This is a vote to release Log4j 2.14.1, the next version of the Log4j 2 project.
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Changes in this release include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-2962: Enrich "map" resolver by unifying its backend with "mdc"
resolver.
• LOG4J2-2999: Replace JsonTemplateLayout resolver configurations table
in docs with sections.
• LOG4J2-2993: Support stack trace truncation in JsonTemplateLayout.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-3033: Add log method with no parameters - i.e. it has an empty
message.
• LOG4J2-2947: Document that LogBuilder default methods do nothing.
• LOG4J2-2948: Replace HashSet with IdentityHashMap in
ParameterFormatter to detect cycles.
• LOG4J2-3028: OutputStreamManager.flushBuffer always resets the
buffer, previously the buffer was not reset after an exception. Thanks to Jakub
Kozlowski.
• LOG4J2-2981: OnStartupTriggeringPolicy would fail to cause the file
to roll over with DirectWriteTriggeringPolicy unless minSize was set to 0.
• LOG4J2-2990: Reduce garbage by using putAll when copying the
ThreadContext for SLF4J. Thanks to Diogo Monteiro.
• LOG4J2-3006: Directly create a thread instead of using the common
ForkJoin pool when initializing ThreadContextDataInjector"
• LOG4J2-2624: Allow auto-shutdown of log4j in log4j-web to be turned
off and provide a ServletContextListener
"Log4jShutdownOnContextDestroyedListener" to stop log4j. Register the listener
at the top of web.xml to ensure the shutdown happens last. Thanks to Tim Perry.
• LOG4J2-1606: Allow auto-shutdown of log4j in log4j-web to be turned
off and provide a ServletContextListener
"Log4jShutdownOnContextDestroyedListener" to stop log4j. Register the listener
at the top of web.xml to ensure the shutdown happens last. Thanks to Tim Perry.
• LOG4J2-2998: Fix truncation of excessive strings ending with a high
surrogate in JsonWriter.
• LOG4J2-2973: Rename EventTemplateAdditionalField#type (conflicting
with properties file parser) to "format". Thanks to Fabio Ricchiuti.
• LOG4J2-2972: Refactor AsyncAppender and AppenderControl for handling
of Throwables.
• LOG4J2-2985: Add eventTemplateRootObjectKey parameter to
JsonTemplateLayout.
• LOG4J2-2974: Log4j would fail to initialize in Java 8 with
log4j-spring-boot.
• LOG4J2-2964: Merge packages from several Configurations in Composite
Configuration. Thanks to Valery Yatsynovich.
• LOG4J2-2961: Fix reading of JsonTemplateLayout event additional
fields from config.
• LOG4J2-2916: Avoid redundant Kafka producer instantiation causing
thread leaks. Thanks to wuqian0808.
• LOG4J2-2967: Fix JsonTemplateLayout index based parameter resolution
when messages contain too few parameters.
• LOG4J2-2976: JdbcAppender composes an incorrect INSERT statement
without a ColumnMapping element.
• LOG4J2-3014: Log4j1ConfigurationConverter on Windows produces " " at
end of every line. Thanks to Lee Breisacher, Gary Gregory.
Changes
• LOG4J2-2893: Allow reconfiguration when Log4j 1 configuration files
are updated.
• : Update Spring dependencies to 5.3.2, Spring Boot to 2.3.6, and
Spring Cloud to Hoxton.SR9
• : Update org.fusesource.jansi:jansi 1.17.1 -> 2.0.1.
• : Update commons-codec:commons-codec 1.14 -> 1.15.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.10 -> 3.11.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-pool2 2.8.1 -> 2.9.0.
• : Update org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2 2.4.0 -> 2.8.0.
• : Update commons-io:commons-io 2.7 -> 2.8.0.
• : Update org.codehaus.groovy:* 3.0.5 -> 3.0.6.
• : Update com.fasterxml.jackson.: 2.11.2 - 2.11.3.
• : Update org.springframework:* 5.2.8.RELEASE -> 5.3.1.
• : Update junit:junit 4.13 -> 4.13.1.
• : Update org.xmlunit:* 2.7.0 -> 2.8.0.
• : Update org.assertj:assertj-core 3.14.0 -> 3.18.1.
• : Update org.awaitility:awaitility 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3.
• : Update org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils 3.2.0 -> 3.3.0.
• : Update MongoDB 3 plugin: org.mongodb:mongodb-driver 3.12.6 ->
3.12.7.
• : Update MongoDB 4 plugin: org.mongodb:* 4.1.0 -> 4.1.1.
• : Update org.eclipse.tycho:org.eclipse.osgi 3.12.1.v20170821-1548 ->
3.13.0.v20180226-1711.
• : Update de.flapdoodle.embed:de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo 2.2.0 -> 3.0.0.
• : Update net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit 1.31.1 -> 2.22.0.
• : Update Mockito 3.6.0 -> 3.7.0.
• : Update XML Unit 2.8.0 -> 2.8.2.
• : Update JSON Unit 2.21.0 -> 2.22.0.
• : Update JaCoCo 0.8.3 -> 0.8.6.
• : Update org.apache.activemq:* 5.16.0 -> 5.16.1.
• : Update org.mockito:mockito-* 3.7.0 -> 3.7.7.
• : Update org.springframework:* 5.3.2 -> 5.3.3.
• : Update mongodb4.version 4.1.1 -> 4.2.0.
• : Update org.fusesource.jansi:jansi 1.18 -> 2.2.0.
• : Update org.assertj:assertj-core 3.18.1 -> 3.19.0.
• : Update net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit 2.22.0 -> 2.23.0.
• : Update Woodstox 5.0.3 -> 6.2.3 to match Jackson 2.12.1.
• : Update org.apache.activemq:* 5.16.0 -> 5.16.1.
• : Update org.mockito:mockito-* 3.7.0 -> 3.7.7.
• : Update org.springframework:* 5.3.2 -> 5.3.3.
• : Update mongodb4.version 4.1.1 -> 4.2.0.
• : Update org.fusesource.jansi:jansi 1.18 -> 2.3.1.
• : Update org.assertj:assertj-core 3.18.1 -> 3.19.0.
• : Update net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit 2.22.0 -> 2.23.0.
• : Update net.javacrumbs.json-unit:json-unit 2.22.0 -> 2.23.0.
• com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations
................. 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core
........................ 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
.................... 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml
........ 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-yaml
....... 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations
... 2.12.1 -> 2.12.2
- org.apache.commons:commons-lang3
............................... 3.11 -> 3.12.0
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine
......................... 5.7.0 -> 5.7.1
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-migrationsupport
............... 5.7.0 -> 5.7.1
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params
......................... 5.7.0 -> 5.7.1
- org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine
......................... 5.7.0 -> 5.7.1
- org.mockito:mockito-core
....................................... 3.7.7 -> 3.8.0
- org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter
.............................. 3.7.7 -> 3.8.0
- org.mongodb:bson
............................................... 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
- org.mongodb:mongodb-driver-sync
................................ 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.14.1-rc1” or just "git clone -b
log4j-2.14.1-rc1 https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.14.1-rc1”
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Ralph
