This is a vote to release Log4j 2.14.0, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
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Changes in this release include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-2957: Add JsonTemplateLayout.
• LOG4J2-2848: Create module log4j-mongodb4 to use new major version 4
MongoDB driver.
• LOG4J2-2858: More flexible configuration of the Disruptor
WaitStrategy. Thanks to Stepan Gorban.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-2925: Fix broken link in FAQ.
• LOG4J2-2911: Log4j2EventListener in spring.cloud.config.client
listens for wrong event.
• LOG4J2-2919: Call ReliabilityStrategy's beforeStopAppenders() method
before stopping AsyncAppender. Thanks to Geng Yuanzhe.
• LOG4J2-2906: Fix UnsupportedOperationException when initializing the
Log4j2CloudConfigLoggingSystem. Thanks to Stephen Joyner.
• LOG4J2-2908: Move Spring Lookup and Spring PropertySource to its own
module.
• LOG4J2-2910: Log4j-web should now stores the servlet context as a map
entry instead of in the single external context field.
• LOG4J2-2822: Javadoc link in ThreadContext description was incorrect.
• LOG4J2-2894: Fix spelling error in log message.
• LOG4J2-2901: Missing configuration files should be ignored when
creating a composite configuration.
• LOG4J2-2883: When using DirectFileRolloverStrategy the file pattern
was not being recalculated on size based rollover after a time based rollover
had occurred.
• LOG4J2-2875: Rollover was failing to create directories when using a
DirectFileeRolloverStrategy.
• LOG4J2-2859: Fixed typos where mergeFactory should be mergeStrategy.
Thanks to Yanming Zhou.
• LOG4J2-2832: Correct class name printed in error message in
RollingFileAppender. Thanks to Benjamin Asbach.
• LOG4J2-2882: Support java.util.logging filters when using that API.
Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.
• LOG4J2-2880: Create StackWalker benchmark. Revert back to
StackWalker.walk based on benchmark results.
• LOG4J2-2867: Obtain ContextDataProviders asynchronously.
• LOG4J2-2877: Determine the container id to obtain container and image
information.
• LOG4J2-2844: Null pointer exception when no network interfaces are
available.
• LOG4J2-2895: Fix potential deadlock in asynchronous logging by
avoiding blocking for queue space on Log4jThreads
• LOG4J2-2837: Disruptor and JUL no longer recursively start the
AsyncLoggerDisruptor resulting in an extra disruptor background thread
constantly waiting.
• LOG4J2-2867: RingBufferLogEventTranslator uses a static
ContextDataInjector instead of initializing a new object on each thread.
• LOG4J2-2898: Avoid initializing volatile fields with default values.
Thanks to Turbanov Andrey.
• LOG4J2-2899: Fix log4j-1.2-api LogEventWrapper threadId and priority
accessors when called multiple times.
• LOG4J2-2939: Fix NPE in MDCContextMap on 'contains' and 'isEmpty'
invocations. Thanks to Constantin Hirsch.
• LOG4J2-2954: Prevent premature garbage collection of shutdown hooks
in DefaultShutdownCallbackRegistry. Thanks to Henry Tung.
Changes
• LOG4J2-2889: Add date pattern support for HTML layout. Thanks to Geng
Yuanzhe.
• LOG4J2-2892: Allow GelfLayout to produce newline delimited events.
Thanks to Jakub Lukes.
• : Update MongoDB tests to require Java 8 unconditionally now that
Log4j requires Java 8.
• : Update mongodb3.version from 3.12.1 to 3.12.6.
• : Update com.fasterxml.jackson.* 2.10.2 -> 2.11.0.
• : Update org.apache.activemq:activemq-broker 5.15.11 -> 5.16.0.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-compress 1.19 -> 1.20.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-csv 1.7 -> 1.8.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.9 -> 3.10.
• : Update org.codehaus.groovy:* 2.5.6 -> 3.0.5.
• : Update tests junit:junit 4.12 -> 4.13.
• : Update tests commons-io:commons-io 2.6 -> 2.7.
• : Update jackson 2.11.0 -> 2.11.2.
• : Update tests hsqldb 2.5.0 -> 2.5.1.
Removed
• LOG4J2-2851: Drop log4j-mongodb2 module.
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.14.0-rc1” or just "git clone -b
log4j-2.14.0-rc1 https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.14.0-rc1”
Web Site: https://logging.staged.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html.
Maven Artifacts:
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Distribution archives: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/logging/log4j/
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Ralph
