Release notes

Add skip parameter to all Maven goals (121)

Support multiple index and type templates in the log4j-docgen:generate-documentation configuration (122)

Add support for the @PluginValue annotation. (123)

Website is migrated to Antora (apache/logging-log4j2#2443)

Fix handling of subclassed plugins in Log4j Docgen (120)

Update commons-io:commons-io to version 2.16.1 (114)

Update org.apache.logging:logging-parent to version 11.0.0 (115)

Update org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations to version 3.13.0 (118)

Update org.codehaus.modello:modello-maven-plugin to version 2.4.0 (119)

Update org.xmlunit:xmlunit-assertj3 to version 2.10.0 (116)

Add the log4j-docgen et al. containing a universal XML model to document Log4j plugins

Move Log4j Changelog XML namespace and schema location to https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns and https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd, respectively

Remove author from Log4j Changelog. + It was yet another bit to maintain and created role-related (who did what) problems. Many modern software projects use a VCS (e.g., Git) and support services (e.g., GitHub) which make it trivial to trace back the origin of a change using commit and issue IDs.

Update org.apache.logging:logging-parent to version 10.6.0

Update jakarta.inject:jakarta.inject-api to version 2.0.1 (94)

Update org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core to version 2.23.1 (108)

Update org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-plugins to version 3.0.0-beta2 (107)

Update org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations to version 3.11.0 (98)

Update org.assertj:assertj-core to version 3.25.3 (104)

Update org.codehaus.modello:modello-maven-plugin to version 2.3.0 (105)

Update org.junit:junit-bom to version 5.10.2 (103)

Add the new updated changelog entry type and bump the XSD version to 0.1.3

Sort changelog entry types alphanumerically

Fix log4j-changelog:release failure on empty unreleased changelog directory (90)

Fix parsing of patch versions in log4j-changelog:release goal (89)

Update commons-io:commons-io to version 2.15.1 (86)

Update org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations to version 3.10.2 (87)

Started generating CycloneDX SBOM with the recent update of logging-parent to version 10.4.0

log4j-tools-bom was broken due to removed parent during flattening. This is automatically fixed by the recent logging-parent version 10.4.0 update.

Update org.apache.logging:logging-parent to version 10.4.0

Added OSGi and JPMS support

Started publishing the project website

Made author element optional and bumped the XML schema version to 0.1.2 (81)

Make log4j-changelog-maven-plugin thread-safe (80)

Update org.apache.logging:logging-parent to version 10.1.1 (82)

Update org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine to version 5.10.0

Add versionPattern (i.e., the regular expression pattern for parsing versions) parameter to the Maven release goal (63)

Change the default value of outputDirectory to ${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/site/changelog for the Maven export goal

Migrate from CHANGELOG.adoc to using log4j-changelog-maven-plugin

Improve Maven release goal to accommodate repetitive invocations

The changelog release models passed to the index template file (.index.adoc.ftl) is enriched with changelogEntryCount fields (37)

Support multiple and formatting-agnostic template files (44)

Upgrade the compiler version to Java 17, yet still target Java 8

Add XSD for log4j-changelog XML files (13)

Add log4j-changelog-maven-plugin module (20)

Rename log4j.changelog.exporter.outputDirectory property to log4j.changelog.outputDirectory (20)

Fix unreleased directory order in ChangelogExporter (17)

Fix Windows compatibility (19)

Remove security as a change type from log4j-changelog (14)

Add log4j-tools-bom and log4j-changelog modules (LOG4J2-3628)