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| Release Plan for Apache Tomcat 5.5 |
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| Introduction: |
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| This document is a release plan for the final release of Apache Tomcat 5.5. |
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| The goal of the Apache Tomcat 5.5 final release is to provide a stable |
| container that supports 100% of the mandatory requirements of the Servlet 2.4 |
| and JSP 2.0 specifications, as well as to improve and add many useful |
| additional features on top of the existing Apache Tomcat 5.0.x releases. |
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| Apache Tomcat 5.5 includes the following major new features over |
| Apache Tomcat 5.0: |
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| * Performance optimizations and startup time improvements |
| * Refactored application deployer |
| * Faster JSP compiler with in memory loading of depedencies, powered by |
| Eclipse JDT |
| * Dependencies repackaging |
| * Streamlined configuration (datasources and web application defaults) |
| * Support for J2SE JRE 5.0 |
| * New native connector for Apache 2, based on mod_proxy |
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| Apache Tomcat 5.5 will use the build numbering and release process first used |
| in the Apache HTTPd 2.0.x project. |
| Milestone builds, numbered 5.5.x, will be released as needed and will |
| recieve a stability rating after a one week testing period. The rating can be |
| either: Alpha, Beta, or Stable. |
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| This Release Plan proposes the following prospective target dates |
| for stability: |
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| August 30, 2004 |
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| Tomcat 5.5.0 should be tagged by this date. |
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| End of September, 2003 |
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| Tomcat 5.5 should reach beta status by then. |
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| In order to complete a first Stable release, all outstanding Bugzilla bug |
| reports against Tomcat 5.5 above NORMAL severity need to be fixed or deferred |
| for later releases. |
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| This Release Plan proposes the following classification of current outstanding |
| bug reports in the bug tracking system, sorted by component and their ID |
| numbers in our bug tracking system at: |
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| http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/ |
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| Please review the bug reports, and their severity accordingly. |
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