I should also note that since today is a semi-holiday in the US please do not 
commit anything with regards to this until this is cleared up as I may or may 
not be able to respond immediately. 

Ralph

> On Nov 23, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not understand this at all. Log4j 2 provides runtime compatibility with 
> Log4j 1. What is the problem that requires a revert? 
> 
> I have been running Flume with Log4j 2 since 1.6 so I don’t understand what 
> the problem could possibly be.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>> On Nov 23, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Ferenc Szabo <szabofe...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone
>> 
>> I am about to branch the 1.9 release from trunk.
>> 
>> On the 1.9 branch we will revert the following breaking changes:
>> - FLUME-2957. Remove Guava from our public API:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/flume/commit/7f85df9e473ee675d461d5b76650694c5a6c0088
>> - part of FLUME-2050. Upgrade to Log4j 2.10.0:
>> as the new release should work with the previous configurations we have
>> to release it with log4j 1.x
>> For the log4j2 upgrade, we will provide a guide, how to replace the jars
>> if users would like to start using it in the 1.9 release on the wiki page.
>> 
>> Because of these changes the first release candidate might be postponed to
>> Monday.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ferenc Szabo
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:04 PM ema...@cloudera.com <ema...@cloudera.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ferenc,
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> I am working on FLUME-3281 Update to Kafka 2.0 client, should be able to
>>> finish it
>>> till the suggested deadline.
>>> I am also happy to do some reviews.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Endre
>>> 
>>> On 2018/11/06 21:23:17, Ferenc Szabo <szabofe...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> Hello Flume Community,
>>>> 
>>>> 1.8 was released about a year ago and since that quite a few bug fixes,
>>>> improvements, features and documentation were introduced.
>>>> I would like to propose to publish the next minor release of Flume
>>>> to make these changes available to the users.
>>>> 
>>>> I would be more than happy to be the Release Manager with the help of
>>>> Denes Arvay for anything that requires PMC access - if both the community
>>>> and he are
>>>> OK with it.
>>>> 
>>>> Among others the following changes will be included in the next release:
>>>> 
>>>> Fixed bugs:
>>>> - FLUME-3117 Application can be dead loop when call System.exit() in
>>>> methodconfigure
>>>> - FLUME-3237 Handling RuntimeExceptions coming from the JMS provider in
>>>> JMSSource
>>>> - FLUME-3201 Fix SyslogUtil to handle RFC3164 format in december
>>> correctly
>>>> - FLUME-3056 TestApplication hangs indefinitely
>>>> - FLUME-2976 Exception when JMS source tries to connect to a Weblogic
>>>> server without authentication
>>>> - FLUME-3270 Close JMS resources in JMSMessageConsumer constructor in
>>> case
>>>> of failure
>>>> - FLUME-3222 java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException thrown when files are
>>> being
>>>> deleted from the TAILDIR source
>>>> - FLUME-2894 Flume components should stop in the correct order (graceful
>>>> shutdown)
>>>> - FLUME-2973 Deadlock in hdfs sink
>>>> - FLUME-3278 Handling -D keystore parameters in Kafka components
>>>> - FLUME-3265 Cannot set batch-size for LoadBalancingRpcClient
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Improvements:
>>>> - FLUME-3186 Make asyncHbaseClient configuration parameters available
>>> from
>>>> flume config
>>>> - FLUME-3239 Do not rename files in SpoolDirectorySource
>>>> - FLUME-3227 Add Rate Limiter to StressSource
>>>> - FLUME-2050 Upgrade to log4j2 (when GA)
>>>> - FLUME-3246 Validate flume configuration to prevent larger source batch
>>>> size than the channel transaction capacity
>>>> - FLUME-3050 add counters for error conditions and expose to monitor URL
>>>> - FLUME-3269 Support JSSE keystore/trustore -D system properties
>>>> - FLUME-3223 Flume HDFS Sink should retry close prior to performing a
>>>> recoverLease
>>>> - FLUME-3276 Components supporting SSL/TLS should be able to specify
>>> cipher
>>>> suite list
>>>> - FLUME-3275 Components supporting SSL/TLS should be able to specify
>>>> protocol list
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> New Features:
>>>> - FLUME-3142 Adding HBase2 sink
>>>> - FLUME-2442 Need an alternative to providing clear text passwords in
>>> flume
>>>> config
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> There are 26 open tickets targeted for 1.9 in patch available state:
>>>> https://s.apache.org/flume-1.9-target-tickets
>>>> 
>>>> We also have a number of open pull requests on Github:
>>>> https://github.com/apache/flume/pulls
>>>> 
>>>> There are a few tickets in progress that would be good to include in the
>>>> release so
>>>> I would say that we focus on reviewing and testing them in the next 2
>>>> weeks.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to propose to target the 23rd of November for the first
>>>> release candidate.
>>>> That would mean that the branch date would be a few days before that.
>>>> Any significant code change should get in by that date.
>>>> 
>>>> If nobody has any concerns then I am going to create an umbrella ticket
>>> to
>>>> track the release process.
>>>> 
>>>> Some movement can be expected in the related JIRA tickets.
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Ferenc
>>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
> 


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