The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 7.0.56. Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements compared to version 7.0.55. The notable changes since 7.0.55 include: - Update the Java WebSocket support to version 1.1 of the Java WebSocket specification. - Add support for the WebSocket permessage-deflate extension. Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html Note: This version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three bundled with Tomcat native binaries for Windows operating systems running on different CPU architectures. Note: Use of the Java WebSocket 1.1 implementation requires Java 7. Note: If you use the APR/native AJP or HTTP connector you *must* upgrade to version 1.1.31 or later of the APR/native library. Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi Migration guides from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html - The Apache Tomcat team