update 1.8.1 release notes
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* Tomcat 10 users need to deploy the axis2 into the webapps-javaee folder
as explained here: https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-10.html#Migrating_from_9.0.x_to_10.0.x.
+
+* As explained in AXIS2-4311, the same package name org.apache.axis2.transport was
+ in both the kernel and transport modules. This broke both OSGI support and the Java 9
+ modules feature. The kernel version of this package was renamed to
+ org.apache.axis2.kernel.
+
+ Users are strongly encouraged to update their axis2.xml since the package name
+ changed for the classes org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.XFormURLEncodedFormatter,
+ org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.MultipartFormDataFormatter,
+ org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.ApplicationXMLFormatter,
+ org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.SOAPMessageFormatter,
+ and org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.SOAPMessageFormatter.
+
+ Any code references for the HTTPConstants class needs to be updated to
+ org.apache.axis2.kernel.http.HTTPConstants.
+
+* All dependencies were updated to the latest version where it was easily
+ possible to do so. Users are strongly encouraged to manage and update
+ their pom.xml for updates themselves and not wait for the Axis2 team, since
+ CVE's occur so often it is impractical to do a release for every update.
+
+ We will do our best and try to release as frequently as possible. However,
+ do not wait for us on zero day exploits - just update your pom.xml.
+
+
+<h2> Bug
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4311'>AXIS2-4311</a>] - Axis2 OSGi bundles have split packages
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5986'>AXIS2-5986</a>] - Content-Type start-info action not parsed correctly
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6010'>AXIS2-6010</a>] - Can't start server on standalone version with JDK 16
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6011'>AXIS2-6011</a>] - axis2-1.0.jar not found in axis2.war
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6013'>AXIS2-6013</a>] - Apache Axis2 1.8.0 seems to have DEBUG level logging enabled by default
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6014'>AXIS2-6014</a>] - Error while generating java code from WSDL
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6015'>AXIS2-6015</a>] - Java code generated from WSDL does not compile if a "string" element is defined
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6022'>AXIS2-6022</a>] - XMLBeans binding extension not in classpath error when generating code using Axis2 1.8.0
+</li>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6033'>AXIS2-6033</a>] - wsdl import locations are not getting updated correctly if wsdl is we are importing .wsdl file in wsdl file
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Improvement
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5857'>AXIS2-5857</a>] - Log4j 1.x has reached EOL
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2> Test
+</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-6028'>AXIS2-6028</a>] - Remove Qpid from JMS transport unit test
+</li>
+</ul>
+
