Tomcat: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Tomcat from Apache

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-06

What is Tomcat?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementApache Tomcat (called "Tomcat" for short) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and WebSocket technologies.Tomcat provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment in which Java code can run.
 

The entire lifecycle of Tomcat

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Tomcat. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Tomcat (Apache) release, version and end-of-life information
XTomcat (Apache) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Tomcat (Apache)
 

Facts and figures about Tomcat

Product
Tomcat
Vendor
Apache
Latest version
11.0.18
Number of releases
10
Number of versions
630
Number of unstable versions
106
Number of versions affected by CVE
499
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Licence details
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Version command
java -cp /<path>/catalina.jar org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat
 
 

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