+1 for Kirk's changes in 1.10. This will be critical for SD Neuman and SBDG 1.3.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:57 AM Owen Nichols <onich...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hi Kirk and Mark, thank you for bringing your concern. > > Our “critical fixes” rule allows critical fixes to be brought to the > release branch by proposal on the dev list, as you have just done. If > there is consensus from the Geode community that this NPE fix satisfies the > “critical fixes” rule, Dick or I will be happy to bring it to the 1.10.0 > release branch. > > -Owen > > > On Aug 8, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > I'd like to propose including the fix for GEODE-6959 in 1.10.0. > > > > Spring Boot users are very likely to hit this NPE during forceDisconnect. > > > > If a custom log4j2.xml is used without specifying the Geode > AlertAppender, > > GMSMembershipManager may throw a NullPointerException when invoking > > AlertAppender.getInstance().stopSession() during a forceDisconnect. This > > change prevents the NullPointerException allowing forceDisconnect to > finish. > > Tests are included with this fix. > > > > PR: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/3899 > > GEODE-6959: NPE if AlertAppender is not defined > > > > Thanks, > > Kirk and Mark > > -- -John john.blum10101 (skype)