Releases · j256/simplelogging

Improved configurability including backend discovery order and global log level.
Added support for all configurations in the simplelogging.properties properties file.
Moved the LocalLog configuration to the central properties file.
Added support for properties file to choose a backend and the backend order.
Added support for the global log level in the properties file including OFF and NULL.
Added detection of the no-op logging to slf4j backend.
Added isAvailable() check to the LogBackendFactory to allow additional per-factory availability checks.
Pushed SLF4J and COMMONS_LOGGING down the backend list since we should detect logback or log4j2 before.

Added appendMsg() to the fluent logger context to allow building the log message dynamically.
Did a better job of detaching from log4j v1 for testing of reflection backend.

Removed import on Android Log in the LoggerConstants.java that should not have been there.
Increased the version of log4j v2 for security reasons. Should have realized that in 2.1. Sigh.

Finally moving to Java version 8 because of dependency version requirements. Maybe overdue.
Bumped the versions of log4j2 to 2.13.2 to resolve some security issues.
This is a 2.1 release and not 2.0 because there are no logic changes here.

Add the ability to configure a log factory using the com.j256.simplelogger.backend system property.
Moved critical constants to LoggerConstants.java to make it easier to tweak if you are copying into your project.
Renamed LogArgumentCreator.createArg() to be createLogArg() to better mirror behavior.
Added FluentLogger.atTrace(), atDebug(), etc. instead of atLevel(Level.TRACE), atLevel(Level.INFO), etc..
Changed log4j v1 to be reflection based to remove any hint of a dependency. Won't be called unless in classpath.

Added fluent-logging pattern where you can build a log message with method chaining.

Changed the behavior of messages with {} but no arguments. The {} will be shown. Matches other logging backends.
Add LogArgumentCreator for not having to use toString() to expand an argument.

Changed the backend class discovery to be relative to LocalLogBackend. Makes copying to other projects easier.
Update some of the optional dependency versions.
Added arguments that handle variable arguments with Args method name suffixes.

Releases: j256/simplelogging