That changes because that's how the template is configured: <
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/src/changes/announcement.vm#L94>.
It could be changed to whatever. The template should be a bit simpler to
figure out now that it's been macro'd a bit.

On 2 February 2017 at 14:45, Mikael Ståldal <mikael.stal...@magine.com>
wrote:

> It is a bit confusing that "update" in changes.xml translates to "Changes"
> in release notes. Why is it so?
>
> On Jan 28, 2017 1:16 AM, "Remko Popma" <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When you say change, you mean update? (I thought there were only 4
>> categories: add, fix, update and delete.)
>>
>>  I don't mind using the update category for improvements in the future,
>> just that the difference between new feature and improvement is
>> sometimes not clear-cut.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2017, at 3:58, Apache <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wouldn’t call making GelfLayout independent of Jackson a new feature
>> since it wouldn’t affect the external behavior other than the dependencies.
>> I would have marked it as a change. I would have done the same with all the
>> “Avoid allocating temporary objects” issues. The way I look at it, is if it
>> is something that is really new, such as an additional parameter or new
>> external or internal component, then it belongs as a new feature. If it
>> fixes a reported bug then it is a fix. Pretty much everything else is a
>> change.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was looking over the changelog for 2.8 and noticed some things in the
>> "Fixed Bugs" section that sound like they'd be more appropriate in the "New
>> features" section such as:
>>
>> * Added Builder classes (e.g., GelfLayout)
>> * Make GelfLayout independent of Jackson (that is totally a new feature!)
>> * Added CleanableThreadContextMap (not only is it a new feature, it's a
>> new log4j-api class!)
>> * Any new options added to plugins (e.g., disableAnsi in PatternLayout)
>> * Configurable JVM shutdown hook timeout
>> * Garbage-free changes (unless you consider garbage objects to be a bug
>> now?)
>>
>> Also, this isn't such a big deal, but when we do more than two dependency
>> version upgrades within a single release, it might be clearer to combine
>> them into a single ticket (e.g., Jackson makes a bit more releases than we
>> do, so we usually end up with multiple Jackson upgrade tickets in the
>> changelog which isn't very helpful to a user).
>>
>> --
>> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>


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