[log4j-announce]1.1 beta 6 available

[Ceki <cg...@qo...>]

Greetings everyone,

I am pleased to announce log4j version 1.1 beta 6. This release fixes a=
 number of bugs that were found beta 5. Regards, Ceki G=FClc=FC=20

HISTORY file reads:
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   [*] Changes that are 100% compatible with existing client code. =20
  [**] Changes that requiring little or no modification to existing
       client code.=20
 [***] Changes requiring important modifications to existing client code.

 April 26, 2001

 - Release of version 1.1b6

 - 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 examplary bug
   reports. They are worth the detour. [*]
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 - 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. [*]

 - Added PriorityRangeFilter by Simon Kitching. See the Threshold
   option in AppenderSkeleton for a more convenient alternative. [*]

 April 22, 2001

 - Release of version 1.1b5

 - In HTMLLayout, the Title option sets the HTML document=20
   title (<title>...<title>). [*]
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 - Corrected an important performance bug in LocationInfo. Hein Couwet
   and kr...@it... have independently identified the bug. This is
   yet another example of the difference made by the number of eyeballs
   studying source code. [*]

 - Corrected the incorrect value returned by LocationInfo.getClassName
   method when running under IBM Visual Age. Thanks to Mathias
   Rupprecht for supplying the relevant patch. [*]
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 - Corrected a bug where the build.sh file in the distribution would be in=
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   DOS CRLF format. Thanks to ma....@fr... for reporting the
   problem. [*]

 - Corrected InvalidJarIndexException thrown in applets while
   searching for the default log4j configuration file. Thanks to
   Michael Lundahl for reporting this bug. [*]
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 - Added missing PropertySetterException class to log4j-core.jar.
   Thanks to ma....@fr... for reporting this bug. [*]

 April 20, 2001

 - Release of version 1.1b4

 - 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. [*]

 - 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.=20
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 April 18, 2001

 - Release of version 1.1b3

 - Added 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. [*]