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Changes in this release:
New features:
o LOG4J2-868: Add ShutdownCallbackRegistry interface for customizable shutdown
callback handling. This is particularly
useful for application servers that wish to integrate with Log4j 2.
o LOG4J2-589: Supported filtering on custom log levels in configuration.
o LOG4J2-856: Documentation: add sections on the JUL Adapter, IO Streams and
NoSQL Appenders to the Maven and Ivy page.
o LOG4J2-848: Add a Java lookup to provide nicely formatted runtime version
information.
o LOG4J2-809: Move reflection utility class to API's private utility classes.
o LOG4J2-833: Documentation: added Runtime Dependencies link to left nav-bar
on site.
o LOG4J2-816: Documentation: added section on XInclude to user manual
Configuration page.
o LOG4J2-547: Add the Log4j IOStreams component.
o LOG4J2-431: Added Memory-Mapped File Appender. Thanks to Claude Mamo.
o LOG4J2-827: Support use of TypeConverter classes through the standard Plugin
system.
o LOG4J2-825: Add simple validation constraint annotations for the Plugin
system.
o LOG4J2-428: Implement a GELF layout. Thanks to Mark Paluch.
o LOG4J2-608: Add java.util.logging implementation based on log4j-api. See
log4j-jul documentation for more details.
o LOG4J2-793: Add support for custom SLF4J Markers in log4j-slf4j-impl module.
o LOG4J2-771: Add lookup for application main arguments.
o LOG4J2-787: Add lookup for JVM arguments.
Fixed Bugs:
o LOG4J2-676: Some typo fixes and enhancements for the site. Thanks to Stefan
Bodewig.
o LOG4J2-866: Documentation: fixed missing closing parenthesis in code
example. Thanks to Gerard Weatherby.
o LOG4J2-862: Fixed classloader issue that prevented Log4j from finding the
implementation when used in a custom Ant task. Thanks to Michael Sutherland.
o LOG4J2-861: Documentation: fix broken links on left navigation Extending
Log4j Configuration sub-menu.
o LOG4J2-797: Documentation: clarified why log4j-core is a compile time
dependency in Maven and Ivy page. Thanks to Andreas Rytina.
o LOG4J2-855: Documentation: fix broken links on Appenders manual page.
o LOG4J2-807: Prevent NPE when configuration with AsyncLogger/AsyncRoot is
reloaded.
o LOG4J2-678: Documentation: fixed minor issues with Log4j2 web
site/documentation. Thanks to Matt Sicker.
o LOG4J2-843: Migrate JpaHyperSqlAppenderTest JUnit performance test to
log4j-perf.
o LOG4J2-842: Migrate JpaH2AppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
o LOG4J2-841: Migrate JdbcHyperSqlAppenderTest JUnit performance test to
log4j-perf.
o LOG4J2-840: Migrate JdbcH2AppenderTest JUnit performance test to log4j-perf.
o LOG4J2-830: Respect external interrupt signal to allow application shutdown
after joining AsyncAppender thread.
o LOG4J2-813: MarkerManager Log4jMarker.hasParents() returns opposite of
correct result. Thanks to David Erichsen, Brandon Barry.
o LOG4J2-785: Documentation: fixed capitalization inconsistency in user manual
example config.
o LOG4J2-829: Fixed issue in RollingFile filePattern: backslashes are path
separators, not escape characters.
o LOG4J2-832: ThrowableProxy fails if a class in logged stack trace throws
java.lang.Error from initializer Thanks to Seth Leger.
o LOG4J2-745: Avoid ConverterKey plugin clashes by using a more predictable
plugin loading infrastructure.
Plugins have been segmented into three parts: class path,
user-specified packages, and OSGi bundles. Thanks to Scott Harrington.
o LOG4J2-798: Fixed plugin scanning redundancy causing massive slowdowns in
certain environments. Thanks to Scott Harrington.
o LOG4J2-753: Reduced CachedClock thread contention.
o LOG4J2-819: Fixed memory leak in Tomcat 6 caused by clock background threads
unintentionally
started by Tomcat after web application stop. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o LOG4J2-391: FlumePersistentManager now handles LockConflictExceptions in
Berkeley Db when sending a batch. Thanks to Kamal Bahadur.
o LOG4J2-782: Remove invalid Oracle Maven repository.
o LOG4J2-796: Fixed issue where log4j-to-slf4j did not work correctly with
SLF4J Simple Logger.
o LOG4J2-811: SimpleLogger throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for an empty
array. Thanks to Yogesh Rao.
o LOG4J2-663: Fix OSGi Import-Package problem with the JMS API. Thanks to
Florian Brunner.
o LOG4J2-783: PatternLayout should use platform character encoding by default,
not UTF-8. Thanks to Minglei Lee.
Changes:
o LOG4J2-845: Add 2.1.0 to compatible versions in Log4j API ProviderUtil and
update Log4jAPIVersion to 2.1.0 in
core META-INF/log4j-provider.properties.
o LOG4J2-844: Update JMH to 1.1 from 0.7.2.
o LOG4J2-831: Documentation: updated FAQ "which jars" diagrams for JUL bridge
and 2.1 version.
o LOG4J2-780: Update Spring Framework to 3.2.11.RELEASE from 3.2.8.RELEASE.
o LOG4J2-815: Unify the two JMS appenders into a single appender.
Configurations written for 2.0 will still work in 2.1+.
o LOG4J2-790: Update Jackson to 2.4.2 from 2.4.1 (for XML and JSON
processing).
o LOG4J2-766: Incomplete documentation for JSONLayout. Thanks to Bruno P.
Kinoshita.
o LOG4J2-800: All life cycle implementations should be serializable.
This is still work in progress.
o LOG4J2-801: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger should be serializable.
This is still work in progress.
o LOG4J2-810: Update javax.mail to 1.5.2 from 1.5.0.
o LOG4J2-822: Update org.eclipse.persistence.jpa to 2.5.2 from 2.5.1.
o LOG4J2-867: FlumeAppender: maxDelay not in seconds, but milliseconds.
Add time scale to some settings, for example maxDelayMillis instead of
maxDelay.
The old names are aliased for compatibility.
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