A client of my employers wanted to know how much life our chosen application hosting platform has left.
I found Mark's email [1] which suggested tomcat 6 eol [2]. That page says: > The Apache Tomcat team announces that support for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x will > end on 31 December 2016. > Three months later (i.e. after 30 March 2017) [ long list of things that haven't happened ] I did a quick check and re-discovered the latest 6.0 release [3]: > Version 6.0.53, Apr 2 2017 (I was actually subscribed to the ML at that time.) I understand that it's impossible to fully predict EOL (Windows XP just got an update even though it's supposed to be mostly buried...). It seems to me that it might be helpful if the 6 EOL notice [2] were updated to at least mention that there was a release in April which means that the EOL won't be until July, and that people should check [3] and add three months to get a better sense of when the other items in the page might trigger. That said. My original question in case someone has an answer is: what's a distant date I can reasonably tell someone else that tomcat 7.0 will still be supported? The document I'm working from suggests 2018, but [1] mentioned 2020. (I hope we'll be able to at least move to 7.5 as opposed to 7.0, but I'm not the person responsible for application development, so I'm not really in a position to guarantee any such change...) Thanks. [1] http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=144774572025583&w=2#1 [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-60-eol.html [3] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
