Re: [VOTE] Release Log4j 2.25.4

Gary Gregory <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:50:32 -0400
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 05:50 Piotr P. Karwasz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On 25.03.2026 10:32, [email protected] wrote:
> > The ATR release candidate page, including downloads, can be found at:
> >
> >   https://release-test.apache.org/vote/logging-log4j/2.25.4
>
>
> You'll find a lot of failed checks on this page. The main reason for
> that, is that the content of our source and binary archive is not
> wrapped in a directory.
>

Hi Piotr,

Thank you for preparing the RC.

Does that mean all the RAT check failures about missing license headers are
incorrect?

Gary


> We'll fix that in future releases, since I plan to:
>
> - Use `git archive` to generate the source archive.
> - Drop the binary archive completely: less than 1 user in 10,000
> downloads JARs from our website.
> - We'll consider a SLSA Provenance attestation to prove the authenticity
> of the artifacts in Central instead.
>
> Piotr
>