Would it be possible to expose the artifacts in some publicly available
Maven repository? That would make it easier to test it.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
> Tested with our projects.
>
> On 6 December 2015 at 19:46, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a vote to release Log4j 2.5, 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 and we encourage everyone to test the release, 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 LOG4J2-435:  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
>>
>> 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-2.5-rc1”
>> b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout
>> tags/log4j-2.5-rc1”
>>
>> Web Site: http://people.apache.org/~rgoers/log4j2/
>>
>> Artifacts: 
>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1017
>>
>> 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-1017/org/apache/logging/log4j/
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>



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