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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: b19861cb4d13f671fdca5a77a03833a6c92ac266
Parents: e4f7723
Author: Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
Authored: Sat Jan 21 21:32:36 2017 -0700
Committer: Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
Committed: Sat Jan 21 21:32:36 2017 -0700

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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
-              Apache Log4j 2.7 RELEASE NOTES
+              Apache Log4j 2.8 RELEASE NOTES
 
-The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.7 release!
+The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.8 release!
 
 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
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ property substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on a 
PatternLayout and as
 Loggers. Another notable Log4j 2 feature is the ability to be "garbage-free" 
(avoid allocating
 temporary objects) while logging. In addition, Log4j 2 will not lose events 
while reconfiguring.
 
-This release contains several bugfixes and new features. The new features 
include new logging API
-modules for Scala 2.10 and 2.11, and support for various non-blocking queue 
implementations in
-AsyncAppender. Furthermore the ThreadContext map can now be configured to be 
garbage-free, and
-users can now inject context data from other sources than ThreadContext. 
Context data values can
-be any Object, not just Strings. More details on the fixes are itemized below.
+This release contains several bugfixes and new features. The new features 
include the ability
+to have the RollingFileAppender log directly to the archive files. More 
details on the new features and
+fixes are itemized below.
 
 Note that subsequent to the 2.6 release a minor source incompatibility was 
found due to the
 addition of new methods to the Logger interface. If you have code that does:
@@ -30,121 +28,125 @@ or
 
 logger.error((Marker) null, “This is the log message”, throwable);
 
-The Log4j 2.7 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary 
compatibility with previous releases.
+The Log4j 2.8 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary 
compatibility with previous releases.
 
-GA Release 2.7
+GA Release 2.8
 
 Changes in this version include:
 
 New features:
-o LOG4J2-1578:  RoutingAppender can be configured with scripts. Add Script in 
a Routes element. 
-o LOG4J2-1597:  Add a ScriptAppenderSelector to create an Appender specified 
by a Script. 
-o LOG4J2-1349:  (GC) Added support for garbage-free ThreadContext map. 
Disabled by default, users need to enable this explicitly. 
-o LOG4J2-1447:  (GC) Changed LogEvent's internal data structure for context 
data to be garbage-free. Added method LogEvent#getContextData(), deprecated 
method #getContextMap(). 
-o LOG4J2-1010:  Users can now inject context data from other sources than 
ThreadContext. Values can be any Object, not just Strings. Thanks to Mikael 
Ståldal. 
-o LOG4J2-1568:  Added support for java.util.concurrent.LinkedTransferQueue to 
AsyncAppender. 
-o LOG4J2-1430:  Added optional support for Conversant DisruptorBlockingQueue 
in AsyncAppender. Thanks to John Cairns. 
-o LOG4J2-1439:  Added optional support for JCTools MPSC bounded lock-free 
queue in AsyncAppender. Thanks to Anthony Maire. 
-o LOG4J2-1558:  SocketAppender now supports IO buffering. 
-o LOG4J2-1557:  Add a Builder for the SocketAppender (deprecates factory 
method). 
-o LOG4J2-1609:  Add a Builder to ServletAppender and deprecate factory method. 
-o LOG4J2-1553:  AbstractManager now implements AutoCloseable. 
-o LOG4J2-1528:  Added ability to generate Log4j 2-style XML configuration file 
from ConfigurationBuilder. 
-o LOG4J2-1181:  Added Logging API for Scala 2.10 and 2.11. 
-o LOG4J2-1512:  Added options to exclude stack trace from JSON, XML and YAML 
layouts. 
-o LOG4J2-1539:  Added Core API Configurator.shutdown(LoggerContext, long, 
TimeUnit). 
-o LOG4J2-1501:  FileAppender is now able to create files on-demand. 
-o LOG4J2-1504:  RollingFileAppender is now able to create files on-demand. 
-o LOG4J2-1471:  [PatternLayout] Add an ANSI option to %xThrowable. 
-o LOG4J2-1472:  org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext now implements 
Closeable. 
-o LOG4J2-1458:  [PatternLayout] Add an ANSI option to %message. 
-o LOG4J2-1505:  Create a Builder for the FileAppender plugin to facilitate 
adding attributes in the future. 
-o LOG4J2-1507:  Allow Builders to be completely generic. 
-o LOG4J2-1508:  Allow a Builder to subclass another Builder. 
-o LOG4J2-1516:  Add ThreadContextMap2 interface supporting method 
putAll(Map<String, String>). Thanks to Gary Gregory. 
-o LOG4J2-1519:  Add ThreadContext.putAll(Map<String, String>). 
-o LOG4J2-1520:  Add JUnit Rule implementations to manage the thread context. 
-o LOG4J2-1547:  The Core AbstractConfiguration now tracks its LoggerContext 
and add Configuration.getLoggerContext(). 
-o LOG4J2-1540:  The Core AbstractManager now tracks its LoggerContext. 
-o LOG4J2-1577:  Add a Builder to the RoutingAppender and deprecate factory 
method. 
+o LOG4J2-1032:  Make DefaultRolloverStrategy more efficent when renaming 
files. Add nomax option to the fileIndex attribute. 
+o LOG4J2-1101:  RollingFileAppender now supports omitting the file name and 
writing directly to the archive files. 
+o LOG4J2-1243:  Allow default value in property to be a Lookup. 
+o LOG4J2-1787:  Document how to exclude transitive conflicting dependencies in 
Maven and Gradle. 
+o LOG4J2-1773:  Add StatusLoggerRule to allow unit tests to set a status 
level. 
+o LOG4J2-424:  Add non-string data type support to JdbcAppender via new 
ColumnMapping plugin. 
+o LOG4J2-1771:  Add a Builder to ColumnConfig and deprecate 
ColumnConfig.createColumnConfig(). 
+o LOG4J2-1770:  Add a Builder to JdbcAppender and deprecate 
JdbcAppender.createAppender(). 
+o LOG4J2-1764:  Use MethodHandle in ContextDataFactory cached constructor. 
+o LOG4J2-1730:  Add Apache Cassandra appender and ColumnMapping plugin. 
+o LOG4J2-1759:  Add TypeConverter for java.util.UUID. 
+o LOG4J2-1758:  Add TypeConverter for java.nio.file.Path. 
+o LOG4J2-1755:  Add TypeConverter and constraint validators for 
java.net.InetAddress and port numbers. 
+o LOG4J2-969:  Refactor SyslogAppender so that Layout is a Plugin element. 
+o LOG4J2-1660:  Added public method ThreadContext::getThreadContextMap; 
removed class ThreadContextAccess. 
+o LOG4J2-1379:  Add documentation regarding YAML configuration format. 
+o LOG4J2-1718:  Introduce marker interface AsynchronouslyFormattable. 
+o LOG4J2-1681:  Introduce interfaces IndexedStringMap and 
IndexedReadOnlyStringMap, supporting garbage-free iteration over sorted map. 
+o LOG4J2-1695:  Add a Builder to ScriptPatternSelector and deprecate 
ScriptPatternSelector.createSelector(). 
+o LOG4J2-1696:  Add a Builder to MarkerPatternSelector and deprecate 
MarkerPatternSelector.createSelector(). 
+o LOG4J2-1697:  Add a SerializerBuilder to PatternLayout and deprecate 
PatternLayout.createSerializer(). 
+o LOG4J2-1701:  Add a Builder to RandomAccessFileAppender and deprecate 
RandomAccessFileAppender.createAppender(). 
+o LOG4J2-1703:  Add a Builder to MemoryMappedFileAppender and deprecate 
MemoryMappedFileAppender.createAppender(). 
+o LOG4J2-1704:  Add a Builder to RollingRandomAccessFileAppender and deprecate 
RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.createAppender(). 
+o LOG4J2-1709:  Add a Builder to SyslogAppender and deprecate 
SyslogAppender.createAppender(). 
+o LOG4J2-1707:  Allow TCP Socket Appender to set socket options. 
+o LOG4J2-1708:  Allow Secure Socket Appender to set socket options. 
+o LOG4J2-1737:  Add a Builder to SyslogLayout and deprecate 
SyslogLayout.createLayout(Facility, boolean, String, Charset). 
+o LOG4J2-1738:  Add a Builder to JsonLayout and deprecate 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.JsonLayout.createLayout(Configuration, 
boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean, String, String, Charset, 
boolean). 
+o LOG4J2-1739:  Add Builder to KafkaAppender and deprecate 
KafkaAppender.createAppender(Layout, Filter, String, boolean, String, 
Property[], Configuration). 
+o LOG4J2-1733:  Add SyncSend attribute to KafkaAppender (as in 
KafkaLog4jAppender). Thanks to Vincent Tieleman. 
 
 Fixed Bugs:
-o LOG4J2-1618:  Fixed ClassCastException when using JUL logging during 
shutdown. Thanks to Raman Gupta. 
-o LOG4J2-1620:  2.7-rc1: RollingFileAppender immediateFlush default value 
should be true, not false. Thanks to Sascha Scholz. 
-o LOG4J2-1611:  Improved performance of context data injector for web 
applications to be on par with standalone applications. 
-o LOG4J2-1591:  Introduced new interface LifeCycle2 with stop(long,TimeUnit) 
method to avoid breaking backwards compatibility with new 
Configurator.shutdown(LoggerContext, long, TimeUnit) API. 
-o LOG4J2-1590:  Fixed issue with filters extending AbstractFilter that did not 
override methods with unrolled varargs. 
-o LOG4J2-1583:  Fixed scrambled log messages triggered by nested logging from 
toString() method of a logging parameter object. Thanks to Larry West. 
-o LOG4J2-1259:  Log4j threads are no longer leaking on Tomcat shutdown. Thanks 
to Misagh Moayyed, Steffen Offermann. 
-o LOG4J2-1051:  When starting on Google App Engine, Interpolator now 
suppresses the NoClassDefFoundError stack trace  for the jvmrunargs lookup. 
Thanks to Lukasz Lenart. 
-o LOG4J2-1582:  When initializing on platforms where JMX is not available, 
Interpolator component no longer prints stack trace for warning messages. 
-o LOG4J2-1581:  Unregistering JMX components no longer prints a stack trace 
when the MBean has already been unregistered. 
-o LOG4J2-1313:  Support Property values to be specified in configuration as a 
value attribute as well as an element. Thanks to Philipp Knobel, Leon Finker. 
-o LOG4J2-1575:  (GC) LoggerConfig now stores configuration properties in a 
List, not a Map to prevent creating temporary Iterator objects. Added method 
LoggerConfig#getPropertyList(), deprecated method #getProperties(). 
-o LOG4J2-1457:  Fixed class loader deadlock when using async logging and 
extended stack trace pattern. Thanks to Leon Finker. 
-o LOG4J2-1563:  Fix to prevent Log4j 2.6.2 and higher from losing exceptions 
when a security manager is present. Thanks to Jason Tedor. 
-o LOG4J2-1530:  Fixed issue where LogEvent.getContextStack() returned null. 
-o LOG4J2-1518:  Prevent deadlock in Async Loggers when queue is full and 
logged Object's toString() logs another message. Thanks to Leon Finker. 
-o LOG4J2-1542:  Prevent ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in 
ParameterizedMessage.formatTo for single-char or empty messages. Thanks to 
Rogério Lecarião Leite. 
-o LOG4J2-1549:  Fixed issue where 
AsyncLoggerContextSelector+PropertiesConfigurationBuilder defaulted to 
includeLocation=true. Thanks to Jason Bedard. 
-o LOG4J2-1562:  Prevent SocketAppender memory usage from growing unbounded if 
it cannot connect to a server. 
-o LOG4J2-1559:  Prevent NPE in Level.isInRange. Thanks to Andrey Plotkin. 
-o LOG4J2-1511:  DynamicThresholdFilter filtered incorrectly when params were 
passed as individual arguments instead of varargs. Thanks to Srikanth 
Surukuntu. 
-o LOG4J2-1548:  [CronTriggeringPolicy] ConfigurationScheduler scheduled the 
task infinitely after first fire. 
-o LOG4J2-1506:  Log4j should not unregister JMX MBeans when log4j2.disable.jmx 
property is true. Thanks to Johannes Schleger. 
-o LOG4J2-1490:  Log4j2 should postpone creating log file until the appender 
actually receives an event. Thanks to Krzysztof Taborski. 
-o LOG4J2-1320:  Support loading custom plugins from jar files and directories 
whose classpath entries use the "vfs" URL protocol. Thanks to Paresh Varke, 
Pierrick Hymbert. 
-o LOG4J2-1541:  Fix file handle resource leak in 
XmlConfiguration.XmlConfiguration(ConfigurationSource). 
-o LOG4J2-1538:  Prevent NPE when dynamically removing filters. Thanks to Igor 
Karpov. 
-o LOG4J2-1532:  Attributes were not merged properly in composite 
configurations. 
-o LOG4J2-1529:  Attributes were not merged properly in composite 
configurations. Thanks to Sridevi Narra. 
-o LOG4J2-1527:  Prevent NPE in RingBufferLogEvent.getFormattedMessage() when 
used in web applications. Thanks to Jose Leon. 
-o LOG4J2-905:  Added ability to disable (date) lookup completely for 
compatibility with other libraries like Camel. Thanks to Moritz Löser. 
-o LOG4J2-1526:  Added support for setting StatusLogger destination in 
ConfigurationBuilder. 
-o LOG4J2-1448:  Allow comma separated agents, host list to be passed to 
FlumeAppender. Thanks to Keith Laban. 
-o LOG4J2-1500:  Merging configurations failed with an NPE when comparing Nodes 
with different attributes. Thanks to Jose Leon. 
-o LOG4J2-1482:  Fixed improper header in CsvParameterLayout. Thanks to Sumit 
Singhal. 
-o LOG4J2-1199:  Documented that JVM Input Arguments Lookup (JMX) is not 
available on Google App Engine. 
-o LOG4J2-1438:  (GC) Added method getParameter() to ObjectMessage (and 
ReusableObjectMessage). 
-o LOG4J2-1488:  (GC) Fixed ISO8601 %date conversion pattern with a period '.' 
separator for milliseconds is now garbage free. Thanks to Richard Zschech. 
-o LOG4J2-1489:  (GC) Fixed %date conversion patterns with a timezone parameter 
are now garbage free. Thanks to Richard Zschech. 
-o LOG4J2-1279:  Prevent NullPointerException in 
FastDateParser$TimeZoneStrategy. Thanks to Tony Baines. 
-o LOG4J2-1341:  (GC) HighlightConverter and StyleConverter are now GC-free. 
Thanks to Richard Zschech. 
-o LOG4J2-1467:  [OSGi] Fixed missing import package. Thanks to Ralf, Gary 
Gregory. 
-o LOG4J2-351:  [OSGi] Fixed wrong Fragment-Host in manifest files. Thanks to 
Roland Weiglhofer. 
-o LOG4J2-1313:  Properties declared in configuration can now have their value 
either in the element body or in an attribute named "value". Thanks to Philipp 
Knobel. 
-o LOG4J2-1235:  org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.routing.IdlePurgePolicy 
was not working correctly. Thanks to Niranjan Rao, Sascha Scholz, Aleksey 
Zvolinsky. 
-o LOG4J2-1502:  Fixed issue where CsvParameterLayout and CsvLogEventLayout 
inserted NUL characters if data starts with {, (, [ or " Thanks to Sumit 
Singhal. 
-o LOG4J2-1573:  Layout is no longer optional. Thanks to Steffen Offermann. 
-o LOG4J2-1608:  ServletAppender does not provide throwable object to 
ServletContext. 
-o LOG4J2-1599:  Prevent potential NPE in 
org.apache.logging.log4j.message.ParameterFormatter.formatMessage3(StringBuilder,
 char[], int, Object[], int, int[]). 
-o LOG4J2-1600:  Prevent potential NPE due to 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.MarkerPatternSelector.createSelector(PatternMatch[],
 String, boolean, boolean, Configuration). 
-o LOG4J2-1601:  Prevent potential NPE due to 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.ScriptPatternSelector.createSelector(AbstractScript,
 PatternMatch[], String, boolean, boolean, Configuration). 
-o LOG4J2-1602:  Prevent potential NPE in 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.datetime.FormatCache.MultipartKey.equals(Object)
 when object is null. 
-o LOG4J2-1603:  Redo hashCode() and equals() methods in 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.ssl classes. 
-o LOG4J2-1610:  Add targetNamespace to log4j-config.xsd. GitHub #43. Thanks to 
Shubhankar. 
-o LOG4J2-1619:  new Log4jLogEvent().toString() throws an NPE. 
+o LOG4J2-1780:  Eliminate the use of the ExecutorServices in the 
LoggerContext. 
+o LOG4J2-1786:  ConfigurationScheduler now preserves interrupt flag during 
stop. 
+o LOG4J2-1779:  Fixed bug where AsyncLogger did not resolve configuration 
properties. 
+o LOG4J2-1769:  Fixed concurrency issue affecting all layouts except 
PatternLayout and GelfLayout, which caused scrambled output and exceptions when 
logging synchronously from multiple threads. Thanks to Brandon Goodin. 
+o LOG4J2-1724:  Using variables in GelfLayout's additional fields at runtime. 
Thanks to Alexander Krasnostavsky. 
+o LOG4J2-1762:  Add Builder to GelfLayout. 
+o LOG4J2-1649:  Insure the ConfigurationScheduler shuts down without blocking. 
Thanks to Georg Friedrich. 
+o LOG4J2-1653:  CronTriggeringPolicy would use the wrong date/time when 
rolling over and create multiple triggering policies on reconfiguration. Thanks 
to Georg Friedrich. 
+o LOG4J2-1748:  Do not use non-daemon thread pool for rollover tasks. 
+o LOG4J2-1628:  Fixed file locking regression in FileAppender introduced in 
2.6. 
+o LOG4J2-1744:  The custom logger Generate tool no longer requires the 
log4j-api module on the classpath. 
+o LOG4J2-1731:  SslSocketManager now respects connectTimeoutMillis. Thanks to 
Chris Ribble. 
+o LOG4J2-1682:  Logger using LocalizedMessageFactory prints key instead of 
message. Thanks to Markus Waidhofer. 
+o LOG4J2-1720:  Make GelfLayout independent of Jackson. 
+o LOG4J2-1719:  Fixed race condition in ObjectMessage and SimpleMessage, 
ensuring that the log message contains the value the object has during the 
logging call. 
+o LOG4J2-1688:  Fixed bug where elements of a log message parameter array were 
nulled out in garbage-free mode. 
+o LOG4J2-1692:  Add putAll() method to CloseableThreadContext. Thanks to Greg 
Thomas. 
+o LOG4J2-1689:  Add CleanableThreadContextMap interface supporting method 
removeAll(Iterable<String>). 
+o LOG4J2-1685:  Option 'disableAnsi' in PatternLayout to unconditionally 
disable ANSI escape codes. Thanks to Raman Gupta. 
+o LOG4J2-1706:  Make TimeFilter usable as global filter and as logger filter. 
+o LOG4J2-1722:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
VariablesNotEmptyReplacementConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1717:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
EncodingPatternConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1716:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
MapPatternConverter. (Note that constructing a MapMessage is not garbage-free.) 
+o LOG4J2-1683:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in MapMessage. 
+o LOG4J2-1715:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
NdcPatternConverter. (Note that use of the ThreadContext stack is not 
garbage-free.) 
+o LOG4J2-1714:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
AbstractStyleNameConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1680:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in TimeFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1679:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
StructuredDataFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1678:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
ThreadContextMapFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1677:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in MapFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1674:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in ThresholdFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1673:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in MarkerFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1672:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in LevelRangeFilter. 
+o LOG4J2-1671:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
EqualsIgnoreCaseReplacementConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1670:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
EqualsReplacementConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1669:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in MaxLengthConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1668:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
MarkerPatternConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1667:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
SequenceNumberPatternConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1666:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
RelativeTimePatternConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1665:  (GC) Avoid allocating temporary objects in 
IntegerPatternConverter. 
+o LOG4J2-1637:  Fixed problems when used in OSGi containers 
(IllegalAccessError, NoClassDefFoundError). 
+o LOG4J2-1226:  Improve LogEvent serialization to handle non-serializable 
Messages and deserializing when required classes are missing. 
+o LOG4J2-1663:  Ensure SortedArrayStringMap can be serialized and deserialized 
without errors regardless of content. 
+o LOG4J2-1658:  Prevent NPE in ThreadContextMapFactory::createThreadContextMap 
when initializing Log4j with Configurator::initialize and the 
BasicContextSelector is used. 
+o LOG4J2-1645:  Immutable empty StringMap. 
+o LOG4J2-1623:  Configurable JVM shutdown hook timeout. 
+o LOG4J2-1712:  Pick up bug fixes from Apache Commons Lang's 
org.apache.commons.lang3.time package. 
+o LOG4J2-1636:  Console Appender does not pick up Oracle Java 8's 
sun.stdout.encoding and sun.stderr.encoding. Thanks to Eldar Gabdullin. 
+o LOG4J2-1639:  Fix MemoryMappedFileAppender.createAppender() Javadoc for 
immediateFlush. Thanks to Sridhar Gopinath. 
+o LOG4J2-1676:  Some LogEvents may not carry a Throwable (Use 
Message.getThrowable() in log(Message) methods.) Thanks to Joern Huxhorn. 
+o LOG4J2-1723:  Unwanted transitive dependency on geronimo-jms_1.1_spec causes 
OSGi tests to fail. Thanks to Ludovic HOCHET. 
+o LOG4J2-1664:  Improve OSGi unit tests. Thanks to Ludovic HOCHET. 
+o LOG4J2-1687:  NPE in ThrowableProxy when resolving stack in Java EE/OSGi 
environment. Thanks to Robert Christiansen. 
+o LOG4J2-1642:  DefaultShutdownCallbackRegistry can throw a 
NoClassDefFoundError. Thanks to Johno Crawford. 
+o LOG4J2-1474:  CronTriggeringPolicy raise exception and fail to rollover log 
file when evaluateOnStartup is true. Thanks to yin mingjun, Neon. 
+o LOG4J2-1734:  SslSocketManagerFactory might leak Sockets when certain 
startup errors occur. 
+o LOG4J2-1736:  TcpSocketManagerFactory might leak Sockets when certain 
startup errors occur. 
+o LOG4J2-1740:  Add CronTriggeringPolicy programmatically leads to NPE. 
+o LOG4J2-1743:  CompositeConfiguration does not add filters to appenderRefs. 
Thanks to Toby Shepheard. 
+o LOG4J2-1756:  Adds xmlns in schema and some other tags. Thanks to 
shubhankar1100. 
 
 Changes:
-o LOG4J2-1604:  Log4j2 TcpSocketServer in background. Thanks to Colin Hillman. 
-o LOG4J2-1574:  Allow the RollingFileAppender to use default pattern layout. 
-o LOG4J2-1556:  Custom Log4j threads now extend Log4jThread. 
-o LOG4J2-1605:  Improve error messages for TcpSocketServer and 
UdpSocketServer. 
-o LOG4J2-1458:  Updated Jackson from 2.7.5 to 2.8.0. 
-o LOG4J2-1494:  Updated Jackson from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1. 
-o LOG4J2-1569:  Updated Jackson from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2. 
-o LOG4J2-1598:  Updated Jackson from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3. 
-o LOG4J2-1495:  Updated LMAX Disruptor from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5. 
-o LOG4J2-1496:  Updated Kafka client from 0.9.1.0 to 0.10.0.0. 
-o LOG4J2-1533:  Updated Kafka client from 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.0.1. 
-o LOG4J2-1487:  Updated JMS test from ActiveMQ 5.13.3 to 5.13.4. 
-o LOG4J2-1551:  Updated JMS test from ActiveMQ 5.13.4 to 5.14.0. 
-o LOG4J2-1543:  Removed deprecated Core API 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Constants.UTF_8. 
-o LOG4J2-1544:  Removed deprecated Core API 
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Assert.requireNonNull(T, String). 
-o LOG4J2-1545:  Removed deprecated Web API 
org.apache.logging.log4j.web.WebLookup.getServletContext(). 
-
-
-Apache Log4j 2.7 requires a minimum of Java 7 to build and run. Log4j 2.3 was 
the
+o LOG4J2-1781:  Update Conversant Disruptor from 1.2.7 to 1.2.10 
+o LOG4J2-1774:  Replace MockEJB dependency in unit tests with Spring Test and 
Mockito. 
+o LOG4J2-1644:  Inefficient locking in AbstractLoggerAdapter. Thanks to Tim 
Gokcen, Pavel Sivolobtchik. 
+o LOG4J2-1641:  Update JeroMQ from 0.3.5 to 0.3.6. 
+o LOG4J2-1647:  Update Commons Lang from 3.4 to 3.5. 
+o LOG4J2-1646:  Migrate to Mockito 2.x in unit tests. 
+o LOG4J2-1655:  Update Jackson from 2.8.3 to 2.8.4. 
+o LOG4J2-1735:  Update Jackson from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5. 
+o LOG4J2-1656:  Update Apache Flume from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0. 
+o LOG4J2-1698:  Update LMAX Disruptor from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6. 
+o LOG4J2-1700:  Update Jansi from 1.13 to 1.14. 
+o LOG4J2-1750:  Update Kafka from 0.10.0.1 to 0.10.1.1. 
+o LOG4J2-1751:  Update liquibase-core from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3. 
+o LOG4J2-1302:  The log4j-slf4j-impl module now declares a runtime dependency 
on log4j-core. While not technically required, this makes the log4j-slf4j-impl 
module behave similarly to slf4j-log4j12, and facilitates migration to Log4j 2. 
+
+
+Apache Log4j 2.8 requires a minimum of Java 7 to build and run. Log4j 2.3 was 
the
 last release that supported Java 6.
 
 Basic compatibility with Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j-1.2-api 
component, however it
@@ -155,4 +157,4 @@ 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:
 
-http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
\ No newline at end of file
+https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
\ No newline at end of file

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/b19861cb/pom.xml
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0f9b6c6..fbcf3cb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
   <properties>
     <!-- make sure to update these for each release! -->
     <log4jParentDir>${basedir}</log4jParentDir>
-    <Log4jReleaseVersion>2.7</Log4jReleaseVersion>
+    <Log4jReleaseVersion>2.8</Log4jReleaseVersion>
     <Log4jReleaseManager>Ralph Goers</Log4jReleaseManager>
     <Log4jReleaseKey>B3D8E1BA</Log4jReleaseKey>
     <!-- <Log4jReleaseManager>Matt Sicker</Log4jReleaseManager>

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/b19861cb/src/changes/announcement.vm
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diff --git a/src/changes/announcement.vm b/src/changes/announcement.vm
index f7de210..16360d4 100644
--- a/src/changes/announcement.vm
+++ b/src/changes/announcement.vm
@@ -28,11 +28,9 @@ property substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on a 
PatternLayout and as
 Loggers. Another notable Log4j 2 feature is the ability to be "garbage-free" 
(avoid allocating
 temporary objects) while logging. In addition, Log4j 2 will not lose events 
while reconfiguring.
 
-This release contains several bugfixes and new features. The new features 
include new logging API
-modules for Scala 2.10 and 2.11, and support for various non-blocking queue 
implementations in
-AsyncAppender. Furthermore the ThreadContext map can now be configured to be 
garbage-free, and
-users can now inject context data from other sources than ThreadContext. 
Context data values can
-be any Object, not just Strings. More details on the fixes are itemized below.
+This release contains several bugfixes and new features. The new features 
include the ability
+to have the RollingFileAppender log directly to the archive files. More 
details on the new features and
+fixes are itemized below.
 
 Note that subsequent to the 2.6 release a minor source incompatibility was 
found due to the
 addition of new methods to the Logger interface. If you have code that does:

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2/blob/b19861cb/src/changes/changes.xml
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diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index fe22595..1259160 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <title>Changes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="2.8" date="2017-MM-DD" description="GA Release 2.8">
+    <release version="2.8" date="2017-01-21" description="GA Release 2.8">
       <action issue="LOG4J2-1780" dev="mikes" type="fix">
         Eliminate the use of the ExecutorServices in the LoggerContext.
       </action>

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