This is a vote to release Log4j 2.11.2, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
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Changes in this release include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-2496: JDBC Appender should reconnect to the database when a
connection goes stale.
• LOG4J2-2505: Let JDBC PoolingDriverConnectionSource with Apache
Commons DBCP configure a PoolableConnectionFactory.
• LOG4J2-2509: Allow a JDBC Appender to truncate strings to match a
table's metadata column length limit.
• LOG4J2-1246: PatternLayout %date conversion pattern should render
time zone designator for ISO-ISO8601.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-2543: Add Log4j-to-SLF4J to BOM pom.xml. Thanks to Dermot
Hardy.
• LOG4J2-2061: Use the file pattern as the FileManager "name" when no
filename is present.
• LOG4J2-2009: Expose LoggerContext.setConfiguration as a public method.
• LOG4J2-2542: CronTriggeringPolicy was not rolling properly,
especially when used with the SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy.
• LOG4J2-2266: Load PropertySources from any accessible ClassLoader.
Hide any exceptions that may occur accessing a PropertySource.
• LOG4J2-1570: Logging with a lambda expression with a method call that
also logs would cause logs within method call to reference line num and method
name of the parent method.
• LOG4J2-2485: SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy was not honored when using the
DirectWriteRolloverStrategy if the machine restarts. Thanks to Giovanni Matteo
Fumarola.
• LOG4J2-1906: Direct write was creating files with the wrong date/time.
• LOG4J2-2453: Add Log4j-slf4j18-impl dependency to bom pom. Thanks to
theit.
• LOG4J2-2515: Configuration documentation referenced incorrect method
name. Thanks to MakarovS.
• LOG4J2-2514: Make Strings.toRootUpperCase a static method so it can
be accessed. Thanks to smilebrian0515.
• LOG4J2-1571: Fixed Appenders section in Extending Log4j. Thanks to
torbenmoeller.
• LOG4J2-2397: Predeployment of PersistenceUnit that using Log4j as
session logger failed (#198). Thanks to EckelDong.
• LOG4J2-2365: NameAbbreviator correctly abbreviates first fragments
(#188). Thanks to Eugene Zimichev.
• LOG4J2-2201: Fix memory leak in ReusableParameterizedMessage.
• LOG4J2-2363: ReusableObjectMessage parameter is properly passed to
appenders (#203). Thanks to Brian Laub.
• LOG4J2-2418: NullPointerException when closing never used
RollingRandomAccessFileAppender. Thanks to Jonas Rutishauser.
• LOG4J2-2422: Handle some unchecked exceptions while loading plugins.
Thanks to rswart, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2441: Setting a null ErrorHandler on AbstractAppender is not
allowed and will no-op as expected.
• LOG4J2-2444: ErrorHandler is invoked with a LogEvent and Throwable
when possible, where previously only a string was used.
• LOG4J2-2413: Exceptions are added to all columns when a JDBC
Appender's ColumnMapping uses a Pattern. Thanks to Andres Luuk, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2466: ColumnMapping literal not working. Thanks to Paolo
Bonanomi, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2478: AbstractStringLayoutStringEncodingBenchmark returns the
computed variables on each benchmark to avoid DCE. Thanks to Diego Elias Costa.
• LOG4J2-2134: StackOverflowError at
AwaitCompletionReliabilityStrategy. Thanks to David del Amo Mateos, Gary
Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2481: Avoid NullPointerExceptions in
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration for null arguments.
• LOG4J2-2457: RollingRandomAccessFileManager ignores new file patterns
from programmatic reconfiguration. Thanks to Heiko Schwanke, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2482: BasicContextSelector cannot be used in a OSGI
application. Thanks to Rob Gansevles.
• LOG4J2-2476: org.apache.log4j.SimpleLayout and ConsoleAppender
missing in log4j-1.2-api. Thanks to Al Bundy.
• LOG4J2-2497: JmsAppender reconnectIntervalMillis cannot be set from a
configuration file.
• LOG4J2-2499: JMS Appender may throw a NullPointerException when JMS
is not up while the Appender is starting.
• LOG4J2-2508: JDBC Appender fails when using both parameter, source,
and literal ColumnMapping elements.
• LOG4J2-2527: Prevent ConcurrentModificationException while iterating
over ListAppender events.
• LOG4J2-2522: Fix regression using MapMessageLookup.lookup with
MapMessages that do not implement StringMapMessage. Thanks to Adam Lesiak.
• LOG4J2-2530: Generalize checks using MapMessage implementations with
do not extend StringMapMessage. Introduce new JAVA_UNQUOTED MapMessage format
type based on the JAVA formatting, but without quoted values. Thanks to Travis
Spencer.
• LOG4J2-2533: Fix a regression introduced by LOG4J2-2301 in 2.11.1
allowing allocation to occur in AsyncLoggerConfig. Thanks to Michail Prusakov.
Changes
• LOG4J2-1576: Switch from CLIRR to RevAPI for detecting API changes.
• LOG4J2-2391: Improve exception logging performance. ThrowableProxy
construction uses a more faster method to discover the current stack trace.
ThrowablePatternConverter and ExtendedThrowablePatternConverter default
configurations no longer allocate an additional buffer for stack trace contents.
• LOG4J2-2447: Let the NullAppender default its name to "null".
• LOG4J2-2468: Update Jackson from 2.9.6 to 2.9.7.
• LOG4J2-2469: Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.17 to 1.18.
• LOG4J2-2470: Update Apache Commons CSV from 1.5 to 1.6.
• LOG4J2-2471: Update javax.mail from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2.
• LOG4J2-2472: Update mongo-java-driver 3 from 3.8.0 to 3.8.2.
• LOG4J2-2489: JDBC Appender should release parameter resources ASAP.
• LOG4J2-2491: Allow all Appenders to optionally carry a Property array.
• LOG4J2-2405: Better handling of %highlight pattern when using
jul-bridge. Thanks to Marco Herrn.
• LOG4J2-2503: Update MongoDB driver from 3.8.2 to 3.9.0 for
log4j-mongodb3 module.
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.11.2-rc1”
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.11.2-rc1”
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Ralph
