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-  <body>
-    <release version="2.4" date="2015-MM-DD" description="GA Release 2.4">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2=1044" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-          Support batchSize in FlumeAvroManager.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-767" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Mikael 
Ståldal">
-        New module for Liquibase integration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1023" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Mikael 
Ståldal">
-        New RewritePolicy for changing level of a log event.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1015" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Daniel 
Marcotte">
-        Add a way to route messages based on the %marker in Layout for 
RoutingAppender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1050" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Adam 
Retter">
-        Add a Log4jLookup class to help write log files relative to log4j2.xml.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1051" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Lukasz 
Lenart">
-        NoClassDefFoundError when starting app on Google App Engine.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1049" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Robert 
Schaft">
-        AsyncAppender now resets the thread interrupted flag after catching 
InterruptedException.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1048" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Nikhil">
-        FileConfigurationMonitor unnecessarily calls System.currentTimeMillis 
causing high CPU usage.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1037" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Marc 
Dergacz">
-        Backward compatibility issue in log4j-1.2-api NDC pop() and peek().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1025" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikael 
Ståldal">
-        Custom java.util.logging.Level gives null Log4j Level and causes NPE.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1033" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikael 
Ståldal">
-        SimpleLogger creates unnecessary Map objects by calling 
ThreadContext.getContext() instead of getImmutableContext().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1026" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        HighlightConverter does not obey noConsoleNoAnsi.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1019" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        ZipCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO error takes 
place.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1020" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        GzCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO error takes 
place.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1038" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gili">
-        Incorrect documentation for layout default charset.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1042" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Guillaume 
Turri">
-        Socket and Syslog appenders don't take timeout into account at startup.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-934" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Kenneth 
Gendron">
-        Circular suppressed Exception throws StackOverflowError.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1046" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Kenneth 
Gendron">
-        Circular Exception cause throws StackOverflowError.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-982" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikhail 
Mazurskiy">
-        Use System.nanoTime() to measure time intervals.
-      </action>      
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1045" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Günter 
Albrecht">
-        Externalize log4j2.xml via URL resource.
-      </action>      
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-890" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Hassan 
Kalaldeh, Robert Andersson, Remko Popma">
-        log4j-web-2.1 should workaround a bug in JBOSS EAP 6.2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-403" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Poorna 
Subhash P, Jeremy Lautman">
-        MongoDB appender, username and password should be optional.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1035" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Log4j2 tries to SystemClassLoader when running on Google AppEngine.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1022" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow a list of keys to be specified in the MDC pattern converter.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-959" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Fix FindBugs DM_DEFAULT_ENCODING bug in SimpleLogger.logMessage() and 
simplify code.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1017" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Java platform from Java 6 to 7.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1036" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Apache Flume from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1041" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update MongoDB driver from 2.11.2 to 2.13.2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1018" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update database tests from H2 1.3.175 to 1.3.176.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.3" date="2015-05-09" description="GA Release 2.3">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1009" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikael 
Ståldal">
-        Incorrectly defined compressionType parameter to GelfLayout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1008" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Ralph 
Goers, Gary Gregory">
-        
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.ResolverUtil.extractPath(URL) 
incorrectly converts '+' characters to spaces.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1007" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Ralph 
Goers, Gary Gregory">
-        org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util#fileFromUri(URI uri) incorrectly 
converts '+' characters to spaces.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1003" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Dan 
Armbrust">
-        JUL Logger.throwing is mis-mapped to ERROR when it should be TRACE.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-965" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Khotyn 
Huang">
-        System.out no longer works after the Console appender and JANSI are 
initialized.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-998" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Mariano 
Gonzalez">
-        Make org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger#updateConfiguration 
protected.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-995" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Move UTF-8 constant from Charsets to Constants class. Remove Charsets 
class.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-993" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Deadlock would occur if appender thread creates a new Logger during 
reconfiguration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-991" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Ryan Rupp">
-        Async root logger config should default includeLocation to false.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-985" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Sean Dawson">
-        AbstractFilter should not implement equals() and hashCode().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-984" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Jonas 
Höpfner">
-        PatternLayout %highlight to support noConsoleNoAnsi like %style.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-926" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="David 
Ohana">
-        Truncate from the end of text format modifier.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-980" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikhail 
Mazurskiy">
-        Numerical overflow in BurstFilter not handled correctly.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-981" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mikhail 
Mazurskiy">
-        Incorrect unlock in ProviderUtil.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-966" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        KeyStoreConfiguration.createKeyStoreConfiguration() ignores 
keyManagerFactoryAlgorithm.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-976" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Matt Quinn">
-        Using monitorInterval with YAML config file format causes 
JSONParseException.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-964" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Jonne 
Jyrylä">
-        StringFormattedMessage serialization is incorrect.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-947" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Stefan 
Wehner">
-        A new StatusLoggerAdmin listener is added to StatusLogger every time 
the log is reconfigured.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-968" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Paul D 
Johe">
-        SyslogLayout contains extra space.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-967" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Stefan 
Wehner">
-        log4j2.component.properties not read for all properties.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-971" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Paul D 
Johe">
-        Another bad priority in Syslog messages.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-972" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.ssl.TlsSyslogInputStreamReader does 
not need to create temp Integer objects.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-974" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Daniel 
Galán y Martins">
-        Typo in EventLogger documentation.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-988" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        Update LMAX Disruptor from 3.3.0 to 3.3.2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-987" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        Migrate tests from Logback 1.1.2 to 1.1.3.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-988" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        Update tests to use ActiveMQ from 5.10 to 5.11.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1004" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson from 2.5.1 to 2.5.3.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-1005" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Slf4j from 1.7.7 to 1.7.12.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.2" date="2015-02-22" description="GA Release 2.2">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-938" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Mauro 
Molinari">
-        (JMX) To avoid memory leaks when web applications are restarted, JMX 
notifications are sent from
-        the caller thread in web applications. For non-web applications 
notifications are sent from a background thread
-        as before.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-957" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="fatih 
guleryuz">
-        Missing toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-956" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="David 
Kellerman">
-        Manual refers to Route "AppenderRef" attribute, should be "ref".
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-955" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Documentation: clarify system properties to control status logger, 
improve troubleshooting FAQ entry.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-950" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Joel 
Edwards">
-        Incorrect attribute name in PropertiesRewritePolicy example.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-944" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Vinayaka 
Ramachandra">
-        Log4j Flume appender is not adding millisecond to the event headers 
when the event is logged at 000 milliseconds.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-941" dev="ggregory" type="add" 
due-to="Konstantinos Liakos">
-        Allow JSON layout to create one compact log record per line.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-933" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="ppiman at 
gmail.com">
-        HTML layout should not use attribute minimalization for hr noshade.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-895" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Specify the SyslogAppender connect timeout value as part of the 
configuration.
-        The SyslogAppender takes a new parameter connectTimeoutMillis.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-899" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Specify the SocketAppender connect timeout value as part of the 
configuration.
-        The SyslogAppender takes a new parameter connectTimeoutMillis.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-924" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Ryan Rupp">
-        Log4j 1.2 Bridge doesn't map level ALL correctly in 
Category.getEffectiveLevel().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-931" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Robert 
Gacki">
-        ConsoleAppender is missing @PluginFactory annotation at createAppender 
method.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-919" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="David 
Johle">
-        Logging system fails to initialize if XInclude API is not available.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-914" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Kaj 
Bjurman">
-        ThrowableProxy.getExtendedStackTraceAsString causes 
NullpointerException.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-912" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        XML configuration does not report full error message for XInclude 
parser configuration problems.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-903" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mauro 
Molinari">
-        ClassLoaderContextSelector uses ClassLoader.toString() as a key
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-834" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Nikita 
Koval, Leonard Broman, Thiago Kronig">
-        ThrowableProxy throws NoClassDefFoundError.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-893" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        NullPointerException on filter when mapping JUL to Log4j2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-892" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        JUL adapter does not map Log4j'2 FATAL level to a JUL level.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-881" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mariano 
Gonzalez">
-        AbstractLifecycle should not implement equals() and hashCode().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-897" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Javadoc for org.apache.log4j.BasicConfigurator.configure() is 
incorrect.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-891" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        AbstractLifecycle should not implement equals() and hashCode().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-946" dev="ggregory" type="fix" 
due-to="artemonster">
-        [docs] Using Log4j 2 in Web Applications: Update example 
(Log4jWebLifeCycle is not visible).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-901" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Tihomir 
Meščić, Siegfried Greisinger">
-        Update docs for SyslogAppender: "No structured id name was supplied"
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-958" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update from Jackson 2.5.0 to 2.5.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-925" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update from Jackson 2.4.4 to 2.5.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-910" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-881" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-882" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update maven-core from 3.1.0 to 3.2.3.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-883" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update tests from org.apache.felix.framework 4.2.1 to 4.4.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-884" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update org.eclipse.osgi from 3.6.0 to 3.7.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-900" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Apache Flume from 1.5.0.1 to 1.5.2.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.1" date="2014-10-19" description="GA Release 2.1">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-676" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Stefan 
Bodewig">
-        Some typo fixes and enhancements for the site.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-868" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add ShutdownCallbackRegistry interface for customizable shutdown 
callback handling. This is particularly
-        useful for application servers that wish to integrate with Log4j 2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-866" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Gerard 
Weatherby">
-        Documentation: fixed missing closing parenthesis in code example.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-862" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Michael 
Sutherland">
-        Fixed classloader issue that prevented Log4j from finding the 
implementation when used in a custom Ant task.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-589" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Supported filtering on custom log levels in configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-861" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Documentation: fix broken links on left navigation Extending Log4j 
Configuration sub-menu.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-856" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Documentation: add sections on the JUL Adapter, IO Streams and NoSQL 
Appenders to the Maven and Ivy page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-797" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Andreas 
Rytina">
-        Documentation: clarified why log4j-core is a compile time dependency 
in Maven and Ivy page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-855" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Documentation: fix broken links on Appenders manual page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-807" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Prevent NPE when configuration with AsyncLogger/AsyncRoot is reloaded.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-848" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Add a Java lookup to provide nicely formatted runtime version 
information.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-809" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Move reflection utility class to API's private utility classes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-845" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Add 2.1.0 to compatible versions in Log4j API ProviderUtil and update 
Log4jAPIVersion to 2.1.0 in
-        core META-INF/log4j-provider.properties.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-833" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Documentation: added Runtime Dependencies link to left nav-bar on site.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-816" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Documentation: added section on XInclude to user manual Configuration 
page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-678" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Matt Sicker">
-        Documentation: fixed minor issues with Log4j2 web site/documentation.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-844" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Update JMH to 1.1 from 0.7.2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-843" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Migrate JpaHyperSqlAppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-842" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Migrate JpaH2AppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-841" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Migrate JdbcHyperSqlAppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-840" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Migrate JdbcH2AppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-830" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Respect external interrupt signal to allow application shutdown after 
joining AsyncAppender thread.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-813" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="David 
Erichsen, Brandon Barry">
-        MarkerManager Log4jMarker.hasParents() returns opposite of correct 
result.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-785" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Documentation: fixed capitalization inconsistency in user manual 
example config.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-829" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed issue in RollingFile filePattern: backslashes are path 
separators, not escape characters.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-547" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add the Log4j IOStreams component.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-431" dev="rpopma" type="add" due-to="Claude Mamo">
-        Added Memory-Mapped File Appender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-832" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Seth Leger">
-        ThrowableProxy fails if a class in logged stack trace throws 
java.lang.Error from initializer
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-831" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Documentation: updated FAQ "which jars" diagrams for JUL bridge and 
2.1 version.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-827" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Support use of TypeConverter classes through the standard Plugin 
system.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-745" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Avoid ConverterKey plugin clashes by using a more predictable plugin 
loading infrastructure.
-        Plugins have been segmented into three parts: class path, 
user-specified packages, and OSGi bundles.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-798" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Fixed plugin scanning redundancy causing massive slowdowns in certain 
environments.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-753" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Reduced CachedClock thread contention.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-819" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Gary 
Gregory">
-        Fixed memory leak in Tomcat 6 caused by clock background threads 
unintentionally
-        started by Tomcat after web application stop.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-825" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add simple validation constraint annotations for the Plugin system.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-428" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Mark 
Paluch, Mikael Ståldal">
-        Implement a GELF layout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-391" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Kamal 
Bahadur">
-        FlumePersistentManager now handles LockConflictExceptions in Berkeley 
Db when sending a batch.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-782" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Remove invalid Oracle Maven repository.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-780" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Update Spring Framework to 3.2.11.RELEASE from 3.2.8.RELEASE.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-815" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Unify the two JMS appenders into a single appender. Configurations 
written for 2.0 will still work in 2.1+.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-608" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add java.util.logging implementation based on log4j-api. See log4j-jul 
documentation for more details.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-796" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed issue where log4j-to-slf4j did not work correctly with SLF4J 
Simple Logger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-811" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Yogesh Rao">
-        SimpleLogger throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for an empty array.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-663" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Florian 
Brunner">
-        Fix OSGi Import-Package problem with the JMS API.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-793" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add support for custom SLF4J Markers in log4j-slf4j-impl module.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-783" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Minglei Lee">
-        PatternLayout should use platform character encoding by default, not 
UTF-8.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-771" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Add lookup for application main arguments.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-787" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Add lookup for JVM arguments.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-790" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson to 2.4.2 from 2.4.1 (for XML and JSON processing).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-766" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Bruno P. 
Kinoshita">
-        Incomplete documentation for JSONLayout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-800" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        All life cycle implementations should be serializable.
-        This is still work in progress.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-801" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger should be serializable.
-        This is still work in progress.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-810" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update javax.mail to 1.5.2 from 1.5.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-822" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update org.eclipse.persistence.jpa to 2.5.2 from 2.5.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-867" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        FlumeAppender: maxDelay not in seconds, but milliseconds.
-        Add time scale to some settings, for example maxDelayMillis instead of 
maxDelay.
-        The old names are aliased for compatibility.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0.2" date="2014-08-16" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-775" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Apache Flume to 1.5.0.1 from 1.5.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-773" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Site: log4j-core component pages were still using the old logo.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-760" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Documentation improvement: link to dependency tree from log4j-core 
component page,
-        link to log4j-core component page from FAQ page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-679" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Resolved race condition that caused log file rotation to fail with 
error: "Unable to create directory ..."
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-726" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Prevent application from hanging when PatternLayout configuration has 
opening '{' but no closing '}'.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-769" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Startup takes a long time if you have empty packages attribute.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-763" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Stephen 
Connolly">
-        Improved asynchronous loggers and appenders to ensure the formatted 
message does not change even if
-        parameters are modified by the application. (ParameterizedMessage was 
already safe.)
-        Improved documentation.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-729" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Emit warning message to console if no configuration file found.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-765" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Improve warning message when missing log4j-core in the classpath.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-722" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Clarified in documentation that Commons Logging jar is required when 
using log4j-jcl.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-723" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Clarified in documentation that SLF4J API jar is required when using 
log4j-slf4j-impl.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-730" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Allow Log4jContextFactory subclasses to specify a custom 
ContextSelector.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-759" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed various minor site/documentation issues, mostly versioning 
related.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-756" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Prevent JUnit test from creating unnecessary Log4j2Plugins.dat during 
build.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0.1" date="2014-07-29" description="Bug fixes">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-744" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Avoid unnecessary Clock calls when TimestampMessage is logged.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-704" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Improved error message if configuration file not found.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-750" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Mike 
Calmus">
-        Webapp configuration page has incorrect class name.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-749" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Retain the default date pattern after fixing the ISO8601 pattern.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-670" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        DatePatternConverter ISO8601_PATTERN now conforms to ISO8601.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-741" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Reinstate the package configuration attribute for discovering custom 
plugins.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-742" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Pascal 
Chollet">
-        XInclude not working with relative path.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-740" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Kosta 
Krauth">
-        Fixed typo in webapp manual regarding sample web.xml file.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-738" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Timothy 
Stack">
-        RollingFileManager deadlock if async action thread fails to start.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-736" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fixed log4j-bom so that it won't specify a default scope on any third 
party dependencies.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-735" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fixed log4j-bom so that it won't interfere with spring-bom and others.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-731" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Updated documentation regarding extensions to LoggerContextFactory and 
Log4j 2 providers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-373" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fixed ClassLoader issues in loading Log4j providers in an OSGi 
environment.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-725" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Added WebLoggerContextUtils class to log4j-web for helper methods 
useful for asynchronous servlets.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-710" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Added documentation for Custom Levels and Custom Loggers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-719" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Correctly handle NetworkOnMainThreadException thrown on Android during 
Log4j2 initialization.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-716" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Automatically disable log4j JMX when detecting we are running on 
Android.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-657" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Stefan 
Wehner">
-        Fixed AbstractDatabaseManager to close connection on writeInternal 
error.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-713" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Nelson 
Melina">
-        Android: java.lang.VerifyError: 
org/apache/logging/log4j/core/util/Closer
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-703" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Nelson 
Melina">
-        Android: Could not find class 'javax.naming.InitialContext', 
referenced from method org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup.lookup.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-732" dev="ggregory" type="updated">
-        Update to LMAX Disruptor 3.3.0 from 3.2.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-733" dev="ggregory" type="updated">
-        Update to latest Jackson jars from the 2.4.1.X line.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0" date="2014-07-12" description="GA Release">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-705" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed issue where Async Logger does not log thread context stack data.
-        API change: added method getImmutableStackOrNull() to 
ThreadContext.ContextStack interface.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-631" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Update docs to clarify how to use formatter logger and standard logger 
together.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-519" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Added support for generating custom logger wrappers that replace the 
existing log levels
-        and extended logger wrappers that add custom log levels to the 
existing ones.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-441" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        LoggerConfigs with no Level now inherit the Level from their parent.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-696" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        RegexFilter does not match multiline log messages.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-699" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        PatternLayout manual page missing documentation on header/footer.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-625" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed Serialization error with SocketAppender and Async Loggers.
-        (Fixed in RC2, but wasn't included in release notes.)
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-538" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        JMX GUI: fixed occasional ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException after 
pressing "reconfigure with XML below".
-        (Fixed in RC2, but wasn't included in release notes.)
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-666" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        AsyncLoggerContextSelector should ensure that different 
AsyncLoggerContext objects created by web app classloaders have unique names.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-683" dev="mattsicker" type="fix" due-to="Jurriaan 
Mous">
-        Fix annotation processor warnings on JDK 1.7+.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-694" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fix strange compilation error that popped up in a test class.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-692" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Update documentation to specify only Maven 3 is supported.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-690" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Philip 
Helger">
-        Log4j Web test dependencies should be in scope "test" in the pom.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-682" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Special characters (tab and so on) in PatternLayout do not work.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-685" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Make org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractLayout immutable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-686" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Core's OptionConverter support for \b is broken (affects 
PatternLayout).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-687" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Rename org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Closer.closeSilent() to 
closeSilently().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-688" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Make org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout immutable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-689" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson to 2.4.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-707" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Some exceptions are not logged when configuration problems are 
detected.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-709" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Apache Commons Logging to 1.2 from 1.1.3.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-rc2" date="2014-06-21" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-675" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        RollingFile and RollingRandomAccessFile now write the layout footer 
before rollover.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-581" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Alexander 
Khokhlov">
-        RollingRandomAccessFile now writes the layout header after rollover.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-622" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Farooq Khan">
-        RollingFileManager now correctly honours the bufferedIO configuration 
after rollover.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-674" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Made RollingFileAppender buffer size configurable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-141" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Joern 
Huxhorn">
-        Improved documentation regarding log4j status logger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-539" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Colin 
Froggatt">
-        Fixed issue with "Reconfigure using XML below" function in JMX Client 
GUI.
-        ConfigurationSource is now a top-level class and can be obtained with 
Configuration.getConfigurationSource().
-        LoggerContext.getConfiguration().getConfigurationSource()
-        provides a reliable public method for obtaining a logger context's 
configuration location and content.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-619" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Scott 
Harrington">
-        Invalid XML configuration files do not prevent the config file from 
being checked again.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-637" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Mansoor 
Sajjad, Jon Wilmoth">
-        JMX: Updating a Logger's level via jConsole now correctly takes effect.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-668" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Correctly process log events when combining AsyncLoggers with 
AsyncAppender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-669" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Prevent NPE when combining AsyncLoggers with AsyncLoggerConfigs.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-42" dev="rgoers" type="add">
-        Create an appender to route log events to the ServletContext log.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-419" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Woonsan 
Ko">
-        Support default value for missing key in look ups with fallbacking to 
looking in the properties map.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-563" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Michael 
Friedmann">
-        FlumeAvroManager now always uses a client type of default_failover.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-554" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow configuration files to be located as Servlet Context resources.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-535" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Reset rollover time when size rollover is triggered.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-664" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Moved plugin cache file to META-INF for OSGi compatibility.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-640" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fix NPE that can be caused by a null ThreadContextClassLoader.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-655" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add Vagrantfile for testing in GNU+Linux.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-651" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Log4j 2 throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-654" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Add log4j-perf module to provide a home for all log4j performance 
tests.
-        Add support for JMH microbenchmark performance tests.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-652" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add support for default plugin values and attributes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-598" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Add support for types other than String for plugin factory 
values/attributes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-250" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Refactor Log4jLogEvent to lazily create ThrowableProxy.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-647" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Upgrade to Flume 1.5.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-644" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Implement a SecureSocketAppender and secure server (SSL/TLS).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-646" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Merge the TLS Syslog appender into the Syslog appender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-620" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Perform reconfiguration in a separate thread to prevent deadlocks.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-641" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Override commons-logging dependency version in tests.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-639" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Mck 
SembWever">
-        Prevent NPE in AsyncLogger and AsyncLoggerConfig if logger is used 
after log4j has been shut down.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-469" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FailoverAppender was not resetting its status after the primary 
appender recovered.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-623" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Generate MDC properties as a JSON map in JSONLayout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-566" dev="rpopma" type="update" due-to="Luigi 
Alice">
-        Made RollingRandomAccessFileAppender buffer size configurable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-520" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="JavaTech, 
Andre Bogus">
-        Resolved issue where AsyncAppender dropped events if queue still 
contained
-        events when application is stopped.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-392" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Andre Bogus">
-        Resolved a problem with the previous solution for LOG4J2-392 that 
resulted in dropped events
-        when using AsyncLoggerConfig with slow appenders when application is 
stopped.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-613" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        The OSGi version of log4j-web imports Servlet 2.5 at minimum instead 
of 3.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-602" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Unit tests are now less verbose during the build process.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-570" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Fix shutdown thread memory leak in servlet containers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-628" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Use Clock to generate all log event timestamps, not just for Async 
Loggers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-629" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-          Document the system properties used in Log4J 2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-542" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Make Throwable transient in ThrowableProxy.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-617" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Update SLF4J to 1.7.7.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-616" dev="mattsicker" type="update">
-        Update Jackson to 2.3.3.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-440" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        During shutdown, a NullPointerException could be thrown due to the 
NullConfiguration class no longer being
-        available to the ClassLoader.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-346" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Cyclic dependency with log4j-slf4j-impl in OSGi.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-345" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        The log4j-1.2-api module didn't export any packages to OSGi.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-605" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-        Password data from the NoSQL plugins no longer shows up in cleartext 
in debug logging.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-448" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="X86core">
-        A StringIndexOutOfBounds exception could occur during property 
substitution.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-597" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        StatusLogger was not skipping multiple instances of the FQCN class, 
causing messages from classes in
-        the Verbose list to be printed.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-585" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Bruce 
Brouwer">
-        Add support for multiple parents to Markers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-595" dev="mattsicker" type="add">
-        Introduce Java annotation processor as the new plugin pre-caching 
mechanism. This is available in log4j-core.
-        All custom plugins created before this should be re-built against the 
current log4j-core.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-564" dev="mattsicker" type="fix">
-          Renamed SLF4J logger class to Log4jLogger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-579" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-          Rework Level comparison APIs.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-576" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-          Add org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger.getLevel().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-574" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-          Make Blocking the default WaitStrategy for Async Loggers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-555" dev="rpopma" type="update" due-to="Bruce 
Brouwer">
-          Introduce ExtendedLogger interface to facilitate implementing and 
extending Loggers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-560" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-          SyslogAppenderTest and RFC5424LayoutTest were failing in Java 8.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-561" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="vibin">
-        Allow spaces around commas in Configuration's package attribute.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-547" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Bruce 
Brouwer">
-        Have Logger API expose a PrintWriter instead of custom LoggerStream.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-439" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Bruce 
Brouwer">
-        Add EncodingPatternConverter to escape newlines and HTML special 
characters.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-496" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow header and footer to be specified as lookup patterns in 
PatternLayout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-499" dev="rgoers"  type="fix">
-        Add equals and hashcode to Log4jLogEvent.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-410" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Ivlin 
Zeng">
-        SLf4JLogger is now Serializable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-427" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Alexander 
Reelsen">
-        Add support for configuration via YAML.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-378" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Add DateLookup and ThreadContextLookup to default lookups.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-468" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Add support to add a LoggerConfig. Document two ways to modify the 
configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-582" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Rename org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.SocketServer to 
TCPSocketServer and refactor with UDP.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-592" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson to 2.3.2 from 2.2.2.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-rc1" date="2014-02-16" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="delete">
-        Removed the DataSourceConnectionSource and the &lt;DriverManager&gt; 
plugin for the JDBC Appender. It is not
-        safe to use. Please use the DataSource or factory connection sources 
backed by a connection pool.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Renamed the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.mongo 
package to
-        org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.mongodb.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="grobmeier" type="update">
-        Renamed the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.couch 
package to
-        org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.couchdb.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-500" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        (JMX - ObjectNames changed!) Unloading one web application unloads JMX 
MBeans for all web applications.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-507" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Space Level numbers by 100 instead of 1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-531" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Geoff 
Ballinger">
-        Fixed bugs where rolled log files were overwritten by RollingFile 
appender with
-        composite time and size based policies.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-475" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Matt 
Sicker">
-        Changed the MongoDBConnection to add a MongoDB encoding hook instead 
of a decoding hook.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-489" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Fixed the JPAAppender's overuse of transactions by connecting 
(borrowing from pool) on new write internal or on
-        flush.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-457" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Fixed failure of JDBC and JPA appender to properly release database 
connections by connecting (borrowing from
-        pool) on new write internal or on flush.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-442" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Fixed problem with JDBC and JPA appender connectivity in WebSphere by 
connecting (borrowing from pool) on new
-        write internal or on flush.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-438" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Ensured the JDBCAppender commits transactions after a single write or 
a flush of multiple writes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-407" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Fixed inability to recover from lost database connection in database 
appenders by connecting (borrowing from
-        pool) on new write internal or on flush.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-530" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        (JMX) JMX Client GUI should dynamically update when LoggerContext 
MBeans are registered/unregistered in MBean
-        server.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-511" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="James 
Pretorius">
-        Stop AsyncLoggerConfig Disruptor thread(s), then AsyncAppender 
thread(s) first
-        before stopping other appenders.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-392" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="ilynaf, Andre 
Bogus">
-        Stop AsyncLoggerConfig Disruptor thread(s), then AsyncAppender 
thread(s) first
-        before stopping other appenders.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-345" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Roland 
Weiglhofer, Matt Sicker">
-        (OSGi) logging.log4j-1.2-api doesn't export the log4j API 1.2. 
Dependent bundles can not be resolved.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-523" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        LocalizedMessage serialization is broken.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-385" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Ace Funk, 
Porfirio Partida">
-        Fixed issues with time-based file rollover (monthly, weekly, hourly 
and every minute).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-452" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Added a ServletContext attribute that, when set to "true", disables 
Log4j's auto-initialization in
-        Servlet 3.0+ web applications.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-512" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Chandra 
Sekhar Kakarla, Matt Sicker">
-        Exposed Log4j web support interface and methods and the LoggerContext 
through ServletContext attributes
-        so that threads not affected by filters (such as asynchronous threads) 
can utilize the LoggerContext. Also
-        updated the Log4j filter so that it supports async.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-409" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Frank 
Steinmann, Thomas Neidhart">
-        Created a utility to properly escape backslashes before creating URIs, 
and changed URI creation to use the
-        utility instead of instantiating URI directly.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-344" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Keir 
Lawson, Tomasz Wladzinski">
-        Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer to add the filter by class to 
get around a WebLogic bug.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-359" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Abhinav 
Shah">
-        Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer so that it does nothing in a 
Servlet 2.5 or older application. This
-        ensures behavioral consistency across containers. This includes 
additional fixes to abort initialization if a
-        duplicate filter already exists and to check the actual Servlet 
EFFECTIVE version.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-517" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Switch in log4j-1.2-api Category.getEffectiveLevel has no cases for 
FATAL, OFF.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-41" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Nick 
Williams">
-        Add support for custom logging levels.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-406" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Kerrigan 
Joseph">
-        (JMX) Unregister all log4j JMX MBeans when the LoggerContext is stopped
-        to allow web application classes to be GC-ed on undeploy.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-405" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Configuration was being processed twice at startup.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-479" dev="rpopma" type="add" due-to="MK">
-        ThreadContext now uses plain ThreadLocal by default, unless system 
property
-        isThreadContextMapInheritable has value "true".
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-398" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Configure properties and setup Interpolator before processing rest of 
configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-481" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Matt Sicker">
-        Add Stream interface to Loggers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-490" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Matt 
Sicker">
-        Update EasyMock to version 3.2.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-470" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        hostName property was not being set until after the first 
configuration element.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-464" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Support arrays as sub-elements of a JSON configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-492" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Shaddy 
Baddah, Herlani Junior">
-        (JMX) Fixed MalformedObjectNameException if context name contains '=' 
or newline characters.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-377" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Roland 
Weiglhofer, Matt Sicker">
-        (OSGi) Fix NPE during shutdown.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-463" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Michael 
Diamond, Matt Sicker">
-        Fixed documentation for MyApp example application in the Automatic 
Configuration section
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-408" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Dongqing Hu, 
Matt Sicker">
-        Fixed error in documentation code example in manual/eventlogging.html
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-451" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Vinay 
Pothnis, Matt Sicker">
-        Fixed typo in documentation: system property should be 
log4j2.loggerContextFactory
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-443" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Colin 
Froggatt, Tudor Har">
-        (JMX) Fixed issue where log4j2 LoggerContext did not show up in JMX 
GUI or JConsole.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-485" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed issue where toString methods that perform logging could deadlock 
AsyncAppender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-445" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Anthony 
Baldocchi">
-        ResolverUtil cannot find packages in file URLs which include the '+' 
character.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-430" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="David Gstir">
-        Use the formatted Message in RFC5424Layout for 
non-StructuredDataMessages.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-459" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Set external context when constructing the LoggerContext.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-466" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Jan Tepke">
-        Cannot load log4j2 config file if path contains plus '+' characters.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-462" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Daisuke Baba">
-        Fix LogEvent to never return null Level, fixes 
LevelPatternConverter.format may throw NPE.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-465" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Daisuke Baba">
-        Fix LogEvent to never return null Level, fixes ThresholdFilter throws 
NPE.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-471" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Anthony 
Baldocchi">
-        Fixed issue where toString methods that perform logging could deadlock 
AsyncLogger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-482" dev="rpopma" type="add" due-to="Hongdi Ren">
-        Documentation fix: The attribute of Route to refer to an appender is 
"ref" not "AppenderRef".
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-467" dev="rpopma" type="add" due-to="Anthony 
Baldocchi">
-        Added option to toggle Thread name caching in AsyncLogger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-478" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Michael 
Friedmann.">
-        The message and ndc fields are not JavaScript escaped in JSONLayout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-455" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Robin Zhang 
Tao">
-        RingBufferLogEvent should return Message timestamp for 
TimestampMessage messages.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-477" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Tal Liron">
-        NPE in ClassLoaderContextSelector.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-454" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Robin Zhang 
Tao">
-        TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy should use event time millis.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-472" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Tal Liron">
-        BaseConfiguration class does not properly implement Configuration 
interface.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-447" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Jeff 
Hudren, Mark Paluch, Scott Deboy">
-        XMLLayout does not include marker name.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-453" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Update Flume Appender to use Flume 1.4.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-423" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        (JMX) Added MBeans for instrumenting AsyncAppenders and AsyncLogger 
RingBuffers,
-        exposing queue size, remaining capacity and other attributes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-323" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Resolved memory leak by releasing reference to ThreadLocal when
-        AsyncLogger is stopped.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-425" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Resolved memory leak by populating AsyncLoggerConfigHelper ring buffer
-        via EventTranslatorTwoArg, eliminating the need for a ThreadLocal.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-420" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Create a lookup for resource bundle substitution.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-417" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Fix Event Level / LoggerConfig Level table at the architecture 
documentation page.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-415" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Format log event time as UNIX time (seconds or milliseconds).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-404" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Kamal 
Bahadur">
-        @EnterpriseNumber" was missing in the ID of structured data when 
RFC5424Layout is used
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-379" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed issue that prevented Log4J from working in Google App Engine.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-401" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Configure FileAppender buffer size.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-402" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Configure RandomAccessFileAppender buffer size.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-528" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Rename package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.helper 
to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.action.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-532" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Resource leak in Flume appender when it cannot create a BerkeleyDB db.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-413" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        PatternLayout option to not output ANSI escape codes if no Console is 
available.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-beta9" date="2013-09-14" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-317" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Renamed FastFileAppender and FastRollingFileAppender to 
RandomAccessFileAppender
-        and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender. Configurations using the 
Fast(Rolling)File element
-        no longer work and should be modified to use the 
(Rolling)RandomAccessFile element.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Changed the "suppressExceptions" configuration attribute for all 
Appenders to "ignoreExceptions" to avoid
-        confusion with Java 7 suppressed exceptions. Also renamed the 
Appender#isExceptionSuppressed() method to
-        Appender#ignoreExceptions() to avoid the same confusion. All Appenders 
by default internally log and then ignore
-        exceptions encountered while logging. Setting "ignoreExceptions" to 
"false" on an Appender causes it to allow
-        exceptions to propagate to the caller. You must set "ignoreExceptions" 
to "false" for Appenders you are wrapping
-        in the Failover Appender.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Changed the (relatively new) PatternLayout configuration attribute 
"suppressExceptions" to
-        "alwaysWriteExceptions" to more correctly indicate what it does. As 
such, the meaning of this attribute has
-        reversed (previous "true"s should become "false"s, and vice versa). 
Since this was an undocumented attribute up
-        until now, it's unlikely this change will affect any users.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-226" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Fix table of contents generation in pdf.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-395" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Abhinav Shah">
-        Allow classpath scheme when specifying configuration file location as 
a system property.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-393" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Initialize PluginManager once during configuration. Move advertisement 
setup into BaseConfiguration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-391" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Kamal 
Bahadur">
-        FlumePersistentManager now handles LockConflictExceptions in Berkeley 
Db.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-399" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Allow the default file rollover strategy to define the compression 
level.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-338" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Tibor Benke">
-        Add TLSAppender. Also added missing license headers to several files.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-380" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Use rollover date when substituting ${date} in the filePattern.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-253" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Added FAQ page to the site.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-362" dev="rpopma" type="add">
-        Add a diagram to the site (FAQ page) that explains when to use which 
jar.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-322" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Centralized reflective use of Reflection#getCallerClass and properly 
handled its instability in various versions
-        of Java.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-293" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Reset the Configuration if the ClassLoaderContextSelector creates a 
LoggerContext without a configuration
-        location and then is later provided one.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-293" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Abhinav 
Shah">
-        Changed the ConfigurationFactory to recognize and properly use the 
classpath: URI scheme in addition to the
-        classloader: URI scheme.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-359" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix" due-to="Abhinav 
Shah">
-        Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer so that it does nothing in a 
Servlet 2.5 or older application. This
-        ensures behavioral consistency across containers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-374" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Tibor 
Benke">
-        Add more options to PatternLayout to display more detailed information 
about a Throwable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-383" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        [Pattern Layout] Customize level names by length.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-384" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        [Pattern Layout] Customize level names to lower-case.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-355" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Tibor 
Benke">
-        Add support for multiple SD-ELEMENTs in a RFC 5424 syslog message.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Cleaned up tests and cleared up documentation for the JPA appender 
following the resolution of EclipseLink
-        issue #412454.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-310" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Olivier 
Lemasle">
-        Fixed issue where SMTPAppender did not send mails with error or fatal 
level without prior info event.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-368" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Add PatternLayout constructor to Log4j 1.2 bridge for Velocity.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-333" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Hervé 
Boutemy">
-        Match artifact ids with Maven module names.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-364" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="David Nault">
-        Add WebLookup to retrieve information from the ServletContext.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-367" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="David 
Parry">
-        JMS appenders send two messages for one append.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-319" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Double stack trace logging when using %throwable in %style and 
%highlight.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-360" dev="rgoers" type="add">
-        Allow Plugins to have aliases.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-358" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        NoSQLAppender using MongoDB provider ignores username and password 
attributes
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-356" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Create a JSON Layout.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-343" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Henning 
Schmiedehausen">
-        Removed unnecessary generics from Appender interface and implementing 
classes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-351" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Roland 
Weiglhofer">
-        [OSGi] wrong Fragment-Host in manifest files.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-336" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Andre Bogus">
-        AsyncLogger errors after multiple calls to LoggerContext.reconfigure().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-347" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="David 
Phillips">
-        Give the AsyncAppender thread a more descriptive name for easier 
debugging/profiling.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-332" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Hervé 
Boutemy">
-        Modified documentation to refer to SLF4J Binding instead of SLF4J 
Bridge.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-342" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Ignore xml:base attributes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-309" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Insure jars and distributions only have a single License and Notice 
file.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-341" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Enable XInclude for XML configurations.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-320" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        JPAAppender stops logging because META-INF/log4j-provider.properties 
is left open.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-335" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumePersistentManager's writer thread had high CPU usage.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-331" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Removed erroneous check for affected MongoDB records, which always 
returns zero on inserts.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-330" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Added a BSON Transformer so that MongoDB can persist Log4j events.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-329" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        StatusLogger now only creates StatusData objects if they are the 
appropriate logging level.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-328" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumePersistentManager was calling Berkeley DB's count method too 
frequently.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-280" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Additional fix to make AsyncAppender threads daemon threads and 
improve their thread name.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-165" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        The slf4j-ext jar is now an optional dependency of the SLF4J bridge.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-318" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow shutdown hook to be disabled in the configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-166" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        RoutingAppender's default Route can now be an appender reference.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-313" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Woonsan Ko">
-        Add JNDILookup plugin.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-299" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Add getThrowable method to ThrowableProxy.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-216" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        ThrowableProxy no longer extends Throwable.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-311" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Synchronized flush() and close() methods in the XxxFileManager and 
OutputStreamManager classes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-312" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        XML layout improvements (compact vs. pretty, namespace, namespace 
prefix, root element).
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-388" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Java Mail dependency to 1.5.0 from 1.4.7.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-325" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update JDBC tests to use H2 database 1.3.173 from 1.3.172.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-366" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update commons-logging to 1.1.3 from 1.1.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-390" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update HSQLDB dependency to 2.3.0 from 2.2.9.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-308" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Clarified which library versions were used in Async Loggers 
performance test.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-307" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Updated Async Loggers' LMAX Disruptor library from 3.0.1 to 3.2.0.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-306" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update JSON Jackson library to 2.2.2 from 2.2.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-387" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Update Jackson dependency to 1.9.13 from 1.9.11.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-305" dev="ggregory" type="add">
-        Ease porting from 1.x Logger.getRootLogger(): add 
LogManager.getRootLogger().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-304" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed Async Loggers memory leak.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-291" dev="nickwilliams" type="fix">
-        Fixed JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL appenders so that the failover appender 
properly fails over on error.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Improved site by adding quick jump-off page and menu for Javadoc links 
for all components.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-397" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Yonatan 
Graber">
-        Logger.info(Message) Javadoc is incorrect.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-beta8" date="2013-07-10" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-270" dev="nickwilliams" type="update">
-        Improved logging initialization in Servlet containers, especially 
Servlet 3.0 and newer where Log4j now
-        initializes and deinitializes automatically with no deployment 
descriptor configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-302" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Added toString methods to ThreadContextStack/Map implementation 
classes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-301" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Add printf methods to Logger API.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-300" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        WriterThread was ending when no agents are available which caused an 
OutOfMemoryError.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-282" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow the default status level to be specified as a system property.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-278" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Filter calls from Avro or Flume to be ignored by the FlumeAppender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-279" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumePersistentManager now calls Berkeley DB from threads to avoid 
encountering interrupts in the application.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-296" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Wasted work in FlumePersistentManager.createManager.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-297" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Wasted work in TestConfigurator.testEnvironment.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-298" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Wasted work in StyleConverterTest.setupClass.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-280" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        AsyncLogger threads are now daemon threads and won't prevent the JVM 
from shutting down anymore.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-295" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fast(Rolling)FileAppender now correctly handles messages exceeding the 
buffer size.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-271" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works 
correctly if append=false.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-267" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works 
correctly if append=false.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-292" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fast(Rolling)FileAppender now correctly appends to (does not 
overwrite) existing file.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-294" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        LogManager.getLogger can now be called without a logger name or with a 
null logger name.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-289" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Upgrade javadoc plugin to 2.9.1 to fix javadoc security issue.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-288" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Update JUnit to 4.11 from 4.7.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-286" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Update test H2 JDBC driver to 1.172 from 1.171.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-285" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Update Jansi jar to 1.11 from 1.9.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-284" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Update Log4j 1 dependency to 1.2.17 from 1.2.16.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-386" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Update NoSQL dependencies: lightcouch 0.0.6 from 0.0.5, mongodb 2.11.2 
from 2.11.1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-283" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Remove dependency on Apache ORO jar.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-277" dev="gregory" type="update">
-        Wasted work in RollingAppenderSizeTest.testAppender() and others.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-139" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Fix NullPointerException (regression due to fix for LOG4J2-228)
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-168" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Scott 
Severtson">
-        Include arbitrary message fields in RFC-5424 structured data.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-275" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumeAvroManager fails to notify client of failing event if Flume 
RPCClient cannot be created.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-274" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Wasted work in UUIDUtil initialization.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-273" dev="ggregory" type="update">
-        Wasted work in XMLLayout.toSerializable().
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-beta7" date="2013-06-01" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-249" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow context parameters in Log4jContextListener to include properties.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-263" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Do not allow a charset on RFC5424Layout - use UTF-8.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-242" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        StringFormattedMessage and MessageFormatMessage now will accept a 
Throwable as their last argument and
-        pass it on.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-243" dev="rgoers" type="update">
-        Allow custom LogEventFactories.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-262" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Edward 
Sargisson">
-        Add support for interceptors in the embedded Flume Appender.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-269" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Use transaction when batch size is 1.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-268" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Add guid to FlumeEvent headers for non-Map Messages.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-246" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Data buffer is reset in finally clause.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-228" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        UDP now sends one event per packet.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Method name changes in interface 
org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap:
-        getContext() to getCopy(), get() to getImmutableMapOrNull().
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-154" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Improve ThreadContext performance with copy-on-write map and stack.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-261" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Edward 
Sargisson">
-        Add missing "not" to error message.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-10" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Timothy Ward">
-        Break up core into multiple osgi jars.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-223" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Remove LoggerContext when LoggerContext is stopped.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-260" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        XML layout does not specify charset in content type.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-259" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        HTML layout does not specify charset in content type.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-258" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        HTML layout does not output meta element for charset.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-257" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        XML layout ignores charset for the XML processing intruction's 
encoding attribute.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-255" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Multi-byte character strings are now assumed to be in the platform 
default encoding, not UTF-8.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-254" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Mark OutputStream in OutputStreamManager as volatile. Mark header and 
footer as final.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-244" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Rewrite Appender was ignoring filters on referenced appenders.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-245" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Avoid EmptyStack exception if getCallerClass and SecurityManager are 
not available.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-229" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Nick 
Williams">
-        New JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL database Appenders.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-247" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        SocketServer.isActive should be volatile because it is accessed from 
different threads.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-251" dev="sdeboy" type="add">
-        Provide configuration information (location, content type, content if 
possible) via a registered Advertiser.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <release version="2.0-beta6" date="2013-05-05" description="Bug fixes and 
enhancements">
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-231" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Logger.getParent() was not returning the correct Logger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-201" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Renamed Plugin annotation attribute from "type" to "category".
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-237" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Moved JMX Client GUI classes into separate jmx-gui submodule.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-219" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Peter 
DePasquale">
-        Fix: install default root logger if not configured (this is unchanged),
-        but make sure to include configured named loggers. Clarified 
documentation.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-159" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Use OSGi version format in Fragment-Host
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-234" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        RegexFilter threw a NullPointerException when used as a context-wide 
filter.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-192" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Add support for interpolating Environment variables when processing 
the configuration.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-235" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Sebastian 
Oerding">
-        Removed dependency on tools jar from core module, made jconsole 
dependency optional.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-233" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Fixed link to log4j-user mailing list.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-230" dev="rpopma" type="update" due-to="Wojciech 
Zaręba">
-        Improved error reporting when misconfigured.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-222" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Steven Yang">
-        Disruptor will now shutdown during Tomcat shutdown.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Renamed AsynchAppender to AsyncAppender. Plugin name became Async (was 
Asynch).
-      </action>
-      <action dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Removed CheckStyle false positives for NewlineAtEndOfFile and 
whitespace following '*' at end of line in javadoc.
-      </action>
-      <action dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Moved Clock interface to package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.helpers.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-225" dev="rpopma" type="update">
-        Documentation updates to clarify use and impact of location in pattern 
layouts.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-224" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        The FlumeAppender failed to start if the Flume RPCClient could not 
connect to any Flume agents.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-223" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Fix LoggerContext start and stop to eliminate IllegalStateException 
and NoClassDefFound errors.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-221" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Nick 
Williams">
-        Remove hundreds of compiler warnings.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-215" dev="rpopma" type="fix">
-        Various small documentation fixes.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-217" dev="rpopma" type="fix" due-to="Fabien 
Sanglard">
-        Ensure PluginManager streams are always closed.
-      </action>
-    </release>
-    <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>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-207" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        Add JMX support.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-211" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Nick 
Williams">
-        Removing extra spaces in entry and exit method output.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-214" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Remko 
Popma">
-        Async documentation update.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-212" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Loggers without a "." had no parent logger.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-208" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Remko 
Popma">
-        Move async subproject into core.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-212" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        Call LoggerContext.stop when the application is shutdown.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-210" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Arkin Yetis">
-        MapMessage was not enclosing key value in quotes when generating XML.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-198" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-196" dev="rgoers" type="fix">
-        FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-207" dev="ggregory" type="fix">
-        Use the Maven group ID org.apache.logging.log4j for all artifacts.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-187" dev="rgoers" type="add" due-to="Nick 
Williams">
-        Add tag library.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-195" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        Unit tests now create files in the target directory.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-193" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        RollingFastFileAppender (in log4j-async) did not roll over.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-199" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        Highlight subprojects in sub-navigation.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-200" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        LoggerContext method renamed to removeFilter from removeFiler.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-194" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Remko Popma">
-        ThrowableFormatOptionsTest failed on Windows due to CR/LF issue.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-190" dev="rgoers" type="fix" due-to="Werner">
-        BaseConfiguration addLoggerAppender saved appender using the Logger 
name.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-160" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Joanne 
Polsky">
-        Move Throwable pattern converter options processing to 
ThrowableFormatOptions class.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-157" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Remko 
Popma">
-        Allowed Loggers access to the properties in the LoggerConfig.
-      </action>
-      <action issue="LOG4J2-153" dev="rgoers" type="update" due-to="Remko 
Popma">
-        Added ability to include or exclude location information.
-      </action>
-      <ac

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