Welcome aboard and good luck :) ! I'll be around to review an RC. Gary
On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM Ramanathan Muthu <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a discussion regarding the release of patch version > > I propose cutting an Apache Log4j *2.26.1* patch release. > > *Volkan (vy) *will assist me wherever PMC privileges are needed. > > The milestone for this release is here: > Milestone #27 <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/milestone/27> > > The planned fixes for this release are: > > - Fix "Identity Malfunction" in ThrowableStackTraceRenderer by > using IdentityHashMap for metadata caching. This prevents > ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and NullPointerException > when encountering exceptions with custom equals() or > unstable hashCode() implementations. (Issue #3933 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3933>, PR #4143 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4143>, PR #4133 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4133>). > - Fix resource leaks in ConfigurationSource when loading > configurations via URL. (PR #4127 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4127>) > - Fix DatePatternConverter locale parsing when the timezone > is omitted. (Issue #4129 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/4129>, PR #4130 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4130>) > - Improve logging for LinkageError and Disruptor > initialization failures to provide better diagnostics. > (Issue #2250 <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/2250>, PR > #4124 <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4124>, PR #4134 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4134>) > - Fix RollingFileAppender with createOnDemand="true" to > prevent the eager creation of parent directories when no > logs are being written. (Issue #2006 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/2006>, PR #4072 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4072>) > - Fix KafkaAppender retry logic to prevent reporting spurious > errors to the error handler after a successful retry. (Issue #4125 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4125>) > - Fix encoding of MSGID and SD-ID fields of > StructuredDataMessage to XML. (PR #4136 > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/4136>) > > Please let me know if there are any > additional changes or concerns before > we proceed.
