This is a vote to release Log4j 2.0-beta8, the tenth release of Log4j 2.0. Changes in this version include:
Fixed Bugs: o LOG4J2-302: Added toString methods to ThreadContextStack/Map implementation classes. o LOG4J2-300: WriterThread was ending when no agents are available which caused an OutOfMemoryError. o LOG4J2-278: Filter calls from Avro or Flume to be ignored by the FlumeAppender. o LOG4J2-279: FlumePersistentManager now calls Berkeley DB from threads to avoid encountering interrupts in the application. o LOG4J2-296: Wasted work in FlumePersistentManager.createManager. o LOG4J2-297: Wasted work in TestConfigurator.testEnvironment. o LOG4J2-298: Wasted work in StyleConverterTest.setupClass. o LOG4J2-280: AsyncLogger threads are now daemon threads and won't prevent the JVM from shutting down anymore. o LOG4J2-295: Fast(Rolling)FileAppender now correctly handles messages exceeding the buffer size. o LOG4J2-271: FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works correctly if append=false. o LOG4J2-267: FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works correctly if append=false. o LOG4J2-292: Fast(Rolling)FileAppender now correctly appends to (does not overwrite) existing file. o LOG4J2-289: Upgrade javadoc plugin to 2.9.1 to fix javadoc security issue. o LOG4J2-139: Fix NullPointerException (regression due to fix for LOG4J2-228) o LOG4J2-275: FlumeAvroManager fails to notify client of failing event if Flume RPCClient cannot be created. Changes: o LOG4J2-301: Add printf methods to Logger API. o LOG4J2-282: Allow the default status level to be specified as a system property. o LOG4J2-294: LogManager.getLogger can now be called without a logger name or with a null logger name. o LOG4J2-288: Update JUnit to 4.11 from 4.7. o LOG4J2-287: Update Hibernate to 4.3 beta3 from beta2. o LOG4J2-286: Update test H2 JDBC driver to 1.172 from 1.171. o LOG4J2-285: Update Jansi jar to 1.11 from 1.9. o LOG4J2-284: Update Log4j 1 dependency to 1.2.17 from 1.2.16. o LOG4J2-283: Remove dependency on Apache ORO jar. o LOG4J2-277: Wasted work in RollingAppenderSizeTest.testAppender() and others. o LOG4J2-168: Include arbitrary message fields in RFC-5424 structured data. Thanks to Scott Severtson. o LOG4J2-274: Wasted work in UUIDUtil initialization. o LOG4J2-273: Wasted work in XMLLayout.toSerializable(). Please test and cast your votes. 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Tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/log4j2/tags/log4j-2.0-beta8/ Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-130/ 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-130/org/apache/logging/log4j/ Description: Log4j 2.0-beta8 rc1 Details: The following artifacts have been staged to the org.apache.logging-130 (u:rgoers, a:65.204.229.11) repository. archetype-catalog.xml log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8-sources.jar log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8.pom.asc log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8.jar log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8.jar.asc log4j-jmx-gui-2.0-beta8.pom log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8.pom log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8.pom.asc 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