## 2004 News and Status

### 2004 News & Status

### 17 December - JK-1.2.8 released

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Jakarta Tomcat Connectors 1.2.8.

Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

If you find any bugs during testing this release, please fill in the Bugzilla Bug Report. When entering bug select Native:JK Component.

### 17 December - JK-1.2.8-rc-1 released

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Jakarta Tomcat Connectors 1.2.8-rc-1 (Relase Canditate 1).

We expect it to be ratified as a Stable release when the vote takes place in the next week.

Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

If you find any bugs during testing this release, please fill in the Bugzilla Bug Report. When entering bug select Native:JK Component.

### 13 December - JK-1.2.7-beta-3 released

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Jakarta Tomcat Connectors 1.2.7-beta-3. The release contains a fix to few configuration problems detected with JK-1.2.7-beta-2 version.

We expect it to be ratified as a Stable release when the vote takes place in the next week.

Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

If you find any bugs during testing this release, please fill in the Bugzilla Bug Report. When entering bug select Native:JK Component.

### 7 December - JK-1.2.7-beta-2 released

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Jakarta Tomcat Connectors 1.2.7-beta-2. The release contains a fix to few compilation problems detected with JK-1.2.7-beta version. This release also introduces a new domain concept clustering support. See 32317 for details.

We expect it to be ratified as a Stable release when the vote takes place in the next two weeks.

Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

If you find any bugs during testing this release, please fill in the Bugzilla Bug Report. When entering bug select Native:JK Component.

### 30 November - JK-1.2.7-beta released

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Jakarta Tomcat Connectors 1.2.7-beta. The release contains a significant number of bug fixes and new features.

We expect it to be ratified as a Stable release when the vote takes place in the next two weeks.

Please see the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

Since release 1.2.7 the socket_timeout property has been renamed to recycle_timeout. The socket_timeout now sets the real timeout for socket operations.

If you find any bugs during testing this release, please fill in the Bugzilla Bug Report. When entering bug select Native:JK Component.

### 15 November - JK2 is officially unsupported

JK2 has been put in maintainer mode and no further development will take place. The reason for shutting down JK2 development was the lack of developers interest. Other reason was lack of users interest in adopting JK2, caused by configuration complexity when compared to JK.

The latest official JK2 release is 2.0.4.

JK2 will have it's successor within core Apache2.1/2.2 distribution. We have developed new proxy_ajp that is an addition to the mod_proxy and uses Tomcat's AJP protocol stack. It is developped in httpd-2.1 and integrated in it. We have also developed a new proxy_balancer module for load balancing http and ajp protocol stacks.

JK will be fully supported for all other web servers. The next JK release is planned for the end of November. Lots of code from JK2 has been ported to JK