This is a vote to release Log4j 2.12.0, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
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Changes in this release include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-2403: Allow zero padding the counter of a RollingFileAppender.
Thanks to hupfdule.
• LOG4J2-2427: Add filter that will match events when no marker is
present. Thanks to Rimaljit Kaur.
• LOG4J2-2406: Add reconfiguration methods to Configurator.
• LOG4J2-913: Add support for reconfiguration via HTTP(S), Docker, and
Spring Cloud Configuration.
• LOG4J2-2586: TCP Appender should support a host name resolving to
multiple IP addresses.
• LOG4J2-2337: Allow custom end-of-line with JsonLayout. Thanks to
Arvind Sahare, Patrice Ferrot.
• LOG4J2-2598: GZIP compression on rollover supports configurable
compression levels. Thanks to Carter Kozak.
• LOG4J2-2611: AsyncQueueFullPolicy configuration short values
"Default" and "Discard" are case insensitive to avoid confusion.
• LOG4J2-2634: Add and use method
org.apache.logging.log4j.message.MapMessage.toKey(String) for simpler
subclasses.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-2547: RollingRandomAccessFileAppender error message referenced
incorrect class name.
• LOG4J2-2616: Restore constructor to ThrowablePatternConverter that
was removed in 2.8.2.
• LOG4J2-2622: StructuredDataId was ignoring maxLength atribute.
• LOG4J2-2636: RFC5424Layout was not properly setting default
Structured Element id for the MDC
• LOG4J2-1143: Lookups were not found if the plugin key was not
lowercase. Thanks to Pascal Heinrich.
• LOG4J2-1852: Locate plugins within a Jar using a URL Connection.
Thanks to Tanner Altares.
• LOG4J2-2610: Explicitly set file creation time.
• LOG4J2-2561: JEP223 version detection fix for JDK 9 and up. Thanks to
Ulrich Enslin.
• LOG4J2-1103: FailoverAppender was failing with ERROR appender
Failover has no parameter that matches element Failovers. Thanks to Seán Dunne.
• LOG4J2-2602: Update file time when size based triggering policy is
used without a time-based triggering policy.
• LOG4J2-2597: Throw better exception message when both
log4j-slf4j-impl and log4j-to-slf4j are present.
• LOG4J2-2559: NullPointerException in JdbcAppender.createAppender().
Thanks to Li Lei, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2592: StackOverflowException when server not reachable with
SocketAppender. Thanks to Dávid Kaya, Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2598: java.lang.StackOverflowError at
org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.AbstractExternalFileCleaner.println(AbstractExternalFileCleaner.java:169).
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2564: MapPatternConverter is properly created from the '%K',
'%map', and '%MAP' patterns. PatternConverter instanceOf methods with unknown
parameter types no longer elide those with known parameters.
• LOG4J2-2612: NullPointerException at
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.jdbc.JdbcDatabaseManager.writeInternal(JdbcDatabaseManager.java:803).
• LOG4J2-2618: Possible ClassCastException in
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.script.ScriptManager.ScriptManager(Configuration,
WatchManager)
• LOG4J2-2631: RoutingAppender PurgePolicy implementations no longer
stop appenders referenced from the logger configuration, only those that have
been created by the RoutingAppender. Note that RoutingAppender.getAppenders no
longer includes entries for referenced appenders, only those which it has
created.
• LOG4J2-2629: Fix a race allowing events not to be recorded when a
RoutingAppender purge policy attempts to delete an idle appender at exactly the
same time as a new event is recorded.
• LOG4J2-2606: Asynchronous logging when the queue is full no longer
results in heavy CPU utilization and low throughput.
Changes
• : Update tests from H2 1.4.197 to 1.4.199. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2570: Update Jackson from 2.9.7 to 2.9.8. Thanks to Gary
Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2574: Update MongoDB 3 module driver from 3.9.0 to 3.10.1.
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-2619: Update Jackson from 2.9.8 to 2.9.9.
• LOG4J2-2634: Refactor several AsyncLogger methods below the 35 byte
threshold for inlining.
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.12.0-rc2”
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.12.0-rc2”
Web Site: http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html.
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Ralph
