logging-log4j-1.3alpha-8.zip

[*] Changes that are 100% compatible with existing client code. [**] Changes that requiring little or no modification to existing client code. [***] Changes requiring important modifications to existing client code. [D] Changes affect a method or property which was previously marked as deprecated. January 30th, 2006 - Release of version 1.3alpha-8 - Bugs 35452, 37965, 38304, 38395, 37740: Substantial modifications to restore binary compatibility with log4j 1.2.xx. Restored NTEventLogAppender, org.apache.log4j.jmx classes, org.apache.log4j.varia filters and org.apache.log4j.helpers date formats. (Please note that the NTEventLogAppender dll is not packaged with this release, but the build target (build.nt.dll) is available to build it locally if needed. The next release will contain the build dll.) - Bug 38394: enhanced diagnostic message on configuration errors. - Bug 38304: fixed incorrect error message if console appender used during configuration is missing at cleanup. - Bug 38104: Consolidated locations of generated files. - Bug 37864: Generation of binary compatibility report. - Bug 37960: Updated documentation generation to use Velocity 1.4 and eliminated dependency on logging-site module. - Bug 38406: Removed inadvertent JDK 1.4 dependencies. - Removed org.apache.log4j.watchdog.TimedURLWatchdog in favor of org.apache.log4j.watchdog.TimedLocationWatchdog. TimedLocationWatchdog is more generic in that is uses a String to describe the location instead of a URL. FileWatchdog inherits from this class and the future HttpWatchdog will as well. October 12th, 2005 - Release of version 1.3alpha-7 - Added target="1.2" and source="1.3" attributes to all usages of <javac> to make sure that classes are compatible with JDK1.2+ no matter the JDK under which the compilation is done. This mirrors what was done to the 1.2 branch while taking into account usage of JDK1.2 features where the 1.2 branch needs to stay compatible with JDK1.1. [*] - Added back org.apache.log4j.spi.ErrorHandler and its implementations to help make 1.3 binary compatible with 1.2.xx. Implementations are all NOP and clearly marked as deprecated in the Javadoc. Same goes for get/set methods for error handlers in appenders. This change allows applications such as LogWeb, which make heavy use of Log4j internals, to compile and run against Log4j-1.3 where it was only compatible with 1.2.xx previously. [*] - Made private "next" variable in org.apache.log4j.spi.Filter public to make it binary-compatible with the 1.2 branch. Also marked it as deprecated (which I also did for the 1.2.12 release) [*] - Chatty output about Logger creation or retrieval events is now suppressed by default. They can be enabled by explicitly setting the log4j.coreDebug system property. [*] - The log4j.debug system property no longer has any affect as all log4j output is done through regular Logger objects. However, in configuration file in properties format, the log4j.debug property will cause PropertyConfigurator to *temporarily* output logs generated during the configuration process. This is very similar to the way the debug attribute works in configuration files in XML format. [*] - Fixed bug 35965 by adding protected accessors for member variables topicConnection, topicSession, and topicPublisher. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 14551, misplaces sample.xml links in JavaDocs. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14551 [*] - Closed Bugzilla 34162, log4j-db.jar built empty, which had been previously fixed. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34162 [*] - Closed Bugzilla 34163, missing chainsaw module in xdocs/install-chainsaw.xml, which had been previously fixed. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34163 [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 30853: made System.out printing conditional upon log4j.debug system property. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 30623, better JavaDoc for DailyRollingFileAppender#getDatePattern. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30623 [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 34747: DBAppender reused Statement objects inappropriately. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34747 [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 35324: VectorWriter#println NPE on null argument. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35324 [*] January 20th, 2005 - Release of version 1.3alpha-6 - Fixed involuntary omission of DOMConfigrator (deprecated) in log4j-VERSION.jar. - Added missing files in log4-oro.jar. - The lengthy system property "log4j.repositorySelectorClass" was renamed as "log4j.repositorySelector". January 19th, 2005 - Release of version 1.3alpha-5 - Universal and Generic Logging Interface (UGLI) is now part of log4j. UGLI allows variation in the logging API implementattion in a simple and robust way. Log4j directly supports the interfaces defined by UGLI. For more information see http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/ugli.html [*] - Log4j now ships with several jar files, one jar file per dependency. [*/**] - Fixed Bugzilla 15198: TelnetAppender: NullPointerException if SocketHandler not initialized. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 12112: CountingQuietWriter miscounts bytes. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 18076: setting of firstTime in OnlyOnceErrorHandler. [*] - Added pattern conversion support for the Subject line for emails generated by SMTPAppender. The set of patterns is the same as those supported by PatternLayout. [*] - Implemented Bugzilla 20985: charset support for SMTPAppender [**] - Implemented Bugzilla 20500: separate registry clearing from doConfigure in PropertyConfigurator to allow to easier extension. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 23912: unsafe access to BoundedFIFO in AsyncAppender. [*] - Changed converter register accessors in PatternParser to take/return Map instead of HashMap, a cleaner abstraction allowing for different implementation types. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 26658: modify build.xml chainsaw target with respect to crimson.jar [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 28682: NullPointerException in SocketHubAppender#cleanup. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 28464: White space significant at end of line for PropertyConfigurator. [*] - Fixed Bugzilla 26117: Output encoding for TelnetAppender. [*] November 25, 2004 - Release of version 1.3alpha-3 - Classes are built with the javac debug setting on. - Fixed unset activeFile bug in SlidingWindowRollingPolicy. November 25, 2004 - Release of version 1.3alpha-2 - The deprecated DOMConfigrator was mistakenly left as the default configrator for XML files. This has been fixed and JoranConfigrator now is the default configrator for XML files. November 24th, 2004 - Release of version 1.3alpha-1 - Log4j now uses itself for its own logging. For more details refer to http://www.qos.ch//logging/internalLogging.jsp - The Appender.requiresLayout() method is no longer needed. This method was only used by PropertConfigrurator and not DOMConfigurator nor JoranConfigurator. It was never strictly necessary and case the layout is *optional* for a given appender type, it causes unwarranted error messages. This simplification will make it slightly easier to write appenders. - Added new printing methods message supporiting pattern parsing. These new forms avoid superflous parameter construction and yield a significant performance increase in the case of disavled log statements. [*] - Added new ListAppender & ListModelAppender classes to the org.apache.log4j.varia package. These are rather simplistic Appender implementations that store LoggingEvents in an internal buffer (java.util.List and a DefaultListModel respectively) which can be useful in certain applications (such as a Swing GUI app etc). [*] - org.apache.log4j.H