The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tomcat 7.0.6, the first stable release in the Tomcat 7 series.

Apache Tomcat 7.0.6 contains further performance improvements in session management, a new binary distribution targeted at users embedding Tomcat in other applications and several enhancements to the memory leak detection and prevention features. The Tomcat 7.0.6 release also contains around 60 bug fixes compared to 7.0.5.

Apache Tomcat 7.0.6 can be downloaded from the Tomcat 7 download page. The full change log is available in the Tomcat documentation.