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| Apache Log4j 2.0-beta4 RELEASE NOTES |
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| The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.0-beta4 release! |
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| Apache Log4j 2.0-beta4 requires a minimum of Java 5 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. |
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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 Log4j 2 to SLF4J adapter. |
| o LOG4J2-131: Add SMTPAppender. Thanks to Scott Severtson. |
| o Added hostName and contextName to property map. |
| o Add MessageFormatMessage and FormattedMessage. |
| o LOG4J2-134: Use %red, %white, %blue, and so on in the console appender. |
| o LOG4J2-133: Allow custom message creation via a message factory. |
| o Added Flume Appender samples. |
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| Fixed Bugs: |
| o LOG4J2-156: LocalizedMessageTest fails on linux system. Thanks to Andreas Born. |
| o LOG4J2-152: RollingFileAppender's FileRenameAction was throwing a NullPointerException if no directory was specified |
| on the target file name. Thanks to Remko Popma. |
| o LOG4J2-150: Convert all System.getProperty calls to use PropertiesUtil to suppress SecurityExceptions. |
| o LOG4J2-147: ThreadContextMapFilter was matching on the key instead of the value of the key. Thanks to William Burns. |
| o Allow FlumeAvroManager to initialize even if it cannot connect to an agent. |
| o LOG4J2-149: SMTPAppender will only cache filtered events. Thanks to Scott Severtson. |
| o LOG4J2-145: Add missing serial version IDs. |
| o LOG4J2-144: NullPointerException in RFC5424Layout. |
| o LOG4J2-143: MessagePatternConverter now returns "null" if the log message is null. |
| o LOG4J2-142: Serialized LogEvents were not reset in the output stream causing them to deserialize incorrectly. |
| o LOG4J2-139: Fix null pointer exception in SocketAppender if no protocol is specified. The protocol will default |
| to TCP for the SocketAppender and UDP for the SyslogAppender. |
| o LOG4J2-140: Typo in documentation of SocketAppender. Thanks to Joern Huxhorn. |
| o LOG4J2-137: Fix hang in Dumbster SMTP test server. |
| o LOG4J2-130: PatternLayout should format throwables without requiring a converter. |
| o LOG4J2-135: BaseConfiguration does not close the first appender. Thanks to Ingo Feltes. |
| o LOG4J2-132: AbstractLogger.catching(Throwable) checks for DEBUG level but logs at ERROR level. |
| o LOG4J2-129: RoutingAppender was only creating a single appender for the default Route. |
| o LOG4J2-126: Allow JMS appenders to recover if the queue or topic is unavailable. |
| o LOG4J2-127: AbstractLogger methods were not passing Markers to the isEnabled methods. |
| o LOG4J2-125: JMSQueue and JMSTopic Appenders did not allow name to be specified. |
| o LOG4J2-111: Enhanced javadoc copyright statement. |
| o LOG4J2-120: TCPSocketManager would fail if the initial connection could not be established. |
| o LOG4J2-119: A broken socket connection would cause the TCPSocketManager to continuously reconnect. |
| o LOG4J2-123: The example for ThreadContextMapFilter was incorrect. Thanks to Olivier Lamy. |
| o LOG4J2-116: File renaming was using the wrong date value. Enhanced DefaultRolloverStrategy to store newest files in |
| highest index as well as lowest. |
| o LOG4J2-115: ThreadContext Map elements with null values are now ignored when constructing a Flume event and in the |
| RFC5424 Layout. |
| o LOG4J2-113: StructuredDataFilter createFilter was annotated with PluginAttr instead of PluginElement for the |
| KeyValuePairs. |
| o LOG4J2-114: StructuredDataMessage was validating the length of the values in the event Map instead of the lengths |
| of the keys. Thanks to Arkin Yetis. |
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| Changes: |
| o LOG4J2-136: Allow newlines to be escaped in Syslog and RFC5424 layouts. Allow Throwables to be included in |
| the output from RFC5424Layout. Thanks to Scott Severtson. |
| o LOG4J2-128: Add follow attribute to Console Appender. |
| o LOG4J2-122: Add unit test to verify exceptions are thrown when the socket connection fails. |
| o LOG4J2-110: Renamed log4j12-api to log4j-1.2-api. |
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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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