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<document>
  <properties>
    <title>Apache log4j 1.2</title>
  </properties>
  <body>
    <release version="1.2.17" date="2012-05-06" description="Maintenance release">
       <action issue="49470">log4j 1.2.17 release preparation</action>
       <action issue="52913" action="add" dev="ggregory">Configure from an InputStream</action>
       <action issue="51597" action="fix">JDBCAppender not closed due to SQL Exception while executing an SQL (thanks to Anurag Agarwal)</action>
       <action issue="50486" action="fix">Memoryleak - org.apache.log4j.helpers.ThreadLocalMap</action>
       <action issue="48588" action="fix">DOMConfigurator does not close input stream when configured based on URL.</action>
       <action issue="49078" action="fix">javadoc.jar was missing NOTICE and LICENSE and contained .svn entries.</action>
       <action issue="50238" action="fix">Wrong log levels logged with serialized LoggingEvent.</action>
       <action issue="51766" action="add">Add org.apache.log4j.rewrite.RewriteAppender and org.apache.log4j.util.UtilLoggingLevel from discontinued receivers companion.</action>
    </release>

    <release version="1.2.16" date="2010-04-06" description="Maintenance release">
       <action issue="43313">log4j 1.2.16 release preparation.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="42842">Create a public identifier for log4j.dtd ("-//APACHE//DTD LOG4J 1.2//EN")</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44108">TelnetAppender misses messages when one of many clients disconnect.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44109">TelnetAppender throws null pointers at log time when socket couldn't be opened.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44032">ThrowableInformation.getThrowableStringRep can return null strings.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43298">log4j.dtd defines class attribute for category element, but not for logger.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43314">SMTPAppender.setSMTPUserName and others missing @since tags.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43618">Request for compile-on-Windows help file in src package.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43599">AsyncAppender failing on changing message objects.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43325">Subst-mechanism in DOMConfigurator broken.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43374">DailyRollingFileAppender may lose messages during failed rollover attempts.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43312">Fix mangled source-repository.html.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43387">Minor documentation changes.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43304">Make javamail, jmx, jms dependencies optional in pom.xml.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="43874">SocketHubAppender should expose actual port in use to extending classes.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="44551">SocketHubAppender in the 1.2.16 does not support a scroll back buffer or application property</action>
       <action action="add" issue="41156">Give log4j threads reasonable names.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44888">LocationInfo can report wrong caller when other class names contain logger class name as substring.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45426">ErrorHandlerTestCase is not run and does not pass.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45485">Agent.java is sole dependency on jmxtools.jar with Java 5+.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44517">Eliminate compile dependency on non-redistributable JMS reference implementation.</action> 
       <action action="fix" issue="37182">Exception in call to toString of message propagates to caller.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45299">Javadoc class index corrupted by JDBCAppender deprecation warning.</action> 
       <action action="fix" issue="43867">Improve warning message when log4j is accessed after unload by Tomcat.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45335">NullPointerException in NDC.remove after unload by Tomcat.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="36384">Configuring triggering/rolling policies should be supported through properties.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="25747">More explanations when hitting WARN No appenders could be found for logger.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45039">Use Throwable.getStackTrace to obtain location when running on JDK 1.4 or later.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44745">AsyncAppender fails on changing Throwable.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44899">Extra NPE error message when using missing appender class with DOMConfigurator.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44555">org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender lacks static accessor to static instance.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43849">Javadoc for Appender.getName implies that the return value will be unique and not null.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="40888">Weekly rotation problem in Europe.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="43282">Add OSGi packaging info.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44157">InterruptedIOException ignored by log4j.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="40246">HierarchyDynamicMBean missing unregister MBean</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45635">Support -Dm2_repo option on Maven build for non-default Maven repository location.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45636">2 tests for DateLayout are failing because of ill initialized DateFormat.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45659">Incorrect user mailing list URL.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="44386">NTEventLogAppender.dll for 64-bit editions for Microsoft Windows.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="45721">Add configuration of ThrowableRenderers and add org.apache.log4j.EnhancedThrowableRenderer.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45969">SMTPAppender does not force evaluation of message at request time</action>
       <action action="add" issue="25355">Support SSL transport in SMTPAppender</action>
       <action action="add" issue="45980">SMTPAppender should have a sendOnClose option</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45982">Support %X layout specification to output all MDC key-value pairs</action>
       <action action="add" issue="45990">Add replyTo attribute to SMTPAppender</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44644">SMTPAppender does not properly encode subject or content containing non-ASCII characters.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46388">Clarify javadoc of Layout.ignoresThrowable.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46271">SyslogAppender.append throws exception if layout is not set.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46144">QuietWriter.write should check for null argument.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46512">LogFactor5 CategoryPath doesn't replace slashes with dots.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46163">LoggerDynamicMBean needs to handle a null Appender name.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45704">DOMConfigurator.configure(URL) fails on JRE 1.5.0_16.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="44357">Document system properties used by log4j.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="44038">log4j is susceptible to exceptions in Exception.printStackTrace.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46741">Misuse of "it's" in Javadoc for PatternLayout.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="47142">Add SMTPAppender.formatBody to simplify extension.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46404">Failure when toString() of throwable performs logging in SocketAppender, SocketHubAppender and JDBCAppender.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="47465">Reading configuration files from a JAR locks the JAR file</action>
       <action action="add" issue="38061">PropertyConfigurator does not support configuring ErrorHandler.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="47967">log4j.ignoreTCL should apply to the getResource method in addition to the loadClass method of org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="46539">The QuietWriter class does not live up to its published contract.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="46983">More Debug output for log4j auto-configure requested.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="47107">Add MDC.clear().</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="47547">NullPointerException when calling Category.removeAllAppenders().</action>
       <action action="add" issue="28647">Allow overriding of flush strategy.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="47350">Add recommendation to use EnhancedPatternLayout to avoid synchronization issues in PatternLayout</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="45481">Source contains unnecessary imports.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="48159">Add LoggingEvent.removeProperty</action>
       <action action="add" issue="48187">Typo ("two three goals") in log4j FAQ</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="48531">Unit tests fail for system dates after 2009-12-31</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="48604">Download page does not have link to KEYS file</action>
       <action action="add" issue="49812">Add parameterized logging utility classes LogMF and LogSF from extras companion.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="48927">Add EnhancedPatternLayout from extras companion.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="48784">Links to example code broken in the JavaDocs</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="48953">Unused imports and variables in test code cause gcj compile warnings.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49002">Unit tests fail on Apache Harmony and gcj due to stack trace expectations.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49003">SocketServerTestCase.test8 fails on Apache Harmony.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49004">TestLogMF.testDebugDate fails on gcj.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49005">TelnetAppenderTest.testIt fails on gcj.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49006">Eclipse Java Compiler and gcj do not support -source=1.2.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="49007">CachedDateFormatTest fails on Apache Harmony.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="49010">Add %p{-2} pattern to EnhancedPatternLayout to drop two leading elements from name.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="48902">Add %throwable{n} and {-n} pattern to EnhancedPatternLayout to print n or drop last n lines.</action>
    </release>


    <release version="1.2.15" date="2007-08-24" description="SyslogAppender enhancements, NTEventLogAppender and Maven build.">
	    <action issue="40951">log4j 1.2.15 release preparation.</action>
        <action action="add" issue="40212">Switch to NOPLoggerRepository if application reloading nulls repositorySelector.</action>
	    <action action="add" issue="43202">Add 'application' property support to SocketAppender (from 1.3)</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="43200">Log4JEntityResolver will return null if log4j.dtd can not be found on classpath.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="37736">HierarchyEventListener.removeAppenderEvent never called.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="37560">XMLLayout does not escape CDATA sections within NDC or throwables.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="33502">Added test to confirm that DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch does configure.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="32527">Default initialization with XML file halts program if JAXP not available.</action>
        <action action="add" issue="17531">Add reset option to PropertyConfigurator and DOMConfigurator.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="14350">Error message always logged to LogLog when calling close on TelnetAppender.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="32572">Add configurable triggeringPolicy for SMTPAppender.</action> 
       <action action="fix" issue="43181">NullPointerException in MDC on Tomcat reload.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="34874">Notice to use UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding added to XML and HTMLLayout javadoc.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="34875">XML and HTMLLayout do not always escape special characters.</action>
       <action action="add" issue="43078">Optionally render MDC content in XMLLayout</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="42694">Typo in log4j.dtd concerning threshold.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="42611">ERFATestCase fails on some JDK's.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="42585">SocketNode can leak Sockets.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="37930">Migrate to Maven based build and documentation.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="40604">Prepare Maven release bundles.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="42283">Eclipse compiler warning cleanup.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="42281">JRockit VM and java-gcj fail unit tests.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="21796">SocketAppender does not use FallbackErrorHandler</action>
	   <action action="add" issue="42257">Enhance DOMConfigurator to delegate unrecognized elements to configured object.</action>
	   <action action="add" issue="42108">Add LoggingEvent accessors.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="42017">InstanceAlreadyExistsException using MBean.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="29227">Reduce first connection failure severity in SocketAppender</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="42087">SyslogAppender does not limit packets to 1024 bytes.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="41040">SyslogAppender: Added "header" property which if set to true will cause the appender
        to produce the HEADER part (timestamp and hostname) of the syslog packet.
        Default value is false for compatibility with previous behavior.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="40161">SyslogAppender also now sends any header from the associated
        layout when activateOptions is called or first logging event is sent and
        any footer when the appender is closed.</action>
    <action action="fix" issue="37282">SyslogAppender leaks descriptors</action>
    <action action="fix" issue="40502">SyslogAppender assumes all lines start with tab</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="42087">SyslogAppender does not limit packet size to 1024 bytes</action>

       <action action="fix" issue="41169">NTEventLogAppender: Updated NTEventLogAppender.dll which corrects missing event messages
        and which should work with earlier releases of log4j.
		NTEventLogAppender.dll also now supports registration and unregistration
		using regsvr32.  If replacing an existing copy of NTEventLogAppender,
		use "regsvr32 NTDllEventLogAppender.dll" or manually remove the
		HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Eventlog/Application/Log4J
		registry key.</action>
	  <action action="fix" issue="39437">NTEventLogAppender.dll performs unnecessary code page conversion using code copied from book.</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="40944">PropertyConfigurator.configure(URL) does not close resource stream.</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="40937">In Turkish locale level "info" is not equivalent to "INFO"</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41339">Javadoc of PatternLayout should use %n in TTCC layout examples</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41219">Stacktraces of exceptions disappear occassionally</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="38680">Incorrect message when specified custom level class does not implement toLevel</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41487">Warning when configuring inner-class logger</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41186">AsyncAppender in 1.2.14 DiscardSummary events create NullPointerExceptions in layouts</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="37864">Add target to generate binary and source compatibility report</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41708">PropertyPrinter.printOptions breaking signature change in log4j 1.2.9</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41735">RollingFileAppender may delete files during rollover</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="33708">XMLConfiguration of loggerFactory does not work</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="42087">SyslogAppender does not limit packet size to 1024 bytes</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="40755">Update source per new ASF Header Policy.</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="41373">DateLayoutTest fails if default Locale is not en_US.</action>
 <action action="fix" issue="35324">Stacktrace may choke on null fields.</action>
 <action action="add" issue="41575">Add projects.apache.org project descriptor.</action>
</release>

      <release version="1.2.14" date="2006-09-18" description="AsyncAppender rewrite, Syslog and SMTPAppender enhancements.">
      <action action="fix" issue="38137">Monitor deadlock in AsyncAppender.</action>
      <action action="fix" issue="28006">AsyncAppender: Dispatcher should run at normal prio.</action>
      <action action="fix" issue="37904">AsyncAppender wait forever when buffer is full.</action>
      <action action="add" issue="38982">Add non-blocking option for AsyncAppender.</action>
      <action action="add" issue="39687">Add SyslogPort option to SyslogAppender.</action>
      <action action="add" issue="19125">Add cc and bcc addresses to SMTPAppender.</action>
      <action action="add" issue="24969">Add password authentication to SMTPAppender.</action>
      <action action="fix" issue="40159"> NullPointerException in org.apache.log4j.NDC.get.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="36787"> org.apache.log4j.lf5.util.DateFormatManager.setTimeZone assignment error.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="38559"> Monthly logs not generated at midnight with DailyRollingFileAppender.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="40145"> PatternLayout specifier %r is not consistent with documentation.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="37119"> Space after log level causes default level to be used.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="39135"> Bad patterns in ISO8601DateFormat and DateTimeDateFormat.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="35743"> SyslogAppender throws NullPointerException upon misconfiguration.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="15501"> FallbackErrorHandler throws NullPointerException if no loggers are set.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="38564"> Bad documentation for WriterAppender.encoding.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="37866"> NTEventLogAppender not build, tested and placed in distribution.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="38662"> SMTPAppender does not output newlines between stack trace lines.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="30294"> SMTPAppender will not run within sandbox.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="16922"> MDC with SMTPAppender doesn't work.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="31507"> Misspelling in HierarchyDynamicMBean.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="35123"> Additivity not exported by PropertyPrinter.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="31003"> RollingFileAppender, if removed, can cause NullPointerExceptions.</action>
       <action action="fix" issue="23021"> AsyncAppender blocks on thread death.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="40412"> NOTICE file added to distribution and jars.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="40378"> Chainsaw of log4j 1.2 does not show TRACE level.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="40501"> TRACE level missing in short introduction to log4j.</action>
	   <action action="fix" issue="37960"> Update site generation to velocity 1.4 and remove dependency on logging/site project.</action>
    </release>
  
    <release version="1.2.13" date="2005-12-04" description="TRACE level missing info fixed, ConsoleAppender.follow added to make redirection following an optional behavior.">
        <action action="fix" issue="36800">Location info missing for TRACE level messages.</action>
        <action action="fix" issue="37122">Console appender now behaves as before to fix
   compatibility problem with JBoss introduced in 1.2.12 release due to fix
   for bug 31056.  Can still be configured to detect changes in the System.out
   and System.err streams as needed by setting the follow property.</action>
      </release>

      <release version="1.2.12" date="2005-08-29" description="TRACE level introduced, ConsoleAppender modified to follow redirection of System.out">
          <action action="fix" issue="36262">Removed final qualifiers on member variables
            in org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.LoggingReceiver which would cause
            spurious compiler errors with JDK 1.1 and 1.2 javac compilers.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="36267">Added a jndi.jar property to the build.xml.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="37268">Added "release" target to build.xml.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="36213">Removed references to obsolete documentation.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35965">Added protected accessors for member variables
            topicConnection, topicSession, and topicPublisher.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="34026">SyslogAppender now checks Layout.ignoresThrowable() just
            like every other appender.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35947">DOMConfigurator would call LogLog.error to report
            XML validation errors that caused no problems in the interpretation of the
            configuration file.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="14551">Fixed the JavaDoc links
            for the XML sample files.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35654">Added getNext/setNext methods to org.apache.log4j.spi.Filter and deprecated
            public "next" field. This mirrors the same change in the upcoming 1.3
            version and, hence, provides a migration path.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35711">Added o.a.log4j.Logger.trace(), o.a.log4j.Logger.isTraceEnabled() and
            o.a.log4j.Level.TRACE</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="34758">Implemented serialization for Level.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="31056">o.a.log4j.ConsoleAppender would ignore redirections
            of System.out and System.err that occurred after configuration.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="23705">o.a.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator would not properly
            interpret relative path names in external entity declarations.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35691">o.a.log4j.xml.XmlLayout would not properly escape
            class names that contained '&lt;' or '&gt;'.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35052">Use of String.intern() in o.a.log4j.CategoryKey
            would cause application to slow down.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="9150">o.a.log4j.FileAppender would not create log file
            if parent directory did not exist.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="23021">o.a.log4j.AsyncAppender would deadlock if a
            unchecked exception occurred in the attached appender causing the
            dispatch thread to die.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35516">Added jdiff target to build.xml.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35831">log4j would not build with a JDK 1.5 javac.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="35893">Added log4j 1.1 compatibility method
            to o.a.l.helpers.Loader.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="34981">Additional null terminating character in Windows
            nteventlog.cpp code.</action>

          <action action="fix" issue="36332">Broken links to J2SE classes in javadocs.</action>

      </release>

      <release version="1.2.11" date="2005-06-18" description="JMS MessageRenderer fix">
          <action action="fix" issue="34491">o.a.log4j.or.jms.MessageRenderer
            would not be compiled in the build.jms target.</action>
      </release>

      <release version="1.2.10" date="2005-04-28" description="Version 1.2.10 was not released following the accepted rules and process of
   the log4j project and Logging Services Project and was recalled and removed.
   Please do not use version 1.2.10, it is not an official log4j release.">
			<action>Version 1.2.10 was not released following the accepted rules and process of
   the log4j project and Logging Services Project and was recalled and removed.
   Please do not use version 1.2.10, it is not an official log4j release.</action>
      </release>

       <release version="1.2.9" date="2004-11-01" description="Deprecation of obsolete methods">
            <action>  Log4j version 1.2.9, is identical to version 1.2.8, except that
  several key methods have been deprecated in preparation for version
  1.3.0, the next major release of log4j. These changes are intended to
  enforce the rule that client code should never refer to the Category
  class directly, but use the Logger class instead. Similarly, client
  code should not refer to the Priority class but to the Level class
  instead.

  For a more detailed discussion, refer to the document entitled
  preparing for log4j 1.3 at:

    http://www.qos.ch/logging/preparingFor13.jsp
</action>
       </release>

      <release version="1.2.8" date="2003-02-19" description="Fixes to XMLAppender, DOMConfiguration, SocketAppender and JDBCAppender.">
 <action action="fix" issue="11570">XMLAppender would throw a
   NullPointerException if the input message was null. Many thanks to
   David Vandegrift for reporting the bug and to Hendrik Brummermann for
   supplying the patch.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="12366">Various versions of Xerces would not parse
   log4j configuration scripts expressed in XML format.</action>
   
 <action action="fix" issue="14827">The "removes" buffer used in the flushBuffer() method
   of JDBCAppender is now cleared, solving the memory leak.  Thanks to John
   Landers for reporting the bug and suggesting the fix.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="15599">SocketAppender now honors ReconnectionDelay of 0.
   Many thanks to Scott Schram for reporting the bug and providing the fix.</action>
          </release>

      <release version="1.2.7" date="2002-10-09" description="log4j.xml now checked during default configuration.">
    <action>Log4j now searches for the file log4j.xml as well as the file
   log4j.properties during log4j initialization.</action>
          </release>


       <release version="1.2.6" date="2002-07-31" description="LoggingEvent.getLoggerName() added, JMSAppender enhancements.">
    <action action="add">Add of new options in JMSAppender and new command line arguments in
   JMSSink.</action>

 <action action="add">Add new method getLoggerName() in LoggingEvent class. The
   getLoggerName is the preferred way for accessing the logger
   name. The public access categoryName field should not be accessed
   directly. Similarly, added the getLevel method which is now the
   preferred way of accessing the event's level. The public access
   level field should not be accessed directly.  The javadocs now mark
   the categoryName and level fields as deprecated.
     Modified existing appenders to comply with these new directives.</action>

   <action action="fix">Log4j now will check if a system property named "log4j.ignoreTCL"
   is set. If it is set, then it will ignore the Thread Context
   ClassLoader when loading classes. This solves the irritating
   "appender is not assignable to Appender" messages observed when
   log4j.jar is loaded by multiple class loaders.
   The error reporting for this problem was also improved.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="10528">Calling the MDC.get method with a null
   argument would throw a NullPointerException.</action>
           </release>

     <release version="1.2.5" date="2002-07-05" description="AsyncAppender.close now closes nested appender.">
        <action action="fix" issue="10185">Calling an AsyncAppender close method also closes the embedded
   appender instances.</action>
     </release>

      <release version="1.2.4" date="2002-06-12" description="XMLLayout now handles embedded CDATA, JDBCAppender deprecated.">
        <action>The JDBCAppender is marked as slated for replacement. Do not build
   critical software using it.</action>

 <action action="add">Add LF5 documentation and examples. Further tests are required
   for full integration.</action>

    <action action="fix">XMLLayout can now output messages which contain embedded CDATA
   sections.Many thanks to Michael
   A. McAngus for supplying the relevant patch.</action>

   <action action="fix" issue="9750">The dispatcher thread associated with AsyncAppender is now marked
   as a deamon thread.</action>

 <action action="add" issue="9606">Add missing NTEventLogAppender.dll</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="9435">log4j.dtd was changed so that
   &lt;log4j:event&gt; is now made of logger and level attributes instead of
   category and priority. Changed XMLLayout to conform to the
   DTD. Chainsaw was changed to adapt to the XMLLayout.</action>

 <action action="add">Add missing LevelRangeFilter file.</action>
          </release>

      <release version="1.2.3" date="2002-05-24" description="SyslogAppender and stack trace fixes.">
 <action action="fix" issue="9285">SyslogAppender would incorrectly compute
   the length of the datagram to send to the remote syslogd host.
   Reported by Mamoru Kadota.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="8505">The stack trace of exception would not be
   properly printed on the Compaq tru64 Unix platform. Initially
   reported by Fabrice Claes and later by Espen H. Kolstad who also
   provided the fix.</action>
          </release>

      <release version="1.2.2" date="2002-05-22"
               description="NULL added as synonym for INHERITED in Configurators, Thread context loader used preferentially.">
<action>Log4j configurators take the "NULL" string value as a synonym for
   "INHERITED". Both of these two strings are legal level values for
   setting the level of a logger. Both values are case insensitive.</action>

<action issue="9305">When loading component classes, log4j will now first attempt to use
   the Thread Context Loader and if that fails, it will use
   Class.forName. In log4j 1.2 and 1.2.1, only Class.forName was used
   and the TCL was ignored. This change is a response to bug #9305
   opened by Scott M. Stark.</action>
       </release>

    <release version="1.2.1" date="2002-05-17"
             description="Fixed MDC problem when used with AsyncAppender">
        <action issue="9155" action="fix">
   LoggingEvent.getMDCCopy() method now sets mdcCopyLookupRequired
   instead of ndcLookupRequired.  This bug would cause the wrong MDC
   information to appear on a log server. It could only occur if the
   client wrapped an AsyncAppender around a SocketAppender or if the
   server used an AsyncAppender for its logging.</action>
        </release>

    <release version="1.2" date="2002-05-01" description="Initial release of log4j 1.2">

 <action action="fix" issue="8527">A closed TelnetAppender would continue waiting
   for connections even if its ServerSocket was closed. This caused
   the TelnetSocket to sit in a loop and complain about the closed
   socket.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="5444">AsyncAppender throws NullPointerException problem. The bug was actually in
   AppenderSkeleton.</action>

 <action action="add">Add support for recursive variable substiuton as requested by
   Eric Chastan.</action>

  <action action="fix" issue="3933">SocketNode now used a BufferedInputStream as suggested by Kok Chong</action>

  <action action="fix" issue="7550">Fixed a problem with DailiyRollingAppender which would not
   correctly compute the rollover period in certain timezones.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="2726">Fixed documentation bug #2726 in FAQ.html.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="2383">Added a flush statement in the
   WriterAppender.writeFooter method.</action>
   
 <action action="fix">In XMLLayout, escaped the method attribute. The
   XMLLayout also outputs each item of a stack trace in a separate
   line.</action>

 <action action="fix" issue="5932">The
   LoggingEvent.getMDCCopy method now clones the MDC instead of just
   referencing it.</action>

  <action>The ANT build script was modified to use jar files specified in
    the build.properties file instead of the CLASSPATH environment
    variable. The build.properties file depends on local paths and is
    supplied by the user. The build.properties.sample file is included
    in the distribution. The build.sh and build.bat scripts have
    been removed. This is the way many other jakarta projects build their
    projects. The jar files in the dist/lib directory were also removed
    since they are no longer used.</action>

 <action>The DOMConfigurator now interprets the string after the '#'
   character in the value attribute within the &lt;level&gt; element as
   the fully qualified class name of a custom Level. This is consistent
   with the way log4j handles "level" values in other places. The
   class attribute is still honored.</action>

 <action action="add">Add Oliver Burn's chainsaw tool to the core log4j
   distribution. Visualisation and dynamic filtering of log events is
   bound to be a very important area of activity in the future.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender which as the name
   indicates sends events to a database using the JDBC API. Thanks to
   Kevin Steppe for supplying the code.</action>

 <action action="add">Add SocketHubAppender class as contributed by Mark Womack. This
   appender sends LoggingEvent objects to a set of remote a log
   servers.</action>

 <action>In the Category class, the getChainedPriority method has been
   replaced with getEffectiveLevel method.</action>

  <action>Replaced the custom class loading based on the thread context class
    loader with a simple Class.forName() call. This solves two allied
    but distinct problems encountered when using Ant with JUnit
    although the bug is more general. In one instance of the
    problem, log4j would throw java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError for
    org/apache/log4j/AppenderSkeleton where log4j.jar and related
    classes were clearly available to the Ant classloader. In another
    incarnation, log4j would reject a custom appender claiming that it is
    not assignable to a org.apache.log4j.Appender variable. This would
    occur when log4j.jar was available to both the Ant classloader and the
    system classloader.
    
    Thanks to Dave Herman for providing detailed scenarios exposing
    the issues involved. See
      http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=38&amp;thread=70946
      http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=38&amp;thread=70946#479697
      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&amp;m=101139178705895&amp;w=2
    for more details.</action>

 <action>Fixed the complaints the compiler issued when using the
   Logger.setLevel() method.</action>

 <action>Incorporated the performance enhancements to ISO8601DateFormat and
   AbsoluteTimeDateFormat classes submitted by Andrew Vajoczki.</action>

 <action>Source code written for log4j 1.1.3.jar will compile fine with
   log4j 1.2X. However, code compiled for log4j 1.1.3 would previously
   systematically throw "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError" runtime exceptions
   when run with log4j 1.2 - prior to beta2. This problem has been
   corrected in beta2. Pheew, that was a close one.</action>

 <action>Log4j 1.2 is now backward compatible in serialization of
   LoggingEvents. For example, a 1.1.3 SocketAppedner can write to 1.2
   SocketServer. Similarly a 1.2 JMSAppender will work with 1.1.3
   JMSSink. This should ease the move to log4j 1.2, especially in
   large deployments.</action>

 <action>The src/java/org/apache/log4j/examples/ directory moved under the
   top-level directory as examples/.</action>

 <action>Fixed the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that was thrown by
   AsyncAppender if multiple threads were trying to log an event
   containing an exception near simultaneously. Thanks to Thomas Tuft Muller
   for reporting this bug.</action>

 <action>Improved error reporting in DOMConfigurator. Thanks to Thomas Tuft
   Muller for contributing the enhancement.</action>
	
  <action>Log4j is now configurable using JMX. JMX support is not of
   production quality.</action>

 <action action="add">Add support for different encodings in WriterAppender. Thanks to
   Ben Sandee for submitting the relevant patch.</action>

 <action>Modified SMTPAppender to allow multiple email sessions. Thanks to
   Jon Skeet for supplying the relevant patch.</action>

 <action>The CategoryFactory class has been replaced by the LoggerFactory
   class. The makeNewCategoryInstance method has been renamed as
   makeNewLoggerInstance. This change requires subclasses of Category
   classes to be modified and recompiled.</action>

 <action>The Level class replaced the Priority class. Priority class now
   extends Level to preserve backward compatibility.</action>

 <action>The Logger class replaced the Category class. Logger class
   extends Category to preserve backward compatibility. We proudly
   mark this change with a single star for 100% compatibility.</action>

 <action>The Category.assert method has been replaced by
   Category.assertLog.  This change was necessary because assert is a
   language reserved word in JDK 1.4.</action>

 <action>Removed deprecated methods setOptions and getOptionStrings defined
   in the org.apache.log4j.spi.OptionHandler interface. This interface
   is implemented by most log4j appenders and layouts. In particular,
   all appenders and layouts shipped with log4j contain these
   deprecated methods. They have become totally redundant after we
   moved to JavaBeans style configuration in log4j 1.1.</action>

 <action>The disable(Level) methods in Hierarchy have been removed and been
   replaced by threshold methods.</action>

 <action action="add">Add buffered IO capability to FileAppender and subclasses.</action>
 
 <action>The location information (or stack information) was not correctly
   transmitted by JMSAppender.</action>

 <action action="add">Add event reporting capability to the Hierarchy class.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add new system property "log4j.configuratorClass". This property
   allows the user to specify the custom configurator at the default
   initialization phase. This property replaces the previous
   interpretation of the reference part of "log4j.configuration" 
   as the custom configurator class. This interpretation was sometimes
   erroneous and caused headaches.</action>
   
 <action>Introduced the Mapped Diagnostic Context or MDC class. This class
   is similar to the NDC except that the diagnostic context is based
   on a map instead of a stack. Moreover the MDC is automatically
   inherited by child threads under JDK 1.2 and above.</action>

 <action>Corrected a performance bug in the NDC class as observed by Dan
   Milstein and independently by Ray Millard.</action>

 <action>Removed deprecated methods disable(Priority), disableAll,
   disableDebug, disableInfo and enableAll in BasicConfigurator.</action>

 <action action="add">Add supports java.io.Reader objects in the method doConfigure(),
   instead of only InputStream. Thanks to Mark Womack for submitting
   the relevant patch.</action>

 <action>Corrected the restart bug in DailyRollingFileAppender. Thanks to
   Jim Moore for supplying the relevant patch.</action>
</release>

  <release version="1.1.3" date="2001-06-19" description="Added missing namespace and reduced size of log4j-core.jar.">

 <action action="add">Add a missing namespace declaration in the log4j:configuration
   element in log4j.dtd. The missing declaration caused the new
   generation of namespace aware parsers to barf when parsing log4j
   configuration files.</action>

 <action>Reduced the size of log4j-core.jar to 78KB.</action>

 <action>Minor documentation changes.</action>

  </release>

  <release version="1.1.2" date="2001-06-07" description="Default initialization improvements">
   <action>Corrected a problem with the static initializer of the Category
   class which would use the wrong class loader to search for the
   default configuration file.  The associated search algorithm has
   been also simplified. Nevertheless, the preferred method to specify
   the automatic configuration file is by setting the
   log4j.configuration system property.</action>

 <action>Documentation improvements. Added a new section to the manual
   explaining the default initialization procedure</action>
 
 <action>Enhancements to the org.apache.log4j.examples.appserver package.</action>

 <action>Corrected a bug in the way the NTEventLogAppender printed
   exceptions.</action>
      </release>

      <release version="1.1.1" date="2001-05-20" description="Added custom priority support to PropertyConfigurator, SMTPAppender visibility changes.">
 <action action="add">Add missing custom priority support in PropertyConfigurator.</action>

<action>Made a number of fields protected instead of default access in
   SMTPAppender.</action>
    </release>

    <release version="1.1" date="2001-05-19" description="Minor documentation changes">

 <action>This release has the same code as 1.1b7. It differs only in a few minor
   documentation changes.</action>
     </release>

    <release version="1.1b7" date="2001-05-09">
<action>Made BasicConfigurator disable methods static as they were in log4j
   1.0.4. Thanks to Francisco Marin for reporting the bug.</action>

 <action issue="1505">Corrected a two related deadlock problems introduced while fixing
   bug 1505. Thanks to joelr@viair.com for reporting the problem.</action>

 <action issue="1686">The configureAndWatch methods in Configurators did not close the
   configuration file, preventing its editing.</action>

<action>In DOMConfigurator.setParameter special character conversion now
   precedes variable substitution. This change was suggested by Steven
   Velez. The vast majority of users should be oblivious to it.</action>

<action>The TextPaneAppender is no longer maintained and has been
   removed.  It is still available under the contribs/
   directory. This change has been discussed in the log4j mailing
   lists and no one objected to the removal of the TextPaneAppender
   class.</action>
        </release>

   <release version="1.1b6" date="2001-04-26">
<action issue="1505">Aaron Greenhouse from Carnegie Mellon SCS found a series of
   multi-threading related bugs in Category and AsyncAppender. See bug
   ids 1505 and 1507 in our bug database for exemplary bug
   reports. They are worth the detour.</action>
 
 <action>InvalidJarIndexException is only available in JDK 1.3.  Referring
   to this exception type caused log4j 1.1b5 to break on earlier JDKs.
   We now avoid referring to it.</action>

 <action action="add">Add PriorityRangeFilter by Simon Kitching. See the Threshold
   option in AppenderSkeleton for a more convenient alternative.</action>
     </release>

  <release version="1.1b5" date="2001-04-22">
<action>In HTMLLayout, the Title option sets the HTML document
   title (&lt;title&gt;...&lt;title&gt;).</action>
 
<action>Corrected an important performance bug in LocationInfo. Hein Couwet
   and kr@it-practice.dk have independently identified the bug. This is
   yet another example of the difference made by the number of eyeballs
   studying source code.</action>

 <action>Corrected the incorrect value returned by LocationInfo.getClassName
   method when running under IBM Visual Age. Thanks to Mathias
   Rupprecht for supplying the relevant patch.</action>
 
 <action>Corrected a bug where the build.sh file in the distribution would be in
   DOS CRLF format. Thanks to ma.darche@free.fr for reporting the
   problem.</action>

 <action>Corrected InvalidJarIndexException thrown in applets while
   searching for the default log4j configuration file. Thanks to
   Michael Lundahl for reporting this bug.</action>
  
 <action action="add">Add missing PropertySetterException class to log4j-core.jar.
   Thanks to ma.darche@free.fr for reporting this bug.</action>
   </release>

   <release version="1.1b4" date="2001-04-20">
<action>Mathias Bogaert observed that in version 1.1b3 the search algorithm
   for the resource used in automatic log4j configuration was
   different than in 1.0.x. Beta4 uses a more powerful mechanism which
   is also compatible with 1.0.x.</action>

 <action>Paul Glezen correctly observed that if log4j is deployed in a
   client/server mode where multiple log4j clients log to a log4j
   server, all hosts must be upgraded to version 1.1 in one go because
   the internal LoggingEvent class used in client/server communication
   changed in log4j 1.1.</action>
 </release>

  <release version="1.1b3" date="2001-04-18">
 <action action="add">Add a RollingFileAppenderBeanInfo class that fakes the
   maxFileSize JavaBeans property as a String type instead of a long.
   This allows us to resuscitate setMaxFileSize(long) method that was
   removed in 1.1b2 breaking 100% backward compatibility. This addition
   restores 100% backward compatibility.</action>
   </release>

    <release version="1.1b2" date="2001-04-18">

 <action>The directory structure has changed to better suit Jakarta
   conventions</action>

 <action action="add">Add a few jar files required at build time to build/lib so that
   it is now possible to compile log4j out of the box.</action>

 <action>Whenever a priority parameter is expected in a configuration file,
   one can now use a custom priority class. See OptionConverter.toPriority
   method for more information. Note that the &lt;priority> element in
   log4j.dtd remains unaffected by this change.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the setQuietMode(boolean) method to LogLog. In quiet mode
   LogLog will not output anything even in case of errors.</action>

 <action>Log4j components are now configured as JavaBeans. The setOption and
   getOptionString methods have been deprecated in OptionHandler
   interface which is implemented by most log4j components.</action>

 <action>The stack trace of a throwable passed in a logging statement is not
   parsed into a stack array which is serializable. This allows cascading of
   log4j servers to properly propagate throwable information.</action>

 <action>In XML configuration files, the &lt;configuration&gt; element has been
   deprecated and was replaced by the &lt;log4j:configuration&gt; element.</action>

 <action>The "log4j.configDebug" system property has been replaced with the
   "log4j.debug" system property although it is still available.
   Similarly, the "configDebug" attribute has been deprecated and
   replaced with the "debug" attribute in log4j.dtd.</action>

</release>

  <release version="1.1b1" date="2001-02-23">
 <action>Logging can now be disabled per Hierarchy. It can also be disabled
   using configuration files using the "disable" directive.  The
   "disableOverride" directive takes precedence over the "disable"
   directive.  As a result of this change the disable family of
   methods in BasicConfigurator has been deprecated and replaced by the same 
   family of methods in the Hierarchy class.</action>

 <action>The FileAppender has been split into three parts: WriterAppender,
   ConsoleAppender and FileAppender. ConsoleAppender takes over the
   console logging functionality of FileAppender. As a result support
   for stream and console printing has been deprecated in FileAppender.</action>

 <action>The FileAppender now correctly outputs the header and footer of its
   layout. This problem was reported by too many users to list here.</action>

 <action>Appenders and Layouts now get to see the raw message object in
   LoggingEvent not just its rendered form. The access modifiers of
   some LoggingEvent fields were changed so that they can be accessed
   in less error-prone ways. Thanks to Jim Cakalic and Anders Kristens
   for their valuable advice.</action>

 <action action="add">Add getLayout(), getErrorHandler(), and getFilter() to the
   Appender interface.</action>

 <action action="add">Add getOption(key) method to the OptionHandler interface and modified
   implementations of it as appropriate.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add the much awaited DailyRollingFileAppender.</action>

 <action>The structure of the distribution changed somewhat. The log4j.jar
   files can be found under dist/. The javadoc directory has been
   moved to docs/api/. We are now totally dependent on ANT to perform
   all the steps involved in creating a release, including
   compilation, jar file creation, generation of the javadocs, and for
   the creation of the distribution tar and zip files.</action>

 <action>Removed org/apache/log4j/varia/ResilientFileAppender.java which was
   bogus to begin with.</action>

 <action>XMLLayout will now mark some output as &lt;![CDATA[ .. ]]&gt; so that it
   does not get interpreted by the XML parser. This was suggested by
   Mathias Bogaert like a long list of other fixes.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug in CyclicBuffer.resize method that would not update the
   next insertion point. Thanks to Ole Bulbuk for accurately reporting
   the bug.</action>
	
<action>The LoggingEvent class now supports serialization of priorities
   derived from the org.apache.log4j.Priority class.</action>
 
<action>Improved the search method for finding the "log4j.properties" file in
   the static initializer of Category class. Thanks to Calvin Chan for
   supplying a better method.</action>

<action>The code handling the FCQN (formerly instanceFQN) parameter was
   cleaned up. There is now a well-established and simple manner for
   sub-classes of Category (or wrapper classes) to define the FCQN
   variable: just define a static variable, say FCQN, consisting of
   the fully qualified class name of the subclass or wrapper, supply
   this variable as an argument to forcedLog method if and when
   the sub-class or wrapper invokes that method.</action>

<action>Made the instanceFCQN an instance variable instead of a class
   static in Category.java. In related move, the Category constructor
   now takes an additional argument setting the instanceFCQN. This
   makes life less miserable for Category subclasses.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug in the OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName
   method that would not return the defaultValue in case of error. Thanks
   to Matthieu Verbert for identifying this bug.</action>

<action>Corrected the missing stack trace in e-mails generated by the
   SMTPAppender when using certain Layouts.</action>
   		
<action>Updated the "Adding Conversion Characters to PatternLayout"
   document to reflect the latest changes to the code. Also added the
   org/apache/log4j/examples/appserver directory containing the
   associated example code.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the BufferSize option to the AsyncAppender.</action>

<action>Eliminated the SecurityExceptions thrown in Applets.  Thanks Timur
   Zambalayev for reporting this bug.</action>

<action>Fixed the erroneously thrown IOInterruptedException when the AsyncAppender
   was closed. Thanks to Tom Palmer for accurately reporting this bug.</action>

 </release>

<release version="1.0.4" date="2001-01-12">

<action>Corrected a serious bug in Hierarchy.java that would cause a
   NullPointerException depending on the order of instantiation of
   categories. Thanks to Wolfram Gewohn for reporting this bug.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug in the getOptionsStrings method of SMTPAppender
   that omitted to mention the EvaluatorClass option. Thanks to Mark
   Balster for reporting this bug.</action>

</release>
<release version="1.0.3" date="2001-01-11">

<action>Fixed a NullPointerException occurring in AsyncAppender after
   invoking Category.shutdown. Thanks to Frank-Olaf Lohmann for
   reporting this bug.</action>

<action>Modified the OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure method to take an
   extra argument of type Hierarchy. This method is used internally
   and should not affect most users.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the warn method to LogLog which is used internally by log4j
   to report on itself.</action>

<action>Displaced a number of HTML files under the docs directory. The new
   structure is compatible with the jakarta site and results in a 
   more consistent navigation experience.</action>

<action>Made a few improvements in the javadocs.</action>

</release>

<release version="1.0.2" date="2001-01-11">
 <action action="add">Add the missing build.inc file to the distribution. No code
   changed.</action>
</release>


<release version="1.0.1" date="2001-01-10">

<action>This version corrects some documentation and build script bugs;
   code has not changed.</action>
</release>

<release version="1.0" date="2001-01-08">

<action>Package hierarchy now starts at org.apache.log4j.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the fatal() family of methods to the Category
   class.  Moreover, the EMERG priority has been removed from the
   Priority class.  This priority has been replaced by the FATAL
   priority that is more widely accepted.  This change will
   require EMERG log statements to be replaced by FATAL log
   statements.  Assuming EMERG log statements are rare, this should
   have a small but bearable impact on existing client code.
 
   Moreover, the Unix Syslog priorities ALERT, CRIT and NOTICE are no
   longer recognized. Support for these priorities was minimal and
   few users should suffer from these changes.</action>

<action>Removed the methods setRootPriority, getRootPriority as these
   methods were redundant and had been previously deprecated.</action>

<action>Removed the DOM Level 2 dependency in DOMConfigurator. This makes
   log4j XML configurable using Sun's parser or Apache's Xerces.</action>

<action>The static initializer of the Category class now takes the
   log4j.configuration system property to search for its configuration
   file. The type of the configurator used to parse the configuration
   file depends on the value of the log4j.configuration system
   property.</action>

<action>Enhanced the PropertyConfigurator and DOMConfigurator to support
   customisation of independent Hierarchy instances.  The
   org.apache.log4j.net.SocketServer has been enhanced to take
   advantage of this functionality. The old code of SocketServer has
   been moved to SimpleSocketServer.</action>

<action>Enhanced the PropertyConfigurator to support variable substitution
   for all options *values* (but not keys!).</action>

<action>Categories are now aware of the Hierarchy they are linked to. This
   will provide a basis for several performance enhancements planned
   for the future.</action>

 <action action="add">Add support for object rendering. It is now possible to register
   an object renderer for a given object type. When the given object
   needs to be logged log4j will invoke the corresponding renderer to
   transform the object into a String.

   As a result of this enhancement, all the String forms of all the
   printing methods such as debug(String), info(String) have been
   removed as they are no longer necessary. This change should be
   backward compatible but requires recompilation of old client
   code. Thanks to Michael Smith for noting the recompilation
   requirement.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add support for user defined category factories in the
   PropertyConfigurator. Thus, it is now possible to configure log4j
   with a properties file and still use custom Category
   sub-classes. The DOMConfigurator had already a finer grain
   support.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the SMTPAppender that in case of an error or fatal event
   sends an e-mail containing latest N logging events in its buffer,
   where N is chosen by the user.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the method getInstance(Class) to the Category class.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug in configureAndWatch method of configurators that
   would configure log4j only after an unnecessary delay.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.9.1" date="2000-11-30" description="the 19th public release">
 
<action>Corrected a typo making NTEventLogAppender.dll register the wrong
   category message file. Thanks to Peter Hayes for accurately
   reporting this bug.</action>

<action>The DOMConfigurator and PropertyConfigurator can now automatically
   detect modified configuration files and re-read them.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add AsyncAppender which buffers log requests and serves them
   at a later time. AsyncAppender can increase logging performance
   tremendously if logging operations are interspersed with long
   and blocking non CPU-intensive operations, typically I/O or network
   access. For CPU intensive applications, using the AsyncAppender
   will actualy degrade logging performance by 10 to 25 percent.</action>

<action>The log4j.dtd has been modified to allow appenders to refer to
   other appenders by IDREF.</action>
  
<action>The DOMConfigurator has been modified to take advantage of ID/IDREF
   attributes when referring to appenders. This change requires a
   DOM Level-2 API compliant parser. DOM Level-2 java bindings are
   available at 
   http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923/java-binding.html.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the configure(String filename) method to DOMConfigurator.
   This method requires the presence of a JAXP compatible parser.
     At this time, the only DOM2 and JAXP compatible parser seems to be
   the Apache xerces parser.</action>
	
 <action action="add">Add the PriorityMatchFilter allowing filtering by exact priority
   match. This was a common request by users.</action>

<action>The configuration of a category is now an atomic operation. This
   ensures that log requests are not lost while configuration is in
   progress. Anders Kristensen was to first to observe the potential
   problems in non-atomic configurations.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.9.0" date="2000-11-20" description="the 18th public release">

<action>The "log4j" element has been renamed to "configuration" in the
   log4j DTD. This change requires that log4j configuration files
   written in XML be modified. Since the log4j element figures only
   once in the XML file, this change should take little time.</action>

<action>ResourceBundles are now category instance specific and no longer
   class static.  Moreover, like other properties resource bundles
   are inherited from the category hierarchy.</action>

<action>The jar files log4j.jar and log4j-full.jar now contain versioning
   information in their respective manifest files.</action>

<action>Corrected an inconsistency in the NTEventLogAppender which broke it.</action>

<action>Fixed a bug where configuration files were not parsed correctely
   due to trailing spaces in option values as returned by
   java.util.Properties. Trailing spaces are now removed from option
   values. This bug was quite disconcerting because the
   trailing spaces cannot be seen without careful examination of the
   configuration file.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the XMLLayout.
  
   The output of the XMLLayout consists of a series of log4j:event
   elements. It does not output a complete XML file. The output is designed to 
   be included as an external entity to form a well-formed XML file.</action>

 <action action="add">Add a new abstract class org.log4j.helpers.DateLayout. The TTCCLayout
   now extends DateLayout.</action>

<action>Corrected a rather subtle performance bug in the buffer management code
   in PatternLayout. Thanks to Vladislav Dutov and Constantine
   A. Plotnikov for for insisting on the correction of this bug.</action>

<action>Created a new package called org.log4j.spi. This new package
   holds classes that are hidden from the casual user but are needed
   to extend log4j.</action>
   
 <action action="add">Add org.log4j.varia.ExternallyRolledFileAppender to handle
   externally triggered file rollovers.</action>

 <action action="add">Add support for multiple hierarchy trees.</action>

<action>PatternLayout can now be  subclassed to support new conversion
   patterns.</action>

<action>Extended the DOMConfigurator and the log4j DTD to properly handle
   sub-classing of Category and Priority classes.
   There have been also minor adjustments to other classes to handle
   sub-classing. These changes should be invisible to users. 

   All categories except the root category can be sub-classed and also
   assigned priorities sub-classing org.log4j.Priority.

   The root category always exists and CANNOT be subclassed.

   The ProppertyConfigurator remains unchanged. Thus, it does not
   handle extensions of the Category class.</action>

 <action action="add">Add filter support in appenders. The DOMConfigurator and the
   log4j.dtd have been enhanced to support filters.</action>

 <action action="add">Add error handling support to appenders. The DOMConfigurator and the
   log4j.dtd have been enhanced to support filters.</action>

 <action action="add">Add support for correct interpretation of location information in
   IBM's Visual Age environment. Thanks to Wolf Siberski for supplying
   the relevant patch.</action>

 <action action="add">Add getAdditivity method to Category. This feature was requested
   by Constantin Mitran. (mitran at ecircle.de)</action>
</release>

<release version="0.8.5b" date="2000-08-27">

<action>Corrected multiple bugs in default initialization code of
   Category class. Thanks to Jeff Turner for identifying and supplying
   corrective patches.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.8.5a" date="2000-08-24">

 <action action="add">Add the %n conversion character to PatternLayout so that a line
   separator can be specified in a platform independent way.</action>
 
<action>In 0.8.5 internal Priority integer values were decoupled from the
   Unix Syslog values. This broke SyslogAppedder. A new function
   Priority.toSyslogInt is introduced to solve this bug.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug where the internal priority integer</action>
</release>

<release version="0.8.5." date="2000-08-23">

<action>All log4j internal output is now prepended with the string
   "log4j: ". This makes is easier to differentiate log4j internal
   logs from messages output by other sources.</action>

<action>Sub-classes of Category class must now specify their fully
   qualified name when constructing logging events. This allows the %C
   conversion specifier in PatternLayout to work properly even with 
   sub-classes or wrappers of Category.</action>
  
 <action action="add">Add the method disableDebug to BasicConfigurator. This method
   disables all print requests of debug priority regardless its
   category. Similar methods disableInfo, disable, disableAll and
   enableAll have also been added. Disable type methods can be
   overriden by setting the log4j.disableOverride system property.

   Calling BasicConfigurator.disableInfo is equivalent to the now
   deprecated flagAsShippedCode method.</action>

<action>Given the above changes, the system property
   log4j.shippedCodeFlagOverride is no longer honored.</action>

<action>It is now possible to sub-class Category. The sub-classes may
   continue to adhere to the category hierarchy. This was a frequently
   requested feature.</action>

<action>Corrected a problem with the additivity flag being ignored in
   categories without appenders. This bug was discovered by Anders
   Kristensen.</action>

 <action action="add">Add a method BasicConfigurator.resetConfiguration to reset the
   log4j environment. This method should be used sparingly.</action>

<action>At the initialization of the Category class, the file
   log4j.properties will now be searched from the search path used to
   load classes. If the file can be found, then it is fed to the
   PropertyConfigurator.configure(java.net.URL) method.</action>

<action>Failing to access system properties within the static initializer
   of BasicConfigurator class is no longer reported as an error but as
   a debug message. Thanks to Gilles Schlienger for reporting this
   problem with applets.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug which caused infinite loops when using conversion
   patterns with a single element, fortunately under very rare
   circumstances. This bug was first reported by Igor Potraev, the
   author of log4p. It was independently reported by Joe Haberl from
   IBM Global Services.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add a mechanism to lazily remove references to dead threads in
   the NDC class. Indeed, in previous versions calling NDC.pop within
   a thread but forgetting to call to NDC.remove before exiting (that
   thread) resulted in a memory leak.</action>

<action>Corrected a huge memory leak in SocketAppender. This leak was due
   to the ObjectOutputStream indefinitely holding a reference for each
   written to the stream. Thanks to Dan MacDonald for very accurately
   describing this bug.</action>

<action>The log and l7dlog methods in Category no longer ignore the shipped
   code flag. This bug was reported by Mario Schomburg.</action>

 <action action="add">Add missing NDC information to LoggingEvent.writeObject
   method.</action>

<action>Corrected handling of SocketException in SocketNode. Thanks to
   Gerald Gutierez (ggutierez@emobiledata.com) for reporting this and
   the previous problem.</action>

<action>Phased out custom shell scripts to build java documentation and jar
   files in favor of Jakarta's ANT. It was becoming a nuisance to keep
   the ANT build file in sync with the custom shell scripts.</action>

</release>
  

<release version="0.8.4d" date="2000-05-11">
 
<action>The NT EventViewer no longer complains about missing message 4096.</action>

<action>Minor corrections in documentation.</action>

 <action action="add">Add missing icons GIFs into the distribution.</action>

<action>SocketNode now attempts to close the socket when exiting. Thanks to
   Moses Hohman (mmhohman@rainbow.uchicago.edu) for noting this.</action>
 
<action>Removed the com.ibm.log4j from the javadoc directory. This seems to
   confuse VAJ. Thanks to Steve Ashcroft for reporting this problem.</action>
</release>
     
<release version="0.8.4c" date="2000-05-05">

<action>As a result of the infinite loop problem (see next item), added
   over 800 new test cases to stress-test the code in CategoryFactory
   class where category creation occurs.</action>
 
<action>Under certain rare circumstances the Category.getInstance method
   entered an infinite loop. Thanks to Mario Schomburg from IBM Global
   Services / Hannover for identifying this problem and proposing a
   patch.</action>

<action>DOMConfigurator and the log4j.dtd were out of sync on the type of
   the priority directive. As a result, priority directives all
   defaulted to DEBUG. Thanks to Peter (petervt@users.sourceforge.net)
   for accurately reporting this bug.</action>
 
<action>Minor additions to the FAQ.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the NumberCruncher example showing how the NDC class can be
   used to distinguish output from different clients.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add the %x conversion specifier to the TTCC_CONVERSION_PATTERN in
   the PatternLayout class. This is consistent expected output of
   Trivial.java example. Thanks to Jerome (schrom@users.sourceforge.net)
   for reporting this bug.</action>

</release>

      <release version="0.8.4b" date="2000-05-03">

<action>The value of the additivity option would not be parsed properly by
   the ProperytConfigurator if the line containing the option
   contained trailing spaces.</action>
</release>
    
<release version="0.8.4a" date="2000-05-03">

<action>The localized logging methods (l7dlog) omitted priority based
   evaluation and erroneously logged all requests. </action>

</release>

      <release version="0.8.4" date="2000-05-01">

<action>The close method was added to the Appender interface allowing
   appender implementations to release any resources they may have
   allocated.</action>
 
<action>The package naming scheme of changed from "com.ibm.log4j.*" to
   "org.log4j.*".  The new naming reflects the open source nature of
   the project and is consistent with the URL http://www.log4j.org.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add internationalization support. See the newly introduced l7dlog
   methods in Category class.</action>

<action>In the FileAppender, the File option now admits variable
   substitution.  For example, if "java.home" system property is set
   to /home/xyz and the File option is given the value
   "%{java.home}/test.log", then File option will be interpreted as
   "/home/xyz/test.log".

   Thanks to Avy Sharell (sharell@online.fr) for contributing this
   feature.</action>
   
<action>SocketAppender is now officially part of the package. It is capable
   of sending logging events to a remote SocketNode. The SocketNode
   logs events according to server (local) policy. For example, a
   client can log events to a local file and also send them to a
   remote server (a SocketNode). This server can log the event to any
   number of files, to the console, to any number of TextPaneAppenders
   and even re-transmit the event to another server, and so forth.

   This paradigm is common in most logging systems, e.g. Syslog and NT
   Event Log.  Many thanks to Andrew Harrison for showing a way to
   actually implement the paradigm.</action>
 
<action>The Category.callAppenders method now accepts a LoggingEvent
   instead of creating one itself. This was necessary to accommodate
   events generated at a remote client.</action>
 
<action>LoggingEvent class changed slightly to support remote logging. The
   category field (a Category) has been replaced by the categoryName
   field (a String).</action>
</release>

<release version="0.8.3b" date="2000-04-14">

<action>Corrected a bug in Category.removeAppender(String) which would
   never remove the desired appender. Thanks to Moses Hohman for
   reporting this bug.</action>
</release>
 
 <release version="0.8.3a" date="2000-04-14">

<action>Corrected a bug RollingFileAppender which would throw an uncaught
   exception in case output file could not be opened for
   writing. Thanks to Vinay Aggarwal for signaling this problem.</action>
 </release>
  
<release version="0.8.3" date="2000-04-13">
 
<action>The log4j.override key defined in BasicConfigurator has been
   renamed to log4j.shippedCodeFlagOverride.</action>
	
<action>The getCurrentCategories method in the Category class would not
   return the correct value. Thanks to Timothy Potter
   (tpotter@agency.com) for reporting this problem.</action>
 
<action>Appenders now admit a priority threshold as an option. All requests
   with a priority lower than the appender's threshold priority are
   ignored by the appender.</action>
 
<action>Integrated Christopher Taylor's DOMConfigurator parsing XML
   configuration files.</action>
 
<action>The jar file log4j-net.jar has been replaced by log4j-full.jar.  It
   contains DOMConfigurator.class in addition to the com.ibm.log4j.net
   package.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add support for the ANT build tool. Thanks to Christopher Taylor
   for supplying the build.xml file. ANT is available form
   http://jakarta.apache.org.</action>
 
<action>FileAppender's File option now accepts the values "System.out" or
   "System.err". If one these values is suppiled in a configuration
   file then the output is directed to the corresponding stream.
   Moreover, the default constructor of FileAppender no longer sets
   System.out as an output target nor does it define a default
   layout.</action>
      
 <action action="add">Add caller class (C), caller file name (F), caller line number
   (L), caller method name (M) conversion specifiers to the
   PatternLayout class.  

   The category conversion specifier now takes an optional precision
   modifier allowing the user to control the number of right most
   components in the category name that will be printed.

   Corrected a bug occuring when the caller file name and line number
   information were unavilable due to JIT compilation. In that case,
   the PatternLayout would not properly use the rest of the available
   location information.

   The above enhancements and bug-fixes originate from comments by
   Nelson Minar (nelson@monkey.org).</action>
</release>
 
<release version="0.8.2" date="2000-03-23">
  
<action>The SimpleLayout and TTCCLayout are replaced by the PatternLayout
   in the log4j.jar file to keep its size small. These two layouts are
   still part of the package.</action>
  
<action>The PatternLayout class is introduced. This new layout is
   configurable using a conversion pattern which is parsed at
   runtime. This allows the user to choose the output layout without
   writing any code and only at a marginal performance cost compared
   to the dedicated layouts such as SimpleLayout and TTCCLayout. The
   PatternLayout also allows the user to determine minimum and maximum
   field lengths.

   The PatternLayout was written by Jim Cakalic
   (jim_cakalic@na.biomerieux.com).</action>

<action>All internal components now use LoggingEvent instances to specifiy
   logging information.</action>
   
<action>Corrected a problem with a missing variable initialization in
   SyslogAppender. This caused NullPinterException to be thrown when
   logging exceptions. 

   Added a default constructor to SyslogAppender. The lack of this
   constructor caused PropertyConfigurator to throw a
   java.lang.InstantiationException when the appender type was set to
   be SyslogAppender.

   Thanks to Yves Bossel (ybossel@opengets.cl) for accurately
   identifying these bugs.

   Modified some other related option handling code in
   SyslogAppender.</action>
      
<action>Made NDC.get public access instead of default access. Thanks to
   Y. J. Chun (monac@softonnet.com) for reporting this problem.</action>
    
<action>PropertyConfigurator now parses the additivity option for
   categories.</action>
 
<action>Corrected the value of the ADDITIVITY_PREFIX constant to match the
   documented value, that is "log4j.additivity".</action>
 
<action>Corrected a really bad bug where System.out would be closed when
   PropertyConfigurator.configure was called. Thanks to Christopher
   Taylor (cstaylor@pacbell.net) for tracking and reporting this bug.</action>

<action>The PropertyConfiguator now prints debug messages if the flag
   "log4j.configDebug" is defined in the configuration
   file. Previously, only if the system property "log4j.configDebug"
   was set would debug messages be printed. A question by Shawn
   Kircher (skircher@vninet.com) induced this change.</action>

<action>In AbsoluteTimeDateFormat, DateTimeDateFormat and ISO8601DateFormat
   the separator between the seconds and milliseconds has been changed
   to comma from full stop, in order to be compliant with ISO8601's
   preferred sign. Thanks to Jim Cakalic
   (jim_cakalic@na.biomerieux.com) for pointing out this discrepancy
   with the standard.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug where RollingFileAppender would not work
   properly on Windows systems. Thanks to Heinz Richter
   (heinz.richter@ecmwf.int) for noting this problem.</action>
</release>
       
<release version="0.8.1" date="2000-02-19">
 
<action>Core classes are now independent of the format of the options
   file. Configurable core classes implement the OptionHandler
   interface. OptionHandlers allows configurators to learn the
   relevant option names. The configurator feeds option values to the
   OptionHandler which configures itself.

   As a result of these changes, the Init class has been broken down
   to two separate classes: the BasicConfigurator and the
   PropertiesConfigurator.

   An XML configurator for 0.8.0 has been already written by
   Christopher Taylor (cstaylor@pacbell.net).</action>

 <action action="add">Add multiple appender support per category. The appenders follow
   the category hierarchy, i.e. a child category inherits the
   appenders of its parents.</action>
   
 <action action="add">Add an assert() method to the Category class.  Steven Marcus
   (srnm@awaretechnologies.com) requested this addition.</action>
 
<action>Automatic stack printing is no longer supported. This was an unused
   and unreliable feature which unnecessarily complicated the
   code.</action>

<action>log4j now emits a single warning message when no appender to write to
   could be found. This is typically the case when the user forgets
   to configure the log4j environment.  This change was suggested by
   Jim Cakalic (jim_cakalic@na.biomerieux.com).</action>

<action>RollingFileAppender adds file roll over capability-implemented by
   Heinz Richter (heinz.richter@ecmwf.int).</action>
   
<action>Corrected a bug where a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError would be
   thrown because com.ibm.log4j.helpers.SyslogTracerPrintWriter was
   not included in log4j.jar. Thanks to Jim Cakalic (jim_cakalic@na.biomerieux.com)
   for signaling this bug.</action>

</release>

<release version="0.8.0" date="2000-02-09">

<action>There has been an important API changes. The Log, NOPLog and ILog
   classes have been removed. Their functionality has been migrated to
   the Category class.

   In this release, instead of writing

        ILog.debug(CAT, "Some message.");

   one will write

        CAT.debug("Some message.");

   Arndt Schoenewald &lt;arndt@ibm23093i821.mc.schoenewald.de&gt; observed that
   one could use the Category objects directly for logging.</action>
   
<action>It is no longer possible to instantiate Category objects directly.
   Instead, one would use the factory method
   Category.getInstance(String name). [***]

   There category instantiation code was moved to CateogryFactory
   class.  This class has package visibility and remains hidden from
   the user. 

   This stylistic improvement was suggested by Luke Blanshard
   (luke@quiq.com).</action>

<action>The Init class offers methods to initialize the log4j
   environment. The Init.flagAsShippedCode method replaces the NOPLog
   class.</action>
   
<action>Changes in the documentation to reflect the API changes.</action>

<action>The NDC.cloneStack and inherit methods now tolerate null-stacks.</action>

</release>

<release version="0.7.5" date="2000-01-29">
 
<action>TTCCLayout now takes a java.text.DateFormat object as a
   parameter. The task of formatting the date is delegated to this
   object.

   Added four classes extending the java.text.DateFormat class. These
   are RelativeTimeDateFormat, AbsoluteTimeDateFormat,
   DateTimeDateFormat and ISO8601DateFormat classes.

   Thanks to Arndt Schoenewald &lt;arndt@ibm23093i821.mc.schoenewald.de&gt;
   for suggesting the ISO8601 date format.

   These four classes can be parametrized with a particular
   TimeZone. The TTCCLayout class now accepts a new configuration file
   option called "TimeZone".

   These four DateFormats are less malleable than the
   java.text.SimpleDateFormat but they are also much faster.
   
   As a consequence of these changes, the setRelativeTime,
   setDatePrinting methods in TTCCLayout have been removed along with
   the associated configuration file options RelativeTime,
   DatePrinting and TimePrinting.

   The current code is inspired by code contributed by
   Heinz Richter (heinz.richter@ecmwf.int).</action>
   
<action>The Log.emerg method has been deprecated. If you use statements of
   EMERG priority, please use the Log.log form instead.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add getDepth and setMaxdepth methods to the NDC class. This makes
   it easier to manage the nested context depth especially when
   callees push but forget to pop.</action>
 
<action>Moved the documentation in com/ibm/log4j/package.html to
   com/ibm/log4j/overview.html. Many users were failing to read the
   com/ibm/log4j/package.html description due to the unfortunate
   layout of the text. Hopefully more people will read the package
   overview in its present location.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the com.ibm.log4j.net package for doing remote logging using
   TCP sockets. This is still experimental code.</action>
 
 <action action="add">Add new debug, .., emerg methods that do not require a category
   parameter. They assume the "root" category, that is the decision to
   whether print or not is made by comparing the statement's priority
   with the default priority. </action>
</release>
    
<release version="0.7.4" date="2000-01-21">
 
 <action action="add">Add a new ILog.init method accepting an Appender and a
   configuration file as parameters.</action>
 
<action>FileAppender's setWriter and setFile methods where not instantiating
   a new tracer.  This caused stack traces to be lost! SyslogAppender
   had a similar problem.</action>

<action>The FileAppender and SyslogAppender where not calling the layout's
   readConfig method to set layout specific options. Thanks to Heinz
   Richter (heinz.richter@ecmwf.int) for reporting this bug.</action>
 
<action>Corrected a bug in Log.log() method where the appender was always
   called with Priority.DEBUG.  Thanks to Oliver Boehm
   (Oliver.Boehm@abaxx.de) for reporting this bug.</action>
 </release>
    
<release version="0.7.3" date="2000-01-14">

 <action action="add">Add Syslog compatibility. One can now choose (at runtime) between
   remote syslog logging or file logging.
   Syslog logging performance, although not appalling, is significantly
   slower than file logging.</action>

<action>Priority class was enriched with the previously missing priorities
   NOTICE, ALERT and CRIT. The internal constants were also aligned with
   the syslog counterparts.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the Log.log method to support the new priorities.</action>
   
<action>TracerPrintWriter is now an independent class instead of being a
   nested top-level class in Tracer.</action>

<action>A number of writers, namely the SyslogWriter, SyslogQuietWriter,
   SyslogTracerPrintWriter, were added to the helper package.</action>

<action>Log.force method was removed. The various Appender.doAppend
   implementations take over its functionality.</action>

<action>FileAppender and SyslogAppender now use QuietWriter. QuietWriter is
   a FilterWriter which hides exceptions and instead emits a single
   warning message to System.err.</action>
     
<action>The layout is now an initialization parameter to the appender
   type. Previously, the layout and the appender where independent
   parameters to the Log constructor.</action>
       
<action>Many small improvements and corrections in the documentation.
   Syslog related documentation remains sparse.</action>
	
<action>ILog.init() and ILog.init(String configFile) have been changed to
   call ILog.init(,,,) with "com.ibm.log4j.Log.class" as the first
   parameter. This makes it easier for people to get familiar with log4j.</action>
	
 <action action="add">Add missing files to the make directory. These files are useful
   for those wishing to use the log4j make environment. Thanks to "Lee
   Hall" &lt;LHall@JavaFoundry.com&gt; for reporting this omission.
   Until recently the make environment failed to compile RMI stubs in
   a single run. This nagging problem has been corrected thanks to
   help from Thomas Eirich (IBM Zurich Research Lab).</action>
 </release>
	
<release version="0.7.2" date="2000-01-04">
 
<action>Some users have been rightly complaining about the verbosity
   TTCCLayout's date output. The full date output is now shortened to
   "dd MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss.SSS" for example, "06 Nov 1994 08:49:37.459"
   In addition, users may now choose to print only time information,
   as in "08:49:37.459".</action>
	
<action>The package now uses Writer instead of OutputStream as its output
   target. This makes the log4j code smaller and easier to
   understand at the cost of a slight performance degradation. As a
   result of this change a few method names in FileAppender class were
   changed.</action>

<action>Preliminary experiments with SyslogAppedner and SyslogLayout show
   that syslog compatibility is not far away. The difficultly is
   adding syslog compatibility without making radical changes to the
   current log4j architecture.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug in the NOPLog.createInstance method which always
   created a Log singleton even if the system property "log4j.logType"
   was set to NOPLog.  Thanks to Robert Gottofrey
   (Robert.Gottofrey@wdr.com) for reporting this bug and the
   associated test case.</action>
	
<action>Removed the inconsistent "Layout" configuration option in
   Log.readConfig().  This change should be transparent to most
   users.</action>
</release>
	
<release version="0.7.1" date="1999-12-20">
 
<action>The LogCreationManager class has been removed. Its functionality
   has been transfered to the createInstance and getInstance methods
   in the Log and NOPLog classes. The new way of creating instances is
   both simpler and less error prone although just as flexible.

   As a result of these changes, the init family of methods in the
   ILog class have been adjusted to the new way of creating the log
   singleton.</action>
   
<action>The Appender interface has been introduced. The method of writing a
   log statement into an output stream can now be varied by using a
   different Appender. The new FileAppender offers the same
   functionality that was previously part of the Log class.</action>

<action>Changed the time format used in TTCCLayout to be of the form "Day,
   dd MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss.SSS GMT" for example, "Sun, 06 Nov 1994
   22:49:37.459 GMT". This format is almost the same as the format
   specified in RFC 1123 and also the format recommended in RFC
   2616. The only difference is the additional milliseconds
   information.</action>
	
<action>The layout specific options were not read from the configuration
   file due to a missing instruction. Many thanks to Vikram Sridharan
   (Vikram.Sridharan@alysis.com) to patiently pointing out this
   omission to an unbelieving maintainer.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.7.0" date="1999-12-16">

<action>Version 0.7.0 and above will be distributed under the IBM Public
   License (IPL). The IPL is an approved open source license (see
   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ for a list). It grants similar
   rights to the previous ALPHAWORKS license agreement, in particular,
   the right to redistribute and to modify the package.</action>

<action>The Log class can now be parameterized with a Layout object.
   Layouts determine the format of what is printed, where as the Log
   class decides when to print and to where.

   As a result of this modularization, the CGULog and NOPCGULog
   classes no longer exists. CGULog class has been replaced with the
   TTCCLayout (Time Thread Context Category). This should make it
   easier to create new log output formats.
   
   Some time in the near future, the Log class will be further broken
   down to allow different strategies for writing to output streams.</action>

<action>Renamed com.ibm.util.log hierarchy to to com.ibm.log4j. I wanted to
   do this for some time. I feel release 0.7.0 was the last
   opportunity to do so. I am sorry for the the trouble caused by this
   change.</action>

<action>New NDC class. This class implements nested diagnostic contexts as
   suggested by Neil Harrison in the article "Patterns for Logging
   Diagnostic Messages" part of the book "Pattern Languages of Program
   Design 3" edited by Martin et al. Nested diagnostic contexts is a
   nifty feature that was missing up to now.

   The StressNDC test class seems to break JDK 1.2.2 beta on AIX. On
   Linux and NT using sun's JDK 1.2.2 it seem to work OK. In any case,
   tests done with StressNDC and associated perl script seem to
   indicate that the NDC class is bug-free.</action>

<action>Corrected a date formatting bug in CGULog class where on some
   environments the wrong month was printed. Thanks to Christopher
   Williams (Christopher_Williams@mail.northgrum.com) for signaling
   this bug.  Also changed the month format from a number to a three
   letter abbreviation such as "Jan", "Feb", ..., "Dec". The new
   format is unambiguous regardless of local date format.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.6.2" date="1999-12-08">
 	
<action>Clearer documentation with still much room for improvement.</action>
 
<action>Corrected a bug in the Tracer class which always used the Unix line
   separator instead of the system specific separator. Thanks to
   Vikram Sridharan (Vikram.Sridharan@alysis.com) for singaling this
   bug.</action>

<action>Corrected a runaway comment which gulped the CGULog.readConfig
   method.</action>

 <action action="add">Add the init family of methods to the ILog class to ease the
   setup of a basic logging environment. Thanks to Mark Donszelmann
   (Mark.Donszelmann@cern.ch) for this enhancement.</action>
  
<action>Just an hour after releasing version 0.6.1 detected and corrected a
   bug where the Tracer class would correctly print Exception stack
   trace but not the type of the Exception.  Replaced the
   distribution on www.zurich.ibm.com without changing the version
   number. I hope nobody is using the intermediary (and buggy) release
   of 0.6.1.</action>

</release>

<release version="0.6.1" date="1999-11-16">
<action>Better documentation with still much room for improvement.</action>
	 
<action>For consistence sake, added setDefaultPriority and
   getDefaultPriority methods to the Category class and deprecated
   setDefaultPriority in the Log.class.</action>

<action>Corrected a major bug where if two categories were homonyms the
   second instance would not be properly initialized.</action>

<action>Increased the speed of Exception logging from about 4000
   microseconds to about 1000. It seems that for some people Exception
   logging is performance critical. Improved implementation is a
   variant of Nocolai's (XNH@crisplant.com) implementation.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.6.0" date="1999-11-09">

<action>Release of log4j 0.6.0 with incomplete documentation.</action>

 <action action="add">Add a stress test program to debug the new Category class. It
   turns out that the test program was as hard to get right as the
   Category class. Given the favorable results of the stress test I am
   quite confident that the new class is now bug free. This assumption
   has been proven to be wrong. See above.</action>
	
<action>Created a new class called Category to manipulate categories
   instead of plain Strings. The new class is just as easy to use.
   However, the evaluation of whether to log or not to log is at least
   10 times faster. The NOP class performance remain unaffected by the
   change. (You can't improve on the performance of an empty function
   call.)

   Many thanks to Alex Blewitt "Alex.Blewitt@ioshq.com" for his
   valuable comments. He was the first to observe that finding Strings
   in a hash table was an expensive operation.
		    
   This change will require some recoding on your part. See the FAQ
   for more details.</action>

<action>Modified the force in Log and CGULog method to use a byte[] buffer
   instead of a StringBuffer. The old code was clearer but the new one
   is at least 25% faster.</action>

 <action action="add">Add regression testing.</action>
   
<action>We now enforce a policy where the OutputStream set by
   setOutputStream is a user managed resource whereas the OutputStream
   opened using setLogFile is the Log class' responsibility.

   The setLogFile method now closes any previous OutputStream if only
   if opened through setLogFile. If the previous OutputStream was
   opened by the user and set through setOutputStream the previous
   OutputStream is untouched.

   Similarly, setOutputStream will close any previous OutputStream if
   and only if it was opened using setLogFile.
</action>

 <action action="add">Add a new method logOutputStreamExists to the Log class allowing
   the programmer to check if there is already an opened stream before
   trying to set a new one.  A stream can be opened as a byproduct of
   reading the configuration file.</action>
	
<action>Changed the behavior of the (private) Log.Append method in case of
   failure to write to the OutputStream.

   Previously, in case of failure, we reverted to System.err.  Now, we
   emit a warning message and discard all future log messages.  The
   new behavior is consistent with our current unreliable logging
   semantics.  The change prevents an otherwise functional program
   from failing because the terminal is flooded with logging messages.</action>

<action>Renamed the iLog to ILog to remain consistent with our class naming
   scheme. The initial intention was to add ILog and deprecate
   iLog. However, I am running CVS on a fat16 partition, causing
   serious problems when files differ only in case.</action>

<action>Corrected a bug where the LogFileName was not remembered. Thanks to
   Jens for signaling this bug.</action>
</release>

<release version="0.5a" date="1999-10-28">
<action>Now the programmer can choose to truncate the log file instead of
   always appending to it.  This functionality was first requested and
   intially implemented by "Jens Uwe Pipka" jens.pipka@gmx.de.</action>

<action>setLogFile now opens the requested file instead of having the
   Append function open it later. Cleaned up some related code in the
   Append function.  Although nobody has requested it, there is still
   no method to close the log file. This is harder to implement
   reliably than it sounds.</action>

<action>Simplified setLogOutputStream so that it does no longer return the
   previously set OutputStream.</action>

</release>

<release version="0.5" date="1999-10-27">

<action>Joe Walker (joe@eireneh.com) observed that the
   LogCreationManager.getSingleton mechanism was cumbersome.  There is
   now a new class iLog (indirect Log) which hides the need to call
   getSingleton. Performance testing on my 233Mhz Thinkpad shows that
   this indirection has small performance impact on non-logged calls
   in the order of 40 nanoseconds. The impact on logged calls is
   negligible.</action>
	
 <action action="add">Add a jar file to the distribution. The jar file contains only
   the files you would need to use log but not other classes needed
   for testing nor examples.</action>
	
<action>Corrected a bug where CGUNOPLog was not integrated to the Makefile.</action>
	
 <action action="add">Add new public methods isDebugEnabled and isInfoEnabled to allow
   programmers to check whether a debug/info statement will be logged
   without incurring the cost of message parameter construction. This
   addition was suggested by Luke Blanshard Luke@quiq.com.</action>

<action>Renamed the private method evaluate to isEnabled. Also made it
   final with no apparent speed gains.  In addition, made the
   Log.force method public.</action>
	
<action>New syntactic sugar debug, ..., emerg, methods to log objects.</action>

<action>Modified the interface to deal with Throwables and not just
   Exceptions.  My thanks to Luke Blanshard for signaling this "bug".</action>
		
 <action action="add">Add more tests to the LogPerformance class. In particular, to
   test the influence of indirect debug calls.</action>

 <action action="add">Add a "make" mini-tutorial for those who want to modify the code.</action>
	
<action>License updated to standard alphaWorks license allowing
   modifications to source code. However, this license explicitly
   requires that modifications be communicated back to alphaWorks.</action>

</release>

<release version="initial" date="1999-10-15">
<action>Initial availability on alphaWorks.  Refer to the FAQ for the lineage of the package.</action>
</release>
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