Here is my +1 Ralph
> On May 25, 2016, at 8:21 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a vote to release Log4j 2.6, 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 LOG4J2-1270: (GC) Added support for garbage-free logging in steady state. > This includes Async Loggers and logging synchronously to the console > and to a file, > but does not include the AsyncAppender. This release makes the > GelfLayout and > the main patterns in the PatternLayout garbage-free. > o LOG4J2-1297: (GC) Added manual page on garbage-free logging. > o LOG4J2-1373: (GC) Update Logger wrapper Generator tool to generate methods > for the new Logger methods. > o LOG4J2-1326: (GC) Added methods to the Logger interface for logging > CharSequence messages. > o LOG4J2-1344: (GC) FileAppender, RollingFileAppender and > MemoryMappedFileAppender are now also garbage-free by default. > o LOG4J2-1278: (GC) Added unrolled varargs methods to Logger API, added > Unbox utility to avoid auto-boxing when logging primitive values. > o LOG4J2-1271: (GC) Add MessageFactory that avoid allocation by reusing a > cached ParameterizedMessage instance. > o LOG4J2-1293: (GC) Add interface StringBuilderFormattable to enable > converting Messages and parameters to text without allocating temporary > objects. > ParameterizedMessage, ObjectMessage, SimpleMessage and > ThreadDumpMessage now implement StringBuilderFormattable. > o LOG4J2-1274: (GC) Add encode(LogEvent, ByteBufferDestination) method to > Layout API to enable converting LogEvents to bytes without creating temporary > objects. > o LOG4J2-1362: Added a YAML layout. Thanks to Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1179: Documented benchmark results comparing Log4j 2 performance to > other logging libraries. > o LOG4J2-1011: Document dependencies for layouts. > o LOG4J2-621: Pattern to drop first N package parts. Thanks to Lee Theobald, > Kamal Mettananda, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-494: Support merging configurations to for a composite > configuration. Thanks to Philipp Knobel. > o LOG4J2-1357: Option to not log stack traces for logged Throwables in > GelfLayout. > o LOG4J2-1348: Add an AutoCloseable ThreadContext class: > CloseableThreadContext. Thanks to Greg Thomas, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1299: Add pattern converter for thread id and priority in > PatternLayout. > o LOG4J2-124: Add shutdown methods to LogManager. > o LOG4J2-1221: Added async logger Timeout wait strategy and made this the > default wait strategy for async loggers. > This prevents a rare deadlock that may occur on Solaris. Thanks to > Michael Barker. > o LOG4J2-1080: Added option to discard events below a certain log level if > the async logger ring buffer > or async appender queue is full. > o LOG4J2-1237: Make PatternLayout header and footer accept a pattern. Thanks > to Mike Calmus, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1244: Make header and footer values customizable in JSONLayout. > Thanks to Anshu Garg, Remko Popma, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1245: Make CSV Layout header and footers accept patterns. > o LOG4J2-1192: Dynamic Subject for SMTP Appender. Thanks to Jörg > Bretschneider, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1277: FormattedMessage, MessageFormatMessage and > StringFormattedMessage should support passing in a Locale to ensure > appropriate formatting. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Ludovic Hochet. > o LOG4J2-1303: Add documentation links to runtime dependencies in each > component intro page. > o LOG4J2-1252: JeroMqAppender should support layouts. > o LOG4J2-1217: PatternLayout option to limit length of text. Thanks to Thies > Wellpott. > o LOG4J2-1133: Add JNDI lookup documentation. > o LOG4J2-1169: PatternLayout: Possible variable substitution in equals > substitution parameter. Thanks to Gerald Kritzinger. > > Fixed Bugs: > o LOG4J2-1281: (GC) LoggerConfig.getProperties() should not allocate on each > call. > o LOG4J2-1269: (GC) AsyncLogger should use thread-local translator by > default. > o LOG4J2-623: Generate MDC properties as a JSON map in JSONLayout, with > option to output as list of map entries. > o LOG4J2-1387: Fixed memory leak related to shutdown hook. > o LOG4J2-1382: Copying a MutableLogEvent using Log4jLogEvent.Builder should > not unnecessarily obtain caller location information. > o LOG4J2-1372: XMLLayout indents, but not the first child tag (Event). > Thanks to Kamal Mettananda, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1363: Properties Configuration did not support includeLocation > attribute on Loggers. > o LOG4J2-1263: The ConfigurationSource was not saved for BuiltConfigurations > so monitor interval had no effect. > o LOG4J2-1369: "xz" compression results in plaintext, uncompressed files. > Thanks to Alex Birch, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1368: (Log4j-internal) StatusLogger dropped exceptions when logging > parameterized messages. > o LOG4J2-1336: LoggerFactory in 1.2 API module is not compatible with 1.2. > Thanks to Zbynek Vyskovsky. > o LOG4J2-1354: No configuration reload is triggered under Windows when > replacing the configuration file with one that has older last modified date. > Thanks to Arkadiusz Adolph. > o LOG4J2-1346: Exception from Log4jServletContextListener prevents > jetty-maven-plugin run-forked. > o LOG4J2-1339: (Perf) AsyncLogger performance optimization: avoid calling > instanceof TimestampMessage in hot path. > o LOG4J2-1324: Improve error handling in the Async Logger background thread: > the new default exception handler no longer rethrows the error. > o LOG4J2-1309: Configuration file error does not show cause exception. > o LOG4J2-1289: Change flow logging text from "entry' to "Enter" and "exit" > to "Exit". > o LOG4J2-1284: Made default MessageFactory configurable. > o LOG4J2-1280: Deprecate org.apache.logging.log4j.util.MessageSupplier. > o LOG4J2-1280: Logger methods taking Supplier parameters now correctly > handle cases where the supplied value is a Message. > o LOG4J2-1268: FixedDateFormat was incorrect for formats having MMM with the > French locale. > o LOG4J2-1222: Creation of a LoggerContext will fail if shutdown is in > progress. LogManager will default to SimpleLogger instead. > o LOG4J2-1260: TlsSyslogFrame calculates message length incorrectly. Thanks > to Blake Day, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1258: Async DynamicThresholdFilter does not use the log event's > context map. Thanks to Francis Lalonde. > o LOG4J2-1232: Incorrect log rotation in last week of year. Thanks to > Nikolai. > o LOG4J2-1248: Fixed broken nanotime in pattern layout. > o LOG4J2-908: JSONLayout doesn't add a comma between log events. Thanks to > Konstantinos Liakos, Patrick Flaherty, Robin Coe, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1230: Don't concatenate SYSLOG Messages. Thanks to Vladimir Hudec, > Ralph Goers, Gary Gregory. > o LOG4J2-1238: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.TcpSocketManager and other > classes does not report internal exceptions to the status logger. > o LOG4J2-1212: Fix documentation to specify the correct default wait > strategy used by async loggers. > o LOG4J2-1215: Documentation/XSD inconsistencies. Thanks to Erik Kemperman. > o LOG4J2-1276: LoggerMessageSupplierTest and LoggerSupplierTest are Locale > sensitive. Thanks to Ludovic Hochet. > o LOG4J2-1251: Fix JUL bridge issue where LogRecord.getParameters() is used > when null. Thanks to Romain Manni-Bucau. > o LOG4J2-1254: Fix typo in Flow Tracing documentation. Thanks to Josh Trow. > o LOG4J2-920: ClassNotFoundException for BundleContextSelector when > initialising in an OSGi environment. Thanks to Ludovic Hochet. > o LOG4J2-1275: Fix RollingAppenderNoUnconditionalDeleteTest repeat test runs > from failing. Thanks to Ludovic Hochet. > o LOG4J2-1262: Stop throwing unnecessary exception in > Log4jServletContextListener.contextDestroyed(). > o LOG4J2-1227: NullPointerException in MapLookup.lookup if the event is > null. Thanks to Olivier Lemasle. > o LOG4J2-1050: Add a Log4jLookup class to help write log files relative to > log4j2.xml. Thanks to Adam Retter. > o LOG4J2-1310: JndiLookup mindlessly casts to String and should use > String.valueOf(). > o LOG4J2-248: Log4jWebInitializerImpl: Use Thread instead of Class for > fallback classloader. > o LOG4J2-1330: Fix NoClassDefFoundError in ReflectionUtil on Google App > Engine. > > Changes: > o LOG4J2-1356: (GC) GelfLayout does now support garabage-free logging (with > compressionType=OFF). > o LOG4J2-1343: (GC) ConsoleAppender is now garbage-free by default. This > logic is reusable for all AbstractOutputStreamAppender subclasses. > o LOG4J2-1318: (GC) Avoid allocating unnecessary temporary objects in > LoggerContext's getLogger methods. > o LOG4J2-1333: (GC) Avoid allocating unnecessary temporary objects in > MarkerManager's getMarker methods. > o LOG4J2-1321: (GC) Avoid allocating unnecessary temporary objects in > PatternLayout's NamePatternConverter and ClassNamePatternConverter. > o LOG4J2-1271: (GC) ParameterizedMessage optimizations to avoid or at least > postpone allocating temporary objects. > o LOG4J2-1283: (GC) Provide ThreadLocal-based gc-free caching mechanism in > DatePatternConverter for non-webapps. > o LOG4J2-1291: (GC) Update PatternLayout to utilize gc-free mechanism for > LogEvent processing. > o LOG4J2-1292: (GC) Update RandomAccessFileAppender and > RollingRandomAccessFileAppender to utilize gc-free Layout.encode() method. > o LOG4J2-1272: (GC) Improve LoggerConfig's data structure for > AppenderControl objects to avoid allocating temporary objects during > traversal for each log event. > o LOG4J2-1375: Update SLF4J from 1.7.13 to 1.7.21. > o LOG4J2-1374: Migrate tests from Logback 1.1.3 to 1.1.7. > o LOG4J2-1384: Update Apache Commons CSV from 1.2 to 1.3. > o LOG4J2-1365: (Log4j-internal) Provide message text as CharSequence for > some message types to optimize some layouts. > o LOG4J2-1345: (Doc) Clarify documentation for properties that control Log4j > behaviour. > o LOG4J2-1255: Add enhanced entry and exit methods. > o LOG4J2-1380: Update Jackson from 2.7.3 to 2.7.4. > o LOG4J2-1304: Update Jackson from 2.7.0 to 2.7.2. > o LOG4J2-1253: Update LMAX Disruptor from 3.3.2 to 3.3.4. > o LOG4J2-1219: Update SLF4J from 1.7.12 to 1.7.13. > o LOG4J2-1239: Update Jackson from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4. > o LOG4J2-1249: Update Jackson from 2.6.4 to 2.7.0. > o LOG4J2-1351: Update Jackson from 2.7.2 to 2.7.3. > o LOG4J2-1240: Update Liquibase from 3.3.5 to 3.4.2. > o LOG4J2-1294: Update Kafka client from 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.1. > o LOG4J2-1352: Update javax.mail from 1.5.4 to 1.5.5. > o LOG4J2-1358: Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.10 to 1.11. > o LOG4J2-1388: Update Google java-allocation-instrumenter from 3.0 to 3.0.1. > o LOG4J2-1233: Misleading Value In Properties Example. Thanks to Bahri > Gencsoy. > o LOG4J2-1300: Remove serializability from classes that don't need it. > o LOG4J2-1306: JeroMqAppender should use ShutdownCallbackRegistry instead of > runtime hooks. > o LOG4J2-1308: Remove need to pre-specify appender et al. identifiers in > property file config format. > o LOG4J2-1206: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext#updateLoggers > should call firePropertyChangeEvent. > o LOG4J2-1322: Update Log4j 1.x migration guide to include information about > system property lookup syntax changes. > > Tag: > > 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-2.6-rc1” > b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout > tags/log4j-2.6-rc1” > Web Site: > <http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html>http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html > <http://rgoers.github.io/log4j2-site/index.html> > > Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1018 > <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-1018/org/apache/logging/log4j/ > > <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1018/org/apache/logging/log4j/> > Ralph > >
