+1 Not sure if my vote counts, but I'm casting it anyway. :-)
________________________________ From: Ralph Goers <[email protected]> To: Log4J Developers List <[email protected]>; Logging PMC <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 6:53 AM Subject: [VOTE] Log4j2 2.0-beta5 rc1 This is a vote to release Log4j 2.0-beta5, the seventh release of Log4j 2.0. Changes in this version include: New features: o LOG4J2-207: Add JMX support. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-187: Add tag library. Thanks to Nick Williams. o LOG4J2-164: Add methods is/setEndOfBatch to LogEvent. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-163: Add support for asynchronous loggers. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-179: Add Logger interface APIs to log at given levels. o Added FlumePersistentManager which writes to BerkeleyDB and then writes to Flume asynchronously. o LOG4J2-155: Expose file appender configuration details via an advertisement mechanism. Fixed Bugs: o LOG4J2-205: Fix deadlock in SocketAppender. Added option to not wait for socket reconnect. o LOG4J2-211: Removing extra spaces in entry and exit method output. Thanks to Nick Williams. o LOG4J2-212: Loggers without a "." had no parent logger. o LOG4J2-212: Call LoggerContext.stop when the application is shutdown. o LOG4J2-210: MapMessage was not enclosing key value in quotes when generating XML. Thanks to Arkin Yetis. o LOG4J2-198: FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient. o LOG4J2-196: FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient. o LOG4J2-207: Use the Maven group ID org.apache.logging.log4j for all artifacts. o LOG4J2-195: Unit tests now create files in the target directory. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-193: RollingFastFileAppender (in log4j-async) did not roll over. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-199: Highlight subprojects in sub-navigation. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-200: LoggerContext method renamed to removeFilter from removeFiler. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-194: ThrowableFormatOptionsTest failed on Windows due to CR/LF issue. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-190: BaseConfiguration addLoggerAppender saved appender using the Logger name. Thanks to Werner. o LOG4J2-189: The blocking parameter did not work properly on AsynchAppender. Thanks to Werner. o LOG4J2-188: appender-refs on AsynchAppender didn't support the level and filter elements. Thanks to Werner. o LOG4J2-176: Avoid IllegalArgumentException in AsynchAppender. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-181: OutputStreamManager now adds the layout header whenever the OutputStream is set. o LOG4J2-177: Fix NullPointerException in DatagramOutputStream when flush is called from multiple threads. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-175: Plugin cache should be reset when addPackages is called. o LOG4J2-159: Add Fragment-Host to MANIFEST.MF for log4j2-core. Thanks to Jan Winter. o LOG4J2-167: Configurator throws a ClassCastException if LogManager returns a SimpleLoggerContext. o LOG4J2-169: ConfigurationFactory was adding factories on every call. o LOG4J2-161: Modify ClassLoaderContextSelector to use the first ClassLoader in the child parent hierarchy that has a Context with a configuration to allow JSPs to use the WebApp's context and configuration. Changes: o LOG4J2-214: Async documentation update. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-208: Move async subproject into core. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-160: Move Throwable pattern converter options processing to ThrowableFormatOptions class. Thanks to Joanne Polsky. o LOG4J2-157: Allowed Loggers access to the properties in the LoggerConfig. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-153: Added ability to include or exclude location information. Thanks to Remko Popma. o LOG4J2-151: Allow Logger and LoggerContext to be subclassed. Thanks to Remko Popma. Please test and cast your votes. [] +1, release the artifacts [] -1, don't release because… The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or more if required). Tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/log4j2/tags/log4j-2.0-beta5/ Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-123/ The artifacts may be downloaded using wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=3 -r -p -np --no-check-certificate https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-123/org/apache/logging/log4j/ Description: Log4j 2.0-beta5 rc1 Details: The following artifacts have been staged to the org.apache.logging-123 (u:rgoers, a:72.201.39.120) repository. archetype-catalog.xml log4j-web-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-web-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-web-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-web-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-web-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-web-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-web-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-web-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc flume-remote-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc flume-remote-2.0-beta5.war.asc flume-remote-2.0-beta5.war flume-remote-2.0-beta5.pom flume-remote-2.0-beta5.pom.asc flume-remote-2.0-beta5-sources.jar flume-common-2.0-beta5.pom.asc flume-common-2.0-beta5.jar flume-common-2.0-beta5-sources.jar flume-common-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc flume-common-2.0-beta5.jar.asc flume-common-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc flume-common-2.0-beta5.pom flume-common-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar flume-embedded-2.0-beta5.war.asc flume-embedded-2.0-beta5-sources.jar flume-embedded-2.0-beta5.war flume-embedded-2.0-beta5.pom flume-embedded-2.0-beta5.pom.asc flume-embedded-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-samples-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-samples-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-jcl-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-taglib-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-src.zip log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-bin.tar.gz.asc log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-src.tar.gz log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-bin.zip log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-bin.zip.asc log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-src.tar.gz.asc log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-bin.tar.gz log4j-distribution-2.0-beta5-src.zip.asc log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-tests.jar log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta5-tests.jar.asc log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-api-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-api-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-api-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-api-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-api-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-api-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-api-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-api-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-core-2.0-beta5-sources.jar log4j-core-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar log4j-core-2.0-beta5-tests.jar.asc log4j-core-2.0-beta5-sources.jar.asc log4j-core-2.0-beta5.pom.asc log4j-core-2.0-beta5-tests.jar log4j-core-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-core-2.0-beta5-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-core-2.0-beta5.jar.asc log4j-core-2.0-beta5.jar log4j-2.0-beta5.pom log4j-2.0-beta5.pom.asc
