1.9.0

Add support for nested Host elements, controlled via the hosts parameter (HerveMARTIN)
New parameters:
- tomcat_user_id (HerveMARTIN)
- tomcat_group_id (HerveMARTIN)
- context_cookieprocessor (HerveMARTIN)
- archive_mirror (azryelryvel)
Fix usage of 'user-data-constraint' key in security_constraints hash (ronnbcnews)

1.8.4

Fix admin contexts resources ordering (alvagante)
Update default package versions

1.8.3

Add configuration of
- nested Host contexts (contexts parameter) (HerveMARTIN)
- global security constraints (security_constraints parameter)
Update default package versions
Add support for SuSE 12.3

1.8.2

New parameters log_folder_mode and accesslog_valve_pattern (HerveMARTIN)
Add support for Debian 9, OpenSuSE 42.3
Drop support for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, Fedora 23, 24
Update default package versions

1.8.1

Hotfix: remove references to tomcat-juli extra libraries

1.8.0

Drop support for internal logging with log4j
- Removed in Tomcat 8.5
Update default package versions

1.7.0

Add support for Tomcat 9
- Configurable nested UpgradeProtocol, SSLHostConfig and Certificate elements (Connector)
- Configurable nested CredentialHandler element (Realm)
- Refer to the configuration examples for further usage instructions
Make the VersionLogger Listener attributes configurable via versionlogger_* parameters
Make the JreMemoryLeakPrevention Listener attributes configurable via jrememleak_attrs parameter
New parameter jmx_uselocalports for the JMX Listener
Warning: the path to Tomcat archives is now composed of both archive_source and archive_filename (new) parameters
Fix ignored listeners parameter

1.6.2

Add proxy support via new parameters proxy_server and proxy_type
New parameter force_init which generates a generic init script/unit for packages which do not include any
Add support for SuSE 12.1
Update default package versions

1.6.1

Unset provider parameter on all archive resources (from puppet-archive module)
- quick and dirty workaround until SERVER-94 gets fixed
- Warning: may break behind a HTTP proxy (untested)

1.6.0

Configurable web.xml files
- Warning: replaces default_servlet instance parameter
- New tomcat::web defined type to manage web.xml files
- See default_servlet*, jsp_servlet*, sessionconfig_sessiontimeout and welcome_file_list parameters
Update systemd unit, expect tomcat script path as set in latest available packages
- Warning: check the current location of your tomcat startup script, especially if using an old OS package version
Replace or remove calls to deprecated validate_* stdlib functions
Add support for Fedora 25 and Amazon Linux 2016.09
Drop support for Fedora 22

1.5.0

Warning: the host_deployOnStartup parameter was renamed to host_deployonstartup (lowercase) in this release. Backward compatibility will be maintained until the next minor release only.

New tomcat::userdb_role_entry defined type to manage roles in the user database (hdeadman)
New tomcat_users and tomcat_roles hash parameters to help the definition of users and roles (hdeadman)
Add support for Engine scoped valves: engine_valves parameter (hdeadman)
New parameters restart_on_change and file_mode (ruriky)
Allow enabling the Security Manager on archive installations (hdeadman)
Fix default systemd service type on archive installations (hdeadman)
Improve usage of clustering features (SimpleTcpCluster) (hdeadman)
- see undocumented cluster_* parameters
Fix empty user/group in systemd units
Encode values in XML templates (scitechfh)
Set default provider to curl for archive resources (scitechfh)
Add support for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety), OpenSuSE 42.2, SuSE 12.1
Update default package versions

1.4.0

Warning: the enable_extras parameter was renamed to extras_enable in this release. Backward compatibility will be maintained until the next minor release only.

New parameters: package_ensure and extras_package_name (scitechfh)
New parameters: checksum_verify, checksum_type, checksum and extras_source (angrox)
Replace dependency on puppet/staging by puppet/archive
Align content of systemd templates on current state of official RPM packages (RedHat and derivatives)
Add support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), Fedora 24 and Amazon Linux 2016.03
Drop support for Debian 6 (Squeeze), OpenSuSE 13.1 and below, Fedora 21 and below
Update default package versions
Bug fixes:
- parameters left blank in systemd units on some Puppet versions
- work around for PUP-1597 on RHEL 7
- dependency cycle between service and context resources
- file permissions too strict on configuration files
- activation of extras/log4j not working with multi-version setups
- tomcat service not notified of all relevant changes

1.3.2

New parameters: globalnaming_environments and ssl_sslenabledprotocols (roysjosh)
Support Amazon Linux 2015.x (thkrmr)
Update default package versions (Fedora 23)

1.3.1

New systemd_service_type parameter (joshuabaird)
Reload systemd daemon after unit update (scitechfh)
Update deprecated port firewall parameter (scitechfh)
Support Fedora 23

1.3.0

Support per-instance user
New tomcat::instance parameter: default_servlet
Fix default owner/group on context.xml
Contain sub-classes
Update default package versions (Debian 6/7)
Support Ubuntu 15.10

1.2.1

Fix obsolete start/stop commands and systemd unit on RHEL7
Support Epoch tag in package version
Move information about tomcat user/group to the right place in the documentation
Update default package versions (RHEL6/7)

1.2.0

Enforce tomcat package version. version now takes a full package version when tomcat is installed from a package repository.

1.1.0

New tomcat::context defined type to manage context.xml files

1.0.3

Fix regression due to changes in pid file management

1.0.2

Add missing ensure attributes (hanej)
Do not force pid file creation (fixes startup issue with Tomcat 6)

1.0.1

Fix documentation format and add Context config example

1.0.0

New Context parameters for configuring context.xml:
- context_params
- context_loader
- context_manager
- context_realm
- context_resources
- context_parameters
- context_environments
- context_listeners
- context_valves
- context_resourcedefs
- context_resourcelinks
Support Debian 8, Fedora 22 and RHEL 5
Do not create user/group if already defined
Minor bugfixes

0.9.3

Allow several instances to use the same log_path
Parameters validation
Partial spec tests

0.9.2

Enable multi-version tomcat installation
New parameter log_path: define log directory
Fix issue with generic init script always returning 0

0.9.1

Fix compatibility with future parser in Puppet 3.7.4 (PUP-3615)

0.9.0

Warning: this release is a big step forward, please read the documentation carefully

New listeners parameters: create custom Listener components within the server configuration
New Server parameters. Warning: control_port renamed to server_control_port
- server_control_port
- server_shutdown
- server_address
New Service parameters.
- svc_name
- svc_params
New Engine parameters. Warning: jvmroute renamed to engine_jvmroute
- engine_name
- engine_defaulthost
- engine_jvmroute
- engine_params
New Host parameters. Warning: all old parameters renamed and default values removed!
- host_name
- host_appbase
- host_autodeploy
- host_deployOnStartup
- host_undeployoldversions
- host_unpackwars
- host_params
Fix instance startup on Fedora 20+, drop support for Fedora 15 and 16
custom_fragment renamed to custom_variables (hash)
Refactoring

0.8.2

New parameters related to Executors
- threadpool_name
- threadpool_nameprefix
- threadpool_maxthreads
- threadpool_minsparethreads
- threadpool_params
- executors

0.8.1

Fix Critical messages generated when concaneting empty fragments to server.xml
New parameter valves: create custom Valve components within the server configuration
Change default value for catalina_pid (instance context) and manage pid file
Improve template formatting

0.8.0

Numerous new Connector parameters (see documentation, thanks etlweather for the help)
Split bulky server.xml template into independant fragments
New context_resources parameter: add ResourceLink elements to context.xml (etlweather)
Added basic support for SimpleTcpCluster (etlweather, experimental and undocumented, need contributions)
Updated documentation

0.7.0

New realm parameters: $lockout_realm, $userdatabase_realm (etlweather)
New globalnaming_resources and realms parameters: possibility to define custom GlobalNamingResources and Realm elements (etlweather)
Changed root_path default value (instance context)
Proper startup script for distributions without systemd
Better support of SuSE OS family
Fix tomcat6 startup script on RHEL (warning: now requires stdlib >= 4.4.0)

0.6.0

Compatible with future parser
Minor code improvements

0.5.4

Fix compatibility issue with Puppet versions between 3.4 and 3.6

0.5.3

Removed root_path parameter from main class (redundant with catalina_home)

0.5.2

installation_support renamed to install_from
New debugging parameters: jpda_enable, jpda_transport, jpda_address, jpda_suspend and jpda_opts

0.5.1

tomcat_user defaults to service_name if installed from package
Log name in Access Log valve now matches hostname
Fixed log folder permissions

0.5.0

Support SuSE OS family
Configures instance admin webapps properly when installed from archive
Does not uninstall unrequired libraries anymore (native, log4j)
Improve warning logging
Cleanup

0.4.1

Document missing parameter installation_support
Improve documentation

0.4.0

Support installation from archive
Use nanliu/staging instead of nanliu/archive to download and extract files
Improved systemd support
create_default_admin defaults to false
Numerous improvements in code and documentation

0.3.2

New parameter manage_firewall

0.3.1

java_opts and catalina_opts are now array parameters
Path to "setenv" file can be set using config_path
extras renamed to enable_extras
tomcat_native and log4j default to false

0.3.0