+1 I have validated the artifacts on several products I maintain, including running specialized benchmarks without discovering regressions.
Thanks Ralph. On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, at 21:43, Ralph Goers wrote: > This is a vote to release Log4j 2.12.0, the next version of the Log4j 2 > project. > > Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list. > [] +1, release the artifacts > [] -1, don't release because... > > The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or more if required). All votes are > welcome and we encourage everyone to test the release, but only Logging PMC > votes are “officially” counted. As always, at least 3 +1 votes and more > positive than negative votes are required. > > Changes in this release include: > > New Features > > • LOG4J2-2403: Allow zero padding the counter of a RollingFileAppender. > Thanks to hupfdule. > • LOG4J2-2427: Add filter that will match events when no marker is present. > Thanks to Rimaljit Kaur. > • LOG4J2-2406: Add reconfiguration methods to Configurator. > • LOG4J2-913: Add support for reconfiguration via HTTP(S), Docker, and Spring > Cloud Configuration. > • LOG4J2-2586: TCP Appender should support a host name resolving to multiple > IP addresses. > • LOG4J2-2337: Allow custom end-of-line with JsonLayout. Thanks to Arvind > Sahare, Patrice Ferrot. > • LOG4J2-2598: GZIP compression on rollover supports configurable compression > levels. Thanks to Carter Kozak. > • LOG4J2-2611: AsyncQueueFullPolicy configuration short values "Default" and > "Discard" are case insensitive to avoid confusion. > • LOG4J2-2634: Add and use method > org.apache.logging.log4j.message.MapMessage.toKey(String) for simpler > subclasses. > Fixed Bugs > > • LOG4J2-2547: RollingRandomAccessFileAppender error message referenced > incorrect class name. > • LOG4J2-2616: Restore constructor to ThrowablePatternConverter that was > removed in 2.8.2. > • LOG4J2-2622: StructuredDataId was ignoring maxLength atribute. > • LOG4J2-2636: RFC5424Layout was not properly setting default Structured > Element id for the MDC > • LOG4J2-1143: Lookups were not found if the plugin key was not lowercase. > Thanks to Pascal Heinrich. > • LOG4J2-1852: Locate plugins within a Jar using a URL Connection. Thanks to > Tanner Altares. > • LOG4J2-2610: Explicitly set file creation time. > • LOG4J2-2561: JEP223 version detection fix for JDK 9 and up. Thanks to > Ulrich Enslin. > • LOG4J2-1103: FailoverAppender was failing with ERROR appender Failover has > no parameter that matches element Failovers. Thanks to Seán Dunne. > • LOG4J2-2602: Update file time when size based triggering policy is used > without a time-based triggering policy. > • LOG4J2-2597: Throw better exception message when both log4j-slf4j-impl and > log4j-to-slf4j are present. > • LOG4J2-2559: NullPointerException in JdbcAppender.createAppender(). Thanks > to Li Lei, Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2592: StackOverflowException when server not reachable with > SocketAppender. Thanks to Dávid Kaya, Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2598: java.lang.StackOverflowError at > org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.AbstractExternalFileCleaner.println(AbstractExternalFileCleaner.java:169). > Thanks to Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2564: MapPatternConverter is properly created from the '%K', '%map', > and '%MAP' patterns. PatternConverter instanceOf methods with unknown > parameter types no longer elide those with known parameters. > • LOG4J2-2612: NullPointerException at > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.jdbc.JdbcDatabaseManager.writeInternal(JdbcDatabaseManager.java:803). > • LOG4J2-2618: Possible ClassCastException in > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.script.ScriptManager.ScriptManager(Configuration, > WatchManager) > • LOG4J2-2631: RoutingAppender PurgePolicy implementations no longer stop > appenders referenced from the logger configuration, only those that have been > created by the RoutingAppender. Note that RoutingAppender.getAppenders no > longer includes entries for referenced appenders, only those which it has > created. > • LOG4J2-2629: Fix a race allowing events not to be recorded when a > RoutingAppender purge policy attempts to delete an idle appender at exactly > the same time as a new event is recorded. > • LOG4J2-2606: Asynchronous logging when the queue is full no longer results > in heavy CPU utilization and low throughput. > Changes > > • : Update tests from H2 1.4.197 to 1.4.199. Thanks to Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2570: Update Jackson from 2.9.7 to 2.9.8. Thanks to Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2574: Update MongoDB 3 module driver from 3.9.0 to 3.10.1. Thanks to > Gary Gregory. > • LOG4J2-2619: Update Jackson from 2.9.8 to 2.9.9. > • LOG4J2-2634: Refactor several AsyncLogger methods below the 35 byte > threshold for inlining. > > Tag: > a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git"; > and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.12.0-rc1” > b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout > tags/log4j-2.12.0-rc1” > > Web Site: http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html. > > Maven Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1046 > > Distribution archives: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/logging/log4j/ > > You may download all the Maven artifacts by executing: > wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1046/org/apache/logging/log4j/ > > Ralph >
