Jetty HTTP/3 Support

Introduction HTTP/3 is the next iteration of the HTTP protocol. HTTP/1.0 was released in 1996 and HTTP/1.1 in 1997; HTTP/1.x is a fairly simple textual protocol based on TCP, possibly wrapped in TLS, that experienced over the years a tremendous growth that was not anticipated in the late ’90s. With Read more…

UnixDomain Support in Jetty

UnixDomain sockets support was added in Jetty 9.4.0, back in 2015, based on the JNR UnixSocket library. The support for UnixDomain sockets with JNR was experimental, and has remained so until now. In Jetty 10.0.7/11.0.7 we re-implemented support for UnixDomain sockets based on JEP 380, which shipped with Java 16. Read more…

CometD 5.0.3, 6.0.0 and 7.0.0

Following the releases of Eclipse Jetty 10.0.0 and 11.0.0, the CometD project has released versions 5.0.3, 6.0.0 and 7.0.0. CometD 5.0.x Series CometD 5.0.x, of which the latest is the newly released 5.0.3, require at least Java 8 and it is based on Jetty 9.4.x. This version will be maintained Read more…

Jetty, ALPN & Java 8u252

Introduction The Jetty Project provided to the Java community support for NPN first (the precursor of ALPN) in Java 7, and then support for ALPN in Java 8. The ALPN support was implemented by modifying sun.security.ssl classes, and this required that the modified classes were prepended to the bootclasspath, so Read more…

OpenJDK 11 and TLS 1.3 issues

At the Jetty Project we have been getting reports from the community as well as seeing random failures of load tests and benchmarks that were using TLS, and the failures were only happening with Java 11 (any version up to 11.0.2). Jetty users also saw TLS failures in their environments Read more…

CometD 4.0.0 Released

The CometD Project is happy to announce the availability of CometD 4.0.0. CometD 4.0.0 builds on top of the CometD 3.1.x series, bringing improvements and new features. You can find a migration guide at the official CometD documentation site. What’s new in CometD 4.0.0 The main theme behind CometD 4.0.x Read more…