Carter, If you are going to fix LOG4J2-2725 you need to do it quickly. I have been applying patches this evening and will probably do some more tomorrow but may start the release process tomorrow night or Sunday morning.
Ralph > On Dec 2, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you like it you should really thank Mikael. His initial work on this gave > me the idea how to do it. I wish he was able to contribute more these days. > > Ralph > >> On Dec 2, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Carter Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Ralph, >> >> Your work on log4j1 configuration compatibility looks fantastic! >> I'd like to make sure the fix for LOG4J2-2725 goes into this release, if the >> PR author doesn't reply in the next day or so I'll take care of it. There >> are a couple related places I'd like to test for similar types of leaks when >> the asynchronous queue is full. >> >> Best, >> -ck >> >> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019, at 11:32, Ralph Goers wrote: >>> I have finished all the work on new features I wanted to add for the next >>> release. The latest feature I added is Log4j 2 will now support Log4j 1 xml >>> and properties file configurations. I have flagged it as experimental - it >>> either requires a system property to explicitly enable auto detecting log4j >>> 1 config files or it requires the log4j.configuration system property to >>> point to a log4j 1 configuration. Not all appenders are supported. For >>> example, the Log4j 1 socket appender serialized the log event using Java >>> serialization. We know that is a security risk and don’t recommend it. The >>> JDBCAppender is Log4j 1 can’t be mapped to Log4j 2’s JdbcAppender and I >>> didn’t want to bring in the actual appender code. But I think the support >>> should be good enough for a lot of use cases. >>> >>> I will be going through PRs and Jira issues over the next couple of days to >>> see what low hanging fruit there is. I need to do a release sometime this >>> week though as I am planning to use some of these features at work. >>> >>> Ralph >>> >> > > >
