This is a vote to release Log4j 2.4.1, 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 LOG4J2-1129: Allow PatternLayout to select a pattern to use based on some selection criteria. o LOG4J2-1145: Add %equals to PatternLayout to test and replace patterns with strings. o LOG4J2-1147: Add %equalsIgnoreCase to PatternLayout to test and replace patterns with strings. o LOG4J2-1146: Add %notEmpty to PatternLayout to avoid output of patterns where all variables are empty. o LOG4J2-1020: Add possibility to set shutdown timeout on AsyncAppender. Fixed Bugs: o LOG4J2-1153: Fixed NullPointerException when only root logger is defined (and no named loggers) in configuration properties file. o LOG4J2-1140: Fixed bug where headers were not being written to first file with RollingFileAppender. o LOG4J2-1149: Fixed bug where PatternLayout predefined date pattern with time zone always renders default date format. o LOG4J2-1050: Fixed Log4jLookup. o LOG4J2-1142: Fix potential memory leak in web applications by using a straight ThreadLocal field instead of subclassing ThreadLocal. o LOG4J2-1135: Compression on rollover was broken: log file was renamed to .zip but not compressed. o LOG4J2-1127: log4j2.xml cannot be parsed on Oracle Weblogic 12c. o LOG4J2-1132: Do not use MongoDB driver 2.13.3 deprecated methods. o LOG4J2-1144: Add %markerSimpleName in pattern layout should evaluate to marker name (not toString()). o LOG4J2-1126: Web site corrections and updates. Changes: o LOG4J2-1151: Performance improvement: backport Java 8 fast ISO-8859-1 String to byte[] encoder to AbstractStringLayout. o LOG4J2-935: Performance improvement when converting Strings to byte[] arrays. o LOG4J2-1040: Update MongoDB driver from 2.13.3 to 3.0.4. o LOG4J2-1128: Reuse StringBuilder to improve performance for String-based layouts: CSV, GELF, HTML, RFC524, Syslog. o LOG4J2-1131: Update mongo-java-driver from 2.13.2 to 2.13.3. o LOG4J2-1138: Do not use Jackson deprecated methods. o LOG4J2-1139: Update Jackson from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2. o LOG4J2-1150: Update kafka-clients from 0.8.2.1 to 0.8.2.2. Tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=commit;h=bd929b829d5d019cff4640a63007adab71d752df <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=commit;h=bd929b829d5d019cff4640a63007adab71d752df> or a) for a new copy do "git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2.git <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/logging-log4j2.git>" and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.4.1" b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout tags/log4j-2.4.1” Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/ <http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/> Artifacts: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1016/ <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1016/> 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-1016/org/apache/logging/log4j/ <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1016/org/apache/logging/log4j/> Ralph
