The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.19.0 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, 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.
The artifacts may be downloaded from
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html.
This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Due to breaks in compatibility in the SLF4J binding, Log4j now ships with two
versions of the SLF4J to Log4j adapters. log4j-slf4j-impl should be used with
SLF4J 1.7.x and earlier and log4j-slf4j2-impl should be used with SLF4J 2.x and
later. SLF4J-1.8.x is no longer supported as a GA release never occurred.
The Log4j 2.19.0 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary
compatibility with previous releases.
GA Release 2.19.0
Changes in this version include:
New Features
• LOG4J2-3583: Add support for SLF4J2 stack-valued MDC. Thanks to
Pierrick Terrettaz.
• LOG4J2-2975: Add implementation of SLF4J2 fluent API. Thanks to
Daniel Gray.
Fixed Bugs
• LOG4J2-3578: Generate new SSL certs for testing.
• LOG4J2-3556: Make JsonTemplateLayout stack trace truncation operate
for each label block. Thanks to Arthur Gavlyukovskiy.
• LOG4J2-3550: SystemPropertyArbiter was assigning the value as the
name. Thanks to DongjianPeng.
• LOG4J2-3560: Logger$PrivateConfig.filter(Level, Marker, String) was
allocating empty varargs array. Thanks to David Schlosnagle.
• LOG4J2-3561: Allows a space separated list of style specifiers in the
%style pattern for consistency with %highlight. Thanks to Robert Papp.
• LOG4J2-3564: Fix NPE in log4j-to-jul in the case the root logger
level is null.
• LOG4J2-3545: Add correct manifest entries for OSGi to log4j-jcl
Thanks to Johan Compagner.
• LOG4J2-3565: Fix RollingRandomAccessFileAppender with
DirectWriteRolloverStrategy can't create the first log file of different
directory.
• LOG4J2-3579: Fix ServiceLoaderUtil behavior in the presence of a
SecurityManager. Thanks to Boris Unckel.
• LOG4J2-3559: Fix resolution of properties not starting with log4j2..
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
• LOG4J2-3557: Fix recursion between Log4j 1.2 LogManager and Category.
Thanks to Andreas Leitgeb.
• LOG4J2-3587: Fix regression in Rfc5424Layout default values. Thanks
to Tomas Micko.
• LOG4J2-3548: Improve support for passwordless keystores. Thanks to
Kristof Farkas-Pall.
• LOG4J2-708: Add async support to Log4jServletFilter.
Changes
• LOG4J2-3572: Add getExplicitLevel method to LoggerConfig.
• LOG4J2-3589: Allow Plugins to be injected with the LoggerContext
reference.
• LOG4J2-3588: Allow PropertySources to be added.
Removed
• LOG4J2-3573: Removed build page in favor of a single build
instructions file. Thanks to Wolff Bock von Wuelfingen.
• LOG4J2-3590: Remove SLF4J 1.8.x binding.
Apache Log4j 2.19.0 requires a minimum of Java 8 to build and run. Log4j 2.12.4
is the last release to support Java 7. Log4j 2.3.2 is the last release to
support Java 6. Java 6 and Java 7 are no longer supported by the Log4j team.
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:
https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
