+1 Remko Sent from my iPhone
> On 2016/05/27, at 11:36, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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"; 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 >> >> Artifacts: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1018 >> 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/ >> >> Ralph >> >
