Apache Log4j Files

This patch release addresses a dozen bugs in version 2.25.0, in particular:

• Resolves a concurrency issue in the new unified datetime formatter.
• Fixes build failures affecting Gradle users.
• Restores backward compatibility with Spring Boot’s common logging configuration.
• Improves handling of edge cases in GraalVM support.

Fixed

• Fix detection of the Disruptor major version in environments with non-standard thread context classloader. (#3706)
• Downgrade spotbugs-annotations to resolve Gradle build failures. (#3754)
• Fix incorrect version resolution of jspecify and error_prone_annotations dependencies in published POM files. (#3758, [#3779])
• Restore compatibility with Spring Boot by allowing reconfiguration using the LoggerContext.start method. (#3770)
• Allow omission of the -Alog4j.graalvm.groupId and -Alog4j.graalvm.artifactId arguments when building Log4j plugins. (#3771)
• Broaden the OSGi manifest's Import-Package constraints to support Jakarta Servlet API up to version 6. (#3787)
• Enable the resource: protocol for configuration files by default when running on GraalVM. (#3790)
• Fix timestamp formatting concurrency issue, when log4j2.enabledThreadlocals is true. (#3792)
• Fix GraalVM reachability metadata generation for methods with annotated array type parameters, such as @Nullable String[]. (#3796)
• Resolve PropertiesConfiguration compatibility issues with GraalVM and address additional minor reflection-related problems. (#3800)