Two things about the changes listed below (not a problem with the release candidate, which I haven't had the opportunity to test):
1) LOG4J2-270 is not listed in your changes. It should be, as it was a HUGE change (log4j-web artifact is gone, Log4j 2 now initializes itself properly in a web app environment automatically for Servlet 3.0, etc.). It says "Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta8," so I wonder if there were any other beta8 changes that aren't listed below? 2) LOG4J2-287 (below) can/should probably be deleted or at least omitted from the release notes. Hibernate ORM is not the RI for JPA, and the dev team at Hibernate is very behind getting the features complete. EclipseLink, the RI, is complete and not nearly as buggy, so we have switched from Hibernate ORM to EclipseLink. (And, of course, this is all just for testing purposes.) Nick On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > 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. > [] +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-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 > log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-samples-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-samples-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-samples-flume-common-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-jcl-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-taglib-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-jpa-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-osgi-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-osgi-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-couch-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-reduced-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-net-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-nosql-mongo-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-osgi-async-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-bin.tar.gz.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-osgi-bin.tar.gz.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-bin.zip.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-bin.tar.gz > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-osgi-bin.zip > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-src.tar.gz.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-bin.zip > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-osgi-bin.zip.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-src.tar.gz > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-osgi-bin.tar.gz > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-src.zip.asc > log4j-distribution-2.0-beta8-src.zip > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-1.2-api-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-tests.jar.asc > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-tests.jar > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-flume-ng-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-to-slf4j-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-api-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-api-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-api-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-api-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-api-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-api-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-api-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-api-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-2.0-beta8.jar.asc > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar.asc > log4j-core-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-core-2.0-beta8.jar > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-sources.jar > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-tests.jar.asc > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-sources.jar.asc > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-tests.jar > log4j-core-2.0-beta8.pom > log4j-core-2.0-beta8-javadoc.jar > log4j-2.0-beta8.pom.asc > log4j-2.0-beta8.pom >
