VaadinService.lockSession

Ciao,
utilizzo vaadin 7.7.9 su IBM Portal 8.5.5.11.
Purtroppo riscontro diversi problemi nella comunicazione con il BE (RC: 104 connection reset e RC:107 Transport endpoint is not connected), questi eventi arrivano a mandare in hung i thread del webContainer.
Lo stacktrace tipico è:
ThreadMonitor W CWWSR0605W: Thread “WebContainer : 4941” (00022a1f) has been active for 668379 milliseconds and may be hung. There is/are 70 thread(s) in total in the server that may be hung.
at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:197)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:845)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireQueued(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:878)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquire(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1208)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync.lock(ReentrantLock.java:225)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock.lock(ReentrantLock.java:301)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinService.lockSession(VaadinService.java:630)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinService.findOrCreateVaadinSession(VaadinService.java:666)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinService.findVaadinSession(VaadinService.java:530)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinService.handleRequest(VaadinService.java:1416)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinPortlet.handleRequest(VaadinPortlet.java:548)
at com.vaadin.server.VaadinPortlet.processAction(VaadinPortlet.java:603)
at com.ibm.ws.portletcontainer.invoker.impl.PortletFilterChainImpl.doFilter(PortletFilterChainImpl.java:77)
at com.ibm.wps.engine.el.init.AttributeCopyFilter.doFilter(AttributeCopyFilter.java:108)
at com.ibm.ws.portletcontainer.invoker.impl.PortletFilterChainImpl.doFilter(PortletFilterChainImpl.java:69)

ho trovato queste segnalazioni:
https://github.com/vaadin/framework/issues/3693
https://github.com/vaadin/framework/issues/6943
https://github.com/vaadin/framework/issues/5558
https://vaadin.com/forum/thread/10447917

ma nella 7.7.9 che ho dovrebbero essere già comprese le fix per le casistiche sollevate, avete esperienza in merito? O avete notizia di regressioni nella versione di framework che utilizzo?

grazie