Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7 Release Notes
For Use with the Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7
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Chapter 1. RedHat JBoss Web Server 5.7
Welcome to the Red Hat JBoss Web Server version 5.7 release.
Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It consists of an application server (Apache Tomcat servlet container) and the Apache Tomcat Native Library.
JBoss Web Server includes the following key components:
- Apache Tomcat is a servlet container in accordance with the Java Servlet Specification. JBoss Web Server contains Apache Tomcat 9.
- The Apache Tomcat Native Library improves Tomcat scalability, performance, and integration with native server technologies.
- Tomcat-vault is an extension for the JBoss Web Server that is used for securely storing passwords and other sensitive information used by a JBoss Web Server.
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The mod_cluster library enables communication between JBoss Web Server and the Apache HTTP Server
mod_proxy_cluster
module. Themod_cluster
library enables you to use the Apache HTTP Server as a load balancer for JBoss Web Server. For more information about configuringmod_cluster
, or for information about installing and configuring alternative load balancers such asmod_jk
andmod_proxy
, see the Apache HTTP Server Connectors and Load Balancing Guide. - Apache portable runtime (APR) is a runtime that provides superior scalability, performance, and improved integration with native server technologies. APR is a highly portable library that is at the heart of Apache HTTP Server 2.x. It enables access to: advanced IO functionality such as sendfile, epoll and OpenSSL; functionality at the operating system level such as random number generation and system status; and native process handling such as shared memory, NT pipes and Unix sockets.
- OpenSSL is a software library that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols and includes a basic cryptographic library.
This release focuses on syncing JBoss Web Server with the latest Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server (httpd
). This release also introduces support for installing JBoss Web Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and fixes some security issues.
JBoss Web Server 5.5 and later versions no longer provide OpenShift images based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This release of JBoss Web Server provides OpenShift images based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Chapter 2. New features and enhancements
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7 includes the following new features and enhancements.
2.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 support
This release of JBoss Web Server is also certified for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Support is available for installing JBoss Web Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 from an archive file or RPM packages.
Chapter 3. Deprecated features
The following features are being deprecated in this release.
3.1. Apache CXF and Hibernate ORM artifacts in the JBoss Web Server Maven repository
Red Hat is deprecating the CXF and Hibernate JAR files that are currently available in the JBoss Web Server repository, which you can download as jboss-web-server-5.7.x-maven-repository.zip
from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat will remove the CXF and Hibernate JAR files from jboss-web-server-X.X.x-maven-repository.zip
in a future release.
In the JBoss Web Server 5.7 and 5.8 releases, Red Hat will continue to provide CXF and Hibernate JAR files in jboss-web-server-5.X.x-maven-repository.zip
, but Red Hat does not provide any further updates to these JAR files except for any possible security fixes.
In JBoss Web Server 5.7 and future versions, Red Hat will continue to provide and maintain CXF and Hibernate JAR files in the Red Hat hosted Maven repository, which you can access at https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga/.
Apache CXF is a framework that you can use to build and develop services that use front-end application programming interfaces (APIs) such as JAX-WS and JAX-RS. Hibernate ORM is an object-relational mapping framework that you can use to connect JBoss Web Server to Java database connectivity (JDBC) data sources.
Chapter 4. Installing the Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7
You can install the JBoss Web Server 5.7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Microsoft Windows. For more information see the following sections of the installation guide:
Chapter 5. OS/JVM Certifications
This release is supported for use with the following operating system and Java Development Kit (JDK) versions:
Operating System | Chipset Architecture | Java Virtual Machine |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | x86_64 | Red Hat OpenJDK 11, Red Hat OpenJDK 17, Oracle JDK 11, Oracle JDK 17 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | x86_64 | Red Hat OpenJDK 1.8.x, Red Hat OpenJDK 11, Red Hat OpenJDK 17, Oracle JDK 11, Oracle JDK 17 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | x86_64 | Red Hat OpenJDK 1.8.x, Red Hat OpenJDK 11, Oracle JDK 1.8.x, Oracle JDK 11, IBM JDK 1.8.x |
Microsoft Windows 2019 Server | x86_64 | Red Hat OpenJDK 1.8.x, Red Hat OpenJDK 11, Red Hat OpenJDK 17, Oracle JDK 1.8.x, Oracle JDK 11, Oracle JDK 17 |
Microsoft Windows 2016 Server | x86_64 | Red Hat OpenJDK 1.8.x, Red Hat OpenJDK 11, Red Hat OpenJDK 17, Oracle JDK 1.8.x, Oracle JDK 11, Oracle JDK 17 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Microsoft Windows 2012 Server R2 are not supported.
Chapter 6. Resolved issues
The following issues are resolved for this release:
Issue | Description |
---|---|
JWS-2466 | [ASF BZ 65991] Avoid NPE when checking for client cert |
JWS-2159 | [ASFBZ 65454] Race condition with idle thread removal results in request being improperly enqueued by default ThreadPoolExecutor |
Chapter 7. Known issues
There are no known issues for this release.
Chapter 8. Supported components
For a list of component versions that are supported in this release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server, see the JBoss Web Server Component Details page.
Chapter 9. Advisories related to this release
The following advisories have been issued to document enhancements, bugfixes, and CVE fixes included in this release: