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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > The Apache Logging team is pleased to announce the Apache log4j 2.0-beta4 > 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 sixth release of Log4j 2 and is being made available to > encourage use and feedback from the community\\ > > Changes in this version include: > > New features: > o Added Log4j 2 to SLF4J adapter. > o LOG4J2-131: Add SMTPAppender. Thanks to Scott Severtson. > o Added hostName and contextName to property map. > o Add MessageFormatMessage and FormattedMessage. > o LOG4J2-134: Use %red, %white, %blue, and so on in the console appender. > o LOG4J2-133: Allow custom message creation via a message factory. > o Added Flume Appender samples. > > Fixed Bugs: > o LOG4J2-156: LocalizedMessageTest fails on linux system. Thanks to Andreas > Born. > o LOG4J2-152: RollingFileAppender's FileRenameAction was throwing a > NullPointerException if no directory was specified > on the target file name. Thanks to Remko Popma. > o LOG4J2-150: Convert all System.getProperty calls to use PropertiesUtil to > suppress SecurityExceptions. > o LOG4J2-147: ThreadContextMapFilter was matching on the key instead of the > value of the key. Thanks to William Burns. > o Allow FlumeAvroManager to initialize even if it cannot connect to an > agent. > o LOG4J2-149: SMTPAppender will only cache filtered events. Thanks to Scott > Severtson. > o LOG4J2-145: Add missing serial version IDs. > o LOG4J2-144: NullPointerException in RFC5424Layout. > o LOG4J2-143: MessagePatternConverter now returns "null" if the log message > is null. > o LOG4J2-142: Serialized LogEvents were not reset in the output stream > causing them to deserialize incorrectly. > o LOG4J2-139: Fix null pointer exception in SocketAppender if no protocol > is specified. The protocol will default > to TCP for the SocketAppender and UDP for the SyslogAppender. > o LOG4J2-140: Typo in documentation of SocketAppender. Thanks to Joern > Huxhorn. > o LOG4J2-137: Fix hang in Dumbster SMTP test server. > o LOG4J2-130: PatternLayout should format throwables without requiring a > converter. > o LOG4J2-135: BaseConfiguration does not close the first appender. Thanks > to Ingo Feltes. > o LOG4J2-132: AbstractLogger.catching(Throwable) checks for DEBUG level but > logs at ERROR level. > o LOG4J2-129: RoutingAppender was only creating a single appender for the > default Route. > o LOG4J2-126: Allow JMS appenders to recover if the queue or topic is > unavailable. > o LOG4J2-127: AbstractLogger methods were not passing Markers to the > isEnabled methods. > o LOG4J2-125: JMSQueue and JMSTopic Appenders did not allow name to be > specified. > o LOG4J2-111: Enhanced javadoc copyright statement. > o LOG4J2-120: TCPSocketManager would fail if the initial connection could > not be established. > o LOG4J2-119: A broken socket connection would cause the TCPSocketManager > to continuously reconnect. > o LOG4J2-123: The example for ThreadContextMapFilter was incorrect. Thanks > to Olivier Lamy. > o LOG4J2-116: File renaming was using the wrong date value. Enhanced > DefaultRolloverStrategy to store newest files in > highest index as well as lowest. > o LOG4J2-115: ThreadContext Map elements with null values are now ignored > when constructing a Flume event and in the > RFC5424 Layout. > o LOG4J2-113: StructuredDataFilter createFilter was annotated with > PluginAttr instead of PluginElement for the > KeyValuePairs. > o LOG4J2-114: StructuredDataMessage was validating the length of the values > in the event Map instead of the lengths > of the keys. Thanks to Arkin Yetis. > > Changes: > o LOG4J2-136: Allow newlines to be escaped in Syslog and RFC5424 layouts. > Allow Throwables to be included in > the output from RFC5424Layout. Thanks to Scott Severtson. > o LOG4J2-128: Add follow attribute to Console Appender. > o LOG4J2-122: Add unit test to verify exceptions are thrown when the socket > connection fails. > o LOG4J2-110: Renamed log4j12-api to log4j-1.2-api. > > Apache Log4j 2.0-beta4 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
