Awesome! --jason
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, ceki wrote: > Hello all, > > I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version > 1.7.0. This version adds varargs support in Logger methods. (Hey, it > only took 6 years!) The relevant artifacts should hit the Maven > central repository within the next few hours. > > The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple > facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks, > e.g. java.util.logging, log4j and logback, allowing the end user to > plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time. > > Binary compatibility: > > Mixing mixing different versions of slf4j-api.jar and SLF4J binding > can cause problems. For example, if you are using slf4j-api-1.7.0.jar, > then you should also use slf4j-simple-1.7.0.jar, using > slf4j-simple-1.5.5.jar will not work. > > From the client's perspective all versions of slf4j-api are > compatible. Client code compiled with slf4j-api-N.jar will run > perfectly fine with slf4j-api-M.jar for any N and M. You only need to > ensure that the version of your binding matches that of the > slf4j-api.jar. You do not have to worry about the version of > slf4j-api.jar used by a given dependency in your project. You can > always use *any* version of slf4j-api.jar, and as long as the version of > slf4j-api.jar and its binding match, you should be fine. > > At initialization time, if SLF4J suspects that there may be an api > vs. binding version mismatch problem, it will emit a warning about the > suspected mismatch. > > Version 1.7.0 takes compatibility one step further so that slf4j-api > and SLF4J bindings can be freely mixed with artifacts from the 1.6.x > or 1.7.x series. In other words, when running under JDK 1.5 or later, > version 1.7.0 is totally 100% no-ifs-or-buts compatible with the 1.6.x > series. > > Release notes: > > Please refer to the the news page for precise details. > > http://www.slf4j.org/news.html > > You can download SLF4J, including full source code, class files and > documentation on our download page, shown below. > > http://www.slf4j.org/download.html > > Announcement mailing list: > > You can receive SLF4J related announcements by subscribing to the > SLF4J announce mailing list. To subscribe to QOS.ch (http://QOS.ch) announce > list, > please visit the following URL. > > http://www.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/announce > > Enjoy, > > -- > Ceki > http://twitter.com/#!/ceki > _______________________________________________ > slf4j-user mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/slf4j-user _______________________________________________ slf4j-user mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/slf4j-user
