I'm digging the new announcement format! I saw the font and immediately though "Isn't that what they use at GitHub?" :P
On 3 March 2017 at 01:58, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > Blogged: https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/log4j-2-8-1-released > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > >> The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.8.1 release! >> >> Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. >> Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over >> its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many other modern features such as >> support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy logging, property >> substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on a PatternLayout and >> asynchronous Loggers. Another notable Log4j 2 feature is the ability to be >> "garbage-free" (avoid allocating temporary objects) while logging. In >> addition, Log4j 2 will not lose events while reconfiguring. >> >> This release primarily contains bugfixes and minor enhancements. More >> details on the new features and fixes are itemized below. >> >> Note that subsequent to the 2.6 release a minor source incompatibility >> was found due to the addition of new methods to the Logger interface. If >> you have code that does: >> >> logger.error(null, “This is the log message”, throwable); >> >> or similar with any log level you will get a compiler error saying the >> reference is ambiguous. To correct this either do: >> >> logger.error(“This is the log message”, throwable); >> >> or >> >> logger.error((Marker) null, “This is the log message”, throwable); >> >> The Log4j 2.8.1 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary >> compatibility with previous releases. >> >> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#ga-release-281>GA >> Release 2.8.1 >> >> Changes in this version include: >> >> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#new-features>New >> Features >> >> - LOG4J2-1823 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1823>: >> Remove deprecation on MessageSupplier lambda functions in Logger API. >> - LOG4J2-1807 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1807>: >> [core] Add and implement LogEvent.toImmutable(). >> >> >> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#fixed-bugs>Fixed >> Bugs >> >> - LOG4J2-1804 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1804>: >> Allow %i in file pattern to be preceded with characters other than just >> '-'. Thanks to Pierrick Hymbert. >> - LOG4J2-1816 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1816>: >> Change minOccur to minOccurs in Log4j-config.xsd. Thanks to >> shubhankar1100. >> - LOG4J2-1803 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1803>: >> Fix Maven POM to ensure JMH generated classes in log4j-perf are included >> in >> benchmarks jar. >> - LOG4J2-1800 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1800>: >> Report errors when sending to Kafka when using syncSend=false. Thanks to >> Vincent Tieleman. >> - LOG4J2-1805 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1805>: >> Fixed rare race condition in FixedDateFormat, made >> FixedDateFormat::millisSinceMidnight method public. >> - LOG4J2-1799 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1799>: >> Fixed bug in PropertiesUtil::getCharsetProperty that caused >> UnsupportedCharsetException for ConsoleAppender. Thanks to Eduard >> Gizatullin. >> - LOG4J2-1806 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1806>: >> Fix Javadoc for DefaultRolloverStrategy::purgeAscending Thanks to >> challarao. >> - LOG4J2-1818 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1818>: >> Fix rollover to work when filePattern contains no directory components. >> Thanks to xkr47. >> >> >> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#changes> >> Changes >> >> - LOG4J2-1822 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1822>: >> Update SLF4J to 1.7.24. >> - LOG4J2-1812 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1812>: >> Improved error message when log4j 2 configuration file not found. >> - LOG4J2-1810 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1810>: >> Update to use Logback 1.1.10 and then Logback 1.2 for tests. >> - LOG4J2-1819 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1819>: >> Update Jackson from 2.8.5 to 2.8.6. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Apache Log4j 2.8.1 requires a minimum of Java 7 to build and run. Log4j >> 2.3 was the last release that supported Java 6. >> >> Basic compatibility with Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j-1.2-api >> component, however it does not implement some of the very implementation >> specific classes and methods. The package names and Maven groupId have been >> changed to org.apache.logging.log4j to avoid any conflicts with log4j 1.x. >> >> For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how >> to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the >> Apache Apache Log4j 2 website: >> https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ >> > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
