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commit 2342d5a5acd0c944dcc9448b31daef9daf18e4e7
Author: Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Oct 6 10:53:20 2023 +0200

    Release changelog for version `2.21.0`
---
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/.release-notes.adoc.ftl       | 12 +---
 .../.2.x.x/1231_validation_path_condition.xml      | 29 ---------
 .../.2.x.x/1232_log4j-to-sfl4j-2-OSGiMetadata.xml  | 29 ---------
 .../1281_remove_locale-dependent_toLowerCase.xml   | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1284_redirect_old_javadoc_urls.xml      | 26 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1312_add_environment_arbiter.xml        | 29 ---------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/1366_fix_java_sql_date.xml    | 27 --------
 ...1367_Missing-Bundle-Activation-OSGiMetadata.xml | 30 ---------
 .../.2.x.x/1369_bump_build_requirement_jdk_11.xml  | 27 --------
 ...tringResolver_uses_instance_after_recycling.xml | 25 --------
 .../1381_support_parents_in_MarkerResolver.xml     | 26 --------
 ..._connectionStringSource_in_MongoDb4Provider.xml | 26 --------
 .../1391_fix_NPE_in_PluginElementVisitor.xml       | 26 --------
 .../1405_column_mapping_rename_type_attribute.xml  | 27 --------
 .../1414_restore_SLF4J_Log4jMarker_visibility.xml  | 26 --------
 ..._fix_ArrayOutOfBound_in_Log4jFixedFormatter.xml | 25 --------
 .../1445_1549_fix_sync_roll_action_propagation.xml | 28 --------
 .../1445_fix_synchronous_rolling_file_manager.xml  | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1484_fix_StackLocator_stdout.xml        | 26 --------
 ...5_fix_DatePatternConverter_when_TL_disabled.xml | 26 --------
 .../1503_change_defaults_for_LevelRangeFilter.xml  | 25 --------
 ...1530_fix_runtime-dependencies_documentation.xml | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1533_set_fqcn_eventbuilder.xml          | 29 ---------
 ...e_of_incorrect_syntax_of_highlighting_style.xml | 28 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1550_multiple_filter_invocations.xml    | 25 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/1589_mongodb_tests.xml        | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1626_parameter_format_rewrite.xml       | 26 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1640_java_9_stack_trace_element.xml     | 28 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/1646_unsafe_cleaner.xml       | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1650_fix_rollover_strategy_log4j1.xml   | 29 ---------
 .../.2.x.x/1681_fix_and_improve_lookup_docs.xml    | 29 ---------
 .../.2.x.x/1692_make_JTL_LocationAware.xml         | 28 --------
 .../1747_mongodb4-long-collection-size-conifg.xml  | 28 --------
 ...a_version_specific_warnings_in_StackLocator.xml | 27 --------
 ...w_multiple_servletcontextlistener_instances.xml | 28 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1786_fix_async_context_data_loss.xml    | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/1805_fix_NPE_in_JTL_LevelResolver.xml   | 28 --------
 .../.2.x.x/LOG4J2-170_Improve_XML_schema.xml       | 25 --------
 .../LOG4J2-3217_fix_NPE_in_ContextSelector.xml     | 27 --------
 .../LOG4J2-3657_fix_TL_usage_in_AbstractLogger.xml | 26 --------
 ...ix_notEmpty_converter_for_empty_collections.xml | 25 --------
 ...4J2-3663_fix_file_descriptor_leak_on_Tomcat.xml | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/OsgiServiceLocator_npe.xml    | 28 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/PreventResourceLeak.xml       | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/new-release-process.xml       | 25 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/remove-jmx-gui.xml            | 24 -------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-activation.xml    | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-mail.xml          | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra-driver.xml    | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra.xml | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-compress.xml    | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-csv.xml         | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jackson.xml   | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-activation.xml  | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-mail.xml        | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jctools.xml   | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kafka.xml     | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kubernetes.xml          | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-mongodb.xml   | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-netty.xml     | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-boot.xml         | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-framework.xml    | 27 --------
 .../.2.x.x/update-1runtime-tomcat-juli.xml         | 27 --------
 src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-woodstox.xml  | 27 --------
 src/site/_release-notes.adoc                       |  2 +-
 src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc                | 75 ----------------------
 66 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1784 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.release-notes.adoc.ftl 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.release-notes.adoc.ftl
index 69f31a0606..1fb73e8284 100644
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.release-notes.adoc.ftl
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.release-notes.adoc.ftl
@@ -38,15 +38,7 @@
 
 <#if release.date?has_content>Release date:: ${release.date}</#if>
 
-This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor enhancements.
-
-The Log4j 2.20.1 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary 
compatibility with previous releases.
-
-Apache Log4j 2.20.1 requires a minimum of Java 11 to build and Java 8 to run.
-Log4j 2.12.4 is the last release to support Java 7.
-Log4j 2.3.2 is the last release to support Java 6.
-Java 6 and Java 7 are no longer supported by the Log4j team.
-
-For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how to 
submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see 
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/[the Apache Log4j 2 website].
+This is a placeholder introduction to these release notes.
+This will be updated prior to the release.
 
 <#include "../.changelog.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1231_validation_path_condition.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1231_validation_path_condition.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 62e6deb63e..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1231_validation_path_condition.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1231" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1231"/>
-  <author id="github:lukaszspyra" name="Łukasz Spyra"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Added validation to rolling file manager path conditions
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1232_log4j-to-sfl4j-2-OSGiMetadata.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1232_log4j-to-sfl4j-2-OSGiMetadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index dadddda390..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1232_log4j-to-sfl4j-2-OSGiMetadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1232" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1232"/>
-  <author id="hanneswell"/>
-  <author name="Hannes Wellmann"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Adapted the OSGi metadata of `log4j-to-slf4j` to work with SLF4J 1 and 2.
-    To achieve that used a version range of `[1.7,3)` for the imported SLF4J 
packages.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1281_remove_locale-dependent_toLowerCase.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1281_remove_locale-dependent_toLowerCase.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index bc55e0e3dd..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1281_remove_locale-dependent_toLowerCase.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1281" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1281"/>
-  <author id="github:aawad6" name="Ammar Awad"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Removed locale-dependent 
`toLowerCase/toUpperCase` calls</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1284_redirect_old_javadoc_urls.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1284_redirect_old_javadoc_urls.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4750eb8cf7..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1284_redirect_old_javadoc_urls.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1284" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1284"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <author name="Alexander Brandes"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc"><![CDATA[Redirected old `/<module>/apidocs` 
URLs (broken in 2.20.0) to `/javadoc/<module>`]]></description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1312_add_environment_arbiter.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1312_add_environment_arbiter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c1d91f7336..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1312_add_environment_arbiter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1312" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1312"/>
-  <author id="github:MouettE-SC" name="Charles Leclerc"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Added environment variable arbiter
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1366_fix_java_sql_date.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1366_fix_java_sql_date.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e5f712ad5c..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1366_fix_java_sql_date.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1366" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1366"/>
-  <author id="github:Hikarikun92" name="Lucas Souza"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed logging of `java.sql.Date` objects by appending it before Log4J 
tries to call `java.util.Date.toInstant()` on it
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1367_Missing-Bundle-Activation-OSGiMetadata.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1367_Missing-Bundle-Activation-OSGiMetadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f46d57009b..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1367_Missing-Bundle-Activation-OSGiMetadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1367" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1367"/>
-  <author id="github:N1k145" name="Niklas Kellner"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author name="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Adapted the OSGi metadata of `log4j-api`, `log4j-core`, `log4j-slf4j-impl` 
and `log4j-slf4j2-impl` to activate the bundle when it is accessed.
-    To achieve that set the `Bundle-ActivationPolicy` to `lazy` for the log4j 
bundles.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1369_bump_build_requirement_jdk_11.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1369_bump_build_requirement_jdk_11.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 56dfbcecea..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1369_bump_build_requirement_jdk_11.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1369" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1369"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Bumped the minimum Java version required for the build to JDK 11. Runtime 
requirements remain unchanged.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1380_StackTraceStringResolver_uses_instance_after_recycling.xml
 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1380_StackTraceStringResolver_uses_instance_after_recycling.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6283d4a0a8..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1380_StackTraceStringResolver_uses_instance_after_recycling.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1380" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1380"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Avoided using released objects in 
`StackTraceStringResolver` of `JsonTemplateLayout`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1381_support_parents_in_MarkerResolver.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1381_support_parents_in_MarkerResolver.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b693480fe..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1381_support_parents_in_MarkerResolver.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="added">
-  <issue id="1381" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1381"/>
-  <author name="Eric Herot"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Added marker parent support to 
`JsonTemplateLayout`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1389_Added_missing_setter_for_connectionStringSource_in_MongoDb4Provider.xml
 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1389_Added_missing_setter_for_connectionStringSource_in_MongoDb4Provider.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a34c3e5e7b..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1389_Added_missing_setter_for_connectionStringSource_in_MongoDb4Provider.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-    <issue id="1389" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1389"/>
-    <author id="ihordz" name="Ihor Dziuba"/>
-    <author id="vy"/>
-    <description format="asciidoc">Added missing setter for 
`connectionStringSource` in `MongoDb4Provider` builder</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1391_fix_NPE_in_PluginElementVisitor.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1391_fix_NPE_in_PluginElementVisitor.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cbb523fec..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1391_fix_NPE_in_PluginElementVisitor.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1391" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1391"/>
-  <author name="Andrew Zakordonets" id="azakordonets"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed NPE in 
`PluginElementVisitor`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1405_column_mapping_rename_type_attribute.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1405_column_mapping_rename_type_attribute.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e84af133e1..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1405_column_mapping_rename_type_attribute.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1405" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1405"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Add `columnType` as alias for the column mapping `type` attribute.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1414_restore_SLF4J_Log4jMarker_visibility.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1414_restore_SLF4J_Log4jMarker_visibility.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bc5517ddc..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1414_restore_SLF4J_Log4jMarker_visibility.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1414" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1414"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Restored `Log4jMarker` visibility in SLF4J 
adapters</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1418_fix_ArrayOutOfBound_in_Log4jFixedFormatter.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1418_fix_ArrayOutOfBound_in_Log4jFixedFormatter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e677540f75..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1418_fix_ArrayOutOfBound_in_Log4jFixedFormatter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1418" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1418"/>
-  <author id="pkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed buffer size in `Log4jFixedFormatter` 
date time formatter</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_1549_fix_sync_roll_action_propagation.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_1549_fix_sync_roll_action_propagation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2a70737e7..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_1549_fix_sync_roll_action_propagation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1445" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1445"/>
-  <issue id="1549" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1549"/>
-  <author id="github:thisdudeiknew"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed the propagation of synchronous action 
failures in `RollingFileManager` and `FileRenameAction`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_fix_synchronous_rolling_file_manager.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_fix_synchronous_rolling_file_manager.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e446ebf50..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1445_fix_synchronous_rolling_file_manager.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1445" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1445"/>
-  <author id="thisdudeiknew" name="Timothy Pfeifer"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed `RollingFileManager` to propagate failed synchronous actions 
correctly.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1484_fix_StackLocator_stdout.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1484_fix_StackLocator_stdout.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f102cbcec4..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1484_fix_StackLocator_stdout.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1484" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1484"/>
-  <author id="github:hblohm" name="Henning Blohm"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Replaced the usage of `System.out` in 
`StackLocator` for warnings with `System.err`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1485_fix_DatePatternConverter_when_TL_disabled.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1485_fix_DatePatternConverter_when_TL_disabled.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a68efa3207..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1485_fix_DatePatternConverter_when_TL_disabled.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1485" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1485"/>
-  <author name="Stephan Markwalder" id="smarkwal"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed concurrent date-time formatting issue 
in `PatternLayout`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1503_change_defaults_for_LevelRangeFilter.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1503_change_defaults_for_LevelRangeFilter.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 196742dbe0..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1503_change_defaults_for_LevelRangeFilter.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1503" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1503"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Set the default `minLevel` and `maxLevel` of 
`LevelRangeFilter` to `OFF` and `ALL`, respectively</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1530_fix_runtime-dependencies_documentation.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1530_fix_runtime-dependencies_documentation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2df4f53501..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1530_fix_runtime-dependencies_documentation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1530" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1530"/>
-  <author id="github:harryssuperman"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed runtime dependencies 
documentation</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1533_set_fqcn_eventbuilder.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1533_set_fqcn_eventbuilder.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e618439f08..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1533_set_fqcn_eventbuilder.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1533" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1533"/>
-  <author id="github:oshai" name="Ohad Shai"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author name="github:pkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Allowed to override FQCN in `Log4jEventBuilder` by implementing 
`CallerBoundaryAware`
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1545_add_warn_in_case_of_incorrect_syntax_of_highlighting_style.xml
 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1545_add_warn_in_case_of_incorrect_syntax_of_highlighting_style.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 110e79948f..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1545_add_warn_in_case_of_incorrect_syntax_of_highlighting_style.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="added">
-    <issue id="1545" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1545"/>
-    <issue id="1637" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1637"/>
-    <author id="github:aawad6" name="Ammar Awad"/>
-    <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-    <author id="github:vy"/>
-    <description format="asciidoc">Added a warning for incorrect syntax of 
highlighting styles</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1550_multiple_filter_invocations.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1550_multiple_filter_invocations.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index d636fd3d2f..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1550_multiple_filter_invocations.xml
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-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1550" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1550"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Removed additional `isFiltered` checks in 
`AsyncLoggerConfig`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1589_mongodb_tests.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1589_mongodb_tests.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f9c035c03..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1589_mongodb_tests.xml
+++ /dev/null
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1589" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1589"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Migrated MongoDB tests to JUnit 5 and Flapdoodle Embedded MongoDB 4
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1626_parameter_format_rewrite.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1626_parameter_format_rewrite.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index da77684052..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1626_parameter_format_rewrite.xml
+++ /dev/null
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-    <issue id="1626" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1626"/>
-    <author id="hucsmn"/>
-    <author id="vy"/>
-    <description format="asciidoc">Rewrote message parameter formatter with 
improved escape handling</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1640_java_9_stack_trace_element.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1640_java_9_stack_trace_element.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c47b93d57d..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1640_java_9_stack_trace_element.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1640" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1640"/>
-  <author id="github:rgoers"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Improved formatting and serialization of `StackTraceElement` on JDK 9+
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1646_unsafe_cleaner.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1646_unsafe_cleaner.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a5394e9baf..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1646_unsafe_cleaner.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1646" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1646"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed `MemoryMappedFileAppender` buffer unmapping on JRE 9+
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1650_fix_rollover_strategy_log4j1.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1650_fix_rollover_strategy_log4j1.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 44661b6f31..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1650_fix_rollover_strategy_log4j1.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1650" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1650"/>
-  <author name="Krzysztof Krasoń" id="github:krzyk"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed rollover strategy in the Log4j 1.x compatibility layer
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1681_fix_and_improve_lookup_docs.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1681_fix_and_improve_lookup_docs.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 784d85d945..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1681_fix_and_improve_lookup_docs.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1681" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1681"/>
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-3504" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3504"/>
-  <author name="Yakov Shafranovich" id="github:yakovsh"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Removed incorrect mention of `base64` lookup and improve the rest of the 
lookup manual
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1692_make_JTL_LocationAware.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1692_make_JTL_LocationAware.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 22551a9d0f..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1692_make_JTL_LocationAware.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1692" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1692"/>
-  <author name="Jalyn Xing" id="github:jalynxing"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Implemented `LocationAware` for `JsonTemplateLayout`, since this was 
causing location not being passed to underlying appenders
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1747_mongodb4-long-collection-size-conifg.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1747_mongodb4-long-collection-size-conifg.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ef5c56f809..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1747_mongodb4-long-collection-size-conifg.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1747" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1747"/>
-  <author name="Gary Gregory" id="github:garydgregory"/>
-  <author name=" Jordi Font" id="github:jfont-teg"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Added support for `long` values in MongoDb 4 appender to configure 
`collectionSize`
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1760_use_java_version_specific_warnings_in_StackLocator.xml
 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1760_use_java_version_specific_warnings_in_StackLocator.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d98a84881..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1760_use_java_version_specific_warnings_in_StackLocator.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1760" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1760"/>
-  <author id="github:Flowdalic" name="Florian Schmaus"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <author id="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Use Java version-specific warnings in 
`StackLocator`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1782_allow_multiple_servletcontextlistener_instances.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1782_allow_multiple_servletcontextlistener_instances.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f3f61988..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1782_allow_multiple_servletcontextlistener_instances.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1782" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1782"/>
-  <author name="Christian Seewald" id="github:cseewald"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Only shutdown Log4j after last `Log4jServletContextListener` is executed.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1786_fix_async_context_data_loss.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1786_fix_async_context_data_loss.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 40f5dbc664..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1786_fix_async_context_data_loss.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1786" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1786"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed context data loss if `&lt;AsyncLogger&gt;` components are used with 
an all async logger context
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1805_fix_NPE_in_JTL_LevelResolver.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1805_fix_NPE_in_JTL_LevelResolver.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f0d99cac7d..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/1805_fix_NPE_in_JTL_LevelResolver.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="1805" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1805"/>
-  <author id="srangara123"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Fixed `JsonTemplateLayout` NPE thrown on custom log levels
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-170_Improve_XML_schema.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-170_Improve_XML_schema.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8241de32b8..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-170_Improve_XML_schema.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-170" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-170"/>
-  <author id="github:ppkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Improved `Log4j-config.xsd` 
schema</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3217_fix_NPE_in_ContextSelector.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3217_fix_NPE_in_ContextSelector.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e1202d7281..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3217_fix_NPE_in_ContextSelector.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-3217" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3217"/>
-  <issue id="1538" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1538"/>
-  <author id="pbodnar" name="Petr Bodnár"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed NPE in `ContextSelector`</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3657_fix_TL_usage_in_AbstractLogger.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3657_fix_TL_usage_in_AbstractLogger.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index aaa9253253..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3657_fix_TL_usage_in_AbstractLogger.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-3657" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3657"/>
-  <author name="Marat Kamalov"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Avoided allocating ``ThreadLocal``s in 
`AbstractLogger` when they are disabled, since this was causing memory leaks 
due to retained reference to class loaders in web applications</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3660_fix_notEmpty_converter_for_empty_collections.xml
 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3660_fix_notEmpty_converter_for_empty_collections.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index bac200f894..0000000000
--- 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3660_fix_notEmpty_converter_for_empty_collections.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-3660" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3660"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed `%notEmpty` directive of 
`PatternLayout` for empty MDC/NDC inputs</description>
-</entry>
diff --git 
a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3663_fix_file_descriptor_leak_on_Tomcat.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3663_fix_file_descriptor_leak_on_Tomcat.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ffc8476da4..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3663_fix_file_descriptor_leak_on_Tomcat.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <issue id="LOG4J2-3663" 
link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3663"/>
-  <author id="lenoch7" name="Radek Kraus"/>
-  <!-- Committer -->
-  <author id="pkarwasz"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed file descriptor leak on 
Tomcat</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/OsgiServiceLocator_npe.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/OsgiServiceLocator_npe.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fdd318e40..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/OsgiServiceLocator_npe.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <author id="ggregory"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Started logging a status error event instead of an NPE in
-    `OsgiServiceLocator.loadServices(Class, Lookup, boolean)`
-    when a bundle has no valid `BundleContext` for a service type
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/PreventResourceLeak.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/PreventResourceLeak.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a2e8b0941f..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/PreventResourceLeak.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="fixed">
-  <author id="mernst"/>
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Ensured `FileOutputStream` is closed in `CommonsCompressAction.execute()`
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/new-release-process.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/new-release-process.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6530dcb9e7..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/new-release-process.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <author name="github:pkarwasz"/>
-  <author name="github:vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Implemented a CI-based release 
process</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/remove-jmx-gui.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/remove-jmx-gui.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 524daf2d83..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/remove-jmx-gui.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.1.xsd";
-       type="removed">
-  <author id="vy"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Moved `log4j-jmx-gui` to 
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-jmx-gui/actions[its own repository] 
along with its own release cycle</description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-activation.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-activation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 372dc0559d..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-activation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Eclipse Angus Activation to version 
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/angus-activation/releases/tag/2.0.1[2.0.1]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-mail.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-mail.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a5acd595b9..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-angus-mail.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Eclipse Angus Mail to version 
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/angus-mail/releases/tag/2.0.2[2.0.2]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra-driver.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra-driver.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f90c44df63..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra-driver.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update `com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core` to version 3.11.5.
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 27ef9e7449..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-cassandra.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Apache Cassandra to version 
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.11/CHANGES.txt[3.11.16]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-compress.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-compress.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b4e73754b..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-compress.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Apache Commons Compress to version 
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/changes-report.html#a1.24.0[1.24.0]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-csv.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-csv.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0eed92e67a..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-commons-csv.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Apache Commons CSV to version 
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/changes-report.html#a1.10.0[1.10.0]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jackson.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jackson.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b4299c2aed..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jackson.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Jackson to version 
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.15.2[2.15.2]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-activation.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-activation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 07de15f1e0..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-activation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Jakarta Activation API to version 
https://jakarta.ee/specifications/activation/2.1/changelog/[2.1.2]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-mail.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-mail.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e86b4694f1..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jakarta-mail.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Jakarta Mail API to version 
https://jakarta.ee/specifications/mail/2.1/changelog/[2.1.2]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jctools.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jctools.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index cdb39d99c1..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-jctools.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update JCTools to version 
https://github.com/JCTools/JCTools/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md[4.0.1]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kafka.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kafka.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3cb2e20f8a..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kafka.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Apache Kafka to version 
https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html[3.4.0]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kubernetes.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kubernetes.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2faf10899b..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-kubernetes.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Kubernetes client to version 
https://github.com/fabric8io/kubernetes-client/releases?q=5.12.4[5.12.4]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-mongodb.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-mongodb.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f9ec17661..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-mongodb.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update `org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-core` to version 4.10.2
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-netty.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-netty.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b04571223..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-netty.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update `io.netty:netty-bom` to version 4.1.97
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-boot.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-boot.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a1e260b5a..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-boot.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Spring Boot to version 
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.7.15[2.7.15]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-framework.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-framework.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index de46eead3e..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-spring-framework.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Spring Framework to version 
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v5.3.29[5.3.29]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-tomcat-juli.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-tomcat-juli.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index b274ba2260..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-tomcat-juli.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Tomcat JULI to version 10.0.27
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-woodstox.xml 
b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-woodstox.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5efb69a6e6..0000000000
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update-1runtime-woodstox.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  ~
-  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  ~
-  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  ~ limitations under the License.
-  -->
-<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog";
-       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog 
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.0.xsd";
-       type="changed">
-  <issue id="1591" 
link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591"/>
-  <author id="github:dependabot"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">
-    Update Woodstox to version 
https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/blob/master/release-notes/VERSION[6.5.1]
-  </description>
-</entry>
diff --git a/src/site/_release-notes.adoc b/src/site/_release-notes.adoc
index 6f9d281820..c4743cb131 100644
--- a/src/site/_release-notes.adoc
+++ b/src/site/_release-notes.adoc
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 [#release-notes]
 = Release Notes
 
-include::_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc[]
+include::_release-notes/_2.21.0.adoc[]
 include::_release-notes/_2.20.0.adoc[]
 include::_release-notes/_2.19.0.adoc[]
 include::_release-notes/_2.18.0.adoc[]
diff --git a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc 
b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
index 99ba9e042c..5562a5d90d 100644
--- a/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
+++ b/src/site/_release-notes/_2.x.x.adoc
@@ -49,78 +49,3 @@ Java 6 and Java 7 are no longer supported by the Log4j team.
 
 For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how to 
submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see 
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/[the Apache Log4j 2 website].
 
-
-=== Added
-
-* Added marker parent support to `JsonTemplateLayout` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1381[1381])
-* Added a warning for incorrect syntax of highlighting styles 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1545[1545], 
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1637[1637])
-
-=== Changed
-
-* Bumped the minimum Java version required for the build to JDK 11. Runtime 
requirements remain unchanged. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1369[1369])
-* Set the default `minLevel` and `maxLevel` of `LevelRangeFilter` to `OFF` and 
`ALL`, respectively (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1503[1503])
-* Removed additional `isFiltered` checks in `AsyncLoggerConfig` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1550[1550])
-* Use Java version-specific warnings in `StackLocator` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1760[1760])
-* Started logging a status error event instead of an NPE in 
`OsgiServiceLocator.loadServices(Class, Lookup, boolean)` when a bundle has no 
valid `BundleContext` for a service type
-* Implemented a CI-based release process
-* Update Eclipse Angus Activation to version 
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/angus-activation/releases/tag/2.0.1[2.0.1] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Eclipse Angus Mail to version 
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/angus-mail/releases/tag/2.0.2[2.0.2] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update `com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-core` to version 3.11.5. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Apache Cassandra to version 
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.11/CHANGES.txt[3.11.16] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Apache Commons Compress to version 
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/changes-report.html#a1.24.0[1.24.0]
 (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Apache Commons CSV to version 
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/changes-report.html#a1.10.0[1.10.0]
 (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Jackson to version 
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.15.2[2.15.2] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Jakarta Activation API to version 
https://jakarta.ee/specifications/activation/2.1/changelog/[2.1.2] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Jakarta Mail API to version 
https://jakarta.ee/specifications/mail/2.1/changelog/[2.1.2] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update JCTools to version 
https://github.com/JCTools/JCTools/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md[4.0.1] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Apache Kafka to version 
https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html[3.4.0] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Kubernetes client to version 
https://github.com/fabric8io/kubernetes-client/releases?q=5.12.4[5.12.4] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update `org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-core` to version 4.10.2 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update `io.netty:netty-bom` to version 4.1.97 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Spring Boot to version 
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.7.15[2.7.15] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Spring Framework to version 
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v5.3.29[5.3.29]
 (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Tomcat JULI to version 10.0.27 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-* Update Woodstox to version 
https://github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/blob/master/release-notes/VERSION[6.5.1] 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1591[1591])
-
-=== Removed
-
-* Moved `log4j-jmx-gui` to 
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-jmx-gui/actions[its own repository] 
along with its own release cycle
-
-=== Fixed
-
-* Added validation to rolling file manager path conditions 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1231[1231])
-* Adapted the OSGi metadata of `log4j-to-slf4j` to work with SLF4J 1 and 2. To 
achieve that used a version range of `[1.7,3)` for the imported SLF4J packages. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1232[1232])
-* Removed locale-dependent `toLowerCase/toUpperCase` calls 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1281[1281])
-* Redirected old `/<module>/apidocs` URLs (broken in 2.20.0) to 
`/javadoc/<module>` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1284[1284])
-* Added environment variable arbiter 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1312[1312])
-* Fixed logging of `java.sql.Date` objects by appending it before Log4J tries 
to call `java.util.Date.toInstant()` on it 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1366[1366])
-* Adapted the OSGi metadata of `log4j-api`, `log4j-core`, `log4j-slf4j-impl` 
and `log4j-slf4j2-impl` to activate the bundle when it is accessed. To achieve 
that set the `Bundle-ActivationPolicy` to `lazy` for the log4j bundles. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1367[1367])
-* Avoided using released objects in `StackTraceStringResolver` of 
`JsonTemplateLayout` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1380[1380])
-* Added missing setter for `connectionStringSource` in `MongoDb4Provider` 
builder (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1389[1389])
-* Fixed NPE in `PluginElementVisitor` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1391[1391])
-* Add `columnType` as alias for the column mapping `type` attribute. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1405[1405])
-* Restored `Log4jMarker` visibility in SLF4J adapters 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1414[1414])
-* Fixed buffer size in `Log4jFixedFormatter` date time formatter 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1418[1418])
-* Fixed the propagation of synchronous action failures in `RollingFileManager` 
and `FileRenameAction` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1445[1445], 
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1549[1549])
-* Fixed `RollingFileManager` to propagate failed synchronous actions 
correctly. (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1445[1445])
-* Replaced the usage of `System.out` in `StackLocator` for warnings with 
`System.err` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1484[1484])
-* Fixed concurrent date-time formatting issue in `PatternLayout` 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1485[1485])
-* Fixed runtime dependencies documentation 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1530[1530])
-* Allowed to override FQCN in `Log4jEventBuilder` by implementing 
`CallerBoundaryAware` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1533[1533])
-* Migrated MongoDB tests to JUnit 5 and Flapdoodle Embedded MongoDB 4 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1589[1589])
-* Rewrote message parameter formatter with improved escape handling 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1626[1626])
-* Improved formatting and serialization of `StackTraceElement` on JDK 9+ 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1640[1640])
-* Fixed `MemoryMappedFileAppender` buffer unmapping on JRE 9+ 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1646[1646])
-* Fixed rollover strategy in the Log4j 1.x compatibility layer 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1650[1650])
-* Removed incorrect mention of `base64` lookup and improve the rest of the 
lookup manual (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1681[1681], 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3504[LOG4J2-3504])
-* Implemented `LocationAware` for `JsonTemplateLayout`, since this was causing 
location not being passed to underlying appenders 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1692[1692])
-* Added support for `long` values in MongoDb 4 appender to configure 
`collectionSize` (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1747[1747])
-* Only shutdown Log4j after last `Log4jServletContextListener` is executed. 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1782[1782])
-* Fixed context data loss if `<AsyncLogger>` components are used with an all 
async logger context 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1786[1786])
-* Fixed `JsonTemplateLayout` NPE thrown on custom log levels 
(https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/1805[1805])
-* Improved `Log4j-config.xsd` schema 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-170[LOG4J2-170])
-* Fixed NPE in `ContextSelector` 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3217[LOG4J2-3217], 
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1538[1538])
-* Avoided allocating ``ThreadLocal``s in `AbstractLogger` when they are 
disabled, since this was causing memory leaks due to retained reference to 
class loaders in web applications 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3657[LOG4J2-3657])
-* Fixed `%notEmpty` directive of `PatternLayout` for empty MDC/NDC inputs 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3660[LOG4J2-3660])
-* Fixed file descriptor leak on Tomcat 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3663[LOG4J2-3663])
-* Ensured `FileOutputStream` is closed in `CommonsCompressAction.execute()`

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