Tomcat latest version on Amazon Linux 2

Hello,

This package may not be available in the amazon-linux-extras repositories due to the required dependencies not being stable or updated yet. Any package updates for Amazon Linux 2 can be found in the release notes [0]. Interestingly enough my Amazon Linux 2 test instance uses version 9.0.71 for tomcat9 which is also not the latest version of the package (9.0.73). If using tomcat 8.5.87 is desired instead of 8.5.79.0, I would use the wget command to download the necessary package from the tomcat site. For example:

wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.87/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.87.tar.gz

I hope this information helps!

[0] Amazon Linux 2 Release Notes https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AL2/latest/relnotes/relnotes-al2.html