As someone already mentioned, we can remove the FAQ entry "How do I change a logger's level in code?" since a later entry describes the same topic but using the new Configurator API.
The site can be updated after the release IMO. Gary On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This is a vote to release Log4j 2.4, 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, 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 version include: >> >> >> New features: >> >> o LOG4J2-635: Add support for configuration via Properties. >> >> o LOG4J2-952: Add ConfigurationBuilder. >> >> o LOG4J2-599: Added support for Java 8 lambda expressions to lazily >> construct a log message only if >> >> the requested log level is enabled. >> >> o LOG4J2-1118: Updated Logger wrapper generator tool to add Java 8 >> lambda support for custom log levels. >> >> o LOG4J2-1107: New Appender for Apache Kafka. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1113: New publisher Appender for ZeroMQ (using JeroMQ). Thanks >> to Gary Gregory. >> >> o LOG4J2-1088: Add Comma Separated Value (CSV) layouts for parameter and >> event logging. Thanks to Gary Gregory. >> >> o LOG4J2-1090: Add Core Configurator APIs to change a logger's level. >> >> o LOG4J2-1105: Add API org.apache.logging.log4j.Level.isInRange(Level, >> Level). Thanks to Gary Gregory. >> >> o LOG4J2-1106: Add a LevelRangeFilter class. Thanks to Gary Gregory. >> >> o LOG4J2-1076: Added support for system nanosecond time in pattern >> layout. >> >> o LOG4J2-1075: Added support for compressing to bzip2 format on file >> rollover. >> >> o LOG4J2-1077: Support additional Apache Commons Compress compression >> formats on rollover: Deflate, Pack200, XY. >> >> o LOG4J2-767: New module for Liquibase integration. Thanks to Mikael >> Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1023: New RewritePolicy for changing level of a log event. >> Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1015: Add a way to route messages based on the %marker in >> Layout for RoutingAppender. Thanks to Daniel Marcotte. >> >> o LOG4J2-1050: Add a Log4jLookup class to help write log files relative >> to log4j2.xml. Thanks to Adam Retter. >> >> o LOG4J2-1057: Add API >> org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getFormatterLogger(). >> >> o LOG4J2-1066: Expose Log4jContextFactory's ShutdownCallbackRegistry. >> Thanks to Charles Allen. >> >> >> Fixed Bugs: >> >> o LOG4J2-1121: Fixed potential race condition on reconfiguration. >> Introduced ReliabilityStrategy to facilitate >> >> switching between different mechanisms for preventing log events >> from being dropped on reconfiguration. >> >> o LOG4J2-1123: Core Configurator.initialize(String, ClassLoader, String) >> fails to work when config location is a file path. Thanks to Gary Gregory. >> >> o LOG4J2-1117: OutputStreamManager in ConsoleAppender leaking managers. >> Thanks to Marcus Thiesen. >> >> o LOG4J2-1044: Write pending events to Flume when the appender is >> stopped. >> >> o LOG4J2-1108: NullPointerException when passing null to >> java.util.logging.Logger.setLevel(). Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1110: org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.CoreLogger.setLevel() checks >> for security permission too late. >> >> o LOG4J2-1084: Misleading StatusLogger WARN event in LogManager with >> java.util.Map. Thanks to Philipp Schneider. >> >> o LOG4J2-1051: NoClassDefFoundError when starting app on Google App >> Engine. Thanks to Lukasz Lenart. >> >> o LOG4J2-684: ExtendedThrowablePatternConverter does not print >> suppressed exceptions. Thanks to Joern Huxhorn, Mauro Molinari. >> >> o LOG4J2-1069: Improper handling of JSON escape chars when deserializing >> JSON log events. Thanks to Sam Braam. >> >> o LOG4J2-1068: Exceptions not logged when using TcpSocketServer + >> SerializedLayout. Thanks to Andy McMullan. >> >> o LOG4J2-1067: ThrowableProxy getExtendedStackTraceAsString throws NPE >> on deserialized nested exceptions. Thanks to Sam Braam. >> >> o LOG4J2-1049: AsyncAppender now resets the thread interrupted flag >> after catching InterruptedException. Thanks to Robert Schaft. >> >> o LOG4J2-1048: FileConfigurationMonitor unnecessarily calls >> System.currentTimeMillis() causing high CPU usage. Thanks to Nikhil. >> >> o LOG4J2-1037: Backward compatibility issue in log4j-1.2-api NDC pop() >> and peek(). Thanks to Marc Dergacz. >> >> o LOG4J2-1025: Custom java.util.logging.Level gives null Log4j Level and >> causes NPE. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1033: SimpleLogger creates unnecessary Map objects by calling >> ThreadContext.getContext() instead of getImmutableContext(). Thanks to >> Mikael Ståldal. >> >> o LOG4J2-1026: HighlightConverter does not obey noConsoleNoAnsi. >> >> o LOG4J2-1019: ZipCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO >> error takes place. >> >> o LOG4J2-1020: GzCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO >> error takes place. >> >> o LOG4J2-1038: Incorrect documentation for layout default charset. >> Thanks to Gili. >> >> o LOG4J2-1042: Socket and Syslog appenders don't take timeout into >> account at startup. Thanks to Guillaume Turri. >> >> o LOG4J2-934: Circular suppressed Exception throws StackOverflowError. >> Thanks to Kenneth Gendron. >> >> o LOG4J2-1046: Circular Exception cause throws StackOverflowError. >> Thanks to Kenneth Gendron. >> >> o LOG4J2-982: Use System.nanoTime() to measure time intervals. Thanks to >> Mikhail Mazurskiy. >> >> o LOG4J2-1045: Externalize log4j2.xml via URL resource. Thanks to Günter >> Albrecht. >> >> o LOG4J2-1058: Log4jMarker#contains(String) does not respect >> org.slf4j.Marker contract. Thanks to Daniel Branzea. >> >> o LOG4J2-1060: Log4jMarker#contains(Marker) does not respect >> org.slf4j.Marker contract. >> >> o LOG4J2-1061: Log4jMarker#remove(Marker) does not respect >> org.slf4j.Marker contract. >> >> o LOG4J2-1062: Log4jMarker#add(Marker) does not respect org.slf4j.Marker >> contract. >> >> o LOG4J2-1064: org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jMarker does not implement >> org.slf4j.Marker.equals(Object) org.slf4j.Marker.hashCode(). >> >> o LOG4J2-889: Header in layout should not be written on application >> startup if appending to an existing file. Fixes LOG4J2-1030. Thanks to >> Maciej Karaś, Kenneth Leider. >> >> o LOG4J2-918: Clarify documentation for combining async with sync >> loggers. >> >> o LOG4J2-1078: GelfLayout throws exception if some log event fields are >> null. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >> >> >> Changes: >> >> o LOG4J2-1017: Update Java platform from Java 6 to 7. From this version >> onwards, log4j 2 requires Java 7. >> >> o LOG4J2-812: PatternLayout timestamp formatting performance >> improvement: replaced synchronized SimpleDateFormat with >> >> Apache Commons FastDateFormat. This and better caching resulted >> in a ~3-30X faster timestamp formatting. >> >> o LOG4J2-1097: PatternLayout timestamp formatting performance >> improvement: predefined date formats (and variants using >> >> a period '.' millisecond separator instead of ',') are now >> formatted ~2-10X faster than other date formats. >> >> o LOG4J2-1096: Improved performance of >> ParameterizedMessage::getFormattedMessage by ~2X. >> >> o LOG4J2-1120: LoggerConfig performance improvements: avoid unnecessary >> lock acquisition, use more efficient data structure. >> >> o LOG4J2-1125: PatternLayout performance improvement by caching and >> reusing a ThreadLocal StringBuilder. >> >> o LOG4J2-1114: Add thread name to status logger layout. >> >> o LOG4J2-1010: Pass log event when interpolating logger properties. >> >> o LOG4J2-1044: Support batchSize in FlumeAvroManager. >> >> o LOG4J2-1065: Define org.apache.logging.log4j.Marker.equals(Object) and >> org.apache.logging.log4j.Marker.hashCode(). >> >> o LOG4J2-1063: Avoid creating temporary array object in >> org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jMarker.iterator(). >> >> o LOG4J2-890: log4j-web-2.1 should workaround a bug in JBOSS EAP 6.2. >> Thanks to Hassan Kalaldeh, Robert Andersson, Remko Popma. >> >> o LOG4J2-403: MongoDB appender, username and password should be >> optional. Thanks to Poorna Subhash P, Jeremy Lautman. >> >> o LOG4J2-1035: Log4j2 tries to SystemClassLoader when running on Google >> AppEngine. >> >> o LOG4J2-1022: Allow a list of keys to be specified in the MDC pattern >> converter. >> >> o LOG4J2-959: Fix FindBugs DM_DEFAULT_ENCODING bug in >> SimpleLogger.logMessage() and simplify code. >> >> o LOG4J2-1036: Update Apache Flume from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0. >> >> o LOG4J2-1041: Update MongoDB driver from 2.11.2 to 2.13.2. >> >> o LOG4J2-1018: Update database tests from H2 1.3.175 to 1.3.176. >> >> o LOG4J2-1070: Update Java Mail from 1.5.2 to 1.5.4. >> >> o LOG4J2-1079: Update Jackson from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4. >> >> o LOG4J2-1879: Update Jackson from 2.5.4 to 2.6.0. >> >> o LOG4J2-1092: Update Jackson from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1. >> >> o LOG4J2-1104: Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.9 to 1.10. >> >> >> Removed: >> >> o Removed experimental interface LevelLogger which got committed to >> master by mistake. >> >> Tag:https:// >> <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;h=380e13cd7ab965942f1d5cfabd73dd056d728b28;hb=383a8194acab4a740d22b69c023ca3af6cb9c664> >> git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;h=380e13cd7ab965942f1d5cfabd73dd056d728b28;hb=383a8194acab4a740d22b69c023ca3af6cb9c664 >> or >> >> a) for a new copy do "git clone >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2.git"; and then "git >> checkout tags/log4j-2.4" >> b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout >> tags/log4j-2.4” >> >> Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ >> >> Artifacts: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1015 >> >> You may download all the artifacts by executing: >> >> wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1015/org/apache/logging/log4j/ >> >> Ralph >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > [image: MagineTV] > > *Mikael Ståldal* > Senior software developer > > *Magine TV* > [email protected] > Regeringsgatan 25 | 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden | www.magine.com > > Privileged and/or Confidential Information may be contained in this > message. 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