+1
`verify` keeps failing due to SimplePerfTest failures – I will rely on CI
and others for this.
I have tested a custom JTL template, the killer feature of this JTL
release, it works.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 5:12 AM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
> This is a vote to release Log4j 2.15.0, the next version of the Log4j 2
> project.
>
> Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list.
> [] +1, release the artifacts
> [] -1, don't release because...
>
> The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or more if required). All votes
> are welcome and we encourage everyone to test the release, but only Logging
> PMC votes are “officially” counted. As always, at least 3 +1 votes and more
> positive than negative votes are required.
>
> Changes in this release include:
>
> New Features
>
> • LOG4J2-3198: Pattern layout no longer enables lookups within
> message text by default for cleaner API boundaries and reduced formatting
> overhead. The old 'log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups' which enabled this behavior
> has been removed as well as the 'nolookups' message pattern converter
> option. The old behavior can be enabled on a per-pattern basis using
> '%m{lookups}'.
> • LOG4J2-3194: Allow fractional attributes for size attribute of
> SizeBsaedTriggeringPolicy. Thanks to markuss.
> • LOG4J2-2978: Add support for Jakarta EE 9 (Tomcat 10 / Jetty 11)
> Thanks to Michael Seele.
> • LOG4J2-3189: Improve NameAbbreviator worst-case performance.
> • LOG4J2-3170: Make CRLF/HTML encoding run in O(n) worst-case
> time, rather than O(n^2). Thanks to Gareth Smith.
> • LOG4J2-3133: Add missing slf4j-api singleton accessors to
> log4j-slf4j-impl (1.7) StaticMarkerBinder and StaticMDCBinder. This doesn't
> impact behavior or correctness, but avoids throwing and catching
> NoSuchMethodErrors when slf4j is initialized and avoids linkage linting
> warnings.
> • LOG4J2-2885: Add support for US-style date patterns and
> micro/nano seconds to FixedDateTime. Thanks to Markus Spann.
> • LOG4J2-3116: Add JsonTemplateLayout for Google Cloud Platform
> structured logging layout.
> • LOG4J2-3067: Add CounterResolver to JsonTemplateLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3074: Add replacement parameter to
> ReadOnlyStringMapResolver.
> • LOG4J2-3051: Add CaseConverterResolver to JsonTemplateLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3064: Add Arbiters and SpringProfile plugin.
> • LOG4J2-3056: Refactor MD5 usage for sharing sensitive
> information. Thanks to Marcono1234.
> • LOG4J2-3004: Add plugin support to JsonTemplateLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3050: Allow AdditionalFields to be ignored if their value
> is null or a zero-length String.
> • LOG4J2-3049: Allow MapMessage and ThreadContext attributes to be
> prefixed.
> • LOG4J2=3048: Add improved MapMessge support to GelfLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3044: Add RepeatPatternConverter.
> • LOG4J2-2940: Context selectors are aware of their dependence
> upon the callers ClassLoader, allowing basic context selectors to avoid the
> unnecessary overhead of walking the stack to determine the caller's
> ClassLoader.
> • LOG4J2-2940: Add BasicAsyncLoggerContextSelector equivalent to
> AsyncLoggerContextSelector for applications with a single LoggerContext.
> This selector avoids classloader lookup overhead incurred by the existing
> AsyncLoggerContextSelector.
> • LOG4J2-3041: Allow a PatternSelector to be specified on
> GelfLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3141: Avoid ThreadLocal overhead in
> RandomAccessFileAppender, RollingRandomAccessFileManager, and
> MemoryMappedFileManager due to the unused setEndOfBatch and isEndOfBatch
> methods. The methods on LogEvent are preferred.
> • LOG4J2-3144: Prefer string.getBytes(Charset) over
> string.getBytes(String) based on performance improvements in modern Java
> releases.
> • LOG4J2-3171: Improve PatternLayout performance by reducing
> unnecessary indirection and branching.
>
> Fixed Bugs
>
> • LOG4J2-3201: Limit the protocols JNDI can use by default. Limit
> the servers and classes that can be accessed via LDAP.
> • LOG4J2-3114: Enable immediate flush on RollingFileAppender when
> buffered i/o is not enabled. Thanks to Barnabas Bodnar.
> • LOG4J2-3168: Fix bug when file names contain regex characters.
> Thanks to Benjamin Wöster.
> • LOG4J2-3110: Fix the number of {}-placeholders in the string
> literal argument does not match the number of other arguments to the
> logging call. Thanks to Arturo Bernal.
> • LOG4J2-3060: Fix thread-safety issues in DefaultErrorHandler.
> Thanks to Nikita Mikhailov.
> • LOG4J2-3185: Fix thread-safety issues in DefaultErrorHandler.
> Thanks to mzbonnt.
> • LOG4J2-3183: Avoid using MutableInstant of the event as a cache
> key in JsonTemplateLayout.
> • LOG4J2-2829: SocketAppender should propagate failures when
> reconnection fails.
> • LOG4J2-3172: Buffer immutable log events in the SmtpManager.
> Thanks to Barry Fleming.
> • LOG4J2-3175: Avoid KafkaManager override when topics differ.
> Thanks to wuqian0808.
> • LOG4J2-3160: Fix documentation on how to toggle log4j2.debug
> system property. Thanks to Lars Bohl.
> • LOG4J2-3159: Fixed an unlikely race condition in
> Log4jMarker.getParents() volatile access.
> • LOG4J2-3153: DatePatternConverter performance is not impacted by
> microsecond-precision clocks when such precision isn't required.
> • LOG4J2-2808: LoggerContext skips resolving localhost when
> hostName is configured. Thanks to Asapha Halifa.
> • LOG4J2-3150: RandomAccessFile appender uses the correct default
> buffer size of 256 kB rather than the default appender buffer size of 8 kB.
> • LOG4J2-3142: log4j-1.2-api implements
> LogEventAdapter.getTimestamp() based on the original event timestamp
> instead of returning zero. Thanks to John Meikle.
> • LOG4J2-3083: log4j-slf4j-impl and log4j-slf4j18-impl correctly
> detect the calling class using both LoggerFactory.getLogger methods as well
> as LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory().getLogger.
> • LOG4J2-2816: Handle Disruptor event translation exceptions.
> Thanks to Jacob Shields.
> • LOG4J2-3121: log4j2 config modified at run-time may trigger
> incomplete MBean re-initialization due to InstanceAlreadyExistsException.
> Thanks to Markus Spann.
> • LOG4J2-3107: SmtpManager.createManagerName ignores port. Thanks
> to Markus Spann.
> • LOG4J2-3080: Use SimpleMessage in Log4j 1 Category whenever
> possible.
> • LOG4J2-3102: Fix a regression in 2.14.1 which allowed the
> AsyncAppender background thread to keep the JVM alive because the daemon
> flag was not set.
> • LOG4J2-3103: Fix race condition which can result in
> ConcurrentModificationException on context.stop. Thanks to Mike Glazer.
> • LOG4J2-3092: Fix JsonWriter memory leaks due to retained
> excessive buffer growth. Thanks to xmh51.
> • LOG4J2-3089: Fix sporadic
> JsonTemplateLayoutNullEventDelimiterTest failures on Windows. Thanks to Tim
> Perry.
> • LOG4J2-3075: Fix formatting of nanoseconds in JsonTemplateLayout.
> • LOG4J2-3087: Fix race in JsonTemplateLayout where a timestamp
> could end up unquoted. Thanks to Anton Klarén.
> • LOG4J2-3070: Ensure EncodingPatternConverter#handlesThrowable is
> implemented. Thanks to Romain Manni-Bucau.
> • LOG4J2-3054: BasicContextSelector hasContext and shutdown take
> the default context into account
> • LOG4J2-2940: Slf4j implementations walk the stack at most once
> rather than twice to determine the caller's class loader.
> • LOG4J2-2965: Fixed a deadlock between the
> AsyncLoggerContextSelector and java.util.logging.LogManager by updating
> Disruptor to 3.4.4.
> • LOG4J2-3095: Category.setLevel should accept null value. Thanks
> to Kenny MacLeod, Gary Gregory.
> • LOG4J2-3174: Wrong subject on mail when it depends on the
> LogEvent Thanks to romainmoreau.
>
> Changes
>
> • : Update Spring framework to 5.3.13, Spring Boot to 2.5.7, and
> Spring Cloud to 2020.0.4.
>
> • LOG4J2-2025: Provide support for overriding the Tomcat Log class
> in Tomcat 8.5+.
>
> • : Updated dependencies.
>
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations .................
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core ........................
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind ....................
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml ........
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml .......
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations ...
> 2.12.2 -> 2.12.4
> - com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core ........................... 6.2.4
> -> 6.2.6
> - commons-io:commons-io .......................................... 2.8.0
> -> 2.11.0
> - net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit .............................
> 2.24.0 -> 2.25.0
> - net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit .............................
> 2.25.0 -> 2.27.0
> - org.apache.activemq:activemq-broker ............................
> 5.16.1 -> 5.16.2
> - org.apache.activemq:activemq-broker ............................
> 5.16.2 -> 5.16.3
> - org.apache.commons:commons-compress ............................ 1.20
> -> 1.21
> - org.apache.commons:commons-csv ................................. 1.8
> -> 1.9.0
> - org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2 ............................... 2.8.0
> -> 2.9.0
> - org.apache.commons:commons-pool2 ............................... 2.9.0
> -> 2.11.1
> - org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin .................
> 2.22.2 -> 3.0.0-M5
> - org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin .................
> 2.22.2 -> 3.0.0-M5
> - org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin ............................... 0.12
> -> 0.13
> - org.assertj:assertj-core .......................................
> 3.19.0 -> 3.20.2
> - org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-dateutil ............................ 3.0.7
> -> 3.0.8
> - org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-jsr223 .............................. 3.0.7
> -> 3.0.8
> - org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils ............................... 3.3.0
> -> 3.4.0
> - org.eclipse.persistence:javax.persistence ...................... 2.1.1
> -> 2.2.1
> - org.eclipse.persistence:org.eclipse.persistence.jpa ............ 2.6.5
> -> 2.6.9
> - org.eclipse.persistence:org.eclipse.persistence.jpa ............ 2.7.8
> -> 2.7.9
> - org.fusesource.jansi ........................................... 2.3.2
> -> 2.3.4
> - org.fusesource.jansi:jansi ..................................... 2.3.1
> -> 2.3.2
> - org.hsqldb:hsqldb .............................................. 2.5.1
> -> 2.5.2
> - org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine ......................... 5.7.1
> -> 5.7.2
> - org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-migrationsupport ............... 5.7.1
> -> 5.7.2
> - org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params ......................... 5.7.1
> -> 5.7.2
> - org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine ......................... 5.7.1
> -> 5.7.2
> - org.liquibase:liquibase-core ................................... 3.5.3
> -> 3.5.5
> - org.mockito:mockito-core ....................................... 3.8.0
> -> 3.11.2
> - org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter .............................. 3.8.0
> -> 3.11.2
> - org.springframework:spring-aop ................................. 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-beans ............................... 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-context ............................. 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-context-support ..................... 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-core ................................ 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-expression .......................... 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-oxm ................................. 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-test ................................ 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-web ................................. 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.springframework:spring-webmvc .............................. 5.3.3
> -> 5.3.9
> - org.tukaani:xz ................................................. 1.8
> -> 1.9
>
> Tag:
> a) for a new copy do "git clone
> https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git"; and then "git checkout
> tags/log4j-2.15.0-rc1” or just "git clone -b log4j-2.15.0-rc1
> https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
> b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
> tags/log4j-2.15.0-rc1”
>
> Web Site: https://logging.staged.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html.
>
> Maven Artifacts:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1065
>
> Distribution archives:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/logging/log4j/
>
> You may download all the Maven artifacts by executing:
> wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1065/org/apache/logging/log4j/
>
> Ralph
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