Jakarta Servlet 6.1

Release for Jakarta EE 11

Jakarta Servlet defines a server-side API for handling HTTP requests and responses.

The release removes references to the SecurityManager and provides various small enhancements and clarifications.

New features, enhancements or additions

• Allow control of status code and response body when sending a redirect
• Add a query string attribute to error dispatches
• Add constants for new HTTP status codes
• Add overloaded methods that use Charset rather than String
• Add ByteBuffer support to ServletInputStream and ServletOutputStream
• Various clarifications

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• All references to the SecurityManager and associated APIs have been removed

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 17 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Servlet 6.1 Release Record
• Jakarta Servlet 6.1 Release Plan
  • Jakarta EE Platform 11 Release Plan
• Jakarta Servlet 6.1 Specification Document (PDF)
• Jakarta Servlet 6.1 Specification Document (HTML)
• Jakarta Servlet 6.1 Javadoc
• Jakarta Servlet 6.1.0 TCK, (sig, sha, pub)
  • For all TCK releases, see download directory
• XML Schema
  • web-app_6_1.xsd
  • web-common_6_1.xsd
  • web-fragment_6_1.xsd
  • jsp_4_0.xsd
  • web-jsptaglibrary_4_0.xsd
• Maven coordinates
  • jakarta.servlet:jakarta.servlet-api:jar:6.1.0

Compatible Implementations

• Tomcat 11.0.0-M20

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2024-06-04 with the following results.

Non-binding votes

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2023-07-26 with the following results.

The ballot was run on the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list