On 13/11/2015 10:26, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> 2015-11-13 1:12 GMT+01:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
> 
>> The proposed Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 release is now available for voting.
>>
>> This is the first milestone release for the 9.0.x branch. It should be
>> noted that, as a milestone release:
>> - Servlet 4.0 is not finalised
>> - The EGs have not started work on JSP 2.4, EL 3.1 or WebSocket 1.2/2.0
>>
>> The major changes compared to the 8.0.x branch are:
>> - Requires Java 8
>> - BIO, Comet and Windows Itanium support have been removed
>> - Support for TLS virtual hosting, ALPN, HTTP/2 and OpenSSL with
>>   NIO/NIO2 has been added
>> - Lots of internal refactoring to support the above changes
>>
>> For full details, see the changelog:
>> http://svn.us.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
>>
>> It can be obtained from:
>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.0.M1/
>> The Maven staging repo is:
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetomcat-1054/
>> The svn tag is:
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcattags/TOMCAT_9_0_0_M1/
>>
>> The proposed 9.0.0.M1 release is:
>> [ ] Broken - do not release
>> [X] Alpha - go ahead and release as 9.0.0.M1
>>
>> It looks like a very nice first build to release.
> 
> OTOH testing HTTP/2 at all is a bit difficult (ok, not just "a bit"), so
> maybe there will not be that much feedback on it. The requirements are:
> new native

Yes, but provided on Windows and should be a simple build on Linux

> bleeding edge OpenSSL,

As new native. Getting a new OpenSSL build could be a bit harder
depending on the Linux distro.

> config in server.xml to add the protocol handler,

That I can fix by adding HTTP/2 to the example.

> valid per host certificate (no comment ...),

No different to the 8.0.x requirements. You can do more but you don't
have to.

> secure cipher suite

Should be negotiated by default (now we honour client cipher order)

> for the https connector. So if you're looking at a first webinar topic,
> "Beginner HTTP/2 in Tomcat" would be nice.

Agreed. When you look at it, it is lots of fairly simple things but I
agree that that would make a good topic for a Webinar, maybe even the
first one.

Mark

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