I have to send two separate announcements - one to the logging lists using my
"normal" email address and one to annou...@apache.org using my apache email
address.
Ralph
On Sep 21, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
> Blogged, Tweeted, Plus-ed.
>
> However it looks like this announcement just went to annou...@apache.org
> - was this the plan?
>
> Ralph Goers schrieb:
>> The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta9 release!
>>
>> Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior.
>> Log4j 2 is an upgrade to
>> Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j
>> 1.x, and provides
>> many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent
>> problems in Logback's
>> architecture.
>>
>> This is the eleventh release of Log4j 2 and is being made available to
>> encourage use and feedback from the community.
>>
>> Bug fixes and enhancements
>>
>> Changes in this version include:
>>
>> New features:
>> o LOG4J2-399: Allow the default file rollover strategy to define the
>> compression level.
>> o LOG4J2-338: Add TLSAppender. Also added missing license headers to
>> several files. Thanks to Tibor Benke.
>> o LOG4J2-253: Added FAQ page to the site.
>> o LOG4J2-362: Add a diagram to the site (FAQ page) that explains when to
>> use which jar.
>> o LOG4J2-374: Add more options to PatternLayout to display more detailed
>> information about a Throwable. Thanks to Tibor Benke.
>> o LOG4J2-383: [Pattern Layout] Customize level names by length.
>> o LOG4J2-384: [Pattern Layout] Customize level names to lower-case.
>> o LOG4J2-364: Add WebLookup to retrieve information from the
>> ServletContext. Thanks to David Nault.
>> o LOG4J2-360: Allow Plugins to have aliases.
>> o LOG4J2-356: Create a JSON Layout.
>> o LOG4J2-341: Enable XInclude for XML configurations.
>> o LOG4J2-313: Add JNDILookup plugin. Thanks to Woonsan Ko.
>> o LOG4J2-305: Ease porting from 1.x Logger.getRootLogger(): add
>> LogManager.getRootLogger().
>>
>> Fixed Bugs:
>> o LOG4J2-226: Fix table of contents generation in pdf.
>> o LOG4J2-395: Allow classpath scheme when specifying configuration file
>> location as a system property. Thanks to Abhinav Shah.
>> o LOG4J2-393: Initialize PluginManager once during configuration. Move
>> advertisement setup into BaseConfiguration.
>> o LOG4J2-391: FlumePersistentManager now handles LockConflictExceptions in
>> Berkeley Db. Thanks to Kamal Bahadur.
>> o LOG4J2-380: Use rollover date when substituting ${date} in the
>> filePattern.
>> o LOG4J2-322: Centralized reflective use of Reflection#getCallerClass and
>> properly handled its instability in various versions
>> of Java.
>> o LOG4J2-293: Reset the Configuration if the ClassLoaderContextSelector
>> creates a LoggerContext without a configuration
>> location and then is later provided one.
>> o LOG4J2-293: Changed the ConfigurationFactory to recognize and properly
>> use the classpath: URI scheme in addition to the
>> classloader: URI scheme. Thanks to Abhinav Shah.
>> o LOG4J2-359: Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer so that it does
>> nothing in a Servlet 2.5 or older application. This
>> ensures behavioral consistency across containers. Thanks to Abhinav
>> Shah.
>> o LOG4J2-310: Fixed issue where SMTPAppender did not send mails with error
>> or fatal level without prior info event. Thanks to Olivier Lemasle.
>> o LOG4J2-368: Add PatternLayout constructor to Log4j 1.2 bridge for
>> Velocity.
>> o LOG4J2-333: Match artifact ids with Maven module names. Thanks to Hervé
>> Boutemy.
>> o LOG4J2-367: JMS appenders send two messages for one append. Thanks to
>> David Parry.
>> o LOG4J2-319: Double stack trace logging when using %throwable in %style
>> and %highlight.
>> o LOG4J2-358: NoSQLAppender using MongoDB provider ignores username and
>> password attributes
>> o LOG4J2-343: Removed unnecessary generics from Appender interface and
>> implementing classes. Thanks to Henning Schmiedehausen.
>> o LOG4J2-351: [OSGi] wrong Fragment-Host in manifest files. Thanks to
>> Roland Weiglhofer.
>> o LOG4J2-336: AsyncLogger errors after multiple calls to
>> LoggerContext.reconfigure(). Thanks to Andre Bogus.
>> o LOG4J2-347: Give the AsyncAppender thread a more descriptive name for
>> easier debugging/profiling. Thanks to David Phillips.
>> o LOG4J2-332: Modified documentation to refer to SLF4J Binding instead of
>> SLF4J Bridge. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy.
>> o LOG4J2-342: Ignore xml:base attributes.
>> o LOG4J2-309: Insure jars and distributions only have a single License and
>> Notice file.
>> o LOG4J2-320: JPAAppender stops logging because
>> META-INF/log4j-provider.properties is left open.
>> o LOG4J2-335: FlumePersistentManager's writer thread had high CPU usage.
>> o LOG4J2-331: Removed erroneous check for affected MongoDB records, which
>> always returns zero on inserts.
>> o LOG4J2-330: Added a BSON Transformer so that MongoDB can persist Log4j
>> events.
>> o LOG4J2-329: StatusLogger now only creates StatusData objects if they are
>> the appropriate logging level.
>> o LOG4J2-328: FlumePersistentManager was calling Berkeley DB's count method
>> too frequently.
>> o LOG4J2-280: Additional fix to make AsyncAppender threads daemon threads
>> and improve their thread name.
>> o LOG4J2-165: The slf4j-ext jar is now an optional dependency of the SLF4J
>> bridge.
>> o LOG4J2-166: RoutingAppender's default Route can now be an appender
>> reference.
>> o LOG4J2-299: Add getThrowable method to ThrowableProxy.
>> o LOG4J2-216: ThrowableProxy no longer extends Throwable.
>> o LOG4J2-311: Synchronized flush() and close() methods in the
>> XxxFileManager and OutputStreamManager classes.
>> o LOG4J2-304: Fixed Async Loggers memory leak.
>> o LOG4J2-291: Fixed JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL appenders so that the failover
>> appender properly fails over on error.
>> o LOG4J2-397: Logger.info(Message) Javadoc is incorrect. Thanks to Yonatan
>> Graber.
>>
>> Changes:
>> o LOG4J2-317: Renamed FastFileAppender and FastRollingFileAppender to
>> RandomAccessFileAppender
>> and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender. Configurations using the
>> Fast(Rolling)File element
>> no longer work and should be modified to use the
>> (Rolling)RandomAccessFile element.
>> o Changed the "suppressExceptions" configuration attribute for all Appenders
>> to "ignoreExceptions" to avoid
>> confusion with Java 7 suppressed exceptions. Also renamed the
>> Appender#isExceptionSuppressed() method to
>> Appender#ignoreExceptions() to avoid the same confusion. All
>> Appenders by default internally log and then ignore
>> exceptions encountered while logging. Setting "ignoreExceptions" to
>> "false" on an Appender causes it to allow
>> exceptions to propagate to the caller. You must set
>> "ignoreExceptions" to "false" for Appenders you are wrapping
>> in the Failover Appender.
>> o Changed the (relatively new) PatternLayout configuration attribute
>> "suppressExceptions" to
>> "alwaysWriteExceptions" to more correctly indicate what it does. As
>> such, the meaning of this attribute has
>> reversed (previous "true"s should become "false"s, and vice versa).
>> Since this was an undocumented attribute up
>> until now, it's unlikely this change will affect any users.
>> o LOG4J2-355: Add support for multiple SD-ELEMENTs in a RFC 5424 syslog
>> message. Thanks to Tibor Benke.
>> o Cleaned up tests and cleared up documentation for the JPA appender
>> following the resolution of EclipseLink
>> issue #412454.
>> o LOG4J2-318: Allow shutdown hook to be disabled in the configuration.
>> o LOG4J2-312: XML layout improvements (compact vs. pretty, namespace,
>> namespace prefix, root element).
>> o LOG4J2-388: Update Java Mail dependency to 1.5.0 from 1.4.7.
>> o LOG4J2-325: Update JDBC tests to use H2 database 1.3.173 from 1.3.172.
>> o LOG4J2-366: Update commons-logging to 1.1.3 from 1.1.1.
>> o LOG4J2-390: Update HSQLDB dependency to 2.3.0 from 2.2.9.
>> o LOG4J2-308: Clarified which library versions were used in Async Loggers
>> performance test.
>> o LOG4J2-307: Updated Async Loggers' LMAX Disruptor library from 3.0.1 to
>> 3.2.0.
>> o LOG4J2-306: Update JSON Jackson library to 2.2.2 from 2.2.1.
>> o LOG4J2-387: Update Jackson dependency to 1.9.13 from 1.9.11.
>> o Improved site by adding quick jump-off page and menu for Javadoc links for
>> all components.
>>
>>
>> Apache Log4j 2.0-beta9 requires a minimum of Java 6 to build and run. Basic
>> compatibility with
>> Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j-1.2-api component, however it does
>> not implement some of the
>> very implementation specific classes and methods. The package names and
>> Maven groupId have been changed to
>> org.apache.logging.log4j to avoid any conflicts with log4j 1.x.
>>
>> For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how to
>> submit bug reports,
>> patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Log4j 2
>> website:
>>
>> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
>>
>>
