Release: Elastic Beanstalk launches Amazon Linux 2023 Tomcat platform on July 13, 2023

Elastic Beanstalk releases a new Corretto 17 Tomcat platform branch based on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023).

Release date: July 13, 2023

Changes

Today we’re releasing another new Elastic Beanstalk platform based on Amazon Linux 2023. This release adds a new Tomcat platform branch that runs on AL2023. We're also working on releasing support for AL2023 to more platforms.

For more information, see Elastic Beanstalk Linux platforms in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

For more information about Amazon Linux 2023, see Comparing Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023 in the Amazon Linux 2023 User Guide.

The following table lists the changes included in this release.

Notes

• These release notes focus on changes to currently supported platform branches. For full version information of Elastic Beanstalk retiring (deprecated) platform branches, see Elastic Beanstalk platform versions scheduled for retirement in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Platforms guide.

• Be aware that at the time these release notes are published, the new platform versions might not yet be available in all the AWS Regions that Elastic Beanstalk supports. It might take a few hours for the release to complete.

Category	Description
Security updates	Applied all security updates published in the Amazon Linux Security Center on or before July 5, 2023 to all AL2023 platforms.
Platform-specific updates	Made these platform-specific updates: Platform Update AMI for Tomcat 10 on AL2023 Updated the base AMI to version 2023.1.20230705. Tomcat **New!** Introduced a new Tomcat platform branch, running on AL2023: Corretto 17 with Tomcat 10 running Corretto version 17.0.7.7.1 on Tomcat 10.1.11. For more information about Corretto 17, see the Amazon Corretto website. For more information about Tomcat, see the Apache Tomcat 10 documentation. Important JDK 17 removed support of the Java -XX:MaxPermSize option. Usage of this option with this new platform branch will result in an error. For more information, see Removed Java Options on the Oracle Java documentation website. Also see Configuring your Tomcat environment, JVM Container options, in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

New platform versions

Note

The following tables list all supported platform branches for each platform. Only Amazon Linux 2023 platform branches are updated.

Tomcat

Platform Version and Solution Stack Name	AMI	Language	AWS X-Ray	Application Server	Proxy Server
Corretto 17 with Tomcat 10 AL2023 version 5.0.0 64bit Amazon Linux 2023 v5.0.0 running Tomcat 10 Corretto 17	2023.1.20230705	Corretto 17.0.7.7.1	3.2.0	Tomcat 10.1.11	nginx 1.24.0 (default), Apache 2.4.56