And forwarded it to: annou...@apache.org which is also important imho On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > I have added it to the blog: > https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/apache_log4j_2_0_beta1 > > Cheers! > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: >> The Apache Logging team is pleased to announce the Apache log4j 2.0-beta1 >> 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 third 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 Added AsynchAppender. >> >> Fixed Bugs: >> o LOG4J-81: PatternLayout was not honoring format modifiers. >> o Created web module to allow web applications to include the Log4j context >> listener in WEB-INF/lib even if >> Log4j is in the container's class path. Allow locating the >> LoggerContext to include the ClassLoader. Updated >> the Loader utility to always choose the child ClassLoader. Verified >> in Jboss 5 and Tomcat. >> o LOG4J2-82: MarkerFilter called MarkerManager.getMarker causing the Marker >> to be created during the processing of the >> configuration. This prevents the application from creating the >> Marker with any parents. MarkerWrapper in >> SLF4J-impl was getting a ClassCastException in instanceOf because >> the Marker isn't a MarkerWrapper. >> o LOG4J2-80: Allow Log4j 2 to be used as the implementation with SLF4J and >> SLF4J's jcl-over-slf4j by adding filtering >> to the log method in SLF4JLogger. Thanks to Oliver Lamy. >> o LOG4J2-78: LogFactoryImpl.setAttribute in the Commons Logging bridge got >> a NullPointerException when passed a null value. >> It will now remove the attribute. >> o LOG4J2-77: RoutingAppender was calling the stop method for each of its >> referenced Appenders and was calling >> the stop method of the default Appender a second time. It will now >> only call the stop method of >> Appenders it creates. >> o LOG4J2-76: RewriteAppender was calling the stop method of the referenced >> appender causing the referenced appender's >> manager to have its use count decremented too many times. >> o LOG4J2-74: Logger.error(Marker, Message, Throwable) was internally using >> Level.TRACE. >> o LOG4J2-75: Enhanced Log4jContextListener to accept a configuration file >> location. Modified FileConfigurationMonitor >> to monitor files configured that way. Fixed other reconfiguration >> related bugs. Tested in JBoss and >> Tomcat. >> o LOG4J2-72: NullPointerException in RollingFileManager when filePattern >> does not cause the file to be compressed. >> o LOG4J2-71: FileRenameAction did not create the parent directories of the >> archive files causing the rollover to fail. >> >> Changes: >> o Update the versions of SLF4J and Logback. >> >> Apache Log4j 2.0-beta1 requires a minimum of Java 5 to build and run. Basic >> compatibility with >> Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j12-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/ >> > > > > -- > http://www.grobmeier.de > https://www.timeandbill.de
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