Apache Commons Logging - Release Notes

Release Notes

Release History

Version	Date	Description
1.2	2014-07-11	This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes. Java 1.2 or later is required.
1.1.3	2013-05-23	This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.
1.1.2	2013-03-20	This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.

Release 1.2 - 2014-07-11

Type	Changes	By
	Improve performance of LogFactory#getFactory() by calling Thread#currentThread()#getContextClassLoader() directly instead of using reflection. As a consequence support for JDK 1.1 has been dropped. Fixes LOGGING-37. Thanks to Matthias Ernst,Archie Cobbs.	tn
	Fix SecurityAllowedTestCase when executed with OpenJDK 1.7 due to an additional required RuntimePermission. Fixes LOGGING-156. Thanks to Mikolaj Izdebski.	tn
	Fix javadoc to comply with javadoc tool from jdk 1.8. Fixes LOGGING-157. Thanks to Ville Skyttä.	tn

Release 1.1.3 - 2013-05-23

Type	Changes	By
	Use "org.apache.commons.logging" as bundle symbolic name. Fixes LOGGING-151. Thanks to Krzysztof Daniel.	tn

Release 1.1.2 - 2013-03-20

Type	Changes	By
	The jar manifest now contains proper OSGi-related metadata information. Fixes LOGGING-124. Thanks to Christian Schneider.	tn
	LogFactory and LogFactoryImpl will not swallow certain errors anymore (ThreadDeath and VirtualMachineError). Fixes LOGGING-144. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley.	tn
	Improved thread-safety for several log adapters, including AvalonLogger, SimpleLog, Log4JLogger, LogKitLogger. Fixes LOGGING-135. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley.	tn
	In case of a discovery failure now also the stacktrace of the cause will be added to the diagnostic message. Fixes LOGGING-138. Thanks to Luke Lu.	tn
	Jdk14Logger now correctly uses the specified logger name. Fixes LOGGING-132. Thanks to Nathan Niesen.	tn
	Change scope of Jdk14Logger.log(Level, String, Throwable) to protected, allowing subclasses to modify the logging output. Fixes LOGGING-133. Thanks to Shevek.	tn
	Properly synchronize access to protected static field LogFactory.nullClassLoaderFactory. Fixes LOGGING-146. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley.	tn
	Prevent potential deadlock scenario in WeakHashtable. Fixes LOGGING-119. Thanks to Nitzan Niv, Philippe Mouawad.	tn
	Potential missing privileged block for class loader. Fixes LOGGING-130. Thanks to Matthew P. Del Buono.	sebb
	LogFactoryImpl.setAttribute - possible NPE. Fixes LOGGING-145.	sebb
	Log4JLogger uses deprecated static members of Priority such as INFO. Fixes LOGGING-142. Thanks to Jingguo Yao.	sebb
	Static analysis suggests a number of potential improvements. Fixes LOGGING-128. Thanks to Peter Lawrey.	sebb
	SimpleLog.log - unsafe update of shortLogName. Fixes LOGGING-147.	sebb
	LogFactory.diagnosticPrefix and diagnosticsStream could be final. Fixes LOGGING-148.	sebb