This is a vote to release Log4j 2.12.1, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list.
[] +1, release the artifacts
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welcome and we encourage everyone to test the release, but only Logging PMC
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positive than negative votes are required.
Changes in this release include:
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-1946: Allow file renames to work when files are missing from
the sequence. Thanks to Igor Perelyotov.
• LOG4J2-2650: Support emulating a MAC address when using ipv6. Thanks
to Mattia Bertorello.
• LOG4J2-2366: Remove references to LoggerContext when it is shutdown.
• LOG4J2-2644: Improve the performance of capturing location
information.
• LOG4J2-2658: AbstractAction.reportException records a warning to the
status logger, providing more information when file based appenders fail to
compress rolled data asynchronously.
• LOG4J2-2659: AbstractAction handles and records unchecked
RuntimeException and Error in addition to IOException.
• LOG4J2-2667: Values not bound to statement" when using JDBC appender,
appender does not respect bufferSize=“0”. Thanks to Edith Chui.
Changes
• LOG4J2-2556: Make Log4j Core optional for Log4j 1.2 API.
• LOG4J2-2646: Update MongoDB 3 driver from 3.10.1 to 3.10.2.
• LOG4J2-2657: Improve exception messages in the JDBC appender.
• LOG4J2-2660: Retry when JDBC throws a
java.sql.SQLTransactionRollbackException in commitAndClose().
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.12.1-rc1”
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.12.1-rc1”
Web Site: http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html.
Maven Artifacts:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1048
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-1048/org/apache/logging/log4j/
Ralph
