Tomcat latest version on Amazon Linux 2

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Hello,

We have tomcat servers with latest tomcat 8.5.* installed from amazon-linux-extras

The latest version now is 8.5.79.0

But in the Apache Tomcat site https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi, they have this latest version 8.5.87

Could you please advise why AL2 doesn't have the latest tomcat version?

Thanks

Maan
asked a year ago886 views
1 Answer
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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

AWS
answered a year ago

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