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AWS elasticbeanstalk documentation change

Service: elasticbeanstalk · 2025-04-03 · Documentation low

File: elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2.md

Summary

Added documentation about accessing environment variables via System.getenv in Tomcat platform

Security assessment

The change describes environment variable access methods but doesn't address vulnerabilities or security controls. It's a feature documentation update.

Diff

diff --git a/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2.md b/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2025-03-28-al2.md
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@@ -44,0 +45 @@ The following table lists the changes included in this release.
+**Tomcat** |  Starting with this release, you can also use `System.getenv` to access plaintext environment variables. You can continue to use `System.getProperty` to access plaintext environment variables. See [Using the Elastic Beanstalk Tomcat platform](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-tomcat-platform.html) for more information.