June 25, 2010 - It's here! Tomcat 7 Beta Officially Released This Week!

After almost a year and a half in active development, the official Tomcat 7 beta release is tagged, packaged, and available for download from Apache! The release, which is based on Tomcat 7 RC4, was voted beta on June 25, 2010.

Tomcat 7 will be the first major version of Tomcat in over three years, and as such, includes a huge set of new features and enhancements that make the popular application server faster, easier to use, and more reliable than ever before.

Many of the improvements are centered around Tomcat's implementation of the latest JSR specifications - Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2, which add a laundry list of features including asynchronous support, annotation-based configuration, improved session tracking, and method invocation using expression language. However, the improvements don't stop there - Tomcat 7 itself has been streamlined and optimized for high performance, stability, and security.

Want more information? You're in luck - we've compiled a detailed look at what's new in Tomcat 7. Click here to jump!