The Apache Tomcat team released version 8.0.0 RC1 of Tomcat today.
This release primarily targets Oracle's Java EE 7, which was released in June. In addition to supporting the latest Java EE specifications, the main improvements compared to Tomcat 7 are as follows:
- Support for Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified Expression Language 3.0, and WebSocket 1.0.
- The default connector implementation is now based on Java non-blocking I/O (NIO) for HTTP and AJP.
- A new resource implementation that can replace Aliases, VirtualLoader, VirtualDirContext, and JAR resources, along with a single, consistent external repository for resources.
For more details: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/changelog.html
Download link: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
Migration guide for Tomcat 5.5.x/6.0.x/7.0.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html