Trending Topics This Week
Here is what people are talking about this week in the world of free and open source software:
- New Microsoft free Linux Forensics and Rootkit malware detection service.
- Open source AI tool that identifies energy-wasting homes.
- AWS open source CloudFormation compliance analyzer.
Key Security, Maintenance, and Features Releases
Non-Security Updates
Apache Tomcat 9.0.37 and 8.5.57
9.0.37
Add: Remove the error message on start if java.io.tmpdir is missing and add an explicit error message on application deployment when the sole feature that depends on it (anti-resource locking) is configured and can't be used. (markt)
Update: Implement a significant portion of the TLS environment variables for the rewrite valve. (remm)
Fix: 64506: Correct a potential race condition in the resource cache implementation that could lead to NullPointerExceptions during class loading. (markt)
Add: Add application/wasm to the media types recognised by Tomcat. Based on a PR by Thiago Henrique Hüpner. (markt)
8.5.57
Add: Remove the error message on start if java.io.tmpdir is missing and add an explicit error message on application deployment when the sole feature that depends on it (anti-resource locking) is configured and can't be used. (markt)
Update: Implement a significant portion of the TLS environment variables for the rewrite valve. (remm)
Fix: 64506: Correct a potential race condition in the resource cache implementation that could lead to NullPointerExceptions during class loading. (markt)
Add: Add application/wasm to the media types recognised by Tomcat. Based on a PR by Thiago Henrique Hüpner. (markt)
Jenkins 2.244
Clean up more workspace related directories, e.g. @libs from Pipeline libraries. (issue 41805)
Update Italian localization. (pull 4810)
Internal: JavaScript refactoring in preparation for form layout modernization. (issue 56109)
Developer: Extend the DownloadService.Downloadable API to make it easier to work with default IDs. (issue 62572)
Jetty 9.4.30
+ 4776 Incorrect path matching for WebSocket using PathMappings
+ 4826 Upgrade to Apache Jasper 8.5.54
+ 4855 occasional h2spec failures on jenkins
+ 4873 Server.join not working when used with ExecutorThreadPool
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