Re: Cleanup of `downloads.apache.org`

2024-11-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi all, Note that the statement on the EOL site is incorrect: "The reload4j project provides a drop-in replacement for Log4j 1.x with maintenance and security fixes." It certainly is not a "drop-in replacement" because it ripped out public classes and so breaks binary compatibility. It's more of

Re: Log4j release 2.24.1

2024-11-16 Thread Piotr P. Karwasz
Hi Gary, On 16.11.2024 17:41, Gary Gregory wrote: [1]https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3143 This issue points to the merged PR https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2936, a large change set with zero tests. This isn't great since there are no tests to catch regressions :-(

Re: Log4j release 2.24.1

2024-11-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi Piotr, Thanks for the details. The good new is that it was caught fairly quickly. Looking forward to reviewing the RC... Gary On Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 12:06 PM Piotr P. Karwasz wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On 16.11.2024 17:41, Gary Gregory wrote: > > [1]https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues

Re: Log4j release 2.24.1

2024-11-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi All, Thank you Piotr for managing this release. [1] https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3143 This issue points to the merged PR https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2936, a large change set with zero tests. This isn't great since there are no tests to catch regressions :-

Log4j release 2.24.1

2024-11-16 Thread Piotr P. Karwasz
Hi all, Due to bug #3143[1], which allows a `Logger` to be garbage-collected before it is returned by `LoggerContext#getLogger()`, I am planning a 2.24.2 release with just two changes: * A fix for the above mentioned bug (see PR #3209[2]). * A fix for a bug related to `ThreadContextMap` (see

Re: Cleanup of `downloads.apache.org`

2024-11-16 Thread Piotr P. Karwasz
Hi Ralph, On 14.11.2024 06:50, Ralph Goers wrote: Log4j 2.3.x and 2.12.x don’t need votes. We declared that we were no longer supporting Java 6 and then Java 7 and that those would be the last releases to do so. We made an exception for Log4Shell and created patches for both since the securit