Re: [virgo-dev] Tomcat upgrade

[Florian Waibel <fwaibel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

> We haven't run our full QA suite yet, but in smoke testing it seems to
> be working for us.
> Thanks very much.

That's good news. Thanks.

> Before we ship it, can you give some indication of how stable you
> consider it given that it is not a RELEASE build?

We'll release 3.7.3.RELEASE from the maintenance branch `3.7.x` where no 
active development happens.

> e.g. has it been tested thoroughly?

I also did some smoke testing and updated a small Docker based 
production installation.
No issues so far.

> have any significant changes been
> checked in since 3.7.2. RELEASE, (Virgo changes that is, not Tomcat
> specifically)

The maintenance branch `3.7.x` contains the following noteworthy 
changes:

* Update Java profile to Java 8 + Gemini Blueprint 2.1.0.JAVA7 -> 
2.1.0.RELEASE
* Spring Framework 4.3.21.RELEASE and
* Gemini Web 3.0.4.RELEASE (including the Tomcat update to 8.5.35).

@Dani You've done some stress-test previously. Do you have some free 
resources to rerun the tests?

Regards,
  florian