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Changes in this version include:
New features:
o LOG4J2-435: Added support for custom delete actions triggered by a rollover.
Thanks to Robert Schaft.
o LOG4J2-89: Allow rollover to occur at any time. Add CronTriggeringPolicy.
o LOG4J2-1136: Add support for JSR 223 scripts in filters and the
PatternSelector.
o LOG4J2-1168: Add getters for source and destination file in file rename
action. Thanks to Steven Swor.
o LOG4J2-1175: Add getters for classes in
org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.action.
o LOG4J2-898: Added system property to allow users to control whether messages
should be formatted in the background.
o LOG4J2-1178: Support use-case for JDBC's
CommonDataSource.setLogWriter(PrintWriter) and
java.sql.DriverManager.setLogWriter(PrintWriter).
o LOG4J2-1187: Support use case for
java.sql.DriverManager.setLogStream(PrintStream).
Fixed Bugs:
o LOG4J2-324: Reduced memory usage of status messages in bounded queue;
support zero-length queue that stores no messages.
o LOG4J2-1173: Fixed rollover error when copying to a directory mapped to a
remote Linux host.
o LOG4J2-1195: Make KafkaAppender support SerializedLayout. Thanks to Melvin
Du.
o LOG4J2-381: Allow triggering policy and rollover strategy to be modified
during reconfiguration. Thanks to Anthony Baldocchi.
o LOG4J2-1029: Performance improvement when gathering location information.
Thanks to Stefan Leonhartsberger.
o LOG4J2-1172: Fixed ThreadLocal leak [AsyncLogger$Info] on Tomcat when using
AsyncLoggerContextSelector.
o LOG4J2-1176: Fixed memory leak when log4j jars are in Tomcat's lib folder.
o LOG4J2-1180: Logger cache does not account for message factory. Thanks to
Mikael Ståldal.
o LOG4J2-879: Documentation: fixed minor issues with the site and manual pages.
o LOG4J2-999: RollingFileAppender should also roll over when log event time is
equal to rollover time, not only when later. Thanks to Joan Balagueró.
o LOG4J2-873: Fixed bug where omitting the <display-name> element in web.xml
caused incorrect log4j initialization,
resulting in memory leaks when the web application was stopped or
reloaded. Thanks to Martin Dickins, LC, Luke Woodward.
o LOG4J2-323: Better web app support for async loggers: Fixed a memory leak
that occurred when the logging jars are placed
in the container's classpath and the configuration file uses
AsyncRoot/AsyncLogger.
The problem was that the first web application started the Disruptor
background thread [AsyncLoggerConfig-1] but did not stop it until all web apps
are stopped.
Each web application now has its own Disruptor which is stopped/started
together with the web app.
o LOG4J2-493: Better web app support for async loggers: it is now possible to
place the logging jars in the container's
classpath when making all loggers asynchronous by using
AsyncLoggerContextSelector. This fixes a problem where
logging would stop working after stopping and restarting a web
application.
o LOG4J2-1171: Use servlet context name for logger context name when available.
o LOG4J2-1159: Fixed a ThreadLocal memory leak in Tomcat8 that mentions
AsyncLoggers when Async Loggers are not used.
o LOG4J2-1166: AbstractConfiguration executor should use a DaemonThreadFactory.
o LOG4J2-1165: Improve Log4j initialization status messages.
o LOG4J2-1156: Web site corrections and updates.
o LOG4J2-1158: Log4J JUL adapter is using MessageFormat on String passed by
java.util.function.Supplier<String>. Thanks to Michael Fortin, Gary Gregory.
o LOG4J2-801: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger should be serializable.
o LOG4J2-1157: Fix compilation error for classes annotated with @Plugin.
Thanks to Norbert Bartels.
o LOG4J2-948: Fix plugin documentation error about Converters. Thanks to
Andrew Flower.
o LOG4J2-1193: Prefix all thread names Log4j creates with "Log4j2-".
o LOG4J2-1194: Documentation does not match parameters for
LoggerNameLevelRewritePolicy. Thanks to Adam Brin.
o LOG4J2-1196: MongoDbConnection does not close MongoClient. Thanks to René
Zanner.
Changes:
o LOG4J2-649: Add PurgePolicy and IdlePurgePolicy to RoutingAppender. Thanks
to Aleksey Zvolinsky.
o LOG4J2-1202: Remove ConfigurationMonitor. The WatchManager is now used to
check for configuration changes.
o LOG4J2-1174: Update Jackson from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.
o LOG4J2-1207: Update kafka-clients from 0.8.2.2 to 0.9.0.0.
Tag:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;hb=eb814337c4f62b81ef5ba892fe4482466583ff80
<https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;a=tree;hb=eb814337c4f62b81ef5ba892fe4482466583ff80>
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-2.5-rc1”
b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
tags/log4j-2.5-rc1”
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Artifacts:
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wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1017/org/apache/logging/log4j/
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Ralph
