IdP / OpenSAML patches next week

Scott Cantor scott at restingparrotsoftware.com
Thu May 7 13:34:32 UTC 2026


> I have now checked the changelog for Servlet API 6.1 - at
> https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.1/jakarta-servlet-spec-6.1#change-log
> 
> From 6.0, the only change that could have issues with backwards compatibility is #443 - dropping support for SecurityManager.
> 
> But for deployments not using a SecurityManager, 6.1 should be backwards-compatible with 6.0, so I take it as justification why IdP 5.1.x works with Tomcat 11.

The change I'm thinking of must have been in 6.0, but we went from 5.0 to 6.1 in terms of the baseline Spring supposedly requires.

-- Scott



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