Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Tomcat 9.0.121

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM Coty Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 8:17 AM Christopher Schultz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Rainer,
>>
>> On 8/12/26 10:28 PM, Rainer Jung wrote:
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>> > About the second one, I am not so sure:
>> >
>> > org.apache.catalina.startup.TestWithoutClustering
>> >
>> > Testcase: testStoreRegistryWithoutClustering took 0.029 sec
>> >          Caused an ERROR
>> > null
>> > java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
>> >          at
>> java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
>> >          at
>> >
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.TestWithoutClustering.testStoreRegistryWithoutClustering(TestWithoutClustering.java:313)
>> > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>> >          at
>> >
>> org.apache.tomcat.util.res.StringManager.getManager(StringManager.java:186)
>> >          at
>> >
>> org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreRegistry.<clinit>(StoreRegistry.java:50)
>> >
>> > There seems to be no relevant change around StoreRegistry or
>> > StringManager and the pattern seems to be used the same way in many
>> > places. If seems the class StoreRegistry is incomplete during its
>> static
>> > initializers and getPackage() may return null, but why didn't I see
>> this
>> > anywhere before?
>>
>> I think this is a new test Coty has been working on. I'd say it's not a
>> showstopper at all.
>>
>
> Yeah, it was introduced in a commit just with the new test, so if they're
> not working correctly for some older version I'd say its fine. I'll look
> into it too though.
>

Fixed in
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/567d4707d1cc815bbd554b7aaf45b91ff0d54cd9
(thanks Claude)


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>> -chris
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