Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Log4j 2.8.1 released

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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 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Blogged: https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/log4j-2-8-1-released
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
> 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 ov=
er
>> 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, =E2=80=9CThis is the log message=E2=80=9D, 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(=E2=80=9CThis is the log message=E2=80=9D, throwable);
>>
>> or
>>
>> logger.error((Marker) null, =E2=80=9CThis is the log message=E2=80=9D, t=
hrowable);
>>
>> 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#g=
a-release-281>GA
>> Release 2.8.1
>>
>> Changes in this version include:
>>
>> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#n=
ew-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#f=
ixed-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 ju=
st
>>    '-'. Thanks to Pierrick Hymbert.
>>    - LOG4J2-1816 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1816>:
>>    Change minOccur to minOccurs in Log4j-config.xsd. Thanks to shubhanka=
r1100.
>>    - LOG4J2-1803 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1803>:
>>    Fix Maven POM to ensure JMH generated classes in log4j-perf are inclu=
ded in
>>    benchmarks jar.
>>    - LOG4J2-1800 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1800>:
>>    Report errors when sending to Kafka when using syncSend=3Dfalse. Than=
ks 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 component=
s.
>>    Thanks to xkr47.
>>
>>
>> <https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#c=
hanges>
>> 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 b=
een
>> changed to org.apache.logging.log4j to avoid any conflicts with log4j 1.=
x.
>>
>> For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on ho=
w
>> to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the
>> Apache Apache Log4j 2 website:
>> https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
>>
>
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