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Content Delivery presentation environment Web application server support history

SDL Web 8.5 Content Delivery has a number of changed Web and application server prerequisites for its presentation environment, compared to SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 or SDL Web 8 with Cumulative Update 1 applied.

In the following table: N=not supported, Y=supported, D=Deprecated (support may be dropped in the following version release), Dr=Dropped (support is definitely dropped in the following version release), P=Probably dropped (support is probably dropped in the following version release):

Web application server2013 SP1 HR1v8v8.5
Apache Tomcat 6.0YNN
Apache Tomcat 7.0YY (must be 7.0.47 or later)Y (must be 7.0.47 or later)
Apache Tomcat 8.0NYN
Apache Tomcat 8.5.6NNY
IBM WebSphere 7.0YNN
IBM WebSphere 8.5DrNN
IBM WebSphere 8.5.5YYY
IBM WebSphere 9.0NNY
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 5.1DrNN
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 5.2YNN
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 6.0DrNN
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 6.1YNN
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 6.4NYN
JBoss Enterprise Application Framework 7.0.0NNY
Microsoft IIS 7.5YYP
Microsoft IIS 8.0DrNN
Microsoft IIS 8.5YYY
Microsoft IIS 10.0NNY
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1YNN
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c R1YYP
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c R2NNY
Oracle GlassFish Server v3.1YNN

If you use IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 or 9.0, you must also have the WebSphere Liberty profile (also known as WAS Liberty) installed. Refer to the following Web address for more information about WAS Liberty: https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/websphere-liberty/