I am testing the RC within my current project. I plan on living with the RC for another dev/debug session or two. So far, no issues that warrant a re-spin.
Gary On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > Then again, if you don’t vote +1 that could force another release. > > Ralph > > On Sep 22, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Not in my book. I suspect it could be worked around by including a more > modern version of Xerces. What I don’t get is that they must be using Java > 7. Seems strange to support that and not have XInclude support. > > Ralph > > On Sep 22, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is LOG4J2-1127 worth another RC? > > Gary > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> (Including PMC in recipients) >> >> >> +1 >> >> I see many issues with the site (details below), but AFAICS no >> showstoppers - unless we consider dependency-convergence mandatory? >> I also found a bug in CsvLogEventLayout: NanoTime will always be zero >> (need to set NanoClockFactory mode - details below). >> >> ---- >> (Notation: "-": current problematic text to be replaced, "+": replacement >> text) >> ---- >> >> changelog.html (outdated/wrong) >> -Configuration via property files is not supported. >> +Configuration via property files is supported from version 2.4, but is >> not compatible with Log4j 1.x. >> >> changes.xml (improvement) >> -LOG4J2-952: Add ConfigurationBuilder. >> +LOG4J2-952: Add ConfigurationBuilder for programmatic configuration. >> >> faq.html (outdated, duplicate) >> * Under "How do I configure log4j2 in code without a configuration file?" >> -You could use the static method #initialize(String contextName, >> ClassLoader loader, String configLocation) (see source code) in >> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. (You can pass null for >> the class loader.) Be aware that this class is not part of the public API >> so your code may break with any minor release. >> +From 2.4, Log4j 2 provides an [API for programmatic >> configuration|manual/customconfig.html]. The new ConfigurationBuilder API >> allows you to create Configurations in code by constructing component >> _definitions_ without requiring you to know about the internals of actual >> configuration objects like Loggers and Appenders. >> >> * Merge these answers into a single Q&A entry: >> "How do I change a logger's level in code?" and >> "How do I set a logger's level programmatically?" >> >> * Version >> -the log4j-api-2.1 and the log4j-core-2.1 jar files >> +the log4j-api-2.4 and the log4j-core-2.4 jar files >> >> >> manual/appenders.html (site errors and ambiguities) >> * Kafka Appender is missing from the left nav-bar in Appenders >> >> -The KafkaAppender log events >> +The KafkaAppender logs events >> >> -lilter (Parameter Name) >> +filter >> >> -If you do not specify a layout, if not specified the formatted message >> as an UTF-8 encoded string will be sent to Kafka. >> +If you do not specify a layout, the formatted message will be sent to >> Kafka as an UTF-8 encoded string. >> >> -This appender requires Kafka client library >> +This appender requires Kafka client library. (add period at end) >> >> >> ZeroMQ appender: >> * Section title and left nav-bar title should be "JeroMQ". (and section >> will need to move to keep alphabetic order) >> * Is a layout required? What layout is used if nothing is specified? >> >> -The name of the Appender. >> +The name of the Appender. Required. >> >> (Parameter Name) >> -Layout >> +layout (lower case) >> >> -Filters >> +filters (lower case); other appenders use singular "filter" without >> trailing 's', but the code for JeroMQ says @PluginElement("Filters") Filter >> filter >> >> -Property, Type=Property >> +properties (lower case, plural), Type=Property[] - to be consistent with >> docs for PropertiesRewritePolicy in RewriteAppender >> >> >> manual/layouts.html (CsvLogEventLayout bug, site errors) >> * CSV Layout is missing from the left nav-bar in Layouts >> * CSV Layout section should mention dependency on Apache Commons CSV. >> (See JSONLayout on same page.) >> * Bug: CsvLogEventLayout generates NanoTime timestamps but these are >> always zero. >> To fix this, add the below code to the CsvLogEventLayout constructor: >> // LOG4J2-1074 Switch to actual clock if nanosecond timestamps are >> required in config. >> // LoggerContext will notify known NanoClockFactory users that the >> configuration has changed. >> NanoClockFactory.setMode(NanoClockFactory.Mode.System); >> >> * GELF Layout should be before HTML Layout in body text and in left >> nav-bar (alphabetical order) >> * HTML Layout should be before JSON Layout in body text (alphabetical >> order - the nav-bar order is correct) >> * (Under Location Information) >> -%C or $class - this is rendered as "%C or class java.lang.Object" >> +%C or %class >> >> >> manual/customconfig.html (improvements) >> * Side-nav menu title "Extending Log4j Configuration" should be >> "Programmatic Log4j Configuration" >> * Title "Custom Configurations" -> "Programmatic Configuration" >> >> >> log4j-api/dependency-convergence.html >> Error: You do not have 100 % convergence. - is this a showstopper? >> >> log4j-api/clirr-report.html >> 77 Clirr errors - I believe these are all expected and can be ignored. >> >> log4j-api/checkstyle.html >> 122 checkstyle errors - not showstoppers >> >> log4j-core/index.html >> * Missing dependency information for JeroMQ/ZeroMQ Appender on JeroMQ >> library >> * Missing dependency information for CSV layouts on Apache Commons CSV >> >> log4j-core/dependency-convergence.html >> Error: You do not have 100 % convergence. - Is this a showstopper? >> >> log4j-core/checkstyle.html >> 1652 checkstyle errors - not showstoppers >> >> >> log4j-liquibase/index.html >> -due the the plugin auto discovery >> -due to the plugin auto discovery >> >> log4j-liquibase/dependency-convergence.html >> Error: You do not have 100 % convergence. - Is this a showstopper? >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> This is a vote to release Log4j 2.4, the next version of the Log4j 2 >>> project. >>> >>> Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list. >>> [] +1, release the artifacts >>> [] -1, don't release because... >>> >>> The vote will remain open for 72 hours (or more if required). All >>> votes are welcome, but only Logging PMC votes are “officially” counted. As >>> always, at least 3 +1 votes and more positive than negative votes are >>> required. >>> >>> Changes in this version include: >>> >>> New features: >>> o LOG4J2-635: Add support for configuration via Properties. >>> o LOG4J2-952: Add ConfigurationBuilder. >>> o LOG4J2-599: Added support for Java 8 lambda expressions to lazily >>> construct a log message only if >>> the requested log level is enabled. >>> o LOG4J2-1118: Updated Logger wrapper generator tool to add Java 8 >>> lambda support for custom log levels. >>> o LOG4J2-1107: New Appender for Apache Kafka. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1113: New publisher Appender for ZeroMQ (using JeroMQ). Thanks >>> to Gary Gregory. >>> o LOG4J2-1088: Add Comma Separated Value (CSV) layouts for parameter >>> and event logging. Thanks to Gary Gregory. >>> o LOG4J2-1090: Add Core Configurator APIs to change a logger's level. >>> o LOG4J2-1105: Add API org.apache.logging.log4j.Level.isInRange(Level, >>> Level). Thanks to Gary Gregory. >>> o LOG4J2-1106: Add a LevelRangeFilter class. Thanks to Gary Gregory. >>> o LOG4J2-1076: Added support for system nanosecond time in pattern >>> layout. >>> o LOG4J2-1075: Added support for compressing to bzip2 format on file >>> rollover. >>> o LOG4J2-1077: Support additional Apache Commons Compress compression >>> formats on rollover: Deflate, Pack200, XY. >>> o LOG4J2-767: New module for Liquibase integration. Thanks to Mikael >>> Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1023: New RewritePolicy for changing level of a log event. >>> Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1015: Add a way to route messages based on the %marker in >>> Layout for RoutingAppender. Thanks to Daniel Marcotte. >>> o LOG4J2-1050: Add a Log4jLookup class to help write log files relative >>> to log4j2.xml. Thanks to Adam Retter. >>> o LOG4J2-1057: Add API >>> org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getFormatterLogger(). >>> o LOG4J2-1066: Expose Log4jContextFactory's ShutdownCallbackRegistry. >>> Thanks to Charles Allen. >>> >>> Fixed Bugs: >>> o LOG4J2-1121: Fixed potential race condition on reconfiguration. >>> Introduced ReliabilityStrategy to facilitate >>> switching between different mechanisms for preventing log events >>> from being dropped on reconfiguration. >>> o LOG4J2-1123: Core Configurator.initialize(String, ClassLoader, >>> String) fails to work when config location is a file path. Thanks to Gary >>> Gregory. >>> o LOG4J2-1117: OutputStreamManager in ConsoleAppender leaking managers. >>> Thanks to Marcus Thiesen. >>> o LOG4J2-1044: Write pending events to Flume when the appender is >>> stopped. >>> o LOG4J2-1108: NullPointerException when passing null to >>> java.util.logging.Logger.setLevel(). Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1110: org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.CoreLogger.setLevel() >>> checks for security permission too late. >>> o LOG4J2-1084: Misleading StatusLogger WARN event in LogManager with >>> java.util.Map. Thanks to Philipp Schneider. >>> o LOG4J2-1051: NoClassDefFoundError when starting app on Google App >>> Engine. Thanks to Lukasz Lenart. >>> o LOG4J2-684: ExtendedThrowablePatternConverter does not print >>> suppressed exceptions. Thanks to Joern Huxhorn, Mauro Molinari. >>> o LOG4J2-1069: Improper handling of JSON escape chars when >>> deserializing JSON log events. Thanks to Sam Braam. >>> o LOG4J2-1068: Exceptions not logged when using TcpSocketServer + >>> SerializedLayout. Thanks to Andy McMullan. >>> o LOG4J2-1067: ThrowableProxy getExtendedStackTraceAsString throws NPE >>> on deserialized nested exceptions. Thanks to Sam Braam. >>> o LOG4J2-1049: AsyncAppender now resets the thread interrupted flag >>> after catching InterruptedException. Thanks to Robert Schaft. >>> o LOG4J2-1048: FileConfigurationMonitor unnecessarily calls >>> System.currentTimeMillis() causing high CPU usage. Thanks to Nikhil. >>> o LOG4J2-1037: Backward compatibility issue in log4j-1.2-api NDC pop() >>> and peek(). Thanks to Marc Dergacz. >>> o LOG4J2-1025: Custom java.util.logging.Level gives null Log4j Level >>> and causes NPE. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1033: SimpleLogger creates unnecessary Map objects by calling >>> ThreadContext.getContext() instead of getImmutableContext(). Thanks to >>> Mikael Ståldal. >>> o LOG4J2-1026: HighlightConverter does not obey noConsoleNoAnsi. >>> o LOG4J2-1019: ZipCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO >>> error takes place. >>> o LOG4J2-1020: GzCompressAction leaves files open until GC when an IO >>> error takes place. >>> o LOG4J2-1038: Incorrect documentation for layout default charset. >>> Thanks to Gili. >>> o LOG4J2-1042: Socket and Syslog appenders don't take timeout into >>> account at startup. Thanks to Guillaume Turri. >>> o LOG4J2-934: Circular suppressed Exception throws StackOverflowError. >>> Thanks to Kenneth Gendron. >>> o LOG4J2-1046: Circular Exception cause throws StackOverflowError. >>> Thanks to Kenneth Gendron. >>> o LOG4J2-982: Use System.nanoTime() to measure time intervals. Thanks >>> to Mikhail Mazurskiy. >>> o LOG4J2-1045: Externalize log4j2.xml via URL resource. Thanks to >>> Günter Albrecht. >>> o LOG4J2-1058: Log4jMarker#contains(String) does not respect >>> org.slf4j.Marker contract. Thanks to Daniel Branzea. >>> o LOG4J2-1060: Log4jMarker#contains(Marker) does not respect >>> org.slf4j.Marker contract. >>> o LOG4J2-1061: Log4jMarker#remove(Marker) does not respect >>> org.slf4j.Marker contract. >>> o LOG4J2-1062: Log4jMarker#add(Marker) does not respect >>> org.slf4j.Marker contract. >>> o LOG4J2-1064: org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jMarker does not implement >>> org.slf4j.Marker.equals(Object) org.slf4j.Marker.hashCode(). >>> o LOG4J2-889: Header in layout should not be written on application >>> startup if appending to an existing file. Fixes LOG4J2-1030. Thanks to >>> Maciej Karaś, Kenneth Leider. >>> o LOG4J2-918: Clarify documentation for combining async with sync >>> loggers. >>> o LOG4J2-1078: GelfLayout throws exception if some log event fields are >>> null. Thanks to Mikael Ståldal. >>> >>> Changes: >>> o LOG4J2-1017: Update Java platform from Java 6 to 7. From this version >>> onwards, log4j 2 requires Java 7. >>> o LOG4J2-812: PatternLayout timestamp formatting performance >>> improvement: replaced synchronized SimpleDateFormat with >>> Apache Commons FastDateFormat. This and better caching resulted >>> in a ~3-30X faster timestamp formatting. >>> o LOG4J2-1097: PatternLayout timestamp formatting performance >>> improvement: predefined date formats (and variants using >>> a period '.' millisecond separator instead of ',') are now >>> formatted ~2-10X faster than other date formats. >>> o LOG4J2-1096: Improved performance of >>> ParameterizedMessage::getFormattedMessage by ~2X. >>> o LOG4J2-1120: LoggerConfig performance improvements: avoid unnecessary >>> lock acquisition, use more efficient data structure. >>> o LOG4J2-1125: PatternLayout performance improvement by caching and >>> reusing a ThreadLocal StringBuilder. >>> o LOG4J2-1114: Add thread name to status logger layout. >>> o LOG4J2-1010: Pass log event when interpolating logger properties. >>> o LOG4J2-1044: Support batchSize in FlumeAvroManager. >>> o LOG4J2-1065: Define org.apache.logging.log4j.Marker.equals(Object) >>> and org.apache.logging.log4j.Marker.hashCode(). >>> o LOG4J2-1063: Avoid creating temporary array object in >>> org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jMarker.iterator(). >>> o LOG4J2-890: log4j-web-2.1 should workaround a bug in JBOSS EAP 6.2. >>> Thanks to Hassan Kalaldeh, Robert Andersson, Remko Popma. >>> o LOG4J2-403: MongoDB appender, username and password should be >>> optional. Thanks to Poorna Subhash P, Jeremy Lautman. >>> o LOG4J2-1035: Log4j2 tries to SystemClassLoader when running on Google >>> AppEngine. >>> o LOG4J2-1022: Allow a list of keys to be specified in the MDC pattern >>> converter. >>> o LOG4J2-959: Fix FindBugs DM_DEFAULT_ENCODING bug in >>> SimpleLogger.logMessage() and simplify code. >>> o LOG4J2-1036: Update Apache Flume from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0. >>> o LOG4J2-1041: Update MongoDB driver from 2.11.2 to 2.13.2. >>> o LOG4J2-1018: Update database tests from H2 1.3.175 to 1.3.176. >>> o LOG4J2-1070: Update Java Mail from 1.5.2 to 1.5.4. >>> o LOG4J2-1079: Update Jackson from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4. >>> o LOG4J2-1879: Update Jackson from 2.5.4 to 2.6.0. >>> o LOG4J2-1092: Update Jackson from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1. >>> o LOG4J2-1104: Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.9 to 1.10. >>> >>> Removed: >>> o Removed experimental interface LevelLogger which got committed to >>> master by mistake. >>> >>> Tag:https:// >>> <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;h=380e13cd7ab965942f1d5cfabd73dd056d728b28;hb=383a8194acab4a740d22b69c023ca3af6cb9c664> >>> git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;h=380e13cd7ab965942f1d5cfabd73dd056d728b28;hb=383a8194acab4a740d22b69c023ca3af6cb9c664 >>> or >>> >>> a) for a new copy do "git clone >>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2.git"; and then "git >>> checkout tags/log4j-2.4" >>> b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout >>> tags/log4j-2.4” >>> >>> Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ >>> >>> Artifacts: >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1015 >>> >>> You may download all the artifacts by executing: >>> >>> wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1015/org/apache/logging/log4j/ >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > > > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
