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| Apache Log4j 2.0-beta1 RELEASE NOTES |
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| The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta1 release! |
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| Apache Log4j 2.0-beta1 requires a minimum of Java 5 to build and run. Basic compatibility with |
| Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j12-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. |
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| Bug fixes and enhancements |
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| Changes in this version include: |
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| New features: |
| o Added AsynchAppender. |
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| Fixed Bugs: |
| o LOG4J-81: PatternLayout was not honoring format modifiers. |
| o Created web module to allow web applications to include the Log4j context listener in WEB-INF/lib even if |
| Log4j is in the container's class path. Allow locating the LoggerContext to include the ClassLoader. Updated |
| the Loader utility to always choose the child ClassLoader. Verified in Jboss 5 and Tomcat. |
| o LOG4J2-82: MarkerFilter called MarkerManager.getMarker causing the Marker to be created during the processing of the |
| configuration. This prevents the application from creating the Marker with any parents. MarkerWrapper in |
| SLF4J-impl was getting a ClassCastException in instanceOf because the Marker isn't a MarkerWrapper. |
| o LOG4J2-80: Allow Log4j 2 to be used as the implementation with SLF4J and SLF4J's jcl-over-slf4j by adding filtering |
| to the log method in SLF4JLogger. Thanks to Oliver Lamy. |
| o LOG4J2-78: LogFactoryImpl.setAttribute in the Commons Logging bridge got a NullPointerException when passed a null value. |
| It will now remove the attribute. |
| o LOG4J2-77: RoutingAppender was calling the stop method for each of its referenced Appenders and was calling |
| the stop method of the default Appender a second time. It will now only call the stop method of |
| Appenders it creates. |
| o LOG4J2-76: RewriteAppender was calling the stop method of the referenced appender causing the referenced appender's |
| manager to have its use count decremented too many times. |
| o LOG4J2-74: Logger.error(Marker, Message, Throwable) was internally using Level.TRACE. |
| o LOG4J2-75: Enhanced Log4jContextListener to accept a configuration file location. Modified FileConfigurationMonitor |
| to monitor files configured that way. Fixed other reconfiguration related bugs. Tested in JBoss and |
| Tomcat. |
| o LOG4J2-72: NullPointerException in RollingFileManager when filePattern does not cause the file to be compressed. |
| o LOG4J2-71: FileRenameAction did not create the parent directories of the archive files causing the rollover to fail. |
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| Changes: |
| o Update the versions of SLF4J and Logback. |
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| 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: |
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| http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ |
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