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 > >
