# Release: Elastic Beanstalk launches Amazon Linux 2023 Tomcat platform on July 13, 2023
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Elastic Beanstalk releases a new Corretto 17 Tomcat platform branch based on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023).

**Release date:** July 13, 2023

## Changes
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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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/platforms-linux.html) in the *AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide*.

For more information about Amazon Linux 2023, see [Comparing Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/compare-with-al2.html) 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platforms-retiring.html) 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** | 
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| **Platform** | **Update** | 
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|  **Security updates**  |  Applied all security updates published in the [Amazon Linux Security Center](https://alas.aws.amazon.com/alas2023.html) on or before **July 5, 2023** to all AL2023 platforms.    | 
|  **Platform-specific updates**  |  Made these platform-specific updates: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2023-07-13-al2023.html)  | 
|  **AMI for Tomcat 10 on AL2023**  |  Updated the base AMI to version 2023.1.20230705.  | 
|  **Tomcat**  |  **\$1\$1New\$1\$1\$1** Introduced a new Tomcat platform branch, running on AL2023: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2023-07-13-al2023.html) For more information about Corretto 17, see the [Amazon Corretto](https://aws.amazon.com/corretto) website. For more information about Tomcat, see the [Apache Tomcat 10](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/index.html) documentation.  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](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/java.html#removed-java-options) on the Oracle Java documentation website. Also see [Configuring your Tomcat environment](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-tomcat-platform.html#java-tomcat-options), *JVM Container options*, in the *AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide*.   | 

## New platform versions
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**Note**  
The following tables list all supported platform branches for each platform. Only Amazon Linux 2023 platform branches are updated.

**Topics**
+ [Tomcat](#release-2023-07-13-al2023.platforms.java)

### Tomcat
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|  Platform Version and *Solution Stack Name*   |  AMI  |  Language  |  AWS X-Ray  |  Application Server  |  Proxy Server  | 
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|   ** 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  |