Hi, 2017-11-06 17:44 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > > On 6 November 2017 15:35:16 GMT+00:00, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > >All (particularly Violetta), > > > >With Java 9 officially released and the latest Tomcat 7 release not > >starting due to the inclusion of the "endorsed dirs" system property, > >I think it makes sense to do another Tomcat 7.0.x release. > > > >Rainer put the fix into r1810284 so I think we just need an official > >release. > > > >I'm unsure if the later versions of Tomcat also need similar releases > >to support Java 9. If so, we might want to go ahead and roll those as > >well. I just happen to know that Tomcat 7 releases are no longer > >happening particularly often and we should have a version available
Tomcat 7 release happens every 1,5-2 months. Till now for this year we have 7 released versions. > >that supports the "current" (at least from Oracle's point of view) > >Java version. > > > >Thanks, > >-chris > > I'm still working on a Commons Daemon release that fully supports Java 9. My plan was to wait for that before starting the next release round. Happy to consider a plan b. If we want Tomcat 7 release with the current fixes related to Java 9 support I can prepare a vote. I was waiting to the Commons Daemon changes, but we can include them in a subsequent release. Regards, Violeta
