This is a vote to release Log4j 2.0, the first GA release of Log4j 2.
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New features:
o LOG4J2-519: Added support for generating custom logger wrappers that replace
the existing log levels
and extended logger wrappers that add custom log levels to the existing
ones.
o LOG4J2-696: RegexFilter does not match multiline log messages.
Fixed Bugs:
o LOG4J2-705: Fixed issue where Async Logger does not log thread context stack
data.
API change: added method getImmutableStackOrNull() to
ThreadContext.ContextStack interface.
o LOG4J2-631: Update docs to clarify how to use formatter logger and standard
logger together.
o LOG4J2-441: LoggerConfigs with no Level now inherit the Level from their
parent.
o LOG4J2-703: Android: Could not find class 'javax.naming.InitialContext',
referenced from method org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup.lookup.
Thanks to Nelson Melina.
o LOG4J2-699: PatternLayout manual page missing documentation on
header/footer.
o LOG4J2-625: Fixed Serialization error with SocketAppender and Async Loggers.
(Fixed in RC2, but wasn't included in release notes.)
o LOG4J2-538: JMX GUI: fixed occasional ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException after
pressing "reconfigure with XML below".
(Fixed in RC2, but wasn't included in release notes.)
o LOG4J2-666: AsyncLoggerContextSelector should ensure that different
AsyncLoggerContext objects created by web app classloaders have unique names.
o LOG4J2-683: Fix annotation processor warnings on JDK 1.7+. Thanks to
Jurriaan Mous.
o LOG4J2-694: Fix strange compilation error that popped up in a test class.
o LOG4J2-692: Update documentation to specify only Maven 3 is supported.
o LOG4J2-690: Log4j Web test dependencies should be in scope "test" in the
pom. Thanks to Philip Helger.
o LOG4J2-682: Special characters (tab and so on) in PatternLayout do not work.
Thanks to Scott Harrington.
o LOG4J2-686: Core's OptionConverter support for \b is broken (affects
PatternLayout).
o LOG4J2-687: Rename org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Closer.closeSilent()
to closeSilently().
o LOG4J2-688: Make org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout
immutable.
o LOG4J2-707: Some exceptions are not logged when configuration problems are
detected.
Changes:
o LOG4J2-685: Make org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractLayout
immutable.
o LOG4J2-689: Update Jackson to 2.4.1.
o LOG4J2-709: Update Apache Commons Logging to 1.2 from 1.1.3.
Tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/log4j2/tags/log4j-2.0/
SVN revision: 1610084
Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/
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