Bug#895866: tomcat8: Errors thrown when connecting to default HTTP connector (localhost:8080)

[Alan Orth]

I can definitely wait (our application won’t even run on Java >= 8 yet). I just wanted to make sure the bug was being tracked. Thanks!

> On Apr 30, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Le 29/04/2018 à 19:07, Alan Orth a écrit :
>> Ubuntu imported tomcat8/8.5.31 just before the 18.04 release and Tomcat will not run with OpenJDK 8 there either. Will you be waiting for a new Tomcat release before re-compiling tomcat8 to work with OpenJDK 8, or can we schedule something sooner?
> 
> Tomcat 8.5.31 hasn't been released yet, but should be by the end of the
> week if the ongoing vote passes upstream. I'll take this opportunity to
> upload a fixed tomcat8 package. The actual fix is in the ant package and
> will be uploaded before.
> 
> The Java ecosystem in Ubuntu 18.04 isn't going to be very stable until
> the end of the year and the final switch to Java 11. Canonical is
> working hard to make the transition as smooth as possible, but if you
> aren't in a hurry to upgrade I think it's safer to wait a bit.
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
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