Apache Extras Companion⢠1.1 for Apache log4jâ¢, which provides additional appenders and layouts for Apache log4j was released and is available for download at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/companions/extras/download.html.
Ralph Goers has been elected to join the Logging Services Project Management Committee. Ralph is an Apache Software Foundation member and is also member of the Apache Attic, Cocoon, Portals, Excaliber, Incubator and Maven PMCs. Ralph has recently contributed to the Apache log4j⢠2.0 sandbox and has participated in log4j 2.0 design discussions for nearly two years.
Apache log4j 1.2.16 is a maintenance release of log4j 1.2 and can be downloaded from http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/download.html. The list of fixed issues is available at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/changes-report.html.
The log4php project has graduated. Log4PHP is an official product of Apache Logging. See the website.
log4php is the first PHP 5 compatible release for log4php and is available from http://logging.apache.org/log4php/download.html.
Apache log4j 1.2.15 is a maintenance release of log4j 1.2. The list of fixed issues is available at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/changes-report.html.
The extras companion for log4j 1.2 provides extra features to log4j 1.2 users and should work with log4j 1.2.9 and later. The companion may work with earlier versions of log4j 1.2 but that has not been tested. Features provided by the extras companion include: parameterized logging (with either java.text.MessageFormat or log4j 1.3 patterns), Regular expression filters, rolling file appender with replaceable triggering and file naming policies and an enhanced pattern layout with support for longer pattern names, more abbreviation options, and timezone specification for date fields.
With the availability of log4j 1.2.15 and the extras companion, users of the log4j 1.3 alpha versions are encouraged to plan to migrate to log4j 1.2.15 with the appropriate companions or to track and contribute to the log4j 2.0 development effort. Development of log4j 1.3 is abandoned and no additional development or releases are anticipated.
The log4php incubation has restarted with a new development team, see http://incubator.apache.org/log4php.
The Incubator PMC has voted to graduate log4net. log4net is now a subproject of the Apache Logging Services Project. The Incubator PMC voted to terminate the incubation of log4php as there had been no progress towards graduation for a substantial period of time. log4php code will continue to be available under the Apache Software License from the Incubator Subversion repository.
We are happy to announce the availability of log4j version 1.2.14. AsyncAppender was rewritten to eliminate reported deadlocks and to provide an option to not block if the event queue becomes full, SyslogAppender can now accept a port specification, SMTPAppender supports cc and bcc addresses and password authentication and many other bugs were resolved. For more details, see http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/download.html.
The log4j team is happy to announce the availability of log4j version 1.3alpha8. This version contains many changes to bring it back to better compatibility with log4j version 1.2.X, and more changes are planned for the upcoming alpha9 release as well. Users are encouraged to test this version with custom code that they have previously written for log4j version 1.2.X and to report any issues to the log4j dev email list. Please use your own judgement with this release, as it is an alpha release.
We are happy to announce the availability of log4j version 1.2.13. log4j 1.2.13 has several fixes related to the TRACE level introduced in 1.2.12 and some changes to the console appender that affected deployment in JBoss.
We are happy to announce the availability of log4j version 1.2.12. log4j 1.2.12 has a number of bug fixes, the addition of the long awaited built-in TRACE level, and is once again compile and runtime compatible with earlier JDK's 1.1 and 1.2 (this compatibility was inadvertently broken in the 1.2.11 release).
The Incubator PMC has voted to graduate log4cxx. log4cxx is now a subproject of the Apache Logging Services Project.
The Logging Services PMC has voted for the incubation of the log4cxx, log4net and log4php projects. These votes pave the vote for their migration into Apache Logging Services.
We heartily welcome the new projects.
The Board of Directors of the Apache Software Foundation voted unanimously for the creation of the Apache Logging Services project. The mailing list thread with the discussion preceding the creation of this project is available here.
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