[jetty-dev] Release of Eclipse Jetty 12.1.0

[Joakim Erdfelt <joakim.erdfelt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Jetty team is happy to announce the immediate availability of

    Eclipse Jetty 12.1.0

A Supported & Stable Open Source Community Release.

These releases include a number of new features, along with the usual spate of bug fixes and improvements. See the github release pages for full changelog.

• https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-12.1.0

New Features

• New Jakarta EE11 Server Environment
• New Compression layer with support for gzip, brotli, and zstandard compression and decompression. Available on Server via a new CompressionHandler and HttpClient APIs.
• New Server WebApp Deployment layer. Gone are the multiple scanners and multiple directories, now only 1 directory is scanned, along with support for Jetty Server Environment (ee8, ee9, ee10, ee11, etc) configuration files that apply to all webapps deployed in that environment.
• New Jetty Start Modules for easier management of environment specific configurations (see start.jar --help for details)

This release is available on the Eclipse Jetty project download page or from the Maven Central repository:

• Eclipse: https://jetty.org/download.html
• Maven Central Browsing: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jetty/

Documentation for this release can be found on the Eclipse Jetty project site:

• https://jetty.org/docs/index.html

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• https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/

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Want a discussion forum?

Use the Github Discussions at Eclipse Jetty.

• https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/discussions

If you find any issues with this release, or if you want to suggest future enhancements, please file an issue on the Jetty GitHub page:

• https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/issues/new

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Please contact us for more information or email jesse@xxxxxxxxxxx to discuss your specific needs.

Best Regards,
The Eclipse Jetty Development Team