Changelog since 5.5.7
Tomcat 5.5.9 (yoavs)
General
Add JULI, a java.util.logging implementation, used to provide sane
add defaults and configurability equivalent to Tomcat 4.0 for Tomcat 5.5
logging (remm)
docs Add JULI documentation to the logging page (remm)
add Add host manager webapp (remm)
add Add ant JkStatusUpdateTask for remote status worker handling ( >=mod_jk
1.2.9) (pero)
add 33739: Add reference to RUNNING.txt in setup.html. (yoavs)
fix 33719: Update reference to Ant download page. (yoavs)
fix 33883: Bad options in SSL-HowTo. (yoavs)
update Update to MX4J 3.0.1 (pero)
update 34139: Updated Realm-HowTo to specify JMX, Commons-Logging jars for
RealmBase. (yoavs)
add 33325: Added top-level clean target to Netbuild build.xml file.
(yoavs)
update 33755: Clarified Postgresql JNDI datasource example. [patch submitted
by Tom Witmer] (yoavs)
Catalina
fix Remove some instances of expanded folder removal (remm)
fix Don't call mkdirs if we're not going to save the configuration in
StandardContext (remm)
fix Fix context classloader binding during loader initialization (it was set
to null before) (remm)
fix The webapp logger should only be retrieved when the context classloader
is set to the webapp's classloader (remm)
fix 34170: Add back retry logic in JDBC realm in case of a connection
failure (remm)
fix 22041: Support dynamic proxies as session objects. (markt)
fix Fix logger names for wrappers (remm)
34006: If antiResourceLocking was used, HostConfig considered the
fix path as external, and web application resources were not correctly
removed or tacked; also simplify the code a lot (remm)
fix 34016: Save and restore docBase when using antiResourceLocking, for
compatibility with the admin webapp (remm)
add 33636: Set lastModified attribute when expanding WAR files. (yoavs)
add 32938: Allow Salted SHA (SSHA) passwords in JNDIRealm. (yoavs)
add 31288: Allow SMTP authentication for JNDI MailSessionFactory. (yoavs)
update Harmonize processing of the context.xml defaults with the way web.xml is
processed (remm)
fix Ignore ';' if it is in the query string (remm)
fix private to protected for the webapp classloader (remm)
fix Improve logging of filters and listeners startup errors (remm)
fix 33774: Retry once in JNDI realm authenticate failure regardless of
the exception message (remm)
fix 33961: Don't encode '~' in context paths (remm)
fix 32866: Propagate distributable property from context to manager
(yoavs)
fix 32867: Reset distributable attribute in context for clean reload
handling (yoavs)
update Fix some RealmBase/JNDIRealm log.isXXXEnabled (pero)
fix 34161: Harmonize StandardContext.stop with ContainerBase.stop (remm)
Coyote
fix 33971: Set remoteHost to null when Apache doesn't send one.
(billbarker)
fix Fix calculation of threadRatio for the ms thread pool, and fix setting
the updated timeout value (remm)
Update the ms thread pool so that we allocate a worker before
accepting a update new socket, and wait a little if the pool
is exhausted; this should make low maxThreads values work
a lot better (remm)
update 33857: Update information on automatic mod_jk configuration in
Apache-HowTo (yoavs)
fix Fix sync block placement in Mapper.addContext (remm)
fix 32741: Fix spelling of "committed" [patch from Ben Souther] (yoavs)
fix 34133: Make setHeader clear multi-valued headers (billbarker)
Jasper
fix 34034: Jasper does not respect external entities (billbarker)
fix 33810: Incorrect recycling of BodyContent if close is called (remm)
update Per instance loggers in Jasper (remm)
Cluster
fix Fix JvmRouteBinderValve primary failover attribute to
org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.JvmRouteOrignalSessionID (pero)
fix Change attribute name waitForAck to sendAck at ReplicationListener (pero)
Integrate new fastasyncqueue cluster sender mode. Support queue size
add limitation, get all queued objects and send it to the backup node, no
queue thread lock contention under high replication load, submitted by
Rainer Jung (pero)
Add compress attribute to Sender and Receiver to transfer data
add uncompressed. At high cluster load this option consume lesser cpu and
memory. Implement the compress handling to ReplicationTransmitter,
ReplicationListener, XByteBuffer and Jdk13ReplicationListener (pero)
Add doProcessingStats to synchronous, asynchronous and fastqueueasync
add sender modes to get min, avg, max processing times as IDataSender JMX
MBeans (pero)
fix TcpThreadPool use constant ACK byte array instead create new 3 byte
buffer for every message ack (pero)
update Refactor ReplicationTransmitter and ReplicationListener (pero)
update add getCatalinaCluster() to ClusterReceiver and SimpleTcpCluster (pero)
update Update the Api documentation (pero)
Webapps
update Use the standard struts taglib URIs in admin JSPs. (billbarker)
add Add more host parameters to create new host with host-manager (pero)
fix 34033: Fix quoting related bugs (remm)
fix 33713: Add Struts init code in frameset.jsp as well (remm)
Tomcat 5.5.8 (yoavs)
General
fix 33204: Fixed SSL HowTo page. (yoavs)
fix 33351: Fix silent uninstallation. (remm)
fix 33489: Missing space in uninstaller message. (yoavs)
Catalina
Unregister host mbean and all context mbeans at remove a host, s.
fix StandardHost.destroy() and MBeanFactory.createStandardHost/removeHost(,)
detected by Thorsten Kamann (pero)
fix make it possible to restart connector, now serversocket recreated after
stop,start (pero)
fix change mbean names from Mapper and ProtocolHandler to connector naming
style (pero)
update Add some log.isXXXEnabled (pero)
fix Deregister MapperListener after remove connector (pero)
fix Remove host only at own domain with same name at all services, detected
by Thorsten Kamann (pero)
fix 33187: Remove any logging of the password in the JAAS realm,
submitted by Andrew Jaquith (remm)
fix 33033: Don't do anything to the response in the ErrorReportValve if
data has already been written (remm)
update Add charset support for the URLs used by the tasks, to remove
deprecation (remm)
26135: Workaround for memory leak when reloading Struts based web
fix applications by clearing the bean instrospector cache of the JVM on
classloader stop, submitted by Tobias Lofstrand. (remm)
fix Ensure that if CLASSPATH is declared on startup - it is not used.
(funkman)
fix Add back use of deployOnStartup in HostConfig (remm)
docs Ant tasks docs patches, submitted by Gabriele Garuglieri. (remm)
update Use NIO for the raw copying operation, as it is faster (a little under
30%), and decreases a little the impact of antiResourceLocking. (remm)
fix 33357: Fix connection leaks with the DataSourceRealm, as well as
improve efficiency, submitted by Dominik Drzewiecki. (remm)
update Improve a little logging of servlet exceptions, which should all log the
root cause. (remm)
Add new Manager.createSession(sessionId) method, allowing
the client to update "specify" the session id which should
be used using a cookie when using emptySessionPath="true".
This fixes session tracking in this case. (remm)
fix 33368: Fix memory leak in swallowOutput feature which occurred when
the thread pool size is reduced, submitted by Rainer Jung. (remm)
fix StoreConfig: can't save cluster Membership element (pero)
add StoreConfig: suppress default jkHome attribute at connector (pero)
add StoreConfig: Save new dymanic properties from ReplicationTransmitter
(pero)
fix 33463: Remove attributes after context destroy. (remm)
fix 33572: context.xml should be a redeploy resource, and add
prioritization for redeploy resources. (remm)
Coyote
fix PoolTcpEndpoint recreate ServerSocket after start,stop,start connector
(pero)
update Add some log.isXXXEnabled (pero)
add JkMX: make log4j mbean configurable with attribute log4jEnabled (pero)
When Tomcat runs on Windows and IE is uploading data to the server, the
fix first read must be at least 8KB, otherwise upload speed is extremely
low, submitted by Noel Rocher (remm)
Jasper
fix 33223: pageContext.forward and jsp:include result in
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException (luehe)
fix 33373: Fix handling of context classloader in jspc (remm)
fix 33538: Ignore example and tag-extension elements in
TagLibraryInfoImpl. (yoavs)
fix 33539: Better error message when an unknown element is encountered in
the tag file. (yoavs)
fix 33219: Minor JspServletWrapper code cleanup. (yoavs)
Cluster
fix Add instance based ReplicationValve statistics to Mbean descriptor
(pero)
fix Better I18N support to cluster session and tcp classes (pero)
Support optional primaryIndicator at ReplicationValve to mark that
add request processing to existing session is at primary cluster node. Easy
failover detection, when mark is not at configurable primaryIndicator
attribute, submitted by Rainer Jung (pero)
update Refactor all implementation from interface IDataSenders (pero)
add Add some usefull attributes and operations to the all sender MBeans.
(pero)
add Add keepAlive and waitForAck handling to AsyncSocketSender and factor
out a DataSender base class.(pero)
add ReplicationTransmitter: Enable and Disable autoreconnect sender and
waitForAck. (pero)
add ReplicationTransmitter: transfer all properties to socket sender from
server.xml configuration. (pero)
Webapps
fix Fix create and remove Host for Admin app. (pero)
