Congratulations on the release! I've been looking forward to this for over a year! :)
On 17 July 2014 00:26, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0 release! > > Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. > Log4j 2 is an upgrade to > Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j > 1.x, and provides > many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent > problems in Logback's > architecture. > > This is the first GA release, after thirteen prior releases over the last > 4 years. > > GA Release > > Changes in this version include: > > 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. > > > Apache Log4j 2.0 requires a minimum of Java 6 to build and run. Basic > compatibility with > Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j-1.2-api component, however it does > not implement some of the > very implementation specific classes and methods. The package names and > Maven groupId have been changed to > org.apache.logging.log4j to avoid any conflicts with log4j 1.x. > > For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how > to submit bug reports, > patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Log4j 2 > website: > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
