2009 News and Status

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The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability -of Tomcat Connectors 1.2.28. This is a stable release concentrating mainly on -some bug fixes. -

- Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes. -

If you find any bugs while using this release, please fill in the -Bugzilla -Bug Report. -

-The most important new features in this version are: -

Better Error Detection for Load Balancer Workers

-Local and global error states have been improved. You can fine tune the -behaviour with the new "error_escalation_time" attribute -(see the timeouts documentation). -

Dynamic Address and Port Change Using the Status Worker

-The status worker now allows you to change the address and the port -of an AJP13 worker on the fly. You can e.g. provision dummy workers with a port -equal to "0", which will be automatically put into stopped mode during startup. -Later, when you want to actually use thse workers, you set their address and -port to the final values. -

-Note that already existing connections will go on using the old -address and port. This will be improved in future versions. -

New Data in Status Worker Display

-The status worker display now also contains the timestamp of the last -worker errors. -

Improved Proxy Flexibility

-You can now overwrite more request metadata before the request gets send to the backend. -This is helpful in case there are other reverse proxies in front of your web server. -A new documentation page explains this in detail. -

Improved IIS Support

-IIS support has been improved especially when using mutltiple application pools. -Furthermore you can now configure the ISAPI plugin to update the uriworkermap.properies -file on a regular interval using the watchdog thread. -

JNI Worker Deprecation

-Workers of type jni are broken since a long time. Since there is no more -use for them, they have been deprecated now, and will be removed in a future release. -

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