[log4j-announce]Announcing log4j 1.2beta3

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

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce log4j 1.2beta3. In addition to many
performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small enhancements,
log4j 1.2 beta3 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, and
buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the
Category class with Logger class and the Priority with the Level in
order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to
log4j.

All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward
compatible such that log4j 1.2beta3 can be considered a drop in
replacement for log4j 1.1.3. Binary and source distributions are
available at http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/download.html

Enjoy, Ceki