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List:       apache-logging-general
Subject:    Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Log4j 2.0-beta9 released
From:       Ralph Goers <ralph.goers () dslextreme ! com>
Date:       2013-09-22 4:09:15
Message-ID: D2FFE42C-DFBB-4E9C-A6B3-5D2885BF2BAE () dslextreme ! com
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I have to send two separate announcements - one to the logging lists using my \
"normal" email address and one to announce@apache.org using my apache email address.

Ralph

On Sep 21, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:

> Blogged, Tweeted, Plus-ed.
> 
> However it looks like this announcement just went to announce@apache.org
> - was this the plan?
> 
> Ralph Goers schrieb:
> > The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta9 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 eleventh 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 LOG4J2-399:  Allow the default file rollover strategy to define the compression \
> > level.  o LOG4J2-338:  Add TLSAppender. Also added missing license headers to \
> > several files. Thanks to Tibor Benke.  o LOG4J2-253:  Added FAQ page to the site. \
> >  o LOG4J2-362:  Add a diagram to the site (FAQ page) that explains when to use \
> > which jar.  o LOG4J2-374:  Add more options to PatternLayout to display more \
> > detailed information about a Throwable. Thanks to Tibor Benke.  o LOG4J2-383:  \
> > [Pattern Layout] Customize level names by length.  o LOG4J2-384:  [Pattern \
> > Layout] Customize level names to lower-case.  o LOG4J2-364:  Add WebLookup to \
> > retrieve information from the ServletContext. Thanks to David Nault.  o \
> > LOG4J2-360:  Allow Plugins to have aliases.  o LOG4J2-356:  Create a JSON Layout. \
> >  o LOG4J2-341:  Enable XInclude for XML configurations. 
> > o LOG4J2-313:  Add JNDILookup plugin. Thanks to Woonsan Ko. 
> > o LOG4J2-305:  Ease porting from 1.x Logger.getRootLogger(): add \
> > LogManager.getRootLogger().  
> > Fixed Bugs:
> > o LOG4J2-226:  Fix table of contents generation in pdf. 
> > o LOG4J2-395:  Allow classpath scheme when specifying configuration file location \
> > as a system property. Thanks to Abhinav Shah.  o LOG4J2-393:  Initialize \
> > PluginManager once during configuration. Move advertisement setup into \
> > BaseConfiguration.  o LOG4J2-391:  FlumePersistentManager now handles \
> > LockConflictExceptions in Berkeley Db. Thanks to Kamal Bahadur.  o LOG4J2-380:  \
> > Use rollover date when substituting ${date} in the filePattern.  o LOG4J2-322:  \
> > Centralized reflective use of Reflection#getCallerClass and properly handled its \
> > instability in various versions of Java. 
> > o LOG4J2-293:  Reset the Configuration if the ClassLoaderContextSelector creates \
> > a LoggerContext without a configuration location and then is later provided one. 
> > o LOG4J2-293:  Changed the ConfigurationFactory to recognize and properly use the \
> >                 classpath: URI scheme in addition to the
> > classloader: URI scheme. Thanks to Abhinav Shah. 
> > o LOG4J2-359:  Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer so that it does nothing \
> > in a Servlet 2.5 or older application. This ensures behavioral consistency across \
> > containers. Thanks to Abhinav Shah.  o LOG4J2-310:  Fixed issue where \
> > SMTPAppender did not send mails with error or fatal level without prior info \
> > event. Thanks to Olivier Lemasle.  o LOG4J2-368:  Add PatternLayout constructor \
> > to Log4j 1.2 bridge for Velocity.  o LOG4J2-333:  Match artifact ids with Maven \
> > module names. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy.  o LOG4J2-367:  JMS appenders send two \
> > messages for one append. Thanks to David Parry.  o LOG4J2-319:  Double stack \
> > trace logging when using %throwable in %style and %highlight.  o LOG4J2-358:  \
> > NoSQLAppender using MongoDB provider ignores username and password attributes  o \
> > LOG4J2-343:  Removed unnecessary generics from Appender interface and \
> > implementing classes. Thanks to Henning Schmiedehausen.  o LOG4J2-351:  [OSGi] \
> > wrong Fragment-Host in manifest files. Thanks to Roland Weiglhofer.  o \
> > LOG4J2-336:  AsyncLogger errors after multiple calls to \
> > LoggerContext.reconfigure(). Thanks to Andre Bogus.  o LOG4J2-347:  Give the \
> > AsyncAppender thread a more descriptive name for easier debugging/profiling. \
> > Thanks to David Phillips.  o LOG4J2-332:  Modified documentation to refer to \
> > SLF4J Binding instead of SLF4J Bridge. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy.  o LOG4J2-342:  \
> > Ignore xml:base attributes.  o LOG4J2-309:  Insure jars and distributions only \
> > have a single License and Notice file.  o LOG4J2-320:  JPAAppender stops logging \
> > because META-INF/log4j-provider.properties is left open.  o LOG4J2-335:  \
> > FlumePersistentManager's writer thread had high CPU usage.  o LOG4J2-331:  \
> > Removed erroneous check for affected MongoDB records, which always returns zero \
> > on inserts.  o LOG4J2-330:  Added a BSON Transformer so that MongoDB can persist \
> > Log4j events.  o LOG4J2-329:  StatusLogger now only creates StatusData objects if \
> > they are the appropriate logging level.  o LOG4J2-328:  FlumePersistentManager \
> > was calling Berkeley DB's count method too frequently.  o LOG4J2-280:  Additional \
> > fix to make AsyncAppender threads daemon threads and improve their thread name.  \
> > o LOG4J2-165:  The slf4j-ext jar is now an optional dependency of the SLF4J \
> > bridge.  o LOG4J2-166:  RoutingAppender's default Route can now be an appender \
> > reference.  o LOG4J2-299:  Add getThrowable method to ThrowableProxy. 
> > o LOG4J2-216:  ThrowableProxy no longer extends Throwable. 
> > o LOG4J2-311:  Synchronized flush() and close() methods in the XxxFileManager and \
> > OutputStreamManager classes.  o LOG4J2-304:  Fixed Async Loggers memory leak. 
> > o LOG4J2-291:  Fixed JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL appenders so that the failover appender \
> > properly fails over on error.  o LOG4J2-397:  Logger.info(Message) Javadoc is \
> > incorrect. Thanks to Yonatan Graber.  
> > Changes:
> > o LOG4J2-317:  Renamed FastFileAppender and FastRollingFileAppender to \
> > RandomAccessFileAppender and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender. Configurations \
> > using the Fast(Rolling)File element no longer work and should be modified to use \
> > the (Rolling)RandomAccessFile element.  o Changed the "suppressExceptions" \
> > configuration attribute for all Appenders to "ignoreExceptions" to avoid \
> > confusion with Java 7 suppressed exceptions. Also renamed the \
> > Appender#isExceptionSuppressed() method to Appender#ignoreExceptions() to avoid \
> > the same confusion. All Appenders by default internally log and then ignore \
> > exceptions encountered while logging. Setting "ignoreExceptions" to "false" on an \
> > Appender causes it to allow exceptions to propagate to the caller. You must set \
> > "ignoreExceptions" to "false" for Appenders you are wrapping in the Failover \
> > Appender.  o Changed the (relatively new) PatternLayout configuration attribute \
> > "suppressExceptions" to "alwaysWriteExceptions" to more correctly indicate what \
> > it does. As such, the meaning of this attribute has reversed (previous "true"s \
> > should become "false"s, and vice versa). Since this was an undocumented attribute \
> > up until now, it's unlikely this change will affect any users. 
> > o LOG4J2-355:  Add support for multiple SD-ELEMENTs in a RFC 5424 syslog message. \
> > Thanks to Tibor Benke.  o Cleaned up tests and cleared up documentation for the \
> > JPA appender following the resolution of EclipseLink issue #412454. 
> > o LOG4J2-318:  Allow shutdown hook to be disabled in the configuration. 
> > o LOG4J2-312:  XML layout improvements (compact vs. pretty, namespace, namespace \
> > prefix, root element).  o LOG4J2-388:  Update Java Mail dependency to 1.5.0 from \
> > 1.4.7.  o LOG4J2-325:  Update JDBC tests to use H2 database 1.3.173 from 1.3.172. \
> >  o LOG4J2-366:  Update commons-logging to 1.1.3 from 1.1.1. 
> > o LOG4J2-390:  Update HSQLDB dependency to 2.3.0 from 2.2.9. 
> > o LOG4J2-308:  Clarified which library versions were used in Async Loggers \
> > performance test.  o LOG4J2-307:  Updated Async Loggers' LMAX Disruptor library \
> > from 3.0.1 to 3.2.0.  o LOG4J2-306:  Update JSON Jackson library to 2.2.2 from \
> > 2.2.1.  o LOG4J2-387:  Update Jackson dependency to 1.9.13 from 1.9.11. 
> > o Improved site by adding quick jump-off page and menu for Javadoc links for all \
> > components.  
> > 
> > Apache Log4j 2.0-beta9 requires a minimum of Java 6 to build and run. 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: 
> > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
> > 
> > 


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