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)

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)
• Don't force pid file creation (fixes startup issue with Tomcat 6)