(cc: Emmanuel, as he participated in related thread a year ago) 2015-05-14 16:14 GMT+03:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > For some time now we have always said we will maintain three current > Tomcat versions in parallel. As we start to think about milestone > releases of Tomcat 9 soon (stable is unlikely to be until later next > year due to the Java EE 8 timescales) I think now would be a good time > to think about when to EOL 6.0.x. > > The other factor to keep in mind is that we have (since at least 5.5.x) > given 12 months notice of any EOL dates. > > With the above in mind, what do folks think to the following EOL > options? In all cases we announce the date as soon as we are happy with it. > > Option 1: Tomcat 6.0.x EOL as of 30 June 2016 > Option 2: Tomcat 6.0.x EOL as of 31 December 2016 > > The rational for option 1 is that with a 9.0.x milestone release > happening soon we need to EOL 6.0.x ASAP otherwise we'll end up > potentially supporting 4 concurrent versions. > > For option 2, the thinking is that with the earliest date for a stable > 9.0.x in the second half of next year, the end of next year we won't > really be supporting 9.0.x until then (it is very unlikely that > 9.0.x/trunk and trunk will separate before then) so the end of next year > is a reasonable time frame to work with. > > I'm currently leaning towards option 2. >
Either date is OK with me. (Personally, our customers still have several instances of Tomcat 6 running, but the plan is to upgrade them in the following ~2-3 months. After that I am not sure how much interest I would have in 6.0.) Searching archives, there was a question regarding Debian Jessy in April 2014, but I think the answer was to do not use Tomcat 6 in the new release. http://markmail.org/message/dh2h3z2y2y5n2f3x The following search: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tomcat shows that Tomcat 6 packages are present in "squeeze (oldoldstable) " "squeeze-lts" "wheezy (oldstable)" but current stable ("jessie (stable)") has only 7 and 8. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze says: "2016-02-06 : End of LTS security updates for i386 and amd64 (five years after initial release) " https://wiki.debian.org/LTS says: "The team will thus handle: * Debian 6 “Squeeze” until February 2016 * Debian 7 “Wheezy” from February 2016 to May 2018 * Debian 8 “Jessie“ from May 2018 to April/May 2020" So from that I think that September 2016 is OK. Tomcat 5.5 EOL'ed on 30 September 2012. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
