Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Logging log4j 2.0-beta2 released

Hello,

I just forwarded this to [email protected]

I can only remind how important sending the release announcement to
announce@ is - let us add this recipient to our defaults for
announcments please :-)

In addition, I posted it to our blog.

Thanks for the hard work!

Cheers
Christian

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Apache Logging team is pleased to announce the Apache log4j 2.0-beta2
> 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 of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent
> problems in Logback's
> architecture.
>
> This is the fourth release of Log4j 2 and is being made available to
> encourage use and feedback from the community.
>
> Bug fixes and enhancements
>
> Changes in this version include:
>
> New features:
> o LOG4J2-35:  Add interval and modulate options to TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
> to allow more fine-grained control of
>         when file rolling should occur.
> o LOG4J2-58:  Add support for filtering packages from stack traces.
> o LOG4J2-84:  If system property "disableThreadContextStack" is set pushes
> to the ThreadContext will be ignored. If
>         system property "disableThreadContext" is set both puts and pushes
> will be ignored.
> o LOG4J2-83:  If system property "disableThreadContextMap" is set puts to
> the ThreadContext will be ignored. If
>         system property "disableThreadContext" is set both puts and pushes
> will be ignored.
> o Add support for ANSI colors by adding the highlight and style pattern
> converters. Fix pattern
>         parsing to allow nested patterns.
> o Allow the status logging to be directed to stderr or to a file.
> o Add getFormats to MultiformatMessage and allow StructuredDataMessage to
> format as XML.
>
> Fixed Bugs:
> o DefaultConfiguration was not starting the Console Appender.
> o LOG4J2-92:  Converted DynamicThresholdFilter to use KeyValuePair. Fixed
> bugs in the Map-based filters
>         to allow declaration of multiple values for a key to match the
> documentation.
> o LOG4J2-88:  Many logging methods in AbstractLogger were set to an
> incorrect logging level. catching was
>         using the THROWING marker and was set to debug instead of error.
> o LOG4J2-91:  Log4j 1.2 adapter's Category class was missing 3 log methods.
> o LOG4J2-84:  If the ThreadContext stack is empty the LogEvent will contain
> a null value to reduce the overhead of
>         creating log events and in the size of the serialized object.
> Changed the ThreadContext stack to use
>         a custom stack interface instead of java.util.Stack as that class is
> overly heavy. This change will
>         cause an API incompatibility.
> o LOG4J2-83:  If the ThreadContext map is empty the LogEvent will contain a
> null value to reduce the overhead of creating
>         log events and in the size of the serialized object.
> o LOG4J2-90:  Add documentation on client vs server mode to performance
> page.
> o Move variable substitution from PatternLayout to appropriate converters to
> improve performance.
>
> Changes:
> o Made ParameterizedMessage, StringFormattedMessage and ThreadDumpMessage
> immutable. LocalizedMessage is
>         immutable except that it will be updated with the logger name when
> it is added to the LogEvent.
>
> Apache Log4j 2.0-beta2 requires a minimum of Java 5 to build and run. Basic
> compatibility with
> Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j12-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:
>
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/



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