Hi Volkan, Thanks for the quick reply! It's reassuring to hear you aim to keep supporting log4j2. Could this be added to the website?
Regarding log4j3, I opened a PR to update the website to mention Java 17 instead of Java 11: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-site/pull/8 Thanks, Mickael On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote: > > Hey Mickael, > > Thanks for reaching out to us and sharing your concerns. Community feedback > is of uttermost importance on how we prioritize development and maintenance > tasks. > > You are right that Log4j 3 is planned to target Java 17. Yet I can assure > you that Log4j 2 (targeting Java 8) will be around for quite a while and we > will certainly maintain it for several years. > > Cheers! > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:54 PM Mickael Maison <mimai...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I see that log4j3 is about to release, so I'm wondering what are the > > plans regarding future development and maintenance of log4j2? Do you > > expect to keep releasing new 2.X versions? How long do you expect to > > still maintain 2.X releases? > > > > To provide a bit of context, the Apache Kafka project is considering > > switching to log4j2, but we're concerned that with log4j3, log4j2 will > > soon enter end of life. > > > > Also the website states log4j3 will require Java 11 [0] but looking at > > the latest published artifacts [1], it looks like it instead requires > > Java 17 instead. Apache Kafka still supports Java 11 so we can't > > directly adopt log4j3. > > > > Thanks, > > Mickael > > > > 0: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/3.x/#requirements > > 1: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/3.x/download.html > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org