Blogged: https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/log4j-2-8-2-released
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Matt Sicker <mattsic...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.8.2 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 2.8.2 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-282>GA > Release 2.8.2 > > Changes in this version include: > > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#new-features>New > Features > > - LOG4J2-1863 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1863>: Add > support for filtering input in TcpSocketServer and UdpSocketServer. > - LOG4J2-1848 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1848>: Add > JSON encoding support to EncodingPatternConverter %encode{}. > - LOG4J2-1843 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1843>: Add > support for appending common suffix to each line of throwable stack trace. > Thanks to Zilong Song. > - LOG4J2-1838 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1838>: Add > support for appending common suffix to each line of extended and root > throwable stack trace. Thanks to Zilong Song. > > > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#fixed-bugs>Fixed > Bugs > > - LOG4J2-1861 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1861>: Fix > JavaDoc on org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext about inheritance. > - LOG4J2-1862 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1862>: Fix > JavaDoc about @Order and OrderComparator ordering. Thanks to wangyuntao. > - LOG4J2-1849 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1849>: > Fixed daylight savings time issue with FixedDateFormat. > - LOG4J2-1850 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1850>: Fix > CassandraRule and unit tests on Windows. Thanks to Ludovic Hochet. > - LOG4J2-1840 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1840>: Fix > typo in %replace converter documentation. Thanks to Pradeep Balasundaram. > - LOG4J2-1846 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1846>: > Handle when LogEvent.getLoggerName() returns null in > LoggerNameLevelRewritePolicy. > - LOG4J2-1845 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1845>: > Handle when LogEvent.getLoggerName() returns null in KafkaAppender. > - LOG4J2-1853 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1853>: The > default value of RandomAccessFileAppender.Builder append field is > wrong. Thanks to wangyuntao. > - LOG4J2-1835 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1835>: Fix > documentation about the licensing for JeroMQ. > - LOG4J2-1836 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1836>: > Update the API version to 2.6.0. > - LOG4J2-1831 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1831>: > NullPointerException in HtmlLayout. Thanks to Edward Serebrinskiy. > - LOG4J2-1820 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1820>: > Log4j 2.8 can lose exceptions when a security manager is present. Thanks to > Jason Tedor. > > > <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#changes> > Changes > > - LOG4J2-1827 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1827>: > Move integration tests to their own module to speed up build. > - LOG4J2-1856 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1856>: > Update Jackson from 2.8.6 to 2.8.7. > > ------------------------------ > > Apache Log4j 2.8.2 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/ >
