This is a vote to release Log4j 2.13.0, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list.
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Changes in this release include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-2732: Add ThreadContext.putIfNotNull method. Thanks to Matt
Pavlovich.
• LOG4J2-2731: Add a Level Patttern Selector.
• LOG4J2-63: Add experimental support for Log4j 1 configuration files.
• LOG4J2-2716: Add the ability to lookup Kubernetes attributes in the
Log4j configuration. Allow Log4j properties to be retrieved from the Spring
environment if it is available.
• LOG4J2-2710: Allow Spring Boot application properties to be accessed
in the Log4j 2 configuration. Add lower and upper case Lookups.
• LOG4J2-2639: Add builder pattern to Logger interface.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-2058: Prevent recursive calls to
java.util.LogManager.getLogger().
• LOG4J2-2725: LOG4J2-2725 - Added try/finally around event.execute()
for RingBufferLogEventHandler to clear memory correctly in case of
exception/error Thanks to Dzmitry Anikechanka.
• LOG4J2-2635: Wrong java version check in ThreadNameCachingStrategy.
Thanks to Filipp Gunbin.
• LOG4J2-2674: Use a less confusing name for the CompositeConfiguration
source. Thanks to Anton Korenkov.
• LOG4J2-2727: Add setKey method to Kafka Appender Builder. Thanks to
Clément Mathieu.
• LOG4J2-2707: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException could occur with MAC
address longer than 6 bytes. Thanks to Christian Frank.
• LOG4J2-2712: The rolling file appenders would fail to compress the
file after rollover if the file name matched the file pattern.
• LOG4J2-2693: @PluginValue does not support attribute names besides
"value".
• LOG4J2-2647: Validation blocks definition of script in properties
configuration.
• LOG4J2-2680: Set result of rename action to true if file was copied.
Thanks to Guillermo Xavier Hurtado Garcia.
• LOG4J-2672: Add automatic module names where missing. Thanks to
Stephen Colebourne.
• LOG4J2-2673: OutputStreamAppender.Builder ignores setFilter(). Thanks
to Yuichi Sugimura.
• LOG4J2-2725: Prevent a memory leak when async loggers throw errors.
Thanks to Dzmitry Anikechanka.
Changes
• LOG4J2-2701: Update Jackson to 2.9.10.
• LOG4J2-2709: Allow message portion of GELF layout to be formatted
using a PatternLayout. Allow ThreadContext attributes to be explicitly included
or excluded in the GelfLayout.
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.13.0-rc2”
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.13.0-rc2”
Web Site: http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html.
Maven Artifacts:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1050
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-1050/org/apache/logging/log4j/
Ralph
