My +1 Ralph
> On Feb 17, 2023, at 11:52 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > This is a vote to release Log4j 2.20.0, the next version of the Log4j 2 > project. > > Please download, test, and cast your votes on the log4j developers list. > [] +1, release the artifacts > [] -1, don't release because... > > The vote will remain open for 72 hours. All votes are welcome and we > encourage everyone to test the release, but only Logging PMC votes are > “officially” counted. As always, at least 3 +1 votes and more positive than > negative votes are required. > > Changes in this version include: > > Added > • Add support for timezones in RollingFileAppender date pattern (for > LOG4J2-1631 by Piotr P. Karwasz, Danas Mikelinskas) > • Add LogEvent timestamp to ProducerRecord in KafkaAppender (for > LOG4J2-2678 by Piotr P. Karwasz, Federico D’Ambrosio) > • Add PatternLayout support for abbreviating the name of all logger > components except the 2 rightmost (for LOG4J2-2785 by Ralph Goers, Markus > Spann) > • Removes internal field that leaked into public API. (for LOG4J2-3615 by > Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Add a LogBuilder#logAndGet() method to emulate the Logger#traceEntry > method. (for LOG4J2-3645 by Piotr P. Karwasz) > Changed > • Simplify site generation (for 1166 by Volkan Yazıcı > • Switch the issue tracker from JIRA to GitHub Issues (for 1172 by Volkan > Yazıcı) > • Remove liquibase-log4j2 maven module (for 1193 by StevenMassaro) > • Fix order of stacktrace elements, that causes cache misses in > ThrowableProxyHelper. (for 1214 by alex-dubrouski, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Switch from com.sun.mail to Eclipse Angus. (for LOG4J2-3554 by Oleh > Astappiev, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Add Log4j2 Core as default runtime dependency of the SLF4J2-to-Log4j2 > API bridge. (for LOG4J2-3601 by afs, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Replace maven-changes-plugin with a custom changelog implementation (for > LOG4J2-3628 by Volkan Yazıcı) > Deprecated > • Deprecate support for package scanning for plugins (for LOG4J2-3644 by > Ralph Goers) > Fixed > • Copy programmatically supplied location even if includeLocation="false". > (for 1197 by Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Eliminate status logger warning, when disableAnsi or noConsoleNoAnsi is > used the style and highlight patterns. (for 1202 by wleese, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Fix detection of location requirements in RewriteAppender. (for 1274 by > amirhadadi, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Replace regex with manual code to escape characters in Rfc5424Layout. > (for 1277 by adwsingh) > • Fix java.sql.Time object formatting in MapMessage (for LOG4J2-2297 by > Ralph Goers) > • Fix previous fire time computation in CronTriggeringPolicy (for > LOG4J2-3357 by Ralph Goers) > • Correct default to not include location for AsyncRootLoggers (for > LOG4J2-3487 by Ralph Goers, Dave Messink) > • Lazily evaluate the level of a SLF4J LogEventBuilder (for LOG4J2-3598 by > Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Fixes priority of Legacy system properties, which are now back to having > higher priority than Environment variables. (for LOG4J2-3615 by adwsingh, > Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Protects ServiceLoaderUtil from unchecked ServiceLoader exceptions. (for > LOG4J2-3624 by Piotr P. Karwasz) > • Fix Configurator#setLevel for internal classes (for LOG4J2-3631 by Piotr > P. Karwasz, Jeff Thomas) > • Fix level propagation in Log4jBridgeHandler (for LOG4J2-3634 by Piotr P. > Karwasz, Marcel Koch) > • Disable OsgiServiceLocator if not running in OSGI container. (for > LOG4J2-3642 by adwsingh, Piotr P. Karwasz) > • When using a Date Lookup in the file pattern the current time should be > used. (for LOG4J2-3643 by Ralph Goers) > • Fixed LogBuilder filtering in the presence of global filters. (for > LOG4J2-3647 by Piotr P. Karwasz) > > Tag: > a) for a new copy do "git clone https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git > and then "git checkout tags/log4j-2.20.0-rc1” or just "git clone -b > log4j-2.20.0-rc1 https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2.git" > b) for an existing working copy to “git pull” and then “git checkout > tags/log4j-2.20.0-rc1” > > Web Site: https://logging.staged.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html. > > Maven Artifacts: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1098/ > > Distribution archives: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/logging/log4j/ > > You may download all the Maven artifacts by executing: > wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -p -np --no-check-certificate > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-1098/org/apache/logging/log4j/ > > Ralph