Author: rgoers
Date: Sat Apr 20 21:14:46 2013
New Revision: 1470229
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1470229
Log:
Prepare for release candidate
Modified:
logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/announcement.vm
logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml
Modified: logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt?rev=1470229&r1=1470228&r2=1470229&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original)
+++ logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Sat Apr 20 21:14:46 2013
@@ -1,70 +1,69 @@
- Apache Log4j 2.0-beta4 RELEASE NOTES
+ Apache Log4j 2.0-beta5 RELEASE NOTES
-The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta4 release!
+The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta5 release!
-Apache Log4j 2.0-beta4 requires a minimum of Java 5 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.
+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 seventh release of Log4j 2 and is being made available to
encourage use and feedback from the community.
Bug fixes and enhancements
Changes in this version include:
New features:
-o Added Log4j 2 to SLF4J adapter.
-o LOG4J2-131: Add SMTPAppender. Thanks to Scott Severtson.
-o Added hostName and contextName to property map.
-o Add MessageFormatMessage and FormattedMessage.
-o LOG4J2-134: Use %red, %white, %blue, and so on in the console appender.
-o LOG4J2-133: Allow custom message creation via a message factory.
-o Added Flume Appender samples.
+o LOG4J2-207: Add JMX support. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-187: Add tag library. Thanks to Nick Williams.
+o LOG4J2-164: Add methods is/setEndOfBatch to LogEvent. Thanks to Remko
Popma.
+o LOG4J2-163: Add support for asynchronous loggers. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-179: Add Logger interface APIs to log at given levels.
+o Added FlumePersistentManager which writes to BerkeleyDB and then writes to
Flume asynchronously.
+o LOG4J2-155: Expose file appender configuration details via an advertisement
mechanism.
Fixed Bugs:
-o LOG4J2-156: LocalizedMessageTest fails on linux system. Thanks to Andreas
Born.
-o LOG4J2-152: RollingFileAppender's FileRenameAction was throwing a
NullPointerException if no directory was specified
- on the target file name. Thanks to Remko Popma.
-o LOG4J2-150: Convert all System.getProperty calls to use PropertiesUtil to
suppress SecurityExceptions.
-o LOG4J2-147: ThreadContextMapFilter was matching on the key instead of the
value of the key. Thanks to William Burns.
-o Allow FlumeAvroManager to initialize even if it cannot connect to an agent.
-o LOG4J2-149: SMTPAppender will only cache filtered events. Thanks to Scott
Severtson.
-o LOG4J2-145: Add missing serial version IDs.
-o LOG4J2-144: NullPointerException in RFC5424Layout.
-o LOG4J2-143: MessagePatternConverter now returns "null" if the log message
is null.
-o LOG4J2-142: Serialized LogEvents were not reset in the output stream
causing them to deserialize incorrectly.
-o LOG4J2-139: Fix null pointer exception in SocketAppender if no protocol is
specified. The protocol will default
- to TCP for the SocketAppender and UDP for the SyslogAppender.
-o LOG4J2-140: Typo in documentation of SocketAppender. Thanks to Joern
Huxhorn.
-o LOG4J2-137: Fix hang in Dumbster SMTP test server.
-o LOG4J2-130: PatternLayout should format throwables without requiring a
converter.
-o LOG4J2-135: BaseConfiguration does not close the first appender. Thanks to
Ingo Feltes.
-o LOG4J2-132: AbstractLogger.catching(Throwable) checks for DEBUG level but
logs at ERROR level.
-o LOG4J2-129: RoutingAppender was only creating a single appender for the
default Route.
-o LOG4J2-126: Allow JMS appenders to recover if the queue or topic is
unavailable.
-o LOG4J2-127: AbstractLogger methods were not passing Markers to the
isEnabled methods.
-o LOG4J2-125: JMSQueue and JMSTopic Appenders did not allow name to be
specified.
-o LOG4J2-111: Enhanced javadoc copyright statement.
-o LOG4J2-120: TCPSocketManager would fail if the initial connection could not
be established.
-o LOG4J2-119: A broken socket connection would cause the TCPSocketManager to
continuously reconnect.
-o LOG4J2-123: The example for ThreadContextMapFilter was incorrect. Thanks to
Olivier Lamy.
-o LOG4J2-116: File renaming was using the wrong date value. Enhanced
DefaultRolloverStrategy to store newest files in
- highest index as well as lowest.
-o LOG4J2-115: ThreadContext Map elements with null values are now ignored
when constructing a Flume event and in the
- RFC5424 Layout.
-o LOG4J2-113: StructuredDataFilter createFilter was annotated with PluginAttr
instead of PluginElement for the
- KeyValuePairs.
-o LOG4J2-114: StructuredDataMessage was validating the length of the values
in the event Map instead of the lengths
- of the keys. Thanks to Arkin Yetis.
+o LOG4J2-205: Fix deadlock in SocketAppender. Added option to not wait for
socket reconnect.
+o LOG4J2-211: Removing extra spaces in entry and exit method output. Thanks
to Nick Williams.
+o LOG4J2-212: Loggers without a "." had no parent logger.
+o LOG4J2-212: Call LoggerContext.stop when the application is shutdown.
+o LOG4J2-210: MapMessage was not enclosing key value in quotes when
generating XML. Thanks to Arkin Yetis.
+o LOG4J2-198: FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.
+o LOG4J2-196: FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.
+o LOG4J2-207: Use the Maven group ID org.apache.logging.log4j for all
artifacts.
+o LOG4J2-195: Unit tests now create files in the target directory. Thanks to
Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-193: RollingFastFileAppender (in log4j-async) did not roll over.
Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-199: Highlight subprojects in sub-navigation. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-200: LoggerContext method renamed to removeFilter from removeFiler.
Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-194: ThrowableFormatOptionsTest failed on Windows due to CR/LF
issue. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-190: BaseConfiguration addLoggerAppender saved appender using the
Logger name. Thanks to Werner.
+o LOG4J2-189: The blocking parameter did not work properly on AsynchAppender.
Thanks to Werner.
+o LOG4J2-188: appender-refs on AsynchAppender didn't support the level and
filter elements. Thanks to Werner.
+o LOG4J2-176: Avoid IllegalArgumentException in AsynchAppender. Thanks to
Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-181: OutputStreamManager now adds the layout header whenever the
OutputStream is set.
+o LOG4J2-177: Fix NullPointerException in DatagramOutputStream when flush is
called from multiple threads. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-175: Plugin cache should be reset when addPackages is called.
+o LOG4J2-159: Add Fragment-Host to MANIFEST.MF for log4j2-core. Thanks to Jan
Winter.
+o LOG4J2-167: Configurator throws a ClassCastException if LogManager returns
a SimpleLoggerContext.
+o LOG4J2-169: ConfigurationFactory was adding factories on every call.
+o LOG4J2-161: Modify ClassLoaderContextSelector to use the first ClassLoader
in the child parent hierarchy that
+ has a Context with a configuration to allow JSPs to use the WebApp's
context and configuration.
Changes:
-o LOG4J2-136: Allow newlines to be escaped in Syslog and RFC5424 layouts.
Allow Throwables to be included in
- the output from RFC5424Layout. Thanks to Scott Severtson.
-o LOG4J2-128: Add follow attribute to Console Appender.
-o LOG4J2-122: Add unit test to verify exceptions are thrown when the socket
connection fails.
-o LOG4J2-110: Renamed log4j12-api to log4j-1.2-api.
+o LOG4J2-214: Async documentation update. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-208: Move async subproject into core. Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-160: Move Throwable pattern converter options processing to
ThrowableFormatOptions class. Thanks to Joanne Polsky.
+o LOG4J2-157: Allowed Loggers access to the properties in the LoggerConfig.
Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-153: Added ability to include or exclude location information.
Thanks to Remko Popma.
+o LOG4J2-151: Allow Logger and LoggerContext to be subclassed. Thanks to
Remko Popma.
+Apache Log4j 2.0-beta5 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:
Modified: logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/announcement.vm
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/announcement.vm?rev=1470229&r1=1470228&r2=1470229&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/announcement.vm (original)
+++ logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/announcement.vm Sat Apr 20 21:14:46
2013
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ o#if($!issue != "") $issue. #end ${actio
## End of main loop
#end
-Apache Log4j ${relVersion} requires a minimum of Java 5 to build and run.
Basic compatibility with
+Apache Log4j ${relVersion} 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.
Modified: logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml?rev=1470229&r1=1470228&r2=1470229&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml (original)
+++ logging/log4j/log4j2/trunk/src/changes/changes.xml Sat Apr 20 21:14:46 2013
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
</properties>
<body>
- <release version="2.0-beta5" date="@TBD@" description="Bug fixes and
enhancements">
+ <release version="2.0-beta5" date="2013-04-20" description="Bug fixes and
enhancements">
<action issue="LOG4J2-205" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
Fix deadlock in SocketAppender. Added option to not wait for socket
reconnect.
</action>
