[ANNOUNCE] Apache Log4j `2.25.2` released

Apache Log4j team is pleased to announce the `2.25.2`
release. Apache Log4j is a versatile, industrial-strength
Java logging framework composed of an API, its implementation,
and components to assist the deployment for various use cases.
For further information (support, download, etc.) see the project
website[1].

[1] https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html

== Release Notes

This patch release addresses certain minor issues detailed in the changelog.

=== Fixed

* Fix potential memory leak involving `LogBuilder` in Log4j API
  to Logback bridge (#3819, #3824)
* Prevent unnecessary warnings in
  `AbstractDriverManagerConnectionSource` (#3828, #3831)
* Fix missing newlines in default logging configuration for
  `log4j-core` (#3835, #3851)
* Fix missing default `Target` value in Console Appender (#3852)
* Discard the sub-second part while obtaining the initial time (i.e.,
  creation time) of a file in `RollingFileManager` (#3068, #3872)
* Fix Pattern Layout exception stack trace converters to no longer
  prepend newlines based on context (#3873, #3919)
* Fix the `com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations`
  dependency whose version property gets erased due to flattening
  (#3779, #3785, #3822, #3905)
* Fix detection of `Throwable` converters inside nested Pattern
  Layout patterns when applying `alwaysWriteExceptions` (#3920)
* Fix parsing and merging of literals in
  `InstantPatternDynamicFormatter` (#3930, #3932)