Apache Tomcat Board Report, December 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues requiring the Board's attention: none.
Development ------------------ Work continues apache on Tomcat 6 and the mod_jk connector. Both products have done multiple alpha- and beta-level releases since the last Board report. Both have received increased testing from the committers as well as outside contributors, resulting in some interesting issues discovered and addressed. We hope to have a stable mod_jk release, 1.2.20, in the next week or two, as well as another alpha-level build of Tomcat (6.0.6), and the first stable Tomcat 6 release before the next Board report. Several of the fixes found in Tomcat 6 have been back-ported to Tomcat 5.x as well, but there has been no 5.x release since 5.5.20 in September. Security ------------ On December 7th a possible security issue was reported to us by the Struts PMC, which had been notified of it earlier. After some discussion, we concluded this was a fairly minor issue with responsibility on both the Tomcat and Struts sides. There was a patch available in SVN within a day or so, and it was back-ported to previous Tomcat branches as well. I think we were all pretty pleased with the efficiency and speed of communication between the projects. Because the issue has yet to be publicly announced and this Board report may become public before the issue is announced, we are omitting the actual details here. The Tomcat PMC will be glad to provide any details required, and the discussions are archived on the mailing list archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trademarks / Legal ---------------------------- A couple of days ago we noted that http://www.octazen.com/product_tomcatnet.html was calling their product Tomcat.NET. We contacted them, CCing the PRC for its records, and Octazen immediately agreed to relabel their product and clarify the page as to their relationship to Apache Tomcat. So this issue was resolved pleasantly and quickly. Community ---------------- Not much going on here: no new committers, no new PMC members, but no one resigning or leaving either ;) Thanks on behalf of the Tomcat PMC, Yoav --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
