390 (2019-12-06, 2.7.1-SNAPSHOT). Minor refactoring. (markt)

2019-11-21 Tomcat 8.5.49 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Correct a regression introduced in 8.5.48 that could trigger a NullPointerException when using a RequestDispatcher. (markt)
  • Add: Improvement to CsrfPreventionFilter: expose the latest available nonce as a request attribute; expose the expected nonce request parameter name as a context attribute. (schultz)

not released Tomcat 8.5.48 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 63832: Properly mark container as FAILED when a JVM error occurs on stop. (remm)
  • Fix: 63836: Ensure that references to the Host object are cleared once the Host instance is destroyed. (markt)
  • Fix: 63872: Fix some edge cases where the docBase was not being set using a canonical path which in turn meant resource URLs were not being constructed as expected. (markt)
  • Fix: Make a best effort attempt to clean-up if a request fails during processing due to an OutOfMemoryException. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that, when static resource caching is enabled for a web application, all access to static files (including JSP files) goes via the cache so that a consistent view of the static files is seen. Prior to this change it was possible to see an updated last modified time but the content would be that prior to the modification. (markt)
  • Update: 63905 Clean up Tomcat CSS. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 63909: When the ExpiresFilter is used without a default and the response is served by the Default Servlet, ensure that the filter processes the response if the Default Servlet sets a 304 (Not Found) status code. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the Servlet 4 preview API to reflect changes made to the API in the final release. Note that this preview API has been deprecated for over a year and may be removed as soon as the next 8.5.x release. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor JMX remote RMI registry creation. This is the fix for CVE-2019-12418. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that ServletRequest.isAsyncStarted() returns false once AsyncContext.complete() or AsyncContext.dispatch() has been called during AsyncListener.onTimeout() or AsyncListener.onError(). (markt)
  • Fix: 63816 and 63817: Correctly handle I/O errors after asynchronous processing has been started but before the container thread that started asynchronous processing has completed processing the current request/response. (markt)
  • Fix: 63825: When processing the Expect and Connection HTTP headers looking for a specific token, be stricter in ensuring that the exact token is present. (markt)
  • Fix: 63829: Improve the check of the Content-Encoding header when looking to see if Tomcat is serving pre-compressed content. Ensure that only a full token is matched and that the match is case insensitive. (markt)
  • Add: 63835: Add support for Keep-Alive response header. (michaelo)
  • Fix: 63864: Refactor parsing of the transfer-encoding request header to use the shared parsing code and reduce duplication. (markt)
  • Fix: 63865: Add Unset option to same-site cookies and pass through None value if set by user. Patch provided by John Kelly. (markt)
  • Fix: 63894: Ensure that the configured values for certificateVerification and certificateVerificationDepth are correctly passed to the OpenSSL based SSLEngine implementation. (remm/markt)
  • Fix: 63859: Do not perform a blocking read after a CPING message is received by the AJP connector because, if the JK Connector is configured with ping_mode="I", the CPING message will not always be followed by the start of a request. (markt)
  • Fix: Properly calculate all dynamic parts of the ErrorReportValve response on the fly in org.apache.coyote.http2.TestHttp2InitialConnection. (michaelo)

Jasper

  • Fix: 63897: Capture the timestamp of a JSP for the purposes of modification tracking before the JSP is compiled to prevent a race condition if the JSP is modified during compilation. Patch provided by Karl von Randow. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a race condition that could mean changes to a modified JSP were not visible to end users. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 63913: Wrap any NullPointerExceptions throw by the Inflater or Deflater used by the PerMessageDeflate extension in an IOException so that the error can be caught and handled by the WebSocket error handling mechanism. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct the description of the default value for the server attribute in the security How-To. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 63815: Quote the use of CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS when used in shell scripts to avoid the expansion of *. Note that any newlines present in CATALINA_OPTS and/or JAVA_OPTS will no longer removed. (markt)
  • Fix: 63826: Remove commons-daemon-native.tar.gz and tomcat-native.tar.gz from the binary zip distributions for Windows since compiled versions of those components are already included within the zip distributions. (markt)
  • Fix: 63838: Suppress reflexive access warnings when running the unit tests on the command line. (markt)
  • Fix: Add missing charsets from the HPE JVM on HP-UX to pass unit tests in org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.TestCharsetCache. (michaelo)
  • Add: Expand the coverage and quality of the French translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (remm)
  • Add: Expand the coverage and quality of the Korean translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (woonsan)
  • Add: Expand the coverage and quality of the Simplified Chinese translations provided with Apache Tomcat. Contributions provided by rpo130, Mason Shen, leeyazhou, winsonzhao, qingshi huang, Lay, Shucheng Hou and Yanming Zhou. (markt)

2019-10-11 Tomcat 8.5.47 (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Use URL safe base 64 encoding rather than standard base 64 encoding when generating or parsing the HTTP2-Settings header as part of an HTTP upgrade to h2c as required by RFC 7540. (markt)
  • Fix: 63765: NIO2 should try to unwrap after TLS handshake to avoid edge cases. (remm)
  • Fix: 63766: Ensure Processor objects are recycled when processing an HTTP upgrade connection that terminates before processing switches to the Processor for the upgraded protocol. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 63781: When performing various checks related to the visibility of classes, fields and methods in the EL implementation, also check that the containing module has been exported. (markt)

Web Socket

  • Fix: 63753: Ensure that the Host header in a Web Socket HTTP upgrade request only contains a port if a non-default port is being used. (markt)
  • Fix: When running on Java 9 and above, don't attempt to instantiate WebSocket Endpoints found in modules that are not exported. (markt)

Web Applications

  • Docs: Add Javadoc for the Common Annotations API implementation. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: When connections are validated without an explicit validation query, ensure that any transactions opened by the validation process are committed. Patch provided by Pascal Davoust. (markt)

Other

  • Code: Deprecate org.apache.tomcat.util.compat.TLS. Its functionality was only used for unit tests in org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TesterSupport and has been moved there. (rjung)
  • Fix: 63759: When installing Tomcat with the Windows installer, grant sufficient privileges to enable the uninstaller to execute when user account control is active. (markt)
  • Add: Use a build property to define the minimum supported Java version and use that build property to reduce the number of edits required to update the minimum supported Java version. (markt)
  • Update: 63767: Update to Commons Daemon 1.2.2. This corrects a regression in Commons Daemon 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 that caused the Windows Service to crash on start when running on an operating system that had not been fully updated. (markt)

2019-09-19 Tomcat 8.5.46 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 63684: Wrapper never passed to RealmBase.hasRole() for given security constraints. (michaelo)
  • Fix: Avoid a potential NullPointerException on Service stop if a Service is embedded directly (i.e. with no Server) in an application and JNDI is enabled. Patch provided by S. Ali Tokmen. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new PropertySource implementation, EnvironmentPropertySource, that can be used to do property replacement in configuration files with environment variables. Based on a pull request provided by Thomas Meyer. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 63682: Fix a potential hang when using the asynchronous Servlet API to write the response body and the stream and/or connection window reaches 0 bytes in size. (markt)
  • Fix: 63690: Use the average of the current and previous sizes when calculating overhead for HTTP/2 DATA and WINDOW_UPDATE frames to avoid false positives as a result of client side buffering behaviour that causes a small percentage of non-final DATA frames to be smaller than expected. (markt)
  • Fix: 63706: Avoid NPE accessing https port with plaintext. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct typos in the names of the configuration attributes overheadDataThreshold and overheadWindowUpdateThreshold. (markt)
  • Fix: If the HTTP/2 connection requires an initial window size larger than the default, send a WINDOW_UPDATE to increase the flow control window for the connection so that the initial size of the flow control window for the connection is consistent with the increased value. (markt)
  • Fix: 63710: When using HTTP/2, ensure that a content-length header is not set for those responses with status codes that do not permit one. (markt)
  • Fix: 63737: Correct various issues when parsing the accept-encoding header to determine if gzip encoding is supported including only parsing the first header found. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct the source code links on the index page for the ROOT web application to point to Git rather than Subversion. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix various issues with the Javadoc generated for the documentation web application to enable release builds to be built with Java 10 onwards. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a large number of Javadoc and documentation typos. Patch provided by KangZhiDong. (markt)
  • Fix: Spelling and formatting corrections for the cluster how-to. Pull request provided by Bill Mitchell. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Back-port various corrections and improvements to the English versions of the i18n messages. (markt)
  • Add: Include the available German translations in the standard Tomcat distribution. Back-port additions and updates to the German i18n messages. (markt)
  • Fix: Back-port various corrections and improvements to the Spanish i18n messages. (markt)
  • Fix: Back-port various corrections and improvements to the French i18n messages. (markt)
  • Fix: Back-port various corrections and improvements to the Japanese i18n messages. (markt)
  • Fix: Back-port various corrections and improvements to the Russian i18n messages. (markt)
  • Add: Add Korean translations to the standard Tomcat distribution. (markt)
  • Add: Add Simplified Chinese translations to the standard Tomcat distribution. (markt)
  • Fix: 62140: Additional usage documentation in comments for catalina.[bat|sh]. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix JSSE_OPTS quoting in catalina.bat. Contributed by Peter Uhnak. (fschumacher)
  • Update: 63625: Update to Commons Daemon 1.2.1. This corrects several regressions in Commons Daemon 1.2.1, most notably the Windows Service crashing on start when using 32-bit JVMs. (markt)
  • Fix: 63689: Correct a regression in the fix for 63285 that meant that when installing a service, the service display name was not set. (markt)
  • Fix: When performing a silent install with the Windows Installer, ensure that the registry entries are added to the 64-bit registry when using a 64-bit JVM. (markt)
  • Fix: Remove unused i18n messages and associated translations. Patch provided by KangZhiDong. (markt)

2019-08-21 Tomcat 8.5.45 (markt)

Coyote

  • Code: Remove the code in the sendfile poller that ensured smaller pollsets were used with older, no longer supported versions of Windows that could not support larger pollsets. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.44 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 62258: Don't trigger the standard error page mechanism when the error has caused the connection to the client to be closed as no-one will ever see the error page. (markt)
  • Add: 62496: Add option to write auth information (remote user/auth type) to response headers. (michaelo)
  • Add: 51497: Add an option, ipv6Canonical, to the AccessLogValve that causes IPv6 addresses to be output in canonical form defined by RFC 5952. (ognjen/markt)
  • Add: 57665: Add support for the X-Forwarded-Host header to the RemoteIpFilter and RemoteIpValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 63550: Only try the alternateURL in the JNDIRealm if one has been specified. (markt)
  • Add: 63556: Mark request as forwarded in RemoteIpValve and RemoteIpFilter (michaelo)
  • Fix: 63579: Correct parsing of malformed OPTIONS requests and reject them with a 400 response rather than triggering an internal error that results in a 500 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 63608: Align the implementation of the negative match feature for patterns used with the RewriteValve with the description in the documentation. (markt)
  • Update: 63627: Implement more fine-grained handling in RealmBase.authenticate(GSSContext, boolean). (michaelo)
  • Fix: If an unhandled exception occurs on a asynchronous thread started via AsyncContext.start(Runnable), process it using the standard error page mechanism. (markt)
  • Fix: Discard large byte buffers allocated using setBufferSize when recycling the request. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct version information in X-Powered-By header. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException in the CrawlerSessionManagerValve if no ROOT Context is deployed and a request does not map to any of the other deployed Contexts. Patch provided by Jop Zinkweg. (markt)
  • Fix: 63636: Context.findRoleMapping() never called in StandardWrapper.findSecurityReference(). (michaelo)

Coyote

  • Fix: 63524: Improve the handling of PEM file based keys and certificates that do not include a full certificate chain when configuring the internal, in-memory key store. Improve the handling of PKCS#1 formatted private keys when configuring the internal, in-memory key store. (markt)
  • Fix: 63568: Avoid error when trying to set tcpNoDelay on socket types that do not support it, which can occur when using the NIO inherited channel capability. Submitted by František Kučera. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct parsing of invalid host names that contain bytes in the range 128 to 255 and reject them with a 400 response rather than triggering an internal error that results in a 500 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 63571: Allow users to configure infinite TLS session caches and/or timeouts. (markt)
  • Fix: 63578: Improve handling of invalid requests so that 400 responses are returned to the client rather than 500 responses. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix h2spec test suite failure. It is an error if a Huffman encoded string literal contains the EOS symbol. (jfclere)
  • Add: Connections that fail the TLS handshake will now appear in the access logs with a 400 status code. (markt)
  • Fix: Timeouts for HTTP/2 connections were not always correctly handled leaving some connections open for longer than expected. (markt)
  • Add: Expand the HTTP/2 excessive overhead protection to cover various forms of abusive client behaviour and close the connection if any such behaviour is detected. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a crash on shutdown with the APR/native connector when a blocking I/O operation was still in progress when the connector stopped. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 63597: Update the custom 404 error page for the Host Manager to take account of previous refactoring so that the page is used for 404 errors rather than falling back to the default error page. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 55969: Tighten up the security of the Apache Tomcat installation created by the Windows installer. Change the default shutdown port used by the Windows installer from 8005 to -1 (disabled). Limit access to the chosen installation directory to local administrators, Local System and Local Service. (markt)
  • Update: 62696: The digital signature for the Windows installer now uses SHA-256 for hashes. (markt)
  • Fix: 63285: Modify service.bat so that when installing a Windows service, by default, it changes the name of the executables used by the Windows service to match the service name. This makes the installation behaviour consistent with the Windows installer. The original executable names will be restored when the Windows service is removed. The renaming can be disabled by using the new --no-rename option after the service name. (markt)
  • Update: Switch from Checkstyle to the JRE6 backport and update to version 8.22. This allows Tomcat 8.5 to use the newer Checkstyle releases while still building with Java 7. (markt)
  • Add: 63285: Add an option to service.bat so that when installing a Windows service, the name of the executables used by the Windows service may be changed to match the service name. This makes the installation behaviour consistent with the Windows installer. The original executable names will be restored when the Windows service is removed. The renaming can be enabled by using the new --rename option after the service name. (markt)
  • Update: 63310: Update to Commons Daemon 1.2.0. This provides improved support for Java 11. This also changes the user configured by the Windows installer for the Windows service from Local System to the lower privileged Local Service. (markt)
  • Fix: 63567: Restore the passing of $LOGGING_MANAGER to the jvm in catalina.sh when calling stop. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Codec to 3ebef4a (2018-08-01) to pick up the fix for CODEC-134. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Pool2 to 796e32d (2018-08-01) to pick up the changes Commons Pool2 2.7.0. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP2 to 87d9e3a (2018-08-01) to pick up the changes Commons DBCP2 2.7.0 and DBCP-555. (markt)
  • Update: 63648: Update the test TLS keys and certificates used in the test suite to replace the keys and certificates that are about to expire. (markt)

2019-07-09 Tomcat 8.5.43 (markt)

Catalina

  • Update: Modify the Default and WebDAV Servlets so that a 405 status code is returned for PUT and DELETE requests when disabled via the readonly initialisation parameter.
  • Fix: Align the contents of the Allow header with the response code for the Default and WebDAV Servlets. For any given resource a method that returns a 405 status code will not be listed in the Allow header and a method listed in the Allow header will not return a 405 status code. (markt)
  • Fix: When using WebDAV to copy a file resource to a destination that requires a collection to be overwritten, ensure that the operation succeeds rather than fails (with a 500 response). This enables Tomcat to pass two additional tests from the Litmus WebDAV test suite. (markt)
  • Fix: 49464: Improve the Default Servlet's handling of static files when the file encoding is not compatible with the required response encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix typo in UTF-32LE charset name. Patch by zhanhb vi Github. (fschumacher)
  • Add: 58590: Add the ability for a UserDatabase to monitor the backing XML file for changes and reload the source file if a change in the last modified time is detected. This is enabled by default meaning that changes to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml will now take effect a short time after the file is saved. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve parsing of Range request headers. (markt)
  • Fix: Range headers that specify a range unit Tomcat does not recognise should be ignored rather than triggering a 416 response. Based on a pull request by zhanhb. (markt)
  • Fix: When comparing a date from a If-Range header, an exact match is required. Based on a pull request by zhanhb. (markt)
  • Fix: Add an option to the default servlet to disable processing of PUT requests with Content-Range headers as partial PUTs. The default behaviour (processing as partial PUT) is unchanged. Based on a pull request by zhanhb. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve parsing of Content-Range headers. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the HEAD response is consistent with the GET response when HttpServlet is relied upon to generate the HEAD response and the GET response uses chunking. (markt)
  • Update: Update the recommended minimum Tomcat Native version to 1.2.23. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Avoid a potential hang when a client connects using TLS 1.0 to a Tomcat HTTPS connector configured to use NIO or NIO with OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later. (markt)
  • Fix: Once a URI is identified as invalid don't attempt to process it further. Based on a PR by Alex Repert. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix to avoid the possibility of long poll times for individual pollers when using multiple pollers with APR. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the fix for 63205 so it only applies when using PKCS12 keystores as regressions have been reported with some other keystore types. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: Include file names in error messages if SMAP processor is unable to delete or rename a class file during SMAP generation. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 63521: As required by the WebSocket specification, if a POJO that is deployed as a result of the SCI scan for annotated POJOs is subsequently deployed via the programmatic API ignore the programmatic deployment. (markt)

Other

  • Code: Switch i18n message files to use UTF-8 and convert to ASCII at build time. (markt)
  • Fix: 63523: Restore SSLUtilBase methods as protected to preserve compatibility. (remm)
  • Fix: Switch the check for terminal availability to test for stdin as using stdout does not work when output is piped to another process. Patch provided by Radosław Józwik. (markt)

2019-06-07 Tomcat 8.5.42 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 57287: Add file sorting to DefaultServlet (schultz)
  • Fix: Ensure that the default servlet reads the entire global XSLT file if one is defined. Identified by Coverity Scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid potential NullPointerException when generating an HTTP Allow header. Identified by Coverity Scan. (markt)
  • Add: Remove any fragment included in the target path used to obtain a RequestDispatcher. The requested target path is logged as a warning since this is an application error. (markt)

Coyote

  • Update: Add additional NIO2 style read and write methods closer to core NIO2, for possible use with an asynchronous workflow like CompletableFuture. (remm)
  • Fix: Avoid useless exception wrapping in async IO. (remm)
  • Fix: 63412: Security manager failure when using the async IO API from a webapp. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix concurrency issue that lead to incorrect HTTP/2 connection timeout. (remm/markt)
  • Update: Reduce the default for maxConcurrentStreams on the Http2Protocol from 200 to 100 to align with typical defaults for HTTP/2 implementations. (markt)
  • Update: Reduce the default HTTP/2 header list size from 4GB to 32kB to align with typical HTTP/2 implementations. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for same-site cookie attribute. Patch provided by John Kelly. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a bug in the stream flushing code that could lead to multiple threads processing the stream concurrently which in turn could cause errors processing the stream. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: 62841: Refactor the DeltaRequest serialization to reduce the window during which the DeltaSession is locked and to remove a potential cause of deadlocks during serialization. (markt)
  • Fix: 63441: Further streamline the processing of session creation messages in the DeltaManager to reduce the possibility of a session update message being processed before the session has been created. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Treat NoRouteToHostException the same way as SocketTimeoutException when checking the health of group members. This avoids a SEVERE log message every time the check is performed when the host associated with a group member is not powered on. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Switch from FindBugs to SpotBugs. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 63403: Fix TestHttp2InitialConnection test failures when running with a non-English locale. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Use the test command to check for terminal availability rather than the tty command since the tty based test fails on non-English locales. (markt)

2019-05-13 Tomcat 8.5.41 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Fix a potential resource leak when executing CGI scripts from a WAR file. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential concurrency issue in the StringCache identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential concurrency issue in the main Sendfile thread of the APR connector. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential resource leak when running a web application from a WAR file. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential resource leak on some exception paths in the DataSourceRealm. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential resource leak on an exception path when parsing JSP files. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a potential resource leak when a JNDI lookup returns an object of an in compatible class. Identified by Coverity scan. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor ManagerServlet to avoid loading classes when filtering JNDI resources for resources of a specified type. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid OutOfMemoryErrors and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions when accessing large files via the default servlet when resource caching has been disabled. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException when a Context is defined in server.xml with a docBase but not the optional path. (markt)
  • Fix: 63324: Refactor the CrawlerSessionManagerValve so that the object placed in the session is compatible with session serialization with mem-cached. Patch provided by Martin Lemanski. (markt)
  • Fix: 63333: Override the isAvailable() method in the JAASRealm so that only login failures caused by invalid credentials trigger account lock out when the LockOutRealm is in use. Patch provided by jchobantonov. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: When running on newer JREs that don't support SSLv2Hello, don't warn that it is not available unless explicitly configured. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor Hostname validation to improve performance. Patch provided by Uwe Hees. (markt)
  • Fix: Expand HTTP/2 timeout handling to include connection window exhaustion on write. This is the fix for CVE-2019-10072. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 63335: Ensure that stack traces written by the OneLineFormatter are fully indented. The entire stack trace is now indented by an additional TAB character. (markt)
  • Fix: When using the OneLineFormatter, don't print a blank line in the log after printing a stack trace. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP 2 to dcdbc72 (2019-04-24) to pick up some clean-up and enhancements less the JDBC 4.2 related changes that require Java 8. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool 2 to 0664f4d (2019-04-30) to pick up some enhancements and bug fixes. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons FileUpload to 41e4047 (2019-04-24) pick up some enhancements. (markt)

2019-04-12 Tomcat 8.5.40 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 63196: Provide a default (X-Forwarded-Proto) for the protocolHeader attribute of the RemoteIpFilter and RemoteIpValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 63235: Refactor Charset cache to reduce start time. (markt)
  • Fix: 63249: Use a consistent log level (WARN) when logging the failure to register or deregister a JMX Bean. (markt)
  • Fix: 63249: Use a consistent log level (ERROR) when logging the LifecycleException associated with the failure to start or stop a component. (markt)
  • Fix: When the SSI directive fsize is used with an invalid target, return a file size of - rather than 1k. (markt)
  • Fix: 63251: Implement a work-around for a known JRE bug (JDK-8194653) that may cause a dead-lock when Tomcat starts. (markt)
  • Fix: 63275: When using a RequestDispatcher ensure that HttpServletRequest.getContextPath() returns an encoded path in the dispatched request. (markt)
  • Fix: 63286: Document the differences in behaviour between the LogFormat directive in httpd and the pattern attribute in the AccessLogValve for %D and %T. (markt)
  • Fix: 63311: Add support for https URLs to the local resolver within Tomcat used to resolve standard XML DTDs and schemas when Tomcat is configured to validate XML configuration files such as web.xml. (markt)
  • Fix: Encode the output of the SSI printenv command. This is the fix for CVE-2019-0221. (markt)
  • Code: Use constants for SSI encoding values. (markt)
  • Add: When the CGI Servlet is configured with enableCmdLineArguments set to true, limit the encoded form of the individual command line arguments to those values allowed by RFC 3875. This restriction may be relaxed by the use of the new initialisation parameter cmdLineArgumentsEncoded. (markt)
  • Add: When the CGI Servlet is configured with enableCmdLineArguments set to true, limit the decoded form of the individual command line arguments to known safe values when running on Windows. This restriction may be relaxed by the use of the new initialisation parameter cmdLineArgumentsDecoded. This is the fix for CVE-2019-0232. (markt)
  • Update: Change the default for the enableCmdLineArguments parameter of the CGI servlet from true to false as additional hardening against CVE-2019-0232. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Fix bad interaction between NIO2 async read API and the regular read. (remm)
  • Fix: Refactor NIO2 write pending strategy for the classic IO API. (remm)
  • Fix: Harmonize NIO2 isReadyForWrite with isReadyForRead code. (remm)
  • Fix: When using a JSSE TLS connector that supported ALPN (Java 9 onwards) and a protocol was not negotiated, Tomcat failed to fallback to HTTP/1.1 and instead dropped the connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the TLS connector refactoring in Tomcat 9.0.17 that prevented the use of PKCS#8 private keys with OpenSSL based connectors. (markt)
  • Fix: When performing an upgrade from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2, ensure that any query string present in the original HTTP/1.1 request is passed to the HTTP/2 request processing. (markt)
  • Fix: When Tomcat writes a final response without reading all of an HTTP/2 request, reset the stream to inform the client that the remaining request body is not required. (markt)
  • Fix: 63312: Correct a regression in the error page handling that prevented error pages from issuing redirects or taking other action that required the response status code to be changed. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 11 (with the value 11) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for specifying Java 12 (with the value 12) and Java 13 (with the value 13) as the compiler source and/or compiler target for JSP compilation. If used with an ECJ version that does not support these values, a warning will be logged and the latest supported version will used. Based on a patch by Thomas Collignon. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Improve the handling of exceptions during TLS handshakes for the WebSocket client. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 63184: Expand the SSI documentation to provide more information on the supported directives and their attributes. Patch provided by nightwatchcyber. (markt)
  • Add: Add a note to the documentation about the risk of DoS with poorly written regular expressions and the RewriteValve. Patch provided by salgattas. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 63320: Ensure that StatementCache caches statements that include arrays in arguments. (kfujino)

2019-03-19 Tomcat 8.5.39 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Minor HTTP/2 push fixes. (remm)
  • Fix: Refactor how cookies are transferred from the base request to a PushBuilder so that they are accessible, and may be edited, via the standard PushBuilder methods for working with HTTP headers. (markt)
  • Add: Refactor error handling to enable errors that occur before processing is passed to the application to be handled by the application provided error handling and/or the container provided error handling (ErrorReportValve) as appropriate. (markt)
  • Add: Pass 404 errors triggered by a missing ROOT web application to the container error handling to generate the response body. (markt)
  • Add: Pass 400 errors triggered by invalid request targets to the container error handling to generate the response body. (markt)
  • Add: Pass errors triggered by invalid requests or unavailable services to the application provided error handling and/or the container provided error handling (ErrorReportValve) as appropriate. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the MBean implementations for the internal Tomcat components to reduce code duplication. (markt)
  • Update: Simplify the value of jarsToSkip property in catalina.properties file for tomcat-i18n jar files. Use prefix pattern instead of listing each language. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Restore the getter and setter for the access log valve attribute maxLogMessageBufferSize that were accidentally removed. (markt)
  • Add: 63206: Add a new attribute to Context - createUploadTargets which, if true enables Tomcat to create the temporary upload location used by a Servlet if the location specified by the Servlet does not already exist. The default value is false. (markt)
  • Fix: 63210: Ensure that the Apache Commons DBCP 2 based default connection pool is correctly shutdown when it is no longer required. This ensures that a non-daemon thread is not left running that will prevent Tomcat from shutting down cleanly. (markt)
  • Fix: 63213: Ensure the correct escaping of group names when searching for nested groups when the JNDIRealm is configured with roleNested set to true. (markt)
  • Fix: 63236: Use String.intern() as suggested by Phillip Webb to reduce memory wasted due to String duplication. This changes saves ~245k when starting a clean installation. With additional thanks to YourKit Java profiler for helping to track down the wasted memory and the root causes. (markt)
  • Fix: 63246: Fix a potential NullPointerException when calling AsyncContext.dispatch(). (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that the toString(), toBytes() and toChars() methods of MessageBytes behave consistently and do not throw a NullPointerException both on newly created objects and immediately after a call to recycle(). This should not impact typical Tomcat users. It may impact users who use these classes directly in their own code. (markt)
  • Fix: When performing an HTTP/1.1 upgrade to HTTP/2 (h2c) ensure that the hostname and port from the HTTP/1.1 Host header of the upgraded request are made available via the standard methods ServletRequest.getServerName() and ServletRequest.getServerPort(). (markt)
  • Fix: Make PEM file parser a public utility class. (remm)
  • Fix: Refactor the APR/Native endpoint TLS configuration code to enable JSSE style configuration - including JKS keystores - to be used with the APR/Native connector. (markt)
  • Add: With the TLS configuration refactoring, the configuration attributes sessionCacheSize and sessionTimeout are no longer limited to JSSE implementations. They may now be used with OpenSSL implementations as well. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor NIO2 read pending strategy for the classic IO API. (remm)
  • Fix: 63182: Avoid extra read notifications for HTTP/1.1 with NIO2 when using asynchronous threads. (remm)
  • Add: 63205: Add a work-around for a known JRE KeyStore loading bug. (markt)
  • Update: Sync with NIO2 async API from Tomcat 9 branch. (remm)
  • Fix: NIO2 should try to use SocketTimeoutException everywhere rather than a mix of it and InterruptedByTimeout. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct an error in the request validation that meant that HTTP/2 push requests always resulted in a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 63223: Correctly account for push requests when tracking currently active HTTP/2 streams. (markt)
  • Fix: Verify HTTP/2 stream is still writable before assuming a timeout occurred. (remm)
  • Fix: Avoid some overflow cases with OpenSSL to improve efficiency, as the OpenSSL engine has an internal buffer. (remm)
  • Fix: Harmonize HTTP/1.1 NIO2 keepalive code. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Code: Remove the STREAMS_DROP_EMPTY_MESSAGES system property that was introduced to work-around four failing TCK tests. An alternative solution has been implemented. Sending messages via getSendStream() and getSendWriter() will now only result in messages on the wire if data is written to the OutputStream or Writer. Writing zero length data will result in an empty message. Note that sending a message via an Encoder may result in the message being send via getSendStream() or getSendWriter(). (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Use client's preferred language for the Server Status page of the Manager web application. Review and fix several cases when the client's language preference was not respected in Manager and Host Manager web applications. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Fix messages used by Manager and Host Manager web applications. Disambiguate message keys used when adding or removing a host. Improve display of summary values on the status page: separate terms and values with a whitespace. Improve wording of messages for expire sessions command. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Do not add CSRF nonce parameter and suppress Referer header for external links in Manager and Host Manager web applications. (kkolinko)

Tribes

  • Fix: Ensure that members registered in the addSuspects list are static members. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: Expand the coverage and quality of the Russian translations provided with Apache Tomcat. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 63041: Revert the changes for 53930 that added support for the CATALINA_OUT_CMD environment variable as they prevented correct operation with systemd configurations that did not explicitly specify a PID file. (markt)

2019-02-08 Tomcat 8.5.38 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 54741: Add a new method, Tomcat.addWebapp(String,URL), that allows a web application to be deployed from a URL when using Tomcat in embedded mode. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the ServletOutputStream implementation is consistent with the requirements of asynchronous I/O and that all of the write methods use a single write rather than multiple writes. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the Javadoc for Context.getDocBase() and Context.setDocBase() and remove text that indicates that a URL may be used for the docBase as this has not been the case for quite some time. (markt)
  • Add: Ensure that Tomcat is fully terminated when running as a service. (markt)
  • Code: Treat I/O errors during request body reads the same way as I/O errors during response body writes. The errors are treated as client side errors rather than server side errors and only logged at debug level. (markt)
  • Fix: 63038: Ensure that a ClassNotFoundException is thrown when attempting to load a class from a corrupted JAR file. (markt)
  • Add: Make the removal of leading and trailing whitespace from credentials passed to BASIC authentication configurable via a new attribute, trimCredentials on the BasicAuthenticator. (markt)
  • Fix: 63003: Extend the unloadDelay attribute on a Context to include in-flight asynchronous requests. (markt)
  • Add: 63026: Add a new attribute, forceDnHexEscape, to the JNDIRealm that forces escaping in the String representation of a distinguished name to use the \nn form. This may avoid issues with realms using Active Directory which appears to be more tolerant of optional escaping when the \nn form is used. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a swallowed (and therefore ignored) access failure during web application class loading when running under a SecurityManager. (markt)
  • Update: Update the recommended minimum Tomcat Native version to 1.2.21. (markt)
  • Fix: 63137: If the resources for a web application have been configured with multiple locations mapped to /WEB-INF/classes, ensure that all of those locations are used when building the web application class path. Patch provided by Marcin Gołębski. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: 63009: Include the optional content-length header in HTTP/2 responses where an appropriate value is available. (markt)
  • Fix: 63022: Do not use the socket open state when using the wrapper isClosed method for NIO and NIO2, as it will disable all further processing. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix socket close discrepancies for NIO2, now the wrapper close is used everywhere except for socket accept problems. (remm)

Jasper

  • Fix: 63056: Correct a regression in the fix for 53737 that did not correctly scan the web application directory structure for JSPs. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the performance optimisation for using expressions in tags that depend on uninitialised tag attributes with implied scope to make the performance optimisation aware of the new public class (java.lang.Enum$EnumDesc) added in Java 12. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 57974: Ensure implementation of Session.getOpenSessions() returns correct value for both client-side and server-side calls. (markt)
  • Fix: 63019: Use payload remaining bytes rather than limit when writing. Submitted by Benoit Courtilly. (remm)
  • Fix: When running under a SecurityManager, ensure that the ServiceLoader look-up for the default javax.websocket.server.ServerEndpointConfig.Configurator implementation completes correctly rather than silently using the hard-coded fall-back. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the network connection is closed if the client receives an I/O error trying to communicate with the server. (markt)
  • Fix: Ignore synthetic methods when scanning POJO methods. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of section 5.2.1 of the WebSocket 1.1 specification and ensure that if the deployment of one Endpoint fails, no Endpoints are deployed for that web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of section 4.3 of the WebSocket 1.1 specification and ensure that the deployment of an Endpoint fails if @PathParam is used with an invalid parameter type. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure a DeploymentException rather than an IllegalArgumentException is thrown if a method annotated with @OnMessage does not conform to the requirements set out in the Javadoc. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve algorithm that determines if two @OnMessage annotations have been added for the same message type. Prior to this change some matches were missed. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 63103: Remove the unused source.jsp file and associated tag from the examples web application as it is no longer used. (markt)
  • Fix: 63143: Ensure that the Manager web application respects the language preferences of the user as configured in the browser when the language of the default system locale is not English. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add EncryptInterceptor to the portfolio of available clustering interceptors. This adds symmetric encryption of session data to Tomcat clustering regardless of the type of cluster manager or membership being used. (schultz)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.21 to pick up the memory leak fixes when using NIO/NIO2 with OpenSSL. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 63041: Correct a regression in the fix for 53930 that prevented Tomcat from working correctly with systemd. Patch provided by Patrik S. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.04. (markt)

2018-12-18 Tomcat 8.5.37 (markt)

Catalina

  • Update: Update the recommended minimum Tomcat Native version to 1.2.19. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.19 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.5 and OpenSSL 1.1.1a. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.36 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 62788: Add explicit logging configuration to write log files using UTF-8 to align with Tomcat's use of UTF-8 by default elsewhere. (markt)
  • Fix: The default Servlet should not override a previously set content-type. (remm)
  • Add: 62897: Provide a property (clearReferencesThreadLocals) on the standard Context implementation that enables the check for memory leaks via ThreadLocals to be disabled because this check depends on the use of an API that has been deprecated in later versions of Java. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix more storeconfig issues with duplicated SSL attributes. (remm)
  • Fix: 62968: Avoid unnecessary (and relatively expensive) getResources() call in the Mapper when processing rule 7. (markt)
  • Fix: 62978: Update the RemoteIpValve to handle multiple values in the x-forwarded-proto header. Patch provided by Tom Groot. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the RemoteIpFilter to handle multiple values in the x-forwarded-proto header. Based on a patch provided by Tom Groot. (markt)
  • Code: 62986: Refactor the code that performs class scanning during web application start to make integration simpler for downstream users. Patch provided by rmannibucau. (markt)
  • Fix: 62988: Fix the LoadBalancerDrainingValve so it works when the session cookie configuration is not explicitly declared. Based on a patch provided by Andreas Kurth. (markt)
  • Fix: 63002: Fix setting rewrite qsdiscard flag. (remm)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of section 8.2.2 2c of the Servlet specification and prevent a web application from deploying if it has fragments with duplicate names and is configured to use relative ordering of fragments. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Avoid an exception when using Tomcat Native built with a version of OpenSSL that does not support TLSv1.3. (markt)
  • Fix: 62899: Prevent the incorrect timing out of connections when Servlet non-blocking I/O is used to read a request body over an HTTP/2 stream. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid bad SSLHostConfig JMX registrations before init. (remm)

Jasper

  • Add: 53737: Extend JspC, the precompilation tool, to include support for resource JARs. (markt)
  • Fix: 62976: Avoid an IllegalStateException when using background compilation when tag files are packaged in JAR files. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 62918: Filter out subtype mbeans to avoid breaking the connector status page. (remm)

Other

  • Fix: Prevent an error when running in a Cygwin shell and the JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS system property is empty. Patch provided by Zemian Deng. (markt)
  • Add: 53930: Add support for the CATALINA_OUT_CMD environment variable that defines a command to which captured stdout and stderr will be redirected. Patch provided by Casey Lucas. (markt)

2018-11-07 Tomcat 8.5.35 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 61692: Add the ability to control which HTTP methods are handled by the CGI Servlet via a new initialization parameter cgiMethods. (markt)
  • Fix: 62687: Expose content length information for resources when using a compressed war. (remm)
  • Fix: 62737: Fix rewrite substitutions parsing of {} nesting. (remm)
  • Fix: Add rewrite flags output when getting the rewrite configuration back. (remm)
  • Fix: Add missing qsdiscard flag to the rewrite flags as a cleaner way to discard the query string. (remm)
  • Fix: Add documentation about the files context.xml.default and web.xml.default that can be used to customize conf/context.xml and conf/web.xml on a per host basis. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: Ensure that a canonical path is always used for the docBase of a Context to ensure consistent behaviour. (markt)
  • Fix: 62803: Fix SSL connector configuration processing in storeconfig. (remm)
  • Fix: 62797: Pass throwable to keep client aborts with status 200 rather than 500. Patch submitted by zikfat. (remm)
  • Fix: 62809: Correct a regression in the implementation of DIGEST authentication support for the Deployer Ant tasks (bug 45832) that prevented the DeployTask from working when authentication was required. (markt)
  • Update: Update the recommended minimum Tomcat Native version to 1.2.18. (markt)
  • Add: Ignore an attribute named source on Context elements provided by StandardContext. This is to suppress warnings generated by the Eclipse / Tomcat integration provided by Eclipse. Based on a patch by mdfst13. (markt)
  • Add: 62830: Added JniLifeCycleListener and static methods Library.loadLibrary(libraryName) and Library.load(filename) to load a native library by a shared class loader so that more than one Webapp can use it. (isapir)
  • Fix: Correct a typo in the Spanish resource files. Patch provided by Diego Agulló. (markt)
  • Fix: 62868: Order the Enumeration<URL> provided by WebappClassLoaderBase.getResources(String) according to the setting of the delegate flag. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Add TLSv1.3 to the default protocols and to the all alias for JSSE based TLS connectors when running on a JVM that supports TLS version 1.3. One such JVM is OpenJDK version 11. (rjung)
  • Fix: 62685: Correct an error in host name validation parsing that did not allow a fully qualified domain name to terminate with a period. Patch provided by AG. (markt)
  • Fix: 62739: Do not reject requests with an empty HTTP Host header. Such requests are unusual but not invalid. Patch provided by Michael Orr. (markt)
  • Add: 62748: Add TLS 1.3 support for the APR/Native connector and the NIO/NIO2 connector when using the OpenSSL backed JSSE implementation. (schultz/markt)
  • Fix: 62791: Remove an unnecessary check in the NIO TLS implementation that prevented from secure WebSocket connections from being established. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix server initiated TLS renegotiation to obtain a client certificate when using NIO/NIO2 and the OpenSSL backed JSSE TLS implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 62871: Improve MBeans for Endpoint instances (type ThreadPool in JMX) by using explicit declaration of attributes and operations rather than relying on introspection. Add a new MBean to expose the Socketproperties values. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Correct parsing of XML whitespace in TLD function signatures that incorrectly only looked for the space character. (markt)
  • Fix: 62674: Correct a regression in the stand-alone JSP compiler utility, JspC, caused by the fix for 53492, that caused the JSP compiler to hang. (markt)
  • Fix: 62721: Correct generation of web.xml header when using JspC. (markt)
  • Fix: 62757: Correct a regression in the fix for 62603 that caused NullPointerExceptions when compiling tag files on first access when development mode was disabled and background compilation was enabled. Based on a patch by Jordi Llach. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 62731: Make the URI returned by HandshakeRequest.getRequestURI() and Session.getRequestURI() absolute so that the scheme, host and port are accessible. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 62676: Expand the CORS filter documentation to make it clear that explicit configuration is required to enable support for cross-origin requests. (markt)
  • Fix: 62712: Correct NPE in Manager application when attempting to view configured certificates for an APR/native TLS connector. (markt)
  • Fix: 62761: Correct the advanced CORS example in the Filter documentation to use a valid configuration. (markt)
  • Fix: 62786: Add a note to the Context documentation to explain that, by default, settings for a Context element defined in server.xml will be overwritten by settings specified in a default context file such as conf/context.xml. (markt)
  • Fix: Create a little visual separation between the Undeploy button and the other buttons in the Manager application. Patch provided by Łukasz Jąder. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool 2 to d4e0e88 (2018-09-12) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.18 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.5 and OpenSSL 1.1.1. (markt)

2018-09-10 Tomcat 8.5.34 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: Make the isLocked() method of the LockOutRealm public and expose the method via JMX. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of path parameters when working with RequestDispatcher objects. (markt)
  • Fix: 62664: Process requests with content type multipart/form-data to servlets with a @MultipartConfig annotation regardless of HTTP method. (markt)
  • Fix: 62667: Add recursion to rewrite substitution parsing. (remm)
  • Fix: 62669: When using the SSIFilter and a resource does not specify a content type, do not force the content type to application/x-octet-stream. (markt)
  • Fix: 62670: Adjust the memory leak protection for the DriverManager so that JDBC drivers located in $CATALINA_HOME/lib and $CATALINA_BASE/lib are loaded via the service loader mechanism when the protection is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: When generating a redirect to a directory in the Default Servlet, avoid generating a protocol relative redirect. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Fix potential deadlocks when using asynchronous Servlet processing with HTTP/2 connectors. (markt)
  • Fix: 62620: Fix corruption of response bodies when writing large bodies using asynchronous processing over HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: 62628: Additional fixes for output corruption of response bodies when writing large bodies using asynchronous processing over HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Correct the JSP version in the X-PoweredBy HTTP header generated when the xpoweredBy option is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 62662: Fix the corruption of web.xml output during JSP compilation caused by the fix for 53492. Patch provided by Bernhard Frauendienst. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: Expand the information in the documentation web application regarding the use of CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. Patch provided by Marek Czernek. (markt)
  • Fix: 62652: Make it clearer that the version of DBCP that is packaged in Tomcat 8.5.x is DBCP 2. Correct the names of some DBCP 2 configuration attributes that changed between 1.x and 2.x. (markt)
  • Add: 62666: Expand internationalisation support in the Manager application to include the server status page and provide Russian translations in addition to English. Patch provided by Artem Chebykin. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Switch the build script to use http for downloads from an ASF mirror using the closer.lua script to avoid failures due to HTTPS to HTTP redirects. (rjung)

2018-08-17 Tomcat 8.5.33 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Ensure that the HTTP Vary header is set correctly when using the CORS filter and improve the cacheability of requests that pass through the COPRS filter. (markt)
  • Fix: 62527: Revert restriction of JNDI to the java: namespace. (remm)
  • Add: Introduce a new class - MultiThrowable - to report exceptions when multiple actions are taken where each action may throw an exception but all actions are taken before any errors are reported. Use this new class when reporting multiple container (e.g. web application) failures during start. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly decode URL paths (+ should not be decoded to a space in the path) in the RequestDispatcher and the web application class loader. (markt)
  • Add: Make logout more robust if JASPIC subject is unexpectedly unavailable. (markt)
  • Fix: 62547: JASPIC cleanSubject() was not called on logout when the authenticator was configured to cache the authenticated Principal. Patch provided by Guillermo González de Agüero. (markt)
  • Add: 62559: Add jaxb-*.jar to the list of JARs ignored by StandardJarScanner. (markt)
  • Add: 62560: Add oraclepki.jar to the list of JARs ignored by StandardJarScanner. (markt)
  • Add: 62607: Return a non-zero exit code from catalina.[bat|sh] run if Tomcat fails to start. (markt)
  • Code: Remove ServletException from declaration of Tomcat.addWebapp(String,String) since it is never thrown. Patch provided by Tzafrir. (markt)
  • Fix: Use short circuit logic to prevent potential NPE in CorsFilter. (fschumacher)
  • Code: Simplify construction of appName from container name in JAASRealm. (fschumacher)

Coyote

  • Update: 60560: Add support for using an inherited channel to the NIO connector. Based on a patch submitted by Thomas Meyer with testing and suggestions by Coty Sutherland. (remm)
  • Fix: 62507: Ensure that JSSE based TLS connectors work correctly with a DKS keystore. Note: DKS keystores require Java 8 or later. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor code that adds an additional header name to the Vary HTTP response header to use a common utility method that addresses several additional edge cases. (markt)
  • Fix: 62515: When a connector is configured (via setting bindOnInit to false) to bind/unbind the server socket during start/stop, close the socket earlier in the stop process so new connections do not sit in the TCP backlog during the shutdown process only to be dropped as stop completes. In this scenario new connections will now be refused immediately. (markt)
  • Fix: 62526: Correctly handle PKCS12 format key stores when the key store password is configured to be the empty string. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix error in back-port of HTTP/2 compression that meant compression was never enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 62605: Ensure ReadListener.onDataAvailable() is called when the initial request body data arrives after the request headers when using asynchronous processing over HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: 62614: Ensure that WriteListener.onWritePossible() is called after isReady() returns false and the window size is subsequently incremented when using asynchronous processing over HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 53011: When pre-compiling with JspC, report all compilation errors rather than stopping after the first error. A new option -failFast can be used to restore the previous behaviour of stopping after the first error. Based on a patch provided by Marc Pompl. (markt)
  • Add: 53492: Make the Java file generation process multi-threaded. By default, one thread will be used per core. Based on a patch by Dan Fabulich. (markt)
  • Add: 62453: Add a performance optimisation for using expressions in tags that depend on uninitialised tag attributes with implied scope. Generally, using an explicit scope with tag attributes in EL is the best way to avoid various potential performance issues. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly decode URL paths (+ should not be decoded to a space in the path) in the Jasper class loader. (markt)
  • Fix: 62603: Fix a potential race condition when development mode is disabled and background compilation checks are enabled. It was possible that some updates would not take effect and/or ClassNotFoundExceptions would occur. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 62596: Remove the limit on the size of the initial HTTP upgrade request used to establish the web socket connection. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: 61565: Add the ability to trigger a reloading of TLS host configuration (certificate and key files, server.xml is not re-parsed) via the Manager web application. (markt)
  • Add: 62558: Add Russian translations for the Manager and Host Manager web applications. Based on a patch by Ivan Krasnov. (markt)
  • Add: 62561: Add advanced class loader configuration information regarding the use of the Server and Shared class loaders to the documentation web application. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Ensures that the specified rxBufSize is correctly set to receiver buffer size. (kfujino)

Other

  • Update: Support building with Java 9+ while preserving the Java 7 compatibility at runtime (requires Ant 1.9.8 or later). (ebourg)
  • Update: Update WSDL4J library to version 1.6.3 (from 1.6.2). (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update JUnit library to version 4.12 (from 4.11). (kkolinko)
  • Update: Downgrade CGLib library used for testing with EasyMock to version 2.2.2 (from 2.2.3) as version 2.2.3 is not available from Maven Central. (markt/kkolinko)
  • Add: Implement checksum checks when downloading dependencies that are used to build Tomcat. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Fixed spelling. Patch provided by Jimmy Casey via GitHub. (violetagg)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons Pool 2 to 3e02523 (2018-08-09) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP 2 to abc0484 (2018-08-09) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct various spelling errors throughout the source code and documentation. Patch provided by Kazuhiro Sera. (markt)

2018-06-25 Tomcat 8.5.32 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Treat the <mapped-name> element of a <env-entry> in web.xml in the same way as the mappedName element of the equivalent @Resource annotation. Both now attempt to set the mappedName property of the resource. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the processing of resources with <injection-target>s defined in web.xml. First look for a match using JavaBean property names and then, only if a match is not found, look for a match using fields. (markt)
  • Fix: When restoring a saved request with a request body after FORM authentication, ensure that calls to the HttpServletRequest methods getRequestURI(), getQueryString() and getProtocol() are not corrupted by the processing of the saved request body. (markt)
  • Fix: JNDI resources that are defined with injection targets but no value are now treated as if the resource is not defined. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that JNDI names used for <lookup-name> entries in web.xml and for lookup elements of @Resource annotations specify a name with an explicit java: namespace. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the org.apache.naming package to reduce duplicate code. Duplicate code identified by the Simian tool. (markt)
  • Fix: 50019: Add support for <lookup-name>. Based on a patch by Gurkan Erdogdu. (markt)
  • Add: 51953: Add the RemoteCIDRFilter and RemoteCIDRValve that can be used to allow/deny requests based on IPv4 and/or IPv6 client address where the IP ranges are defined using CIDR notation. Based on a patch by Francis Galiegue. (markt)
  • Fix: 62343: Make CORS filter defaults more secure. This is the fix for CVE-2018-8014. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the web application resources implementation does not incorrectly cache results for resources that are only visible as class loader resources. (markt)
  • Fix: Make all loggers associated with Tomcat provided Filters non-static to ensure that log messages are not lost when a web application is reloaded. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the manifest for the annotations-api.jar. The JAR implements the Common Annotations API 1.2 and the manifest should reflect that. (markt)
  • Fix: Switch to non-static loggers where there is a possibility of a logger becoming associated with a web application class loader causing log messages to be lost if the web application is stopped. (markt)
  • Add: 62389: Add the IPv6 loopback address to the default internalProxies regular expression. Patch by Craig Andrews. (markt)
  • Fix: In the RemoteIpValve and RemoteIpFilter, correctly handle the case when the request passes through one or more trustedProxies but no internalProxies. Based on a patch by zhanhb. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the logic in MBeanFactory.removeConnector() to ensure that the correct Connector is removed when there are multiple Connectors using different addresses but the same port. (markt)
  • Fix: Make JAASRealm mis-configuration more obvious by requiring the authenticated Subject to include at least one Principal of a type specified by userClassNames. (markt)
  • Fix: 62476: Use GMT timezone for the value of Expires header as required by HTTP specification (RFC 7231, 7234). (kkolinko)

Coyote

  • Fix: Consistent exception propagation for NIO2 SSL close. (remm)
  • Fix: Log an error message if the AJP connector detects that the reverse proxy is sending AJP messages that are too large for the configured packetSize. (markt)
  • Fix: Relax Host validation by removing the requirement that the final component of a FQDN must be alphabetic. (markt)
  • Fix: 62371: Improve logging of Host validation failures. (markt)
  • Fix: Add missing handshake timeout for NIO2. (remm)
  • Fix: Correctly handle a digest authorization header when the user name contains an escaped character. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle a digest authorization header when one of the hex field values ends the header with in an invalid character. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle an invalid quality value in an Accept-Language header. (markt)
  • Docs: 62423: Fix SSL docs CRL attribute typo. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve IPv6 validation by ensuring that IPv4-Mapped IPv6 addresses do not contain leading zeros in the IPv4 part. Based on a patch by Katya Stoycheva. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix NullPointerException thrown from replaceSystemProperties() when trying to log messages. (csutherl)
  • Fix: Avoid unnecessary processing of async timeouts. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: 50234: Add the capability to generate a web-fragment.xml file to JspC. (markt)
  • Fix: 62080: Ensure that all reads of the current thread's context class loader made by the UEL API and implementation are performed via a PrivilegedAction to ensure that a SecurityException is not triggered when running under a SecurityManager. (mark)
  • Fix: 62350: Refactor org.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl so a SecurityException is not thrown when running under a SecurityManger and additional permissions are not required in the catalina.policy file. This is a follow-up to the fix for 43925. (kkolinko/markt)
  • Fix: Update web.xml, web-fragment.xml and web.xml extracts generated by JspC to use the Servlet 3.1 version of the relevant schemas. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: Remove duplicate calls when creating a replicated session to reduce the time taken to create the session and thereby reduce the chances of a subsequent session update message being ignored because the session does not yet exist. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: When decoding of path parameter failed, make sure to throw DecodeException instead of throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Enable host name verification when using TLS with the WebSocket client. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 62395: Clarify the meaning of the connector attribute minSpareThreads in the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the documentation for the allowHostHeaderMismatch attribute of the standard HTTP Connector implementations. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Ensure that the correct default value is returned when retrieve unset properties in McastService. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: When logValidationErrors is set to true, the connection validation error is logged as SEVERE instead of WARNING. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: 62391: Remove references to javaw.exe as this file is not required by Tomcat and the references prevent the use of the Server JRE. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.17 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.3 and OpenSSL 1.0.2o. (markt)
  • Update: 62458: Update the internal fork of Commons Pool 2 to dfef97b (2018-06-18) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP 2 to 2.4.0. (markt)

2018-05-03 Tomcat 8.5.31 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 62263: Avoid a NullPointerException when the RemoteIpValve processes a request for which no Context can be found. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a rare edge case that is unlikely to occur in real usage. This edge case meant that writing long streams of UTF-8 characters to the HTTP response that consisted almost entirely of surrogate pairs could result in one surrogate pair being dropped. (markt)
  • Fix: Register MBean when DataSource Resource type="javax.sql.XADataSource". Patch provided by Masafumi Miura. (csutherl)
  • Add: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to r1829827 to add early access Java 11 support to the annotation scanning code. (markt)
  • Fix: 62297: Enable the CrawlerSessionManagerValve to correctly handle bots that crawl multiple hosts and/or web applications when the Valve is configured on a Host or an Engine. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 62309: Fix a SecurityException when using JASPIC under a SecurityManager when authentication is not mandatory. (markt)
  • Fix: 62329: Correctly list resources in JAR files when directories do not have dedicated entries. Patch provided by Meelis Müür. (markt)
  • Add: Collapse multiple leading / characters to a single / in the return value of HttpServletRequest#getContextPath() to avoid issues if the value is used with HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect(). This behaviour is enabled by default and configurable via the new Context attribute allowMultipleLeadingForwardSlashInPath. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct off-by-one error in thread pool that allowed thread pools to increase in size to one more than the configured limit. Patch provided by usc. (markt)
  • Fix: Prevent unexpected TLS handshake failures caused by errors during a previous handshake that were not correctly cleaned-up when using the NIO or NIO2 connector with the OpenSSLImplementation. (markt)
  • Add: Enable strict validation of the provided host name and port for all connectors. Requests with invalid host names and/or ports will be rejected with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Add: 62273: Implement configuration options to work-around specification non-compliant user agents (including all the major browsers) that do not correctly %nn encode URI paths and query strings as required by RFC 7230 and RFC 3986. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Enable ECJ version 4.7 and later to be used as a drop in replacement for the ECJ version that ships with Apache Tomcat. (markt)
  • Fix: Enable Java 10 to be specified as a JSP source and/or target if a newer ECJ version is used. (markt)
  • Fix: 62287: Do not rely on hash codes to test instances of ValueExpressionImpl for equality. Patch provided by Mark Struberg. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 62301: Correct a regression in the fix for 61491 that didn't correctly handle a final empty message part in all circumstances when using PerMessageDeflate. (markt)
  • Fix: 62332: Ensure WebSocket connections are closed after an I/O error is experienced reading from the client. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Avoid warning when running under Cygwin when the JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS environment variable is not set. Patch provided by Zemian Deng. (markt)

2018-04-07 Tomcat 8.5.30 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 51195: Avoid a false positive report of a web application memory leak by clearing ObjectStreamClass$Caches of classes loaded by the web application when the web application is stopped. (markt)
  • Fix: 52688: Add support for the maxDays attribute to the AccessLogValve and ExtendedAccessLogValve. This allows the maximum number of days for which rotated access logs should be retained before deletion to be defined. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure the MBean names for the SSLHostConfig and SSLHostConfigCertificate are correctly formed when the Connector is bound to a specific IP address. (markt)
  • Fix: 62168: When using the PersistentManager honor a value of -1 for minIdleSwap and do not swap out sessions to keep the number of active sessions under maxActive. Patch provided by Holger Sunke. (markt)
  • Fix: 62172: Improve Javadoc for org.apache.catalina.startup.Constants and ensure that the constants are correctly used. (markt)
  • Fix: 62175: Avoid infinite recursion, when trying to validate a session while loading it with PersistentManager. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: Ensure that NamingContextListener instances are only notified once of property changes on the associated naming resources. (markt)
  • Add: Add LoadBalancerDrainingValve, a Valve designed to reduce the amount of time required for a node to drain its authenticated users. (schultz)
  • Add: 62224: Disable the forkJoinCommonPoolProtection of the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener when running on Java 9 and above since the underlying JRE bug has been fixed. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Avoid potential loop in APR/Native poller. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure streams that are received but not processed are excluded from the tracking of maximum ID of processed streams. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the check for a paused connector to consistently prevent new streams from being created after the connector has been paused. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve debug logging for HTTP/2 pushed streams. (markt)
  • Fix: The OpenSSL engine SSL session will now ignore invalid accesses. (remm)
  • Fix: 62177: Correct two protocol errors with HTTP/2 PUSH_PROMISE frames. Firstly, the HTTP/2 protocol only permits pushes to be sent on peer initiated requests. Secondly, pushes must be sent in order of increasing stream ID. These restriction were not being enforced leading to protocol errors at the client. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: Add document for FragmentationInterceptor. (kfujino)
  • Add: Document how the roles for an authenticated user are determined when the CombinedRealm is used. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Add JMX support for FragmentationInterceptor in order to prevent warning of startup. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: Ensure that SQLWarning has been cleared when connection returns to the pool. (kfujino)
  • Add: Enable clearing of SQLWarning via JMX. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that parameters have been cleared when PreparedStatement and/or CallableStatement are cached. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Enable PoolCleaner to be started even if validationQuery is not set. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: 62164: Switch the build script to use TLS for downloads from SourceForge and Maven Central to avoid failures due to HTTP to HTTPS redirects. (markt)
  • Add: Always report the OS's umask when launching the JVM. (schultz)

2018-03-08 Tomcat 8.5.29 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Minor optimization when calling class transformers. (rjung)
  • Fix: Prevent Tomcat from applying gzip compression to content that is already compressed with brotli compression. Based on a patch provided by burka. (markt)
  • Fix: 62090: Null container names are not allowed. (remm)
  • Fix: 62104: Fix programmatic login regression as the NonLoginAuthenticator has to be set for it to work (if no login method is specified). (remm)
  • Fix: 62117: Improve error message in catalina.sh when calling kill -0 <pid> fails. Based on a suggestion from Mark Morschhaeuser. (markt)
  • Fix: 62118: Correctly create a JNDI ServiceRef using the specified interface rather than the concrete type. Based on a suggestion by Ángel Álvarez Páscua. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix for RequestDumperFilter log attribute. Patch provided by Kirill Romanov via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 62123: Avoid ConcurrentModificationException when attempting to clean up application triggered RMI memory leaks on web application stop. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 60276 that meant that compression was applied to all MIME types. Patch provided by Stefan Knoblich. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Add minor HPACK fixes, based on fixes by Stuart Douglas. (remm)
  • Fix: 61751: Follow up fix so that OpenSSL engine returns underflow when unwrapping if no bytes were produced and the input is empty. (remm)
  • Fix: Minor OpenSSL engine cleanups. (remm)
  • Fix: NIO SSL handshake should throw an exception on overflow status, like NIO2 SSL. (remm)

Web applications

  • Add: 48672: Add documentation for the Host Manager web application. Patch provided by Marek Czernek. (markt)
  • Add: Work-around a known, non-specification compliant behaviour in some versions of IE that can allow XSS when the Manager application generates a plain text response. Based on a suggestion from Muthukumar Marikani. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the build script so MD5 hashes are no longer generated for releases as per the change in the ASF distribution policy. (markt)

2018-02-11 Tomcat 8.5.28 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Prevent a stack trace being written to standard out when running on Java 10 due to changes in the LogManager implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 62000: When a JNDI reference cannot be resolved, ensure that the root cause exception is reported rather than swallowed. (markt)
  • Fix: 62036: When caching an authenticated user Principal in the session when the web application is configured with the NonLoginAuthenticator, cache the internal Principal object rather than the user facing Principal object as Tomcat requires the internal object to correctly process later authorization checks. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid duplicate load attempts if one has been made already. (remm)
  • Fix: Avoid NPE in ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener if there is no Engine. (remm)
  • Fix: 62067: Correctly apply security constraints mapped to the context root using a URL pattern of "". (markt)
  • Fix: When using Tomcat embedded, only perform Authenticator configuration once during web application start. (markt)
  • Fix: Process all ServletSecurity annotations at web application start rather than at servlet load time to ensure constraints are applied consistently. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61751: Fix truncated request input streams when using NIO2 with TLS. (markt)
  • Fix: 62023: Log error reporting multiple SSLHostConfig elements when using the APR Connector instead of crashing Tomcat. (csutherl)
  • Fix: 62032: Fix NullPointerException when certificateFile is not defined on an SSLHostConfig and unify the behavior when a certificateFile is defined but the file does not exist for both JKS and PEM file types. (csutherl)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 62024: When closing a connection with an abnormal close, close the socket immediately rather than waiting for a close message from the client that may never arrive. (markt)

Webapps

  • Fix: 62049: Fix missing class from manager 404 JSP error page. (remm)

jdbc-pool

  • Add: Enhance the JMX support for jdbc-pool in order to expose PooledConnection and JdbcInterceptors. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add MBean for PooledConnection. (kfujino)
  • Add: 62011: Add MBean for StatementCache. (kfujino)
  • Add: Expose the cache size for each connection via JMX in StatementCache. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add MBean for ResetAbandonedTimer. (kfujino)

Other

  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.03. (kkolinko)

2018-01-22 Tomcat 8.5.27 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Correct a regression in the previous fix for 61916 that meant that any call to addHeader() would have been replaced with a call to setHeader() for all requests mapped to the AddDefaultCharsetFilter. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61993: Improve handling for ByteChunk and CharChunk instances that grow close to the maximum size allowed by the JRE. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: 43925: Add a new system property (org.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.BUFFER_SIZE) to control the size of the buffer used by Jasper when buffering tag bodies. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 62006: Document the new JvmOptions9 command line parameter for tomcat8.exe. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.26 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Correct Javadoc errors in release build.

not released Tomcat 8.5.25 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 47214: Use a loop to preload anonymous inner classes when running under a SecurityManager, to be safe for future changes in the code or using a different compiler. (kkolinko)
  • Add: 57619: Implement a small optimisation to how JAR URLs are processed to reduce the storage of duplicate String objects in memory. Patch provided by Dmitri Blinov. (markt)
  • Fix: Add some missing NPEs to ServletContext. (remm)
  • Fix: 61916: Extend the AddDefaultCharsetFilter to add a character set when the content type is set via setHeader() or addHeader() as well as when it is set via setContentType(). (markt)
  • Fix: 61999: maxSavePostSize set to 0 should disable saving POST data during authentication. (remm)

Coyote

  • Add: 60276: Implement GZIP compression support for responses served over HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not call onDataAvailable without any data to read. (remm)
  • Fix: 61886: Log errors on non-container threads at DEBUG rather than INFO. The exception will be made available to the application via the asynchronous error handling mechanism. (markt)
  • Fix: 61914: Possible NPE with Java 9 when creating an SSL engine. Patch submitted by Evgenij Ryazanov. (remm)
  • Fix: 61918: Fix connectionLimitLatch counting when closing an already closed socket. Based on a patch by Ryan Fong. (remm)
  • Add: Add support for the OpenSSL ARIA ciphers to the OpenSSL to JSSE cipher mapping. (markt)
  • Fix: 61932: Allow a call to AsyncContext.dispatch() to terminate non-blocking I/O. (markt)
  • Fix: 61948: Improve the handling of malformed ClientHello messages in the code that extracts the SNI information from a TLS handshake for the JSSE based NIO and NIO2 connectors. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix NIO2 handshaking with a full input buffer. (remm)
  • Add: Return a simple, plain text error message if a client attempts to make a plain text HTTP connection to a TLS enabled NIO or NIO2 Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle EOF when ServletInputStream.isReady() is called. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 61854: When using sets and/or maps in EL expressions, ensure that Jasper correctly parses the expression. Patch provided by Ricardo Martin Camarero. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of methods with varargs in EL expressions. In particular, the calling of a varargs method with no parameters now works correctly. Based on a patch by Nitkalya (Ing) Wiriyanuparb. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove the Servlet 4.0 early preview example from the examples web application as the early preview is now deprecated in favour of Tomcat 9 which provides a full Servlet 4.0 implementation. (markt)
  • Add: 61223: Add the mbeans-descriptors.dtd file to the custom MBean documentation so users have a reference to use when constructing mbeans-descriptors.xml files for custom components. (markt)
  • Add: 61566: Expose the currently in use certificate chain and list of trusted certificates for all virtual hosts configured using the JSSE style (keystore) TLS configuration via the Manager web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Partial fix for 61886. Ensure that multiple threads do not attempt to complete the AsyncContext if an I/O error occurs in the stock ticker example Servlet. (markt)
  • Fix: 61886: Prevent ConcurrentModificationException when running the asynchronous stock ticker in the examples web application. (markt)
  • Fix: 61886: Prevent NullPointerException and other errors if the stock ticker example is running when the examples web application is stopped. (markt)
  • Fix: 61910: Clarify the meaning of the allowLinking option in the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Add: Add OCSP configuration information to the SSL How-To. Patch provided by Marek Czernek. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 61312: Prevent NullPointerException when using the statement cache of connection that has been closed. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Add an additional system property for the system property replacement. (remm)
  • Fix: Add missing SHA-512 hash for release artifacts to the build script. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Pool 2 to 2.4.3. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP 2 to 8a71764 (2017-10-18) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons FileUpload to 6c00d57 (2017-11-23) to pick up some code clean-up. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Codec to r1817136 to pick up some code clean-up. (markt)
  • Fix: The native source bundles (for Commons Daemon and Tomcat Native) are no longer copied to the bin directory for the deploy target. They are now only copied to the bin directory for the release target. (markt)

2017-11-30 Tomcat 8.5.24 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: When running under Java 9 or later, and the urlCacheProtection option of the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener is enabled, use the API added in Java 9 to only disable the caching for JAR URL connections. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix possible SecurityException when using TLS related request attributes. (markt)
  • Fix: 61597: Extend the StandardJarScanner to scan JARs on the module path when running on Java 9 and class path scanning is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 61601: Add support for multi-release JARs in JAR scanning and web application class loading. (markt)
  • Fix: 61681: Allow HTTP/2 push when using request wrapping. (remm)
  • Add: Provide the SessionInitializerFilter that can be used to ensure that an HTTP session exists when initiating a WebSocket connection. Patch provided by isapir. (markt)
  • Fix: 61682: When re-prioritising HTTP/2 streams, ensure that both parent and children fields are correctly updated to avoid a possible StackOverflowError. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve concurrency by reducing the scope of the synchronisation for javax.security.auth.message.config.AuthConfigFactory in the JASPIC API implementation. Based on a patch by Pavan Kumar. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a possible NullPointerException when timing out AsyncContext instances during shut down. (markt)
  • Fix: 61777: Avoid a NullPointerException when detaching a JASPIC RegistrationListener. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61778: Correct the return value when detaching a JASPIC RegistrationListener. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61779: Avoid a NullPointerException when a null RegistrationListener is passed to AuthConfigFactory.getConfigProvider(). Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61780: Only include the default JASPIC registration ID in the return value for a call to AuthConfigFactory.getRegistrationIDs() if a RegistrationContext has been registered using the default registration ID. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61781: Enable JASPIC provider registrations to be persisted when the layer and/or application context are null. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61782: When calling AuthConfigFactory.doRegisterConfigProvider() and the requested JASPIC config provider class is found by the web application class loader, do not attempt to load the class with the class loader that loaded the JASPIC API. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61783: When calling AuthConfigFactory.removeRegistration() and the registration is persistent, it should be removed from the persistent store. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Fix: 61784: Correctly handle the case when AuthConfigFactoryImpl.registerConfigProvider() is called with a provider name of null. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)
  • Add: 61795: Add a property to the Authenticator implementations to enable a custom JASPIC CallbackHandler to be specified. Patch provided by Lazar. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Enable ALPN and also, therefore, HTTP/2 for the NIO and NIO2 HTTP connectors when using the JSSE implementation for TLS when running on Java 9. (markt)
  • Add: 60762: Add the ability to make changes to the TLS configuration of a connector at runtime without having to restart the Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: 61568: Avoid a potential SecurityException when using the NIO2 connector and a new thread is added to the pool. (markt)
  • Fix: 61583: Correct a further regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contained multiple keys that did not all have the same password. This fixes PKCS11 key store handling with multiple keys selected with an alias. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce default HTTP/2 stream concurrent execution within a connection from 200 to 20. (remm)
  • Fix: 61668: Avoid a possible NPE when calling AbstractHttp11Protocol.getSSLProtocol(). (markt)
  • Fix: 61673: Avoid a possible ConcurrentModificationException when working with the streams associated with a connection. (markt)
  • Fix: 61719: Avoid possible NPE calling InputStream.setReadListener with HTTP/2. (remm)
  • Fix: 61736: Improve performance of NIO connector when clients leave large time gaps between network packets. Patch provided by Zilong Song. (markt)
  • Fix: 61740: Correct an off-by-one error in the Hpack header index validation that caused intermittent request failures when using HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 61816: Invalid expressions in attribute values or template text should trigger a translation (compile time) error, not a run time error. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 61604: Add support for authentication in the websocket client. Patch submitted by J Fernandez. (remm)

Web applications

  • Fix: Enable Javadoc to be built with Java 9. (markt)
  • Fix: 61603: Add XML filtering for the status servlet output where needed. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct the description of how the CGI servlet maps a request to a script in the CGI How-To. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Fix incorrect behavior that attempts to resend channel messages more than the actual setting value of maxRetryAttempts. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the remaining Sender can send channel messages by avoiding unintended ChannelException caused by comparing the number of failed members and the number of remaining Senders. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that remaining SelectionKeys that were not handled by throwing a ChannelException during SelectionKey processing are handled. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Improve the fix for 61439 and exclude the JPA, JAX-WS and EJB annotations completely from the Tomcat distributions. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of endorsed directories. The endorsed directory mechanism will only be used if the JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS system property is explicitly set or if $CATALINA_HOME/endorsed exists. When running on Java 9, any such attempted use of the endorsed directory mechanism will trigger an error and Tomcat will fail to start. (rjung)
  • Code: Refactoring in preparation for Java 9. Refactor to avoid using some methods that will be deprecated in Java 9 onwards. (markt)
  • Add: 51496: When using the Windows installer, check if the requested service name already exists and, if it does, prompt the user to select an alternative service name. Patch provided by Ralph Plawetzki. (markt)
  • Fix: Add necessary Java 9 configuration options to the startup scripts to prevent warnings being generated on web application stop. (markt)
  • Fix: 61590: Enable service.bat to recognise when JAVA_HOME is configured for a Java 9 JDK. (markt)
  • Fix: 61598: Update the Windows installer to search the new (as of Java 9) registry locations when looking for a JRE. (markt)
  • Add: Add generation of a SHA-512 hash for release artifacts to the build script. (markt)
  • Fix: 61658: Update MIME mappings for fonts to use font/* as per RFC8081. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.16 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.3 and OpenSSL 1.0.2m. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.02.1. (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update the Windows installer to use "The Apache Software Foundation" as the Publisher when Tomcat is displayed in the list of installed applications in Microsoft Windows. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 61803: Remove outdated SSL information from the Security documentation. (remm)

2017-10-01 Tomcat 8.5.23 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Use the correct path when loading the JVM logging.properties file for Java 9. (rjung)
  • Fix: Add additional validation to the resource handling required to fix CVE-2017-12617 on Windows. The checks were being performed elsewhere but adding them to the resource handling ensures that the checks are always performed. (markt)
  • Fix: 61554: Exclude test files in unusual encodings and markdown files intended for display in GitHub from RAT analysis. Patch provided by Chris Thistlethwaite. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 61563: Correct typos in Spanish translation. Patch provided by Gonzalo Vásquez. (csutherl)

not released Tomcat 8.5.22 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 60963: Add ExtractingRoot, a new WebResourceRoot implementation that extracts JARs to the work directory for improved performance when deploying packed WAR files. (markt)
  • Add: Add an option to reject requests that contain HTTP headers with invalid (non-token) header names with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: 61542: Fix CVE-2017-12617 and prevent JSPs from being uploaded via a specially crafted request when HTTP PUT was enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 (and RFC 2616) that HTTP/1.1 requests must include a Host header and any request that does not must be rejected with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 that any HTTP/1.1 request that specifies a host in the request line, must specify the same host in the Host header and that any such request that does not, must be rejected with a 400 response. This check is optional but disabled by default. It may be enabled with the allowHostHeaderMismatch attribute of the Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: Implement the requirements of RFC 7230 that any HTTP/1.1 request that contains multiple Host headers is rejected with a 400 response. (markt)

Coyote

  • Update: Add a way to set the property source in embedded mode. (remm)
  • Fix: 61557: Correct a further regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contain multiple keys that do not all have the same password. The regression broke support for some FIPS compliant key stores. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 61545: Correctly handle invocations of methods defined in the PooledConnection interface when using pooled XA connections. Patch provided by Nils Winkler. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: Update fix for 59904 so that values less than zero are accepted instead of throwing a NegativeArraySizeException. (remm)

2017-09-19 Tomcat 8.5.21 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Before generating an error page in the ErrorReportValve, check to see if I/O is still permitted for the associated connection before generating the error page so that the page generation can be skipped if the page is never going to be sent. (markt)
  • Add: 61189: Add the ability to set environment variables for individual CGI scripts. Based on a patch by jm009. (markt)
  • Fix: 61210: When running under a SecurityManager, do not print a warning about not being able to read a logging configuration file when that file does not exist. (markt)
  • Add: 61280: Add RFC 7617 support to the BasicAuthenticator. Note that the default configuration does not change the existing behaviour. (markt)
  • Fix: 61424: Avoid a possible StackOverflowError when running under a SecurityManager and using Subject.doAs(). (markt)

Coyote

  • Update: The minimum required Tomcat Native version has been increased to 1.2.14. This version includes a new API needed for correct client certificate support when using a Java connector with OpenSSL TLS implementation and support for the SSL_CONF OpenSSL API. (rjung)
  • Add: Add support for the OpenSSL SSL_CONF API when using TLS with OpenSSL implementation. It can be used by adding OpenSSLConf elements underneath SSLHostConfig. The new element contains a list of OpenSSLConfCmd elements, each with the attributes name and value. (rjung)
  • Fix: When using a Java connector in combination with the OpenSSL TLS implementation, do not configure each SSL connection object via the OpenSSLEngine. For OpenSSL the SSL object inherits its settings from the SSL_CTX which we have already configured. (rjung)
  • Fix: When using JSSE TLS configuration with the OpenSSL implementation and client certificates: include client CA subjects in the TLS handshake so that the client can choose an appropriate client certificate to present. (rjung)
  • Fix: If an invalid option is specified for the certificateVerification attribute of an SSLHostConfig element, treat it as required which is the most secure / restrictive option in addition to reporting the configuration error. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of client disconnections during the TLS renegotiation handshake. (markt)
  • Fix: Prevent exceptions being thrown during normal shutdown of NIO connections. This enables TLS connections to close cleanly. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix possible race condition when setting IO listeners on an upgraded connection. (remm)
  • Fix: 48655: Enable Tomcat to shutdown cleanly when using sendfile, the APR/native connector and a multi-part download is in progress. (markt)
  • Fix: 58244: Handle the case when OpenSSL resumes a TLS session using a ticket and the full client certificate chain is not available. In this case the client certificate without the chain will be presented to the application. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the warning message when JSSE and OpenSSL configuration styles are mixed on the same SSLHostConfig. (markt)
  • Fix: 61415: Fix TLS renegotiation with OpenSSL based connections and session caching. (markt)
  • Fix: Delay checking that the configured attributes for an SSLHostConfig instance are consistent with the configured SSL implementation until Connector start to avoid incorrect warnings when the SSL implementation changes during initialisation. (markt)
  • Fix: 61450: Fix default key alias algorithm. (remm)
  • Fix: 61451: Correct a regression in the fix to enable the use of Java key stores that contained multiple keys that did not all have the same password. The regression broke support for any key store that did not store keys in PKCS #8 format such as hardware key stores and Windows key stores. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60523: Reduce the number of packets used to send WebSocket messages by not flushing between the header and the payload when the two are written together. (markt)
  • Fix: 61491: When using the permessage-deflate extension, correctly handle the sending of empty messages after non-empty messages to avoid the IllegalArgumentException. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Show connector cipher list in the manager web application in the correct cipher order. (rjung)

Tribes

  • Fix: To avoid unexpected session timeout notification from backup session, update the access time when receiving the map member notification message. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Add member info to the log message when the failure detection check fails in TcpFailureDetector. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Avoid Ping timeout until the added map member by receiving MSG_START message is completely started. (kfujino)
  • Fix: When sending a channel message, make sure that the Sender has connected. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Correct the backup node selection logic that node 0 is returned twice consecutively. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Fix race condition of responseMap in RpcChannel. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 61391: Ensure that failed queries are logged if the SlowQueryReport interceptor is configured to do so and the connection has been abandoned. Patch provided by Craig Webb. (markt)
  • Fix: 61425: Ensure that transaction of idle connection has terminated when the testWhileIdle is set to true and defaultAutoCommit is set to false. Patch provided by WangZheng. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: 61439: Remove the Java Annotation API classes from tomcat-embed-core.jar and package them in a separate JAR in the embedded distribution to provide end users with greater flexibility to handle potential conflicts with the JRE and/or other JARs. (markt)
  • Fix: 61441: Improve the detection of JAVA_HOME by the daemon.sh script when running on a platform where Java has been installed from an RPM. (rjung)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.14 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with APR 1.6.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2l. (markt)
  • Update: 61599: Update to Commons Daemon 1.1.0 for improved Java 9 support. (markt)

2017-08-08 Tomcat 8.5.20 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Revert the fix for 49464 since it continued to trigger regressions. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a bug in the PushBuilder implementation that meant push URLs containing %nn sequences were not correctly decoded. Identified by FindBugs. (markt)
  • Add: 61164: Add support for the %X pattern in the AccessLogValve that reports the connection status at the end of the request. Patch provided by Zemian Deng. (markt)
  • Fix: 61351: Correctly handle %nn decoding of URL patterns in web.xml and similar locations that may legitimately contain characters that are not permitted by RFC 3986. (markt)
  • Add: 61366: Add a new attribute, localDataSource, to the JDBCStore that allows the Store to be configured to use a DataSource defined by the web application rather than the default of using a globally defined DataSource. Patch provided by Jonathan Horowitz. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61086: Ensure to explicitly signal an empty request body for HTTP 205 responses. Additional fix to r1795278. Based on a patch provided by Alexandr Saperov. (violetagg)
  • Update: 61345: Add a server listener that can be used to do system property replacement from the property source configured in the digester. (remm)
  • Add: Add additional logging to record problems that occur while waiting for the NIO pollers to stop during the Connector stop process. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 61364: Ensure that files are closed after detecting encoding of JSPs so that files do not remain locked by the file system. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Add: 57767: Add support to the WebSocket client for following redirects when attempting to establish a WebSocket connection. Patch provided by J Fernandez. (markt)

2017-07-28 Tomcat 8.5.19 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Performance improvements for service loader look-ups (and look-ups of other class loader resources) when the web application is deployed in a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: 61253: Add warn message when Digester.updateAttributes throws an exception instead of ignoring it. (csutherl)
  • Fix: Correct a further regression in the fix for 49464 that could cause an byte order mark character to appear at the start of content included by the DefaultServlet. (markt)
  • Fix: 61313: Make the read timeout configurable in the JNDIRealm and ensure that a read timeout will result in an attempt to fail over to the alternateURL. Based on patches by Peter Maloney and Felix Schumacher. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Correct the documentation for how StandardRoot is configured. (markt)

Other

  • Fix: 61316: Fix corruption of UTF-16 encoded source files in released source distributions. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.18 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 61232: When log rotation is disabled only one separator will be used when generating the log file name. For example if the prefix is catalina. and the suffix is .log then the log file name will be catalina.log instead of catalina..log. Patch provided by Katya Stoycheva. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61264: Correct a regression in the refactoring to use Charset rather than String to store request character encoding that prevented getReader() throwing an UnsupportedEncodingException if the user agent specifies an unsupported character encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 49464 that could cause an incorrect Content-Length header to be sent by the DefaultServlet if the encoding of a static is not consistent with the encoding of the response. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Enable TLS connectors to use Java key stores that contain multiple keys where each key has a separate password. Based on a patch by Frank Taffelt. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the handling of HTTP/2 stream resets due to excessive headers when a continuation frame is used. (markt)

Jasper

  • Add: 53031: Add support for the fork option when compiling JSPs with the Jasper Ant task and javac. (markt)

Other

  • Add: 52791: Add the ability to set the defaults used by the Windows installer from a configuration file. Patch provided by Sandra Madden. (markt)

not released Tomcat 8.5.17 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 49464: Improve the Default Servlet's handling of static files when the file encoding is not compatible with the required response encoding. (markt)
  • Fix: 61214: Remove deleted attribute servlets from the Context MBean description. Patch provided by Alexis Hassler. (markt)
  • Fix: 61215: Correctly define addConnectorPort and invalidAuthenticationWhenDeny in the mbean-descriptors.xml file for the org.apache.catalina.valves package so that the attributes are accessible via JMX. (markt)
  • Fix: Make asynchronous error handling more robust. In particular ensure that onError() is called for any registered AsyncListeners after an I/O error on a non-container thread. (markt)
  • Fix: Additional permission for deleting files is granted to JULI as it is required by FileHandler when running under a Security Manager. The thread that cleans the log files is marked as daemon thread. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61229: Correct a regression in 8.5.15 that broke WebDAV handling for resources with names that included a & character. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Restore the ability to configure support for SSLv3. Enabling this protocol will trigger a warning in the logs since it is known to be insecure. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not log a warning when a null session is returned for an OpenSSL based TLS session since this is expected when session tickets are enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: When the access log valve logs a TLS related request attribute and the NIO2 connector is used with OpenSSL, ensure that the TLS attributes are available to the access log valve when the connection is closing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60461: Sync SSL session access for the APR connector. (remm)
  • Add: To ease migration from 8.0.x to 8.5.x, if the HTTP or AJP BIO connector is explicitly configured, rather than failing to start the connector because BIO has been removed, automatically switch to NIO and continue. A warning will be logged to alert the user to the switch. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Remove references to the Loader attribute searchExternalFirst from the documentation since the attribute is no longer supported. (markt)

2017-06-26 Tomcat 8.5.16 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 61072: Respect the documentation statements that allow using the platform default secure random for session id generation. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct the javadoc for o.a.c.connector.CoyoteAdapter#parseSessionCookiesId. Patch provided by John Andrew (XUZHOUWANG) via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61101: CORS filter should set Vary header in response. Submitted by Rick Riemer. (remm)
  • Add: 61105: Add a new JULI FileHandler configuration for specifying the maximum number of days to keep the log files. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61125: Ensure that WarURLConnection returns the correct value for calls to getLastModified() as this is required for the correct detection of JSP modifications when the JSP is packaged in a WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the SSLValve so it is able to handle client certificate headers from Nginx. Based on a patch by Lucas Ventura Carro. (markt)
  • Fix: 61134: Do not use '[' and ']' symbols around substituted text fragments when generating the default error pages. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61154: Allow the Manager and Host Manager web applications to start by default when running under a security manager. This was accomplished by adding a custom permission, org.apache.catalina.security.DeployXmlPermission, that permits an application to use a META-INF/context.xml file and then granting that permission to the Manager and Host Manager. (markt)
  • Fix: 61173: Polish the javadoc for o.a.catalina.startup.Tomcat. Patch provided by peterhansson_se. (violetagg)
  • Add: A new configuration property crawlerIps is added to the o.a.catalina.valves.CrawlerSessionManagerValve. Using this property one can specify a regular expression that will be used to identify crawlers based on their IP address. Based on a patch provided by Tetradeus. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61180: Log a warning message rather than an information message if it takes more than 100ms to initialised a SecureRandom instance for a web application to use to generate session identifiers. Patch provided by Piotr Chlebda. (markt)
  • Fix: 61185: When an asynchronous request is dispatched via AsyncContext.dispatch() ensure that getRequestURI() for the dispatched request matches that of the original request. (markt)
  • Fix: 61197: Ensure that the charset name used in the Content-Type header has exactly the same form as that provided by the application. This reverts a behavioural change in 8.5.15 that caused problems for some clients. (markt)
  • Fix: 61201: Ensure that the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable for CGI executables is populated in a consistent way regardless of how the CGI servlet is mapped to a request. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 61086: Explicitly signal an empty request body for HTTP 205 responses. (markt)
  • Fix: 61120: Do not ignore path parameters when processing HTTP/2 requests. (markt)
  • Fix: Revert a change introduced in the fix for bug 60718 that changed the status code recorded in the access log when the client dropped the connection from 200 to 500. (markt)
  • Fix: Add additional syncs to the SSL session object provided by the OpenSSL engine so that a concurrent destruction cannot cause a JVM crash. (remm)
  • Fix: 61195: Backport, with deprecation where appropriate, the endpoint and protocol property changes from 9.0.x to ease migration from 8.5.x to 9.0.x. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 44787: Improve error message when JSP compiler configuration options are not valid. (markt)
  • Fix: 61137: j.s.jsp.tagext.TagLibraryInfo#uri and j.s.jsp.tagext.TagLibraryInfo#prefix fields should not be final. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Correct the log message when a MessageHandler for PongMessage does not implement MessageHandler.Whole. (rjung)
  • Add: Introduce new API o.a.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#suspend/ o.a.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#resume that can be used to suspend/resume reading of the incoming messages. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Improve thread-safety of Futures used to report the result of sending WebSocket messages. (markt)
  • Fix: 61183: Correct a regression in the previous fix for 58624 that could trigger a deadlock depending on the locking strategy employed by the client code. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Better document the meaning of the trimSpaces option for Jasper. (markt)
  • Fix: 61150: Configure the Manager and Host-Manager web applications to permit serialization and deserialization of CRSFPreventionFilter related session objects to avoid warning messages and/or stack traces on web application stop and/or start when running under a security manager. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the TLS configuration documentation to remove SSLv2 and SSLv3 from the list of supported protocols. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add JMX support for Tribes components. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: 45832: Add HTTP DIGEST authentication support to the Catalina Ant tasks used to communicate with the Manager application. (markt)
  • Fix: 45879: Add the RELEASE-NOTES file to the root of the installation created by the Tomcat installer for Windows to make it easier for users to identify the installed Tomcat version. (markt)
  • Fix: 61055: Clarify the code comments in the rewrite valve to make clear that there are no plans to provide proxy support for this valve since Tomcat does not have proxy capabilities. (markt)
  • Fix: 61076: Document the altDDName attribute for the Context element. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct typo in Jar Scan Filter Configuration Reference. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61145: Add missing @Documented annotation to annotations in the annotations API. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (markt)
  • Fix: 61146: Add missing lookup() method to @EJB annotation in the annotations API. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct typo in Context Container Configuration Reference. Patch provided by Katya Todorova. (violetagg)

2017-05-10 Tomcat 8.5.15 (markt)

General

  • Add: Allow to exclude JUnit test classes using the build property test.exclude and document the property in BUILDING.txt. (rjung)

Catalina

  • Fix: Review those places where Tomcat re-encodes a URI or URI component and ensure that the correct encoding (path differs from query string) is applied and that the encoding is applied consistently. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException when reading attributes for a initialised HTTP connector where TLS is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: Always quote the hostName of an SSLHostConfig element when using it as part of the JMX object name to avoid errors that prevent the associated TLS connector from starting if a wild card hostName is configured (because * is a reserved character for JMX object names). (markt)
  • Code: Switch to using Charset rather than String to store encoding settings (including for configuration and for the Content-Type header) to reduce the number of places the associated Charset needs to be looked up. (markt)
  • Fix: Use a more reliable mechanism for the DefaultServlet when determining if the current request is for custom error page or not. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that when the Default or WebDAV servlets process an error dispatch that the error resource is processed via the doGet() method irrespective of the method used for the original request that triggered the error. (markt)
  • Fix: If a static custom error page is specified that does not exist or cannot be read, ensure that the intended error status is returned rather than a 404 or 403. (markt)
  • Fix: When the WebDAV servlet is configured and an error dispatch is made to a custom error page located below WEB-INF, ensure that the target error page is displayed rather than a 404 response. (markt)
  • Add: 61047: Add MIME mapping for woff2 fonts in the default web.xml. Patch provided by Justin Williamson. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Correct the logic that selects the encoding to use to decode the query string in the SSIServletExternalResolver so that the useBodyEncodingForURI attribute of the Connector is correctly taken into account. (markt)
  • Fix: Within the Expires filter, make the content type value specified with the ExpiresByType parameter, case insensitive. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: When a TrustManager is configured that does not support certificateVerificationDepth only log a warning about that lack of support when certificateVerificationDepth has been explicitly set. (markt)
  • Fix: 60970: Extend the fix for large headers to push requests. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not include a Date header in HTTP/2 responses with status codes less than 200. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: When no BOM is present and an encoding is detected, do not skip the bytes used to detect the encoding since they are not part of a BOM. (markt)
  • Update: 61057: Update to Eclipse JDT Compiler 4.6.3. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 61065: Ensure that once the class is resolved by javax.el.ImportHandler#resolveClass it will be cached with the proper name. (violetagg)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 61003: Ensure the flags for reading/writing in o.a.t.websocket.AsyncChannelWrapperSecure are correctly reset even if some exceptions occurred during processing. (markt/violetagg)

Web Applications

  • Add: Add documents for maxIdleTime attribute to Channel Receiver docs. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: Modify the Ant build script used to publish to a Maven repository so that it no longer requires artifacts to be GPG signed. This is make it possible for the CI system to upload snapshot builds to the ASF Maven repository. (markt)
  • Code: Review i18n property files, remove unnecessary escaping and consistently use [...] to delimit inserted values. (markt)

2017-04-18 Tomcat 8.5.14 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 59825: Log a message that lists the components in the processing chain that do not support async processing when a call to ServletRequest.startAsync() fails. (markt)
  • Fix: 60926: Ensure o.a.c.core.ApplicationContextFacade#setSessionTimeout will invoke the correct method when running Tomcat with security manager. (markt)
  • Update: Update the early access Servlet 4.0 API implementation to reflect the change in method name from getPushBuilder() to newPushBuilder(). (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the X to comma refactoring that broke JMX operations that take parameters. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid a NullPointerException when reading attributes for a running HTTP connector where TLS is not enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 60940: Improve the handling of the META-INF/ and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF entries for Jar files located in /WEB-INF/lib when running a web application from a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Pre-load the ExceptionUtils class. Since the class is used extensively in error handling, it is prudent to pre-load it to avoid any failure to load this class masking the true problem during error handling. (markt)
  • Fix: Avoid potential NullPointerExceptions related to access logging during shutdown, some of which have been observed when running the unit tests. (markt)
  • Fix: When there is no javax.servlet.WriteListener registered then a call to javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream#isReady will return false instead of throwing IllegalStateException. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When there is no javax.servlet.ReadListener registered then a call to javax.servlet.ServletInputStream#isReady will return false instead of throwing IllegalStateException. (violetagg)

Coyote

  • Fix: Align cipher configuration parsing with current OpenSSL master. (markt)
  • Fix: 60970: Fix infinite loop if application tries to write a large header to the response when using HTTP/2. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60925: Improve the handling of access to properties defined by interfaces when a BeanELResolver is used under a SecurityManager. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Code: Refactor the creating a constructor for a proxy class to reduce duplicate code. (kfujino)
  • Fix: In StatementFacade, the method call on the statements that have been closed throw SQLException rather than NullPointerException. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Correct comments about Java 8 in Jre8Compat. Patch provided by fibbers via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60932: Correctly escape single quotes when used in i18n messages. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: Update the custom Ant task that integrates with the Symantec code signing service to use the now mandatory 2-factor authentication. (markt)

2017-03-30 Tomcat 8.5.13 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 54618: Add support to the HttpHeaderSecurityFilter for the HSTS preload parameter. (markt)
  • Fix: 60853: Expose the SSLHostConfig and SSLHostConfigCertificate objects via JMX. (markt)
  • Fix: 60876: Ensure that Set-Cookie headers generated by the Rfc6265CookieProcessor are aligned with the specification. Patch provided by Jim Griswold. (markt)
  • Fix: 60882: Fix a NullPointerException when obtaining a RequestDispatcher for a request that will not have any pathInfo associated with it. This was a regression in the changes in 8.5.12 for the Servlet 4.0 API early preview changes. (markt)
  • Update: Align PushBuilder API with changes from Servlet expert group. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor the various implementations of X to comma separated list to a single utility class and update the code to use the new utility class. (markt)
  • Fix: 60911: Ensure NPE will not be thrown when looking for SSL session ID. Based on a patch by Didier Gutacker. (violetagg)

Coyote

  • Add: 60362: Add a new Connector configuration sendReasonPhrase. When this attribute is set to true, a reason phrase will be sent with the response. By default a reason phrase will not be sent. This option is deprecated and is not available in Tomcat 9. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fix HTTP/2 incorrect input unblocking on EOF. (remm)
  • Fix: Close the connection sooner if an event occurs for a current connection that is not consistent with the current state of that connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Speed up shutdown when using multiple acceptor threads by ensuring that the code that unlocks the acceptor threads correctly handles the case where there are multiple threads. (markt)
  • Fix: 60852: Correctly spell compressible when used in configuration attributes and internal code. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60900: Avoid a NullPointerException in the APR Poller if a connection is closed at the same time as new data arrives on that connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve HPACK specification compliance by fixing some test failures reported by the h2spec tool written by Moto Ishizawa. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve HTTP/2 specification compliance by fixing some test failures reported by the h2spec tool written by Moto Ishizawa. (markt)
  • Fix: 60918: Fix sendfile processing error that could lead to subsequent requests experiencing an IllegalStateException. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve sendfile handling when requests are pipelined. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Improve the error handling for simple tags to ensure that the tag is released and destroyed once used. (remm, violetagg)
  • Fix: 60844: Correctly handle the error when fewer parameter values than required by the method are used to invoke an EL method expression. Patch provided by Daniel Gray. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: 60764: Implement equals() and hashCode() in the StatementFacade in order to enable these methods to be called on the closed statements if any statement proxy is set. This behavior can be changed with useStatementFacade attribute. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Refactor the build script and the NSIS installer script so that either NSIS 2.x or NSIS 3.x can be used to build the installer. This is primarily to re-enable building the installer on the Linux based CI system where the combination of NSIS 3.x and wine leads to failed installer builds. (markt)

2017-03-13 Tomcat 8.5.12 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 60469: Refactor RealmBase for better code re-use when implementing Realms that use a custom Principal. (markt)
  • Fix: 60490: Various formatting and layout improvements for the ErrorReportValve. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Update: 60596: Improve performance of DefaultServlet when sendfile feature is disabled on connector. (kkolinko)
  • Code: Make it easier for sub-classes of Tomcat to modify the default web.xml settings by over-riding getDefaultWebXmlListener(). Patch provided by Aaron Anderson. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce the contention in the default InstanceManager implementation when multiple threads are managing objects and need to reference the annotation cache. (markt)
  • Code: 60674: Remove final marker from CorsFilter to enable sub-classing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60683: Security manager failure causing NPEs when doing IO on some JVMs. (csutherl)
  • Fix: 60688: Update the internal fork of Apache Commons BCEL to r1782855 to add early access Java 9 support to the annotation scanning code. (markt)
  • Fix: 60694: Prevent NPE during authentication when no JASPIC AuthConfigFactory is available. (markt)
  • Fix: 60697: When HTTP TRACE requests are disabled on the Connector, ensure that the HTTP OPTIONS response from custom servlets does not include TRACE in the returned Allow header. (markt)
  • Fix: 60718: Improve error handling for asynchronous processing and correct a number of cases where the requestDestroyed() event was not being fired and an entry wasn't being made in the access logs. (markt)
  • Fix: 60720: Replace "WWW-Authenticate" literal with static final AUTH_HEADER_NAME in SpnegoAuthenticator. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (violetagg)
  • Fix: The default JASPIC AuthConfigFactory now correctly notifies registered RegistrationListeners when a new AuthConfigProvider is registered. (markt)
  • Code: Improve the performance of AuthenticatorBase when there is no JASPIC configuration available. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When HTTP TRACE requests are disabled on the Connector, ensure that the HTTP OPTIONS response from the WebDAV servlet does not include TRACE in the returned Allow header. (markt)
  • Fix: 60722: Take account of the dispatchersUseEncodedPaths setting on the current Context when generating paths for dispatches triggered by AsyncContext.dispatch(). (markt)
  • Fix: 60728: Make the separator Tomcat uses in the Tomcat specific war:file:... URL protocol customizable via a system property. The separator is equivalent to the use of the ! character in jar:file:... URLs. The default separator of * remains unchanged. (markt)
  • Update: Update the org.apache.catalina.servlet4preview package that can be used to gain early access to Servlet 4.0 features to align with the latest proposals from the Servlet 4.0 expert group. This includes updates to the new Servlet mapping API, new methods on the ServletContext to make the available API more equivalent to the deployment descriptor, updates to the HTTP push API and the ability to set default request and response character encoding per web application. Note that the Servlet 4.0 API is still a work in progress and further changes are likely. (markt)
  • Fix: 60798: Correct a bug in the handling of JARs in unpacked WARs that meant multiple attempts to read the same entry from a JAR in succession would fail for the second and subsequent attempts. (markt)
  • Fix: 60808: Ensure that the Map returned by ServletRequest.getParameterMap() is fully immutable. Based on a patch provided by woosan. (markt)
  • Fix: 60824: Correctly cache the Subject in the session - if there is a session - when running under a SecurityManager. Patch provided by Jan Engehausen. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure request and response facades are used when firing application listeners. (markt/remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Improve handling of case when an HTTP/2 client sends more data that is subject to flow control than the current window size allows. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve NIO2 look-ahead parsing of TLS client hello for SNI with large client hello messages. (markt)
  • Fix: 59807: Provide a better error message when there is no SSLHostConfig defined with a hostName that matches the defaultSSLHostConfigName for the associated Connector. (markt)
  • Fix: Include the value of SslHostConfig.truststoreAlgorithm when warning that the algorithm does not support the certificateVerificationDepth configuration option. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that executor thread pools used with connectors pre-start the configured minimum number of idle threads. (markt)
  • Add: 60594: Allow some invalid characters that were recently restricted to be processed in requests by using the system property tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow. (csutherl)
  • Fix: 60627: Modify the Rfc6265CookieProcessor so that in addition to cookie headers that start with an explicit RFC 2109 $Version=1, cookies that start with $Version=0 are also parsed as RFC 2109 cookies. (markt)
  • Fix: 60716: Add a new JSSE specific attribute, revocationEnabled, to SSLHostConfig to permit JSSE provider revocation checks to be enabled when no certificateRevocationListFile has been configured. The expectation is that configuration will be performed via a JSSE provider specific mechanisms. (markt)
  • Fix: Modify the cookie header generated by the Rfc6265CookieProcessor so it always sends an Expires attribute as well as a Max-Age attribute to avoid problems with Microsoft browsers that do not support the Max-Age attribute. (markt)
  • Fix: 60761: Expose a protected getter and setter for NioEndpoint.stopLatch to make the class easier to extend. (markt)
  • Fix: Prevent blocking reads after a stream exception occurs with HTTP/2. (remm)

Jasper

  • Fix: Follow up to the fix for 58178. When creating the ELContext for a tag file, ensure that any registered ELContextListeners are fired. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor code generated for JSPs to reduce the size of the code required for tags. (markt)
  • Fix: 60769: Correct a regression in the XML encoding detection refactoring carried out for 8.5.10 that incorrectly always used the detected BOM encoding in preference to any encoding specified in the prolog. (markt)
  • Update: Update to the Eclipse JDT Compiler 4.6.1. (markt)

Cluster

  • Add: Make the accessTimeout configurable in BackupManager and ClusterSingleSignOn. The accessTimeout is used as a timeout period for PING in replication map. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60806: To avoid ClassNotFoundException, make sure that the web application class loader is passed to ReplicatedContext. (kfujino)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60617: Correctly create a CONNECT request when establishing a WebSocket connection via a proxy. Patch provided by Svetlin Zarev. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add log message that PING message has received beyond the timeout period. (kfujino)
  • Fix: When a PING message that beyond the time-out period has been received, make sure that valid member is added to the map membership. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that NoRpcChannelReply messages are not received on RpcCallback. (kfujino)

Web Applications

  • Fix: Add Specification and Javadoc references for JASPIC to the Docs application. (csutherl)

Other

  • Fix: Spelling corrections provided by Josh Soref. (violetagg)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.12 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k. (violetagg)
  • Add: 60784: Update all unit tests that test the HTTP status line to check for the required space after the status code. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows installer to version 3.01. (markt)

2017-01-16 Tomcat 8.5.11 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 60620: Extend the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener to provide protection against ForkJoinPool.commonPool() related memory leaks. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure UpgradeProcessor instances associated with closed connections are removed from the map of current connections to Processors. (markt)
  • Fix: Remove a workaround for a problem previously reported with WebSocket, TLS and APR that treated some error conditions as not errors. The original problem cannot be reproduced with the current code and the work-around is now causing problems. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60497: Follow up fix using a better variable name for the tag reuse flag. (remm)
  • Fix: Revert use of try/finally for simple tags. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Prevent potential processing loop on unexpected WebSocket connection closure. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Add: Enable reset the statistics without restarting the pool. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Spelling corrections provided by Josh Soref. (violetagg)

not released Tomcat 8.5.10 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 53602: Add HTTP status code 451 (RFC 7725) to the list of HTTP status codes recognised by the ErrorReportValve. (markt)
  • Fix: 60446: Handle the case where the stored user credential uses a different key length than the length currently configured for the CredentialHandler. Based on a patch by Niklas Holm. (markt)
  • Update: Update the warnings that reference required options for running on Java 9 to use the latest syntax for those options. (markt)
  • Fix: 60513: Fix thread safety issue with RMI cleanup code. (remm)

Coyote

  • Fix: Expand the search process for a server certificate when OpenSSL is used with a JSSE connector and an explicit alias has not been configured. (markt)
  • Fix: 60450: Improve the selection algorithm for the default trust store type for a TLS Virtual Host. In particular, don't use PKCS12 as a default trust store type. Better document how the default trust store type is selected for a TLS virtual host. (markt)
  • Fix: 60451: Correctly handle HTTP/2 header values that contain characters with unicode code points in the range 128 to 255. Reject with a clear error message HTTP/2 header values that contain characters with unicode code points above 255. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the logic that selects an address to use to unlock the Acceptor to take account of platforms what do not listen on all local addresses when configured with an address of 0.0.0.0 or ::. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the refactoring to make wider use of ByteBuffer that caused an intermittent failure in the unit tests. (markt)
  • Fix: 60482: HTTP/2 shouldn't do URL decoding on the query string. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix an HTTP/2 compression error. Once a new size has been agreed for the dynamic HPACK table, the next header block must begin with a dynamic table update. (markt)
  • Fix: 60508: Set request start time for HTTP/2. (remm)

Jasper

  • Update: Implement a simpler JSP file encoding detector that delegates XML prolog encoding detection to the JRE rather than using a custom XML parser. (markt)
  • Fix: 60497: Restore previous tag reuse behavior following the use of try/finally. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve the error handling for simple tags to ensure that the tag is released and destroyed once used. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Fix: Correctly handle blocking WebSocket writes when the write times out just before the write is attempted. (markt)

Web Applications

  • Add: In the documentation web application, be explicit that clustering requires a secure network for all of the cluster network traffic. (markt)
  • Update: Update the ASF logos to the new versions.
  • Fix: 60344: Add a note to BUILDING.txt regarding using the source bundle with the correct line endings. (markt)
  • Fix: 60468: Correct the format of the sample ISO-8601 date used to report the build date for the documentation. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the ASF logos used in the Apache Tomcat installer for Windows to use the new versions.

2016-12-08 Tomcat 8.5.9 (markt)

Catalina

  • Update: 60202: Add an available flag to realms, to indicate the state, or the realm backend. Update lockout realm to only register auth failures if the realm is available. (remm)
  • Fix: 60340: Readability improvements for CSS used in DefaultServlet and ErrorReportValve. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60351: Delay creating META-INF/war-tracker file until after the WAR has been expanded to address the case where the Tomcat process terminates during the expansion. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly generate URLs for resources located inside JARs that are themselves located inside a packed WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle the configClass attribute of a Host when embedding Tomcat. (markt)
  • Fix: 60368: Restore egde case for embedded allowing the connector to be removed. (remm)
  • Fix: 60379: Dispose of the GSS credential once it is no longer required. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60380: Ensure that a call to HttpServletRequest#logout() triggers a call to TomcatPrincipal#logout(). Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60387: Correct the javadoc for o.a.catalina.AccessLog.setRequestAttributesEnabled. The default value is different for the different implementations. (violetagg)
  • Code: 60393: Use consistent parameter naming in implementations of Realm#authenticate(GSSContext, boolean). (markt)
  • Fix: 60395: Log when an Authenticator passes an incomplete GSSContext to a Realm since it indicates a bug in the Authenticator. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60400: When expanding the buffer used for reading the request body, ensure the read position will be restored to the original one. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60410: Ensure that multiple calls to JarInputStreamWrapper#close() do not incorrectly trigger the closure of the underlying JAR or WAR file. (markt)
  • Fix: 60411: Implement support in the RewriteValve for symbolic names to specify the redirect code to use when returning a redirect response to the user agent. Patch provided by Michael Osipov. (markt)
  • Fix: 60413: In the RewriteValve write empty capture groups as the empty string rather than as "null" when generating the re-written URL. Based on a patch by Michael Osipov. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: 60372: Ensure the response headers' buffer limit is reset to the capacity of this buffer when IOException occurs while writing the headers to the socket. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure that the availability of configured upgrade protocols that require ALPN is correctly reported during Tomcat start. (markt)
  • Fix: 60386: Implement a more sophisticated pruning algorithm for removing closed streams from the priority tree to ensure that the tree does not grow too large. (markt)
  • Fix: 60409: When unable to complete sendfile request, ensure the Processor will be added to the cache only once. (markt/violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure that the endpoint is able to unlock the acceptor thread during shutdown if the endpoint is configured to listen to any local address of a specific type such as 0.0.0.0 or ::. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new configuration option, ipv6v6only to the APR connectors that allows them to be configure to only accept IPv6 connections when configured with an IPv6 address rather than the default which is to accept IPv4 connections as well if the operating system uses a dual network stack. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the logic that unlocks the acceptor thread so a better choice is made for the address to connect to when a connector is configured for any local port. This reduces the likelihood of the unlock failing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60436: Avoid a potential NPE when processing async timeouts. (markt)
  • Fix: Reduce the window in which an async request that has just started processing on a container thread remains eligible for an async timeout. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60431: Improve handling of varargs in UEL expressions. Based on a patch by Ben Wolfe. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: Fix JDK version number documented in BUILDING.txt. (rjung)
  • Fix: Correct a typo in Host Configuration Reference. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60412: Add information on the comment syntax for the RewriteValve configuration. (markt)
  • Fix: 60467: remove problematic characters from XML documentation. Based upon a patch by Michael Osipov. (schultz)

Tribes

  • Fix: Reduce the warning logs for a message received from a different domain in order to avoid excessive log outputs. (kfujino)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 60437: Avoid possible handshake overflows in the websocket client. (remm)

jdbc-pool

  • Add: 58816: Implement the statistics of jdbc-pool. The stats infos are borrowedCount, returnedCount, createdCount, releasedCount, reconnectedCount, releasedIdleCount and removeAbandonedCount. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60194: If validationQuery is not specified, connection validation is done by calling the isValid() method. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60398: Fix testcase of TestSlowQueryReport. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Allow customization of service.bat, such as heap memory size, service startup mode and JVM args. Patch provided by isapir via Github. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60366: Change catalina.bat to use directly LOGGING_MANAGER and LOGGING_CONFIG variables in order to configure logging, instead of modifying JAVA_OPTS. Patch provided by Petter Isberg. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60383: JASPIC API is added as a dependency to the org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina maven artifact. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Update the comments associated with the TLS Connector examples in server.xml. (markt)
  • Add: New property is added test.verbose in order to control whether the output of the tests is displayed on the console or not. Patch provided by Emmanuel Bourg. (violetagg)
  • Code: TestOpenSSLCipherConfigurationParser.testSpecification - if there are test failures, provide more detailed information. Patch provided by Emmanuel Bourg. (violetagg)

2016-11-08 Tomcat 8.5.8 (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Check that threadPriority values used in AbstractProtocol are valid. (fschumacher)

not released Tomcat 8.5.7 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: When creating a new Connector via JMX, ensure that both HTTP/1.1 and AJP/1.3 connectors can be created. (markt)
  • Fix: Include the Context name in the log message when an item cannot be added to the cache. (markt)
  • Fix: Exclude JAR files in /WEB-INF/lib from the static resource cache. (markt)
  • Fix: When calling getResourceAsStream() on a directory, ensure that null is returned. (markt)
  • Fix: 60161: Allow creating subcategories of the container logger, and use it for the rewrite valve. (remm)
  • Fix: Correctly test for control characters when reading the provided shutdown password. (markt)
  • Fix: 60297: Simplify connector creation in embedded mode. (remm)
  • Fix: Refactor creation of containers in embedded mode for more consistency and flexibility. (remm)
  • Add: Introduce new methods read(ByteBuffer)/ write(ByteBuffer) in o.a.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream/ o.a.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream. (violetagg)
  • Fix: When configuring the JMX remote listener, specify the allowed types for the credentials. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct the HPACK header table size configuration that transposed the client and server table sizes when creating the encoder and decoder. (markt)
  • Fix: Don't continue to process an HTTP/2 stream if it is reset during header parsing. (markt)
  • Fix: HTTP/2 uses separate headers for each Cookie. As required by RFC 7540, merge these into a single Cookie header before processing continues. (markt)
  • Fix: Align the HTTP/2 implementation with the HTTP/1.1 implementation and return a 500 response when an unhandled exception occurs during request processing. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the HTTP header parser so that DEL is not treated as a valid token character. (markt)
  • Add: Add checks around the handling of HTTP/2 pseudo headers. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for trailer headers to the HTTP/2 implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 60232: When processing headers for an HTTP/2 stream, ensure that the read buffer is large enough for the header being processed. (markt)
  • Add: Add configuration options to the HTTP/2 implementation to control the maximum number of headers allowed, the maximum size of headers allowed, the maximum number of trailer headers allowed, the maximum size of trailer headers allowed and the maximum number of cookies allowed. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly differentiate between sending and receiving a reset frame when tracking the state of an HTTP/2 stream. (markt)
  • Fix: 60319: When using an Executor, disconnect it from the Connector attributes maxThreads, minSpareThreads and threadPriority to enable the configuration settings to be consistently reported. These Connector attributes will be reported as -1 when an Executor is in use. The values used by the executor may be set and obtained via the Executor. (markt)
  • Fix: If an I/O error occurs during async processing on a non-container thread, ensure that the onError() event is triggered. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve detection of I/O errors during async processing on non-container threads and trigger async error handling when they are detected. (markt)
  • Add: Add additional checks for valid characters to the HTTP request line parsing so invalid request lines are rejected sooner. (markt)

Web applications

  • Add: Add HTTP/2 configuration information to the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix default value of validationInterval attribute in jdbc-pool. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Correct a typo in CGI How-To. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)

Tribes

  • Fix: When the proxy node sends a backup retrieve message, ensure that using the channelSendOptions that has been set rather than the default channelSendOptions. (kfujino)

Other

  • Add: Add the JASPIC API jar to the Maven Central publication script. (markt)
  • Fix: Remove classes from tomcat-util-scan.jar that are duplicates of those in tomcat-util.jar. (markt)

2016-10-10 Tomcat 8.5.6 (markt)

Catalina

  • Add: 59961: Add an option to the StandardJarScanner to control whether or not JAR Manifests are scanned for additional class path entries. (markt)
  • Fix: 60013: Refactor the previous fix to align the behaviour of the Rewrite Valve with mod_rewrite. As part of this, provide an implementation for the B and NE flags and improve the handling for the QSA flag. Includes multiple test cases by Santhana Preethiand a patch by Tiago Oliveira. (markt)
  • Fix: 60087: Refactor the web resources handling to use the Tomcat specific war:file:... URL protocol to refer to WAR files and their contents rather than the standard jar:file:... form since some components of the JRE, such as JAR verification, give unexpected results when the standard form is used. A side-effect of the refactoring is that when using packed WARs, it is now possible to reference a WAR and/or specific JARs within a WAR in the security policy file used when running under a SecurityManager. (markt)
  • Fix: 60116: Fix a problem with the rewrite valve that caused back references evaluated in conditions to be forced to lower case when using the NC flag. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure Digester.useContextClassLoader is considered in case the class loader is used. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60117: Ensure that the name of LogLevel is localized when using OneLineFormatter. Patch provided by Tatsuya Bessho. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60138: Fix the SSLHostConfig so that the protocols attribute is limited to the protocols supported by the current JSSE implementation rather than the default protocols used by the implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 60146: Improve performance for resource retrieval by making calls to WebResource.getInputStream() trigger caching if the resource is small enough. Patch provided by mohitchugh. (markt)
  • Add: 60151: Improve the exception error messages when a ResourceLink fails to specify the type, specifies an unknown type or specifies the wrong type. (markt)
  • Fix: 60167: Ignore empty lines in /etc/passwd files when using the PasswdUserDatabase. (markt)
  • Fix: 60170: Exclude the compressed test file index.html.br from RAT analysis. Patch provided by Gavin McDonald. (markt)
  • Fix: When starting web resources, ensure that class resources are only started once. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the access checks for linked global resources to handle the case where the current class loader is a child of the web application class loader. (markt)
  • Fix: 60196: Ensure that the isMandatory flag is correctly set when using JASPIC authentication. (markt)
  • Fix: 60199: Log a warning if deserialization issues prevent a session attribute from being loaded. (markt)
  • Fix: 60208: When using RFC6265 compliant cookies, the / character should not be allowed in a cookie name since the RFC6265 will drop such cookies as invalid. (markt)

Coyote

  • Add: Refactor the code that implements the requirement that a call to complete() or dispatch() made from a non-container thread before the container initiated thread that called startAsync() completes must be delayed until the container initiated thread has completed. Rather than implementing this by blocking the non-container thread, extend the internal state machine to track this. This removes the possibility that blocking the non-container thread could trigger a deadlock. (markt)
  • Fix: Fail earlier if the client closes the connection during SNI processing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60123: Avoid potential threading issues that could cause excessively large vales to be returned for the processing time of a current request. (markt)
  • Fix: 60174: Log instances of HeadersTooLargeException during request processing. (markt)
  • Fix: 60173: Allow up to 64kB HTTP/2 header table size limit. (remm)
  • Fix: Java 9 compatibility of direct ByteBuffer cleaner. (remm)

Jasper

  • Fix: 60101: Remove preloading of the class that was deleted. (violetagg)

Web applications

  • Add: Expand the documentation for the nested elements within a Resources element to clarify the behaviour of different configuration options with respect to the order in which resources are searched. (markt)
  • Add: Add an example of using the classesToInitialize attribute of the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener to the documentation web application. Based on a patch by Cris Berneburg. (markt)
  • Fix: 60192: Correct a typo in the status output of the Manager application. Patch provided by Radhakrishna Pemmasani. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: Notify jmx when returning the connection that has been marked suspect. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the POOL_EMPTY notification has been added to the jmx notification types. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60099: Ensure that use all method arguments as a cache key when using StatementCache. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60139: Correct Javadocs for PoolConfiguration.getValidationInterval and setValidationInterval. Reported by Phillip Webb. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: Update the download location for Objenesis. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60164: Replace log4j-core*.jar with log4j-web*.jar since it is log4j-web*.jar that contains the ServletContainerInitializer. (markt)
  • Add: Add documentation to the bin/catalina.bat script to remind users that environment variables don't affect the configuration of Tomcat when run as a Windows Service. Based upon a documentation patch by James H.H. Lampert. (schultz)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.10 to pick up the latest Windows binaries built with OpenSSL 1.0.2j. (markt)

2016-09-05 Tomcat 8.5.5 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 18500: Add limited support for wildcard host names and host aliases. Names of the form *.domainname are now permitted. Note that an exact host name match takes precedence over a wild card host name match. (markt)
  • Fix: 59813: Ensure that circular relations of the Class-Path attribute from JAR manifests will be processed correctly. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure that reading the singleThreadModel attribute of a StandardWrapper via JMX does not trigger initialisation of the associated servlet. With some frameworks this can trigger an unexpected initialisation thread and if initialisation is not thread-safe the initialisation can then fail. (markt)
  • Fix: Compatibility with rewrite from httpd for non existing headers. (jfclere)
  • Fix: By default, treat paths used to obtain a request dispatcher as encoded. This behaviour can be changed per web application via the dispatchersUseEncodedPaths attribute of the Context. (markt)
  • Fix: 59839: Apply roleSearchAsUser to all nested searches in JNDIRealm. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 59859: Fix resource leak in WebDAV servlet. Based on patch by Coty Sutherland. (fschumacher)
  • Add: Provide a mechanism that enables the container to check if a component (typically a web application) has been granted a given permission when running under a SecurityManager without the current execution stack having to have passed through the component. Use this new mechanism to extend SecurityManager protection to the system property replacement feature of the digester. (markt)
  • Add: When retrieving an object via a ResourceLink, ensure that the object obtained is of the expected type. (markt)
  • Fix: 59823: Ensure that JASPIC configuration is taken into account when calling HttpServletRequest.authenticate(). (markt)
  • Fix: 59824: Mark the RewriteValve as supporting async processing by default. (markt)
  • Fix: 59862: Allow nested jar files scanning to be filtered with the system property tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip. Patch is provided by Terence Bandoian. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59866: When scanning WEB-INF/classes for annotations, don't scan the contents of WEB-INF/classes/META-INF (if present) since classes will never be loaded from that location. (markt)
  • Fix: 59888: Correctly handle tabs and spaces in quoted version one cookies when using the Rfc6265CookieProcessor. (markt)
  • Fix: 59912: Fix an edge case in input stream handling where an IOException could be thrown when reading a POST body. (markt)
  • Fix: 59913: Correct a regression introduced with the support for the Servlet 4 HttpServletRequest.getMapping() API that caused the attributes for forwarded requests to be lost if requested from within a subsequent include. (markt)
  • Fix: 59966: Do not start the web application if the error page configuration in web.xml is invalid. (markt)
  • Fix: Switch the CGI servlet to the standard logging mechanism and remove support for the debug attribute. (markt)
  • Fix: 60012: Improvements in the log messages. Based on suggestions by Nemo Chen. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Changes to the allowLinking attribute of a StandardRoot instance now invalidate the cache if caching is enabled. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new initialisation parameter, envHttpHeaders, to the CGI Servlet to mitigate httpoxy (CVE-2016-5388) by default and to provide a mechanism that can be used to mitigate any future, similar issues. (markt)
  • Add: When adding and removing ResourceLinks dynamically, ensure that the global resource is only visible via the ResourceLinkFactory when it is meant to be. (markt)
  • Fix: 60008: When processing CORs requests, treat any origin with a URI scheme of file as a valid origin. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of exceptions during a Lifecycle events triggered by a state transition. The exception is now caught and the component is now placed into the FAILED state. (markt)
  • Fix: 60013: Fix encoding issues when using the RewriteValve with UTF-8 query strings or UTF-8 redirect URLs. (markt)
  • Fix: 60022: Improve handling when a WAR file and/or the associated exploded directory are symlinked into the appBase. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a file descriptor leak when reading the global web.xml. (markt)
  • Fix: Consistently decode URL patterns provided via web.xml using the encoding of the web.xml file where specified or UTF-8 where no explicit encoding is specified. (markt)
  • Fix: Make timing attacks against the Realm implementations harder. (schultz)
  • Fix: A number of the JRE memory leaks addressed by the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener have been fixed in Java 9 so the associated protection is now disabled when running on Java 9 onwards. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Correct a regression in refactoring to enable injection of custom keystores that broke the automatic conversion of OpenSSL style PEM key and certificate files for use with JSSE TLS connectors. (markt)
  • Fix: 59910: Don't hardcode key alias value to "tomcat" for JSSE. When using a keystore, OpenSSL will still default to it. (remm)
  • Fix: 59904: Add a limit (default 200) for the number of cookies allowed per request. Based on a patch by gehui. (markt)
  • Fix: 59925: Correct regression in r1628368 and ensure that HTTP separators are handled as configured in the LegacyCookieProcessor. Patch provided by Kyohei Nakamura. (markt)
  • Fix: 59950: Correct log message when reporting that the current number of HTTP/2 streams for a connection could not be pruned to below the limit. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that Semaphore.release is called in all cases. Even when there is an exception. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60030: Correct a potential infinite loop in the SNI parsing code triggered by failing to handle an end of stream condition. (markt)
  • Fix: Small logging optimization in the Rfc6265CookieProcessor. Patch provided by Svetlin Zarev. (markt)
  • Fix: OpenSSL now disables 3DES by default so reflect this when using OpenSSL syntax to select ciphers. (markt)
  • Fix: Use the proper ERROR socket status code for async errors with NIO2. (remm)
  • Fix: 60035: Fix a potential connection leak if the client drops a TLS connection before the handshake completes. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the JSSE client certificate validation so that the effectiveness of the certificateVerificationDepth configuration attribute does not depend on the presence of a certificate revocation list. (markt)
  • Add: Log a warning at start up if a JSSE TLS connector is configured with a trusted certificate that is either not yet valid or has expired. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: When writing out a full web.xml file with JspC ensure that the encoding used in the XML prolog matches the encoding used to write the contents of the file. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve the error handling for custom tags to ensure that the tag is returned to the pool or released and destroyed once used. (markt)
  • Fix: 60032: Fix handling of method calls that use varargs within EL value expressions. (markt)
  • Fix: Ignore engineOptionsClass and scratchdir when running under a security manager. (markt)
  • Fix: Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Based on a patch provided by wuwen via Github. (violetagg)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 59908: Ensure that a reason phrase is included in the close message if a session is closed due to a timeout. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 59867: Correct the documentation provided by Manager's 403.jsp. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59868: Clarify the documentation for the Manager web application to make clearer that the host name and IP address in the server section are the primary host name and IP address. (markt)
  • Fix: 59940: Correct the name of the truststorePassword attribute of the SSLHostConfig element in the configuration documentation. (markt)
  • Fix: MBeans Descriptors How-To is moved to mbeans-descriptors-howto.html. Patch provided by Radoslav Husar. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Update NIO Connector configuration documentation with an information about socket.directSslBuffer. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 60034: Correct a typo in the Manager How-To page of the documentation web application. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: In order to avoid the unintended skip of PoolCleaner, remove the check code of the execution interval in the task that has been scheduled. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 59850: Ensure that the ResultSet is closed when enabling the StatementCache interceptor. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 59923: Reduce the default value of validationInterval in order to avoid the potential issue that continues to return an invalid connection after database restart. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the ResultSet is returned as Proxy object when enabling the StatementDecoratorInterceptor. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 60043: Ensure that the suspectTimeout works without removing connection when the removeAbandoned is disabled. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Add log message of when returning the connection that has been marked suspect. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Correct Javadoc for ConnectionPool.suspect(). Based on a patch by Yahya Cahyadi. (markt)

Other

  • Add: 59871: Add a property (timeFormat) to JULI's OneLineFormatter to enable the format of the time stamp used in log messages to be configured. (markt)
  • Fix: 59899: Update Tomcat's copy of the Java Persistence annotations to include the changes made in 2.1 / JavaEE 7. (markt)
  • Fix: Fixed typos in mbeans-descriptors.xml files. (violetagg)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons BCEL to r1757132 to align with the BCEL 6 release. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP 2 to r1757164 to pick up a couple of bug fixes. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Codec to r1757174. Code formatting changes only. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons FileUpload to afdedc9. This pulls in a fix to improve the performance with large multipart boundaries. (markt)

2016-07-12 Tomcat 8.5.4 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 57705: Add debug logging for requests denied by the remote host and remote address valves and filters. Based on a patch by Graham Leggett. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 58588 that removed the entire org.apache.juli package from the embedded JARs rendering them unusable. (markt)
  • Add: 59399: Add a new option to the Realm implementations that ship with Tomcat that allows the HTTP status code used for HTTP -> HTTPS redirects to be controlled per Realm. (markt)
  • Update: Change the default of the sessionCookiePathUsesTrailingSlash attribute of the Context element to false since the problems caused when a Servlet is mapped to /* are more significant than the security risk of not enabling this option by default. (markt)
  • Fix: Follow-up to 59655. Improve the documentation for configuring permitted cookie names. Patch provided by Kyohei Nakamura. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not attempt to start web resources during a web application's initialisation phase since the web application is not fully configured at that point and the web resources may not be correctly configured. (markt)
  • Fix: 59708: Modify the LockOutRealm logic. Valid authentication attempts during the lock out period will no longer reset the lock out timer to zero. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve error handling around user code prior to calling InstanceManager.destroy() to ensure that the method is executed. (markt)

Coyote

  • Code: Refactor the certificate keystore and trust store generation to make it easier for embedded users to inject their own key stores. (markt)
  • Add: 59233: Add the ability to add TLS virtual hosts dynamically. (markt)
  • Update: Add a maxConcurrentStreamExecution on the HTTP/2 protocol handler to allow restricting the amount of concurrent stream that are being executed in a single connection. The default is to not limit it. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct a problem with ServletRequest.getServerPort() for secure HTTP/2 connections that meant an incorrect value was returned when using the default port. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve error handling around user code prior to calling InstanceManager.destroy() to ensure that the method is executed. (markt)
  • Fix: Document the default for the HTTP/2 configuration parameter maxConcurrentStreamExecution as 20. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: Improve error handling around user code prior to calling InstanceManager.destroy() to ensure that the method is executed. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Code: Now the WebSocket implementation is not built directly on top of the Servlet API and can use Tomcat internals, there is no need for the dedicated WebSocket Executor. It has been replaced by the use of the Connector/Endpoint provided Executor. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve error handling around user code prior to calling InstanceManager.destroy() to ensure that the method is executed. (markt)

Web Applications

  • Fix: Do not log an additional case of IOExceptions in the error handler for the Drawboard WebSocket example when the root cause is the client disconnecting since the logs add no value. (markt)
  • Fix: 59642: Mention the localDataSource in the DataSourceRealm section of the Realm How-To. (markt)
  • Fix: 59672: Update the security considerations page of the documentation web application to take account of the fact that the Manager and HostManager applications now have a RemoteAddrValve configured by default. (markt)
  • Fix: Follow-up to the fix for 59399. Ensure that the new attribute transportGuaranteeRedirectStatus is documented for all Realms. Also document the NullRealm and when it is automatically created for an Engine. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix the description of maxAge attribute in jdbc-pool doc. This attribute works both when a connection is returned and when a connection is borrowed. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 59774: Correct the prefix values in the documented examples for configuring the AccessLogValve. Patch provided by Mike Noordermeer. (markt)

Extras

  • Code: 58588: Remove the JULI extras package from the distribution. It was only useful for switching Tomcat's internal logging to log4j 1.2.x and that version of log4j is no longer supported. No additional Tomcat code is required if switching Tomcat's internal logging to log via log4j 2.x. (markt)

Tribes

  • Add: Add log message when the ping has timed-out. (kfujino)
  • Fix: If the ping message has been received at the AbstractReplicatedMap#leftOver method, ensure that notify the member is alive than ignore it. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: Fix the duplicated connection release when connection verification failed. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that do not remove the abandoned connection that has been already released. (kfujino)

Other

  • Update: 59276: Update optional Checkstyle library to 6.17. (kkolinko)
  • Add: Use the mirror network rather than the ASF master site to download the current ASF dependencies. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.8 to pick up the latest fixes and make 1.2.8 the minimum recommended version. (markt)
  • Code: Use UTF-8 with a standard prolog for all XML files. (markt)

2016-06-13 Tomcat 8.5.3 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: RMI Target related memory leaks are avoidable which makes them an application bug that needs to be fixed rather than a JRE bug to work around. Therefore, start logging RMI Target related memory leaks on web application stop. Add an option that controls if the check for these leaks is made. Log a warning if running on Java 9 with this check enabled but without the command line option it requires. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure NPE will not be thrown during deployment when scanning jar files without MANIFEST.MF file. (violetagg)
  • Code: Remove the clearReferencesStatic option from StandardContext. It was known to cause problems with some libraries (such as log4j) and was only linked to suspected memory leaks rather than known memory leaks. It had been disabled by default with no increase in the reports of memory leaks for some time. (markt)
  • Fix: 59604: Correct the assumption made in the URL decoding that the default platform encoding is always compatible with ISO-8859-1. This assumption is not always valid, e.g. on z/OS. (markt)
  • Fix: 59608: Skip over any invalid Class-Path attribute from JAR manifests. Log errors at debug level due to many bad libraries. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix error message when failed to register MBean. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 59655: Configure the cookie name validation to use RFC6265 rules by default to align it with the default cookie parser. Document the impact system properties have on cookie name validation. (mark)

Coyote

  • Fix: Ensure that requests with HTTP method names that are not tokens (as required by RFC 7231) are rejected with a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: When an asynchronous request is processed by the AJP connector, ensure that request processing has fully completed before starting the next request. (markt)
  • Fix: Improve handling of HTTP/2 stream resets. (markt)
  • Add: 58750: The HTTP Server header is no longer set by default. A Server header may be configured by setting the server attribute on the Connector. A new Connector attribute, serverRemoveAppProvidedValues may be used to remove any Server header set by a web application. (markt)
  • Fix: 59564: Correct offset when reading into HTTP/2 input buffer that could cause problems reading request bodies. (violetagg/markt)
  • Fix: Modify the handling of read/write timeouts so that the appropriate error handling (ReadListener.onError(), WriteListener.onError() or AsyncListener.onError()) is called. (markt)
  • Fix: If an async dispatch results in the completion of request processing, ensure that any remaining request body is swallowed before starting the processing of the next request else the remaining body may be read as the start of the next request leading to a 400 response. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a cause of multiple attempts to close the same socket. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 59567: Fix NPE scanning webapps for TLDs when an exploded JAR has an empty WEB-INF/classes/META-INF folder. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix a memory leak in the expression language implementation that caused the class loader of the first web application to use expressions to be pinned in memory. (markt)
  • Fix: 59654: Improve error message when attempting to use a TLD file from an invalid location. Patch provided by Huxing Zhang. (markt)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 59659: Fix possible memory leak in WebSocket handling of unexpected client disconnects. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 58891: Update the SSL how-to. Based on a suggestion by Alexander Kjäll. (markt)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: Fix a memory leak with the pool cleaner thread that retained a reference to the web application class loader for the first web application to use a connection pool. (markt)

Other

  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP 2 to r1743696 (2.1.1 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Pool 2 to r1743697 (2.4.2 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons File Upload to r1743698 (1.3.1 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Fix: 58626: Add support for a new environment variable (USE_NOHUP) that causes nohup to be used when starting Tomcat. It is disabled by default except on HP-UX where it is enabled by default since it is required when starting Tomcat at boot on HP-UX. (markt)

2016-05-16 Tomcat 8.5.2 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: Ensure that annotated web components packed in web fragments will be processed when unpackWARs is enabled. (violetagg)

not released Tomcat 8.5.1 (markt)

Catalina

  • Fix: 59206: Ensure NPE will not be thrown by o.a.tomcat.util.file.ConfigFileLoader when catalina.base is not specified. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59217: Remove duplication in the recycling of the path in o.a.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie. Patch is provided by Kyohei Nakamura. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fixed possible NPE in o.a.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.getResourceAsStream (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59213: Async dispatches should be based off a wrapped request. (remm)
  • Fix: Ensure that javax.servlet.ServletRequest and javax.servlet.ServletResponse provided during javax.servlet.AsyncListener registration are made available via javax.servlet.AsyncEvent.getSuppliedRequest and javax.servlet.AsyncEvent.getSuppliedResponse (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59219: Ensure AsyncListener.onError() is called if an Exception is thrown during async processing. (markt)
  • Fix: 59220: Ensure that AsyncListener.onComplete() is called if the async request times out and the response is already committed. (markt)
  • Fix: 59226: Process the Class-Path attribute from JAR manifests for JARs on the class path excluding JARs packaged in WEB-INF/lib. (markt)
  • Fix: 59255: Fix possible NPE in mapper. (kkolinko/remm)
  • Fix: 59256: slf4j-taglib*.jar should not be excluded from the standard JAR scanning by default. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Clarify in the log message that specifying both urlPatterns and value attributes in WebServlet and WebFilter annotations is not allowed. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Ensure the exceptions caused by Valves will be available in the log files so that they can be evaluated when o.a.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.showReport is disabled. Patch is provided by Svetlin Zarev. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Remove unused distributable attribute that is defined as TransientAttribute of Manager in StoreConfig. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Fix handling of Cluster Receiver in StoreConfig. The bind and host attributes define as TransientAttribute. (kfujino)
  • Fix: 59261: ServletRequest.getAsyncContext() now throws an IllegalStateException as required by the Servlet specification if the request is not in asynchronous mode when called. (markt)
  • Fix: 59269: Correct the implementation of PersistentManagerBase so that minIdleSwap functions as designed and sessions are swapped out to keep the active session count below maxActiveSessions. (markt)
  • Add: Add the org.apache.catalina.servlet4preview package that can be used to gain early access to Servlet 4.0 features. Note that this package will not be present in Tomcat 9. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly configure the base path for a resources directory provided by an expanded JAR file. Patch provided by hengyunabc. (markt)
  • Add: When multiple compressed formats are available and the client does not express a preference, use the server order to determine the preferred format. Based on a patch by gmokki. (markt)
  • Fix: 59284: Allow the Tomcat provided JASPIC SimpleServerAuthConfig to pick up module configuration properties from either the property set passed to its constructor or from the properties passed in the call to getAuthContext. Based on a patch by Thomas Maslen. (markt)
  • Fix: 59310: Do not add a Content-Length: 0 header for custom responses to HEAD requests that do not set a Content-Length value. (markt)
  • Fix: When normalizing paths, improve the handling when paths end with /. or /.. and ensure that input and output are consistent with respect to whether or not they end with /. (markt)
  • Fix: 59317: Ensure that HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() returns an encoded URI rather than a decoded URI after a dispatch. (markt)
  • Fix: Use the correct URL for the fragment when reporting errors processing a web-fragment.xml file from a JAR located in an unpacked WAR. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that JarScanner only uses the explicit call-back to process WEB-INF/classes and only when configured to treat the contents of WEB-INF/classes as a possible exploded JAR. (markt)
  • Code: Remove the java2DDisposerProtection option from the JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener. The leak is fixed in Java 7 onwards and Tomcat 8 requires Java 7 so the option is unnecessary. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the value for the header X-Frame-Options is constructed correctly according to the specification when ALLOW-FROM option is used. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fix an IllegalArgumentException if the first use of an internal Response object requires JASPIC authentication. (markt)
  • Fix: Do not trigger unnecessary session ID changes when using JASPIC and the user is authenticated using cached credentials. (markt)
  • Fix: 59437: Ensure that the JASPIC CallbackHandler is thread-safe. (markt)
  • Fix: 59449: In ContainerBase, ensure that the process to remove a child container is the reverse of the process to add one. Patch provided by Huxing Zhang. (markt)

Coyote

  • Fix: Align cipher configuration parsing with current OpenSSL master. (markt)
  • Update: Change the default for honorCipherOrder to false. With the current default TLS configuration, it is no longer necessary for this to be true for a reasonably secure configuration. (markt)
  • Add: Add a new environment variable JSSE_OPTS that is intended to be used to pass JVM wide configuration to the JSSE implementation. The default value is -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 which protects against weak Diffie-Hellman keys. (markt)
  • Fix: When running on Java 7, exclude DHE ciphers from the default cipher list for JSSE connectors since they use weak 768 bit DH keys and cannot be configured to use more secure keys. (markt)
  • Fix: 58970: Fix a connection counting bug in the NIO connector that meant some dropped connections were not removed from the current connection count. (markt)
  • Fix: 59289: Do not recycle upgrade processors in unexpected close situations. (remm)
  • Fix: 59295: Use Locale.toLanguageTag() to construct the Content-Language HTTP header to ensure the locale is correctly represented. Patch provided by zikfat. (markt)
  • Update: 59344: Add support for using pem encoded certificates with JSSE SSL. Submitted by Emmanuel Bourg with additional tweaks. (remm)
  • Fix: Make the TLS certificate chain available to clients when using JSSE+OpenSSL with the certificate chain stored in a Java KeyStore. (markt)
  • Fix: Work around a known issue in OpenSSL that does not permit the TLS handshake to be failed if the ALPN negotiation fails. (markt)
  • Update: 59421: Add direct HTTP/2 connection support. (remm)
  • Fix: Correctly handle a call to AsyncContext.complete() from a non-container thread when non-blocking I/O is being used. (markt)
  • Fix: 59451: Correct Javadoc for MessageBytes. Patch provided by Kyohei Nakamura. (markt)
  • Fix: 59450: Correctly handle the case where the LegacyCookieProcessor is configured with allowHttpSepsInV0 set to false and forwardSlashIsSeparator set to true. Patch provided by Kyohei Nakamura. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: When scanning JARs for TLDs, correctly handle the (rare) case where a JAR has been exploded into WEB-INF/classes and the web application is deployed as a packed WAR. (markt)
  • Fix: 59640: NPEs with not found TLDs. (remm)

WebSocket

  • Fix: 59189: Explicitly release the native memory held by the Inflater and Deflater when using PerMessageDeflate and the WebSocket session ends. Based on a patch by Henrik Olsson. (markt)
  • Fix: Return back a container specific extension to the WsServerContainer to allow frameworks to more easily dispatch requests to WebSocket endpoints. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fix a regression caused by the connector refactoring and ensure that the thread context class loader is set to the web application classloader when processing WebSocket messages on the server. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that a client disconnection triggers the error handling for the associated WebSocket end point. (markt)
  • Add: Make WebSocket client more robust when handling errors during the close of a WebSocket session. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 59210: Server push example has to use o.a.catalina.connector.RequestFacade when obtaining o.a.catalina.core.ApplicationPushBuilder. Patch is provided by Huxing Zhang. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59218: Correct the path to jaspic-providers.xml in Jaspic How-To. Patch is provided by Tatsuya Bessho. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Remove button that has accidentally been added to the host manager. Submitted by Coty Sutherland. (remm)
  • Fix: Update in the documentation the link to the maven repository where Tomcat snapshot artifacts are deployed. (markt/violetagg)
  • Fix: Clarify in the documentation that calls to ServletContext.log(String, Throwable) or GenericServlet.log(String, Throwable) are logged at the SEVERE level. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Correct a typo in SSL/TLS Configuration How-To. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)

Tribes

  • Fix: Avoid NPE when a proxy node failed to retrieve a backup entry. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add log of when received an unexpected messages. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add the flag indicating that member is a localMember. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Fix potential NPE that depends on the setting order of attributes of static member when using the static cluster. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add get/set method for the channel that is related to ChannelInterceptor. (kfujino)
  • Fix: As with the multicast cluster environment, in the static cluster environment, the local member inherits properties from the cluster receiver. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add get/set method for the channel that is related to each Channel services. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add name to channel in order to identify channels. In tomcat cluster environment, it is set the cluster name + "-Channel" as default value. (kfujino)
  • Add: Add the channel name to the thread which is invoked by channel services in order to identify the associated channel. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that clear the channel instance from channel services when stopping channel. (kfujino)
  • Add: Implement map state in the replication map. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the ping is not executed during the start/stop of the replication map. (kfujino)
  • Fix: In ping processing in the replication map, send not the INIT message but the newly introduced PING message. (kfujino)

Other

  • Fix: 59209: Remove honorCipherOrder=false attribute from the connector example in server.xml. When the block is uncommented the connector will use the default value for this attribute which is false. If one needs to enable it, one can add it explicitly to the connector definition. Use of this feature requires Java 8 or later. Patch is provided by Huxing Zhang. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 59211: Add hamcrest to Eclipse classpath. Patch is provided by Huxing Zhang. (violetagg)
  • Update: 59280: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows Installers to version 2.51. (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.7 to pick up the Windows binaries that are based on OpenSSL 1.0.2h and APR 1.5.2. (markt)

2016-03-24 Tomcat 8.5.0 (markt)

General

  • Update: Remove support for Comet. (markt)
  • Update: Tighten up the default file permissions for the .tar.gz distribution so no files or directories are world readable by default. Configure Tomcat to run with a default umask of 0027 which may be overridden by setting UMASK in setenv.sh. (markt)
  • Update: Remove native code (Windows Service Wrapper, APR/native connector) support for Windows Itanium. (markt)

Catalina

  • Update: The default HTTP cookie parser has been changed to org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor creation of MapperListener to ensure that the Mapper used is the Mapper associated with the Service for which the listener was created. (markt)
  • Add: Move the functionality that provides redirects for context roots and directories where a trailing / is added from the Mapper to the DefaultServlet. This enables such requests to be processed by any configured Valves and Filters before the redirect is made. This behaviour is configurable via the mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled and mapperDirectoryRedirectEnabled attributes of the Context which may be used to restore the previous behaviour. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor Service.getContainer() to return an Engine rather than a Container. (markt)
  • Fix: 34319: Only load those keys in StoreBase.processExpire from JDBCStore that are old enough to be expired. Based on a patch by Tom Anderson. (fschumacher)
  • Add: 58351: Make the server build date and server version number accessible via JMX. Patch provided by Huxing Zhang. (markt)
  • Add: 56917: As per RFC7231 (HTTP/1.1), allow HTTP/1.1 and later redirects to use relative URIs. This is controlled by a new attribute useRelativeRedirects on the Context and defaults to true. (markt)
  • Fix: 58629: Allow an embedded Tomcat instance to start when the Service has no Engine configured. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly notify the MapperListener associated with a Service if the Engine for that Service is changed. (markt)
  • Add: Make a web application's CredentialHandler available through a context attribute. This allows a web application to use the same algorithm for validating or generating new stored credentials from cleartext ones. (schultz)
  • Fix: 58635: Enable break points to be set within agent code when running Tomcat with a Java agent. Based on a patch by Huxing Zhang. (markt)
  • Fix: Fixed potential NPE in HostConfig while deploying an application. Issue reported by coverity scan. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 58655: Fix an IllegalStateException when calling HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() with the RemoteIpFilter. This was caused by trying to correctly generate the absolute URI for the redirect. With the fix for 56917, redirects may now be relative making the sendRedirect() implementation for the RemoteIpFilter much simpler. This also addresses issues where the redirect may not have behaved as expected when redirecting from http to https to from https to http. (markt)
  • Fix: 58657: Exceptions in a Servlet 3.1 ReadListener or WriteListener do not need to be immediately fatal to the connection. Allow an error response to be written. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct implementation of validateClientProvidedNewSessionId so client provided session IDs may be rejected if validation is enabled. (markt)
  • Fix: 58701: Reset the instanceInitialized field in StandardWrapper when unloading a Servlet so that a new instance may be correctly initialized. (markt)
  • Update: Add a new flag aprPreferred to the Apr listener. if set to false, when using the connector defaults, it will use NIO + OpenSSL if tomcat-native is available, rather than the APR connector. (remm)
  • Fix: Add path parameter handling to HttpServletRequest.getContextPath(). This is a follow-up to the fix for 57215. (markt)
  • Fix: 58692: Make StandardJarScanner more robust. Log a warning if a class path entry cannot be scanned rather than triggering the failure of the web application. Includes a test case written by Derek Abdine. (markt)
  • Fix: 58702: Ensure an access log entry is generated if the client aborts the connection. (markt)
  • Fix: Fixed various issues reported by Findbugs. (violetagg)
  • Fix: 58735: Add support for the X-XSS-Protection header to the HttpHeaderSecurityFilter. Patch provided by Jacopo Cappellato. (markt)
  • Fix: Add the StatusManagerServlet to the list of Servlets that can only be loaded by privileged applications. (markt)
  • Fix: Simplify code and fix messages in org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager class. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 58751: Correctly handle the case where an AsyncListener dispatches to a Servlet on an asynchronous timeout and the Servlet uses sendError() to trigger an error page. Includes a test case based on code provided by Andy Wilkinson.(markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that the proper file encoding, if specified, will be used when a readme file is served by DefaultServlet. (violetagg)
  • Fix: Fix declaration of localPort attribute of Connector MBean: it is read-only. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 58766: Make skipping non-class files during annotation scanning faster by checking the file name first. Improve debug logging. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: 58768: Log a warning if a redirect fails because of an invalid location. (markt)
  • Code: 58827: Remove remains of JSR-77 implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 58836: Correctly merge query string parameters when processing a forwarded request where the target includes a query string that contains a parameter with no value. (markt/kkolinko)
  • Fix: Make sure that shared Digester is reset in an unlikely error case in HostConfig.deployWAR(). (kkolinko)
  • Add: Extend the feature available in the cluster session manager implementations that enables session attribute replication to be filtered based on attribute name to all session manager implementations. Note that configuration attribute name has changed from sessionAttributeFilter to sessionAttributeNameFilter. Apply the filter on load as well as unload to ensure that configuration changes made while the web application is stopped are applied to any persisted data. (markt)
  • Add: Extend the session attribute filtering options to include filtering based on the implementation class of the value and optional WARN level logging if an attribute is filtered. These options are available for all of the Manager implementations that ship with Tomcat. When a SecurityManager is used filtering will be enabled by default. (markt)
  • Code: Remove distributable and maxInactiveInterval from the Manager interface because the attributes are never used. The equivalent attributes from the Context always take precedence. (markt)
  • Fix: 58867: Improve checking on Host start for WAR files that have been modified while Tomcat has stopped and re-expand them if unpackWARs is true. (markt)
  • Fix: 58900: Correctly undeploy symlinked resources and prevent an infinite cycle of deploy / undeploy. (markt)
  • Fix: Protect initialization of ResourceLinkFactory when running with a SecurityManager. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Correct a thread safety issue in the filtering of session attributes based on the implementing class name of the value object. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix class loader decision on the delegation for class loading and resource lookup and make it faster too. (rjung)
  • Fix: 58905: Ensure that Tomcat.silence() silences the correct logger and respects the current setting. (markt)
  • Fix: 58946: Ensure that the request parameter map remains immutable when processing via a RequestDispatcher. (markt)
  • Fix: Ensure that /WEB-INF/classes is never processed as a web fragment. (markt)
  • Update: Switch default connector when native is installed. Unless configured otherwise, the NIO endpoint will be used by default. If SSL is configured, OpenSSL will be used rather than JSSE. (remm)
  • Fix: Correct a regression in the fix for 58867. When configuring a Context to use an external directory for the docBase, and that directory happens to be located along side the original WAR, use the directory as the docBase rather than expanding the WAR into the appBase and using the newly created expanded directory as the docBase. (markt)
  • Add: 58988: Special characters in the substitutions for the RewriteValve can now be quoted with a backslash. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: 58999: Fix class and resource name filtering in WebappClassLoader. It throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException if the name is exactly "org" or "javax". (rjung)
  • Add: Add JASPIC (JSR-196) support. (markt)
  • Add: Make checking for var and map replacement in RewriteValve a bit stricter and correct detection of colon in var replacement. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: Refactor the web application class loader to reduce the impact of JAR scanning on the memory footprint of the web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix some resource leaks in the error handling for accessing files from JARs and WARs. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the JAR and JAR-in-WAR resource handling to reduce the memory footprint of the web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor the web.xml parsing so a new parser is created every time the web application starts rather than creating and caching the parser when the Context is created. This enables the parser to take account of modified Context configuration parameters and reduces (slightly) the memory footprint of a running Tomcat instance. (markt)
  • Update: Switch the web application class loader to the ParallelWebappClassLoader by default. (markt)
  • Fix: 57809: Remove the custom context attribute that held the effective web.xml. Components needing access to configuration information may access it via the Servlet API. (markt)
  • Fix: Refactor JAR scanning to reduce memory footprint. (markt)
  • Fix: 59001: Correctly handle the case when Tomcat is installed on a path where one of the segments ends in an exclamation mark. (markt)
  • Fix: Expand the fix for 59001 to cover the special sequences used in Tomcat's custom jar:war: URLs. (markt)
  • Fix: 59043: Avoid warning while expiring sessions associated with a single sign on if HttpServletRequest.logout() is used. (markt)
  • Fix: 59054: Ensure that using the CrawlerSessionManagerValve in a distributed environment does not trigger an error when the Valve registers itself in the session. (markt)
  • Fix: Add socket properties support to storeconfig. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix incorrect parsing of the NE and NC flags in rewrite rules. (remm)
  • Fix: 59065: Correct the timing of the check for colons in paths on non-Windows systems implemented in catalina.sh so it works correctly with Cygwin. Patch provided by Ed Randall. (markt)
  • Fix: When a Host is configured with an appBase that does not exist, create the appBase before trying to expand an external WAR file into it. (markt)
  • Fix: 59115: When using the Servlet 3.0 file upload, the submitted file name may be provided as a token or a quoted-string. If a quoted-string, unquote the string before returning it to the user. (markt)
  • Fix: 59123: Close NamingEnumeration objects used by the JNDIRealm once they are no longer required. (fschumacher/markt)
  • Add: Implement the proposed Servlet 4.0 API to provide mapping type information for the current request. (markt)
  • Fix: 59138: Correct a false positive warning for ThreadLocal related memory leaks when the key class but not the value class has been loaded by the web application class loader. (markt)
  • Add: 59017: Make the pre-compressed file support in the Default Servlet generic so any compression may be used rather than just gzip. Patch provided by Mikko Tiihonen. (markt)
  • Fix: 59145: Don't log an invalid warning when a user logs out of a session associated with SSO. (markt)
  • Fix: 59150: Add an additional flag on APR listener to allow disabling automatic use of OpenSSL. (remm)
  • Fix: 59151: Fix a regression in the fix for 56917 that added additional (and arguably unnecessary) validation to the provided redirect location. (markt)
  • Fix: 59154: Fix a NullPointerException in the JAASMemoryLoginModule resulting from the introduction of the CredentialHandler to Realms. (schultz/markt)

Coyote

  • Update: Remove support for the HTTP BIO and AJP BIO connectors. (markt)
  • Code: Refactor HTTP upgrade and AJP implementations to reduce duplication. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for HPACK header encoding and decoding, contributed by Stuart Douglas. (remm)
  • Add: 57108: Add support for Server Name Indication (SNI). There has been significant changes to the SSL configuration in server.xml to support this. (markt)
  • Add: Add SSL engine for JSSE backed by OpenSSL. Includes ALPN support. Based on code contributed by Numa de Montmollin and derived from code developed by Twitter and Netty. (remm)
  • Fix: RFC 7230 states that clients should ignore reason phrases in HTTP/1.1 response messages. Since the reason phrase is optional, Tomcat no longer sends it. As a result the system property org.apache.coyote.USE_CUSTOM_STATUS_MSG_IN_HEADER is no longer used and has been removed. (markt)
  • Update: The minimum required Tomcat Native version has been increased to 1.2.2. The 1.2.x branch includes ALPN and SNI support which are required for HTTP/2. (markt)
  • Add: Add support for HTTP/2 including server push. (markt)
  • Fix: 58621: The certificate chain cannot be set using the main certificate attribute, so restore the certificate chain property. (remm)
  • Fix: Allow a new SSL config type where a connector can use either JSSE or OpenSSL. Both could be allowed, but it would likely create support issues. This type is used by the OpenSSL implementation for NIOx. (remm)
  • Fix: Improve upgrade context classloader handling by using Context.bind and unbind. (remm)
  • Add: Improve OpenSSL keystore/truststore configuration by using the code from the JSSE implementation. (remm, jfclere)
  • Fix: Fix a potential loop when a client drops the connection unexpectedly. (markt)
  • Add: OpenSSL renegotiation support for client certificate authentication. (remm)
  • Fix: Fix NIO connector renegotiation. (remm)
  • Fix: 58659: Fix a potential deadlock during HTTP/2 processing when the connection window size is limited. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct an NPE when listing the enabled ciphers (e.g. via the Manager web application) for a TLS enabled APR/native connector. (markt)
  • Add: New configuration option ajpFlush for the AJP connectors to disable the sending of AJP flush packets. (rjung)
  • Fix: Handle the case in the NIO connector where the required TLS buffer sizes increase after the connection has been initiated. (markt)
  • Fix: Handle the case in the NIO2 connector where the required TLS buffer sizes increase after the connection has been initiated. (markt/remm)
  • Fix: Bad processing of handshake errors in NIO2. (remm)
  • Fix: Use JSSE session configuration options with OpenSSL. (remm)
  • Fix: 59015: Fix potential cause of endless APR Poller loop during shutdown if the Poller experiences an error during the shutdown process. (markt)
  • Fix: Align cipher aliases for kECDHE and ECDHE with the current OpenSSL implementation. (markt)
  • Fix: 59081: Retain the user defined cipher order when defining ciphers. (markt)
  • Fix: 59089: Correctly ignore HTTP headers that include non-token characters in the header name. (markt)

Jasper

  • Fix: 57136#c25: Change default value of quoteAttributeEL setting in Jasper to be true for better compatibility with other implementations and older versions of Tomcat. Add command line option -no-quoteAttributeEL in JspC. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Fix handling of missing messages in org.apache.el.util.MessageFactory. (violetagg)
  • Update: Update to the Eclipse JDT Compiler 4.5.1. (markt)
  • Fix: 57583: Improve the performance of javax.servlet.jsp.el.ScopedAttributeELResolver when resolving attributes that do not exist. This improvement only works when Jasper is used with Tomcat's EL implementation. (markt)

Cluster

  • Fix: Enable an explicit configuration of local member in the static cluster membership. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Fix potential integer overflow in DeltaSession. Reported by coverity scan. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: In order to avoid that the heartbeat thread and the background thread to run Channel.heartbeat simultaneously, if heartbeatBackgroundEnabled of SimpleTcpCluster set to true, ensure that the heartbeat thread does not start. (kfujino)

WebSocket

  • Add: 55006: The WebSocket client now honors the java.net.java.net.ProxySelector configuration (using the HTTP type) when establishing WebSocket connections to servers. Based on a patch by Niki Dokovski. (markt)
  • Fix: 57489: Ensure onClose() is called when a WebSocket connection is closed even if the sending of the close message fails. Includes test cases by Barry Coughlan. (markt)
  • Fix: 58624: Correct a potential deadlock if the WebSocket connection is closed when a message write is in progress. (markt)
  • Fix: Fix a timing issue on session close that could result in an exception being thrown for an incomplete message even through the message was completed. (markt)
  • Fix: Correctly handle compression of partial messages when the final message fragment has a zero length payload. (markt)
  • Fix: 59119: Correct read logic for WebSocket client when using secure connections. (markt)
  • Fix: 59134: Correct client connect logic for secure connections made through a proxy. (markt)

Web applications

  • Fix: 48674: Implement an option within the Host Manager web application to persist the current configuration. Based on a patch by Coty Sutherland. (markt)
  • Fix: 58631: Correct the continuation character use in the Windows Service How-To page of the documentation web application. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the SSL documentation for deprecated attributes to point to the correct, new location for attributes related to individual certificates. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct some typos in the JNDI resources How-To. (markt)
  • Fix: Don't create session unnecessarily in the Manager application. (markt)
  • Fix: Don't create session unnecessarily in the Host Manager application. (markt)
  • Fix: 58723: Clarify documentation and error messages for the text interface of the manager to make clear that version must be used with path when referencing contexts deployed using parallel deployment. (markt)
  • Add: Document test.threads option in BUILDING.txt. (kkolinko)
  • Fix: Correct an error in the documentation of the expected behaviour for automatic deployment. If a WAR is updated and an expanded directory is present, the directory will always be deleted and recreated by expanding the WAR if unpackWARs is true. (markt)
  • Fix: 58935: Remove incorrect references in the documentation to using jar:file: URLs with the Manager application. (markt)
  • Fix: Correct the description of the ServletRequest.getServerPort() in Proxy How-To. Issue reported via comments.apache.org. (violetagg)
  • Add: The Manager and Host Manager applications are now only accessible via localhost by default. (markt)

Tribes

  • Fix: Clarify the handling of Copy message and Copy nodes. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ensure that the static member is registered to the add suspect list even if the static member that is registered to the remove suspect list has disappeared. (kfujino)
  • Fix: When using a static cluster, add the members that have been cached in the membership service to the map members list in order to ensure that the map member is a static member. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Add support for the startup notification of local members in the static cluster. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Ignore the unnecessary member remove operation from different domain. (kfujino)
  • Fix: Add support for the shutdown notification of local members in the static cluster. (kfujino)
  • Fix: If promoting a proxy node to a primary node when getting a session, notify the change of the new primary node to the original backup node. (kfujino)

jdbc-pool

  • Fix: Correct evaluation of system property org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.onlyAttemptCurrentClassLoader. It was basically ignored before. Reported by coverity scan. (fschumacher)
  • Fix: Fix potential integer overflow in ConnectionPool and PooledConnection. Reported by coverity scan. (fschumacher)

Other

  • Add: Allow to configure multiple JUnit test class patterns with the build property test.name and document the property in BUILDING.txt. (rjung)
  • Add: Support the use of the threads attribute on Ant's junit task. Note that using this with a value of greater than one will disable Cobertura code coverage. (markt)
  • Update: Update optional Checkstyle library to 6.14.1. (kkolinko)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.4 to pick up the Windows binaries that are based on OpenSSL 1.0.2e and APR 1.5.1. (markt)
  • Update: Update the NSIS Installer used to build the Windows Installers to version 2.50. (markt/kkolinko)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons BCEL to r1725718 to align with the refactoring for BCEL 6, the next major BCEL release. (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons DBCP 2 to r1725730 (2.1.1 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Pool 2 to r1725738 (2.4.2 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Update: Update the internal fork of Commons Codec to r1725746 (1.9 plus additional fixes). (markt)
  • Fix: 58283: Change the default download location for libraries during the build process from /usr/share/java to ${user.home}/temp. Patch provided by Ahmed Hosni. (markt)
  • Fix: 59031: When using the Windows uninstaller, do not remove the contents of any directories that have been symlinked into the Tomcat directory structure. (markt)
  • Update: Update the packaged version of the Tomcat Native Library to 1.2.5 to pick up the Windows binaries that are based on OpenSSL 1.0.2g and APR 1.5.1. (markt)
  • Update: Modify the default tomcat-users.xml file to make it harder for users to configure the entries intended for use with the examples web application for the Manager application. (markt)