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23 September 2005 - Apache Tomcat 5.5.12-alpha Now Available

The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tomcat 5.5.12-alpha. This version contains several bug fixes, including an import change to session attribute storage concurrency that is required by the upcoming Servlet Specification v2.5. In addition to these changes, this release is a significant milestone for two reasons:

This release is the last one to be done using the CVS repository at Apache. The Tomcat team is moving to the Subversion (SVN) repository as part of the overall Apache initiative to do so. Access instructions for the SVN repository are available at http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html. The move is expected to be complete within the next week.

As part of Tomcat's move to a top-level project (TLP) at Apache, we will be migrating our content to http://tomcat.apache.org, which is still under construction at this time. That site will have its own download pages and related information. We will keep the key jakarta URLs intact with redirection, but please keep an eye out and update your bookmarks to http://tomcat.apache.org as/when appropriate. As part of the TLP move, distribution names have changed from jakarta-tomcat-* to apache-tomcat-*, and similar minor branding changes will gradually become visible in the web site and documentation. We thank the Jakarta project for its support over the years, and we will continue collaborating on projects and issues of common interest.

The Release notes are available at
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/RELEASE-NOTES

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/changelog.html

Downloads: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_tomcat-5.cgi

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-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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Project Website	http://tomcat.apache.org
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	network-server
Mailing Lists	http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla
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Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat