[ANN] Apache Tomcat 5.0.12 Beta released

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 
5.0.12 Beta.

Tomcat 5.0 contains many enhancements over Tomcat 4.1, including:
* Performance optimizations and reduced garbage collection
* Refactored application deployer, with an optional standalone deployer 
allowing validation and compilation of a web application before putting 
it in production
* Complete server monitoring using JMX and the manager web application
* Scalability and reliability enhancements
* Improved Taglibs handling, including advanced pooling and tag plugins
* Improved platform integration, with native Windows and Unix wrappers
* Embedding of Tomcat using JMX
* Enhanced Security Manager support
* Integrated session clustering
* Expanded documentation

Apache Tomcat 5.0.12 is a beta release, and contains the following known 
issues:
* Possible crash of the Windows .exe wrapper when attempting to view its 
console (which can be done by double clicking on the tray icon). This 
will be addressed in the next release.

Downloads:
Binaries: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Sources: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

The Apache Tomcat Team