This is a vote to release Log4j 2.20.0, 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 version include:
Added
• Add support for timezones in RollingFileAppender date pattern (for
LOG4J2-1631 by Piotr P. Karwasz, Danas Mikelinskas)
• Add LogEvent timestamp to ProducerRecord in KafkaAppender (for
LOG4J2-2678 by Piotr P. Karwasz, Federico D’Ambrosio)
• Add PatternLayout support for abbreviating the name of all logger
components except the 2 rightmost (for LOG4J2-2785 by Ralph Goers, Markus Spann)
• Removes internal field that leaked into public API. (for LOG4J2-3615 by
Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Add a LogBuilder#logAndGet() method to emulate the Logger#traceEntry
method. (for LOG4J2-3645 by Piotr P. Karwasz)
Changed
• Simplify site generation (for 1166 by Volkan Yazıcı
• Switch the issue tracker from JIRA to GitHub Issues (for 1172 by Volkan
Yazıcı)
• Remove liquibase-log4j2 maven module (for 1193 by StevenMassaro)
• Fix order of stacktrace elements, that causes cache misses in
ThrowableProxyHelper. (for 1214 by alex-dubrouski, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Switch from com.sun.mail to Eclipse Angus. (for LOG4J2-3554 by Oleh
Astappiev, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Add Log4j2 Core as default runtime dependency of the SLF4J2-to-Log4j2 API
bridge. (for LOG4J2-3601 by afs, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Replace maven-changes-plugin with a custom changelog implementation (for
LOG4J2-3628 by Volkan Yazıcı)
Deprecated
• Deprecate support for package scanning for plugins (for LOG4J2-3644 by
Ralph Goers)
Fixed
• Copy programmatically supplied location even if includeLocation="false".
(for 1197 by Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Eliminate status logger warning, when disableAnsi or noConsoleNoAnsi is
used the style and highlight patterns. (for 1202 by wleese, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Fix detection of location requirements in RewriteAppender. (for 1274 by
amirhadadi, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Replace regex with manual code to escape characters in Rfc5424Layout.
(for 1277 by adwsingh)
• Fix java.sql.Time object formatting in MapMessage (for LOG4J2-2297 by
Ralph Goers)
• Fix previous fire time computation in CronTriggeringPolicy (for
LOG4J2-3357 by Ralph Goers)
• Correct default to not include location for AsyncRootLoggers (for
LOG4J2-3487 by Ralph Goers, Dave Messink)
• Lazily evaluate the level of a SLF4J LogEventBuilder (for LOG4J2-3598 by
Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Fixes priority of Legacy system properties, which are now back to having
higher priority than Environment variables. (for LOG4J2-3615 by adwsingh, Piotr
P. Karwasz)
• Protects ServiceLoaderUtil from unchecked ServiceLoader exceptions. (for
LOG4J2-3624 by Piotr P. Karwasz)
• Fix Configurator#setLevel for internal classes (for LOG4J2-3631 by Piotr
P. Karwasz, Jeff Thomas)
• Fix level propagation in Log4jBridgeHandler (for LOG4J2-3634 by Piotr P.
Karwasz, Marcel Koch)
• Disable OsgiServiceLocator if not running in OSGI container. (for
LOG4J2-3642 by adwsingh, Piotr P. Karwasz)
• When using a Date Lookup in the file pattern the current time should be
used. (for LOG4J2-3643 by Ralph Goers)
• Fixed LogBuilder filtering in the presence of global filters. (for
LOG4J2-3647 by Piotr P. Karwasz)
Tag:
a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git
and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.20.0-rc1” or just "git clone -b
log4j-2.20.0-rc1 https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git";
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.20.0-rc1”
Web Site: https://logging.staged.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html.
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Ralph
