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Jakarta EE application server built on Apache Tomcat

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TomEE opens a 10.3 line and a second EE11 milestone on the same day, with no notes

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◆Current state
TomEE shipped 10.3.0 and 11.0.0-M2 within hours of each other on November 4, and both releases publish only the Maven release-plugin tag message. The 10.x line has moved from patch releases to a new minor, while the 11.x line, which carries the Jakarta EE 11 work on main, reached its second milestone four months after the first. The 10.x patch history behind them is mostly dependency bumps with one or two real TOMEE ticket fixes each.
◆Where it's heading
The project is running two lines in parallel: 10.x as the stable Jakarta EE 10 target and 11.x as the milestone track for EE11. The roughly four-month gap between M1 and M2 suggests 11.0 is still several milestones from final. Release notes are getting thinner, so the changelog alone says less and less about what changed.
◆Prediction
Expect further 10.3.x patches and an 11.0.0-M3; whether 10.3.0 holds real feature work cannot be read from the entries, which carry no notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    TomEE 10.3.0 starts a new minor line on the stable 10.x branch

    A new minor on the 10.x line after a run of 10.1.x and 10.2.0 patches, though its published notes are only the release-plugin tag. It keeps the EE10 branch moving while EE11 work stays on main.

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  2. 5d ago

    TomEE 11.0.0-M2 is the second Jakarta EE 11 milestone

    The second milestone of the 11.x line, four months after M1 opened it, shipped with no notes beyond the tag. It confirms the EE11 track is progressing in milestones rather than heading straight for a final release.

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  3. 3mo ago

    10.2.0 fixes a request-scope LinkageError and unchained auth errors

    Two real corrections in an otherwise dependency-driven release: a LinkageError affecting scope="request" that appeared in 10.1, and a RemoteException that was not being chained with its AuthenticationException. The rest is the usual commons, Jackson, ActiveMQ and Faces version churn.

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  4. 4mo ago

    11.0.0-M1 opens the next major line with EE11 work on main

    The first milestone of the 11.x line, whose defining change is structural — Jakarta EE 11 work moved onto the main branch, establishing 11.0.0 as the forward target while 10.x stays stable. The notes themselves are almost entirely dependency bumps, so what EE11 support actually covers is not yet described here.

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  5. 5mo ago

    10.1.5 repairs resources with an explicit String constructor-type

    Fixes resources declared with constructor-type set to "String", which were broken, and carries the standard round of MicroProfile config, Hibernate, ActiveMQ and nimbus-jose-jwt upgrades. Narrow but user-visible for anyone using that configuration form.

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  6. 9mo ago

    Apache TomEE 10.1.4

    Entirely dependency and GitHub Actions bumps — Tomcat, Hibernate, log4j2, commons-pool2, commons-dbcp2, mockito — with no described behavioral change. Routine currency maintenance on the 10.1.x line.

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