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Ralph On Jun 21, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a vote to release Log4j 2.0-rc2, which will hopefully be the last > release candidate. > > Please note that I did not add the new logo to the web site. I will add that > after the release. > > Please test and cast your votes. > [] +1, release the artifacts > [] -1, don't release because… > > The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or more if required). > > > New features: > o LOG4J2-675: RollingFile and RollingRandomAccessFile now write the layout > footer before rollover. > o LOG4J2-674: Made RollingFileAppender buffer size configurable. > o LOG4J2-42: Create an appender to route log events to the ServletContext > log. > o LOG4J2-655: Add Vagrantfile for testing in GNU+Linux. > o LOG4J2-654: Add log4j-perf module to provide a home for all log4j > performance tests. > Add support for JMH microbenchmark performance tests. > o LOG4J2-652: Add support for default plugin values and attributes. > o LOG4J2-598: Add support for types other than String for plugin factory > values/attributes. > o LOG4J2-644: Implement a SecureSocketAppender and secure server (SSL/TLS). > o LOG4J2-629: Document the system properties used in Log4J 2. > o LOG4J2-595: Introduce Java annotation processor as alternative plugin > pre-caching mechanism. This is available in the > log4j-plugin-processor module. > o LOG4J2-576: Add org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger.getLevel(). > o LOG4J2-439: Add EncodingPatternConverter to escape newlines and HTML > special characters. Thanks to Bruce Brouwer. > o LOG4J2-427: Add support for configuration via YAML. Thanks to Alexander > Reelsen. > > Fixed Bugs: > o LOG4J2-581: RollingRandomAccessFile now writes the layout header after > rollover. Thanks to Alexander Khokhlov. > o LOG4J2-622: RollingFileManager now correctly honours the bufferedIO > configuration after rollover. Thanks to Farooq Khan. > o LOG4J2-141: Improved documentation regarding log4j status logger. Thanks > to Joern Huxhorn. > o LOG4J2-539: Fixed issue with "Reconfigure using XML below" function in JMX > Client GUI. > ConfigurationSource is now a top-level class and can be obtained with > Configuration.getConfigurationSource(). > LoggerContext.getConfiguration().getConfigurationSource() > provides a reliable public method for obtaining a logger context's > configuration location and content. Thanks to Colin Froggatt. > o LOG4J2-619: Invalid XML configuration files do not prevent the config file > from being checked again. Thanks to Scott Harrington. > o LOG4J2-637: JMX: Updating a Logger's level via jConsole now correctly > takes effect. Thanks to Mansoor Sajjad, Jon Wilmoth. > o LOG4J2-668: Correctly process log events when combining AsyncLoggers with > AsyncAppender. > o LOG4J2-669: Prevent NPE when combining AsyncLoggers with > AsyncLoggerConfigs. > o LOG4J2-563: FlumeAvroManager now always uses a client type of > default_failover. Thanks to Michael Friedmann. > o LOG4J2-535: Reset rollover time when size rollover is triggered. > o LOG4J2-664: Moved plugin cache file to META-INF for OSGi compatibility. > o LOG4J2-640: Fix NPE that can be caused by a null ThreadContextClassLoader. > o LOG4J2-651: Log4j 2 throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. > o LOG4J2-620: Perform reconfiguration in a separate thread to prevent > deadlocks. > o LOG4J2-639: Prevent NPE in AsyncLogger and AsyncLoggerConfig if logger is > used after log4j has been shut down. Thanks to Mck SembWever. > o LOG4J2-469: FailoverAppender was not resetting its status after the > primary appender recovered. > o LOG4J2-623: Generate MDC properties as a JSON map in JSONLayout. > o LOG4J2-520: Resolved issue where AsyncAppender dropped events if queue > still contained > events when application is stopped. Thanks to JavaTech, Andre Bogus. > o LOG4J2-392: Resolved a problem with the previous solution for LOG4J2-392 > that resulted in dropped events > when using AsyncLoggerConfig with slow appenders when application is > stopped. Thanks to Andre Bogus. > o LOG4J2-613: The OSGi version of log4j-web imports Servlet 2.5 at minimum > instead of 3.0. > o LOG4J2-602: Unit tests are now less verbose during the build process. > o LOG4J2-570: Fix shutdown thread memory leak in servlet containers. > o LOG4J2-542: Make Throwable transient in ThrowableProxy. > o LOG4J2-440: During shutdown, a NullPointerException could be thrown due to > the NullConfiguration class no longer being > available to the ClassLoader. > o LOG4J2-346: Cyclic dependency with log4j-slf4j-impl in OSGi. > o LOG4J2-345: The log4j-1.2-api module didn't export any packages to OSGi. > o LOG4J2-605: Password data from the NoSQL plugins no longer shows up in > cleartext in debug logging. > o LOG4J2-448: A StringIndexOutOfBounds exception could occur during property > substitution. Thanks to X86core. > o LOG4J2-597: StatusLogger was not skipping multiple instances of the FQCN > class, causing messages from classes in > the Verbose list to be printed. > o LOG4J2-564: Renamed SLF4J logger class to Log4jLogger. > o LOG4J2-579: Rework Level comparison APIs. > o LOG4J2-560: SyslogAppenderTest and RFC5424LayoutTest were failing in Java > 8. > o LOG4J2-499: Add equals and hashcode to Log4jLogEvent. > o LOG4J2-378: Add DateLookup and ThreadContextLookup to default lookups. > > Changes: > o LOG4J2-419: Support default value for missing key in look ups with > fallbacking to looking in the properties map. Thanks to Woonsan Ko. > o LOG4J2-554: Allow configuration files to be located as Servlet Context > resources. > o LOG4J2-250: Refactor Log4jLogEvent to lazily create ThrowableProxy. > o LOG4J2-647: Upgrade to Flume 1.5.0. > o LOG4J2-646: Merge the TLS Syslog appender into the Syslog appender. > o LOG4J2-641: Override commons-logging dependency version in tests. > o LOG4J2-566: Made RollingRandomAccessFileAppender buffer size configurable. > Thanks to Luigi Alice. > o LOG4J2-628: Use Clock to generate all log event timestamps, not just for > Async Loggers. > o LOG4J2-617: Update SLF4J to 1.7.7. > o LOG4J2-616: Update Jackson to 2.3.3. > o LOG4J2-585: Add support for multiple parents to Markers. Thanks to Bruce > Brouwer. > o LOG4J2-574: Make Blocking the default WaitStrategy for Async Loggers. > o LOG4J2-555: Introduce ExtendedLogger interface to facilitate implementing > and extending Loggers. Thanks to Bruce Brouwer. > o LOG4J2-561: Allow spaces around commas in Configuration's package > attribute. Thanks to vibin. > o LOG4J2-547: Have Logger API expose a PrintWriter instead of custom > LoggerStream. Thanks to Bruce Brouwer. > o LOG4J2-496: Allow header and footer to be specified as lookup patterns in > PatternLayout. > o LOG4J2-410: SLf4JLogger is now Serializable. Thanks to Ivlin Zeng. > o LOG4J2-468: Add support to add a LoggerConfig. Document two ways to modify > the configuration. > o LOG4J2-582: Rename org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketServer to > TCPSocketServer and refactor with UDP. > o LOG4J2-592: Update Jackson to 2.3.2 from 2.2.2. > > Tag: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/log4j2/tags/log4j-2.0-rc2/ > > SVN revision: 1604493 > > Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ > > Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1003 > > Nexus did not send an email. The list of artifacts can be found at the link > above.
