Prepare for release
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
index f5e7295..938ccab 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
- Apache Log4j 2.6.1 RELEASE NOTES
+ Apache Log4j 2.6.2 RELEASE NOTES
-The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.6.1 release!
+The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.6.2 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 other modern features such as support for Markers, property substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on
-a PatternLayout and asynchronous Loggers. In addition, Log4j 2 will not lose events while reconfiguring.
+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 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 is the eleventh GA release. It is primarily a bugfix release. More details on the fixes are itemized below.
+This is the twelfth GA release. It is primarily a bugfix release. More details on the
+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:
+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, “This is the log message”, throwable);
-or similar with any log level you will get a compiler error saying the reference is ambiguous. To correct this either do:
+or similar with any log level you will get a compiler error saying the reference is ambiguous.
+To correct this either do:
logger.error(“This is the log message”, throwable);
@@ -23,35 +27,35 @@
logger.error((Marker) null, “This is the log message”, throwable);
-Log4j 2.6 maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
+Log4j 2.6.2 maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
-GA Release 2.6.1
+GA Release 2.6.2
Changes in this version include:
New features:
-o LOG4J2-1411: Add documentation about plugin builders compared to factories.
+o LOG4J2-1395: Add "direct" option to ConsoleAppender for increased performance.
+o LOG4J2-1437: (GC) ObjectMessage and ReusableObjectMessage now avoid calling toString() on auto-boxed primitive parameters.
+o LOG4J2-1415: (GC) ParameterFormatter now avoids calling toString() on auto-boxed primitive message parameters.
+o LOG4J2-1412: Unbox utility's ringbuffer of StringBuilders is now configurable.
Fixed Bugs:
-o LOG4J2-1405: OnStartupTriggeringPolicy was forcing a rollover of empty files at startup and would append a
- second footer that was added by the prior shutdown.
-o LOG4J2-1406: Fixed bug in ReusableParameterizedMessage where Throwable was never updated so first error was logged over
- and over again and subsequent errors were not logged. Thanks to Trask Stalnaker.
-o LOG4J2-1409: Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that may occur in ReusableParameterizedMessage. Thanks to Shahan.
-o LOG4J2-997: Add filter and remove filter were not working properly in AbstractFilterable. Thanks to Maytee Chinavanichkit.
-o LOG4J2-1032: Change RenameAction to use java.nio to better report rename failures.
-o LOG4J2-1407: Misleading WARN log events from Log4j about message factories and unexpected formatting. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
-o LOG4J2-1408: The module log4j-liquibase is missing from BOM POM. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
-o LOG4J2-1180: Logger cache does not account for message factory. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
-o LOG4J2-1402: Fix regression in properties configuration to support arbitrary component ids.
+o LOG4J2-1414: Fixed minor issues with the 2.6.1 web site. Thanks to Ralph Goers.
+o LOG4J2-1434: Ensure that the thread-local StringBuilders used by Layouts to format log events to text will not
+ retain excessive memory after a large message was logged. Thanks to Luke Butters.
+o LOG4J2-1418: Provide MessageFactory2 to custom Logger implementations.
+o LOG4J2-1420: RollingRandomAccessFileManager was not properly rolling over on startup and was getting a NullPointerException.
+o LOG4J2-1417: Fixed issue where Unbox utility ignored the value Constants.ENABLE_THREADLOCALS and always stored non-JDK classes in ThreadLocals.
+o LOG4J2-1422: Fixed issue where AsyncAppenderQueueFullPolicyTest sometimes hangs.
+o LOG4J2-1445: OnStartupTriggeringPolicyTest fails on Windows saying the file is used by another process. Thanks to Ludovic HOCHET.
Changes:
-o LOG4J2-1385: (GC) CSV layouts should not create a new CSVPrinter for each log event. Requires Apache Commons CSV 1.4.
-o LOG4J2-1398: Update liquibase-core from 3.4.2 to 3.5.1.
-o LOG4J2-1399: Update Apache Commons CSV from 1.3 to 1.4.
+o LOG4J2-1432: Update Jackson from 2.7.4 to 2.7.5.
+o LOG4J2-1433: Update Jansi from 1.11 to 1.13.
+o LOG4J2-1444: Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.11 to 1.12.
-Apache Log4j 2.6.1 requires a minimum of Java 7 to build and run. Log4j 2.3 was the last release that
+Apache Log4j 2.6.2 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
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c2be939..cfb5161 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@
<properties>
<!-- make sure to update these for each release! -->
<log4jParentDir>${basedir}</log4jParentDir>
- <Log4jReleaseVersion>2.6.1</Log4jReleaseVersion>
- <Log4jReleaseCount>eleventh</Log4jReleaseCount>
+ <Log4jReleaseVersion>2.6.2</Log4jReleaseVersion>
+ <Log4jReleaseCount>twelfth</Log4jReleaseCount>
<Log4jReleaseManager>Ralph Goers</Log4jReleaseManager>
<Log4jReleaseKey>B3D8E1BA</Log4jReleaseKey>
<!-- <Log4jReleaseManager>Matt Sicker</Log4jReleaseManager>
diff --git a/src/changes/announcement.vm b/src/changes/announcement.vm
index e2a4ef6..632fc5b 100644
--- a/src/changes/announcement.vm
+++ b/src/changes/announcement.vm
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
logger.error((Marker) null, “This is the log message”, throwable);
-Log4j 2.6 maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
+Log4j 2.6.2 maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
## Hack to improve layout: replace all pairs of spaces with a single new-line
$release.description.replaceAll(" ", "
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 9970d34..32bc6e7 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
<title>Changes</title>
</properties>
<body>
- <release version="2.6.2" date="2016-MM-DD" description="GA Release 2.6.2">
+ <release version="2.6.2" date="2016-07-05" description="GA Release 2.6.2">
<action issue="LOG4J2-904" dev="rgoers" due-to="Bernhard Mähr">
If copy and delete fails in rename action then resort to truncating the source file after copying it.
</action>
