This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Due to a break 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-slf4j18-impl
should be used with SLF4J 1.8.x and later. SLF4J-2.0.0 alpha releases are not fully supported. See LOG4J2-2975 and SLF4J-511.
The Log4j 2.19.0 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
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 Log4j 2 website.
- Add support for timezones in
RollingFileAppender
date pattern (for LOG4J2-1631 by Piotr P. Karwasz, Danas Mikelinskas) - Add
LogEvent
timestamp toProducerRecord
inKafkaAppender
(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 theLogger#traceEntry
method. (for LOG4J2-3645 by Piotr P. Karwasz)
- 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 byalex-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)
- Deprecate support for package scanning for plugins (for LOG4J2-3644 by Ralph Goers)
- Copy programmatically supplied location even if
includeLocation="false"
. (for 1197 by Piotr P. Karwasz) - Eliminate status logger warning, when
disableAnsi
ornoConsoleNoAnsi
is used the style and highlight patterns. (for 1202 bywleese
, Piotr P. Karwasz) - Fix detection of location requirements in
RewriteAppender
. (for 1274 byamirhadadi
, Piotr P. Karwasz) - Replace regex with manual code to escape characters in Rfc5424Layout. (for 1277 by
adwsingh
) - Fix
java.sql.Time
object formatting inMapMessage
(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
AsyncRootLogger
s (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 uncheckedServiceLoader
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 byadwsingh
, 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)
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