################################################## Revision history for Log::Log4perl ################################################## 1.40 (2012/11/30) * (ms) Denis Ibaev added support for DBI appender attributes. * (ms) Chris Weyl put in a workaround for a DBD::CSV bug that tripped our test suite. * (ms) Tim Bunce provided a patch using Carp::confess() instead of die() on the "Root Logger not initialized" message which pops up during global construction to make it easier to find the offending code. * (ms) Cygwin masks MSWin32-ishness by setting $^O to "cygwin" and not to "Win32". Modified check to catch both. * (ms) Fixed unescaped brace in regex that perl 5.17.4 was complaining about. 1.39 (2012/10/27) * (ms) Markus Benning reported that logcroak/confess/die stringify their arguments, which gets in the way when throwing data structures as exceptions. Added flag $STRINGIFY_DIE_MESSAGE. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #80086] David Morel pointed out misleading documentation in the Limiter composite appender. Fixed docs and added C parameter to support appender flush calls by the limiter. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #79960] Fabrice Gabolde asked for %X{x} to be interpolated as NULL for the database appender if its value is undef. The DBI appender now inits PatternLayout with the undef_column_name parameter set to undef (defaults to "[undef]"). * (ms) Updated license/copyright/author sections in all files using licensizer and .licensizer.yml. * (ms) Skipped log file recreation test on Win32 as it won't remove busy files anyway. 1.38 (2012/09/23) * (ms) Bob Kleemann reported that logdie() in wrapper classes printed incorrect caller lines. Fixed by adding caller_depth_offset() utility to Log4perl.pm. * (ms) Meir Guttman reported a use case for logging messages with dynamic levels on log4perl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Added to manual page. * (ms) Implemented suggestion by Neil Hooey to check for and report undefined message elements before they're assembled in Appender.pm and a warning is issued without a proper code location: https://github.com/mschilli/log4perl/issues/15 * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #78734] Added spell check on filter parameter names 1.37 (2012/05/30) * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #75655] Meir Guttman found the module to make Log::Log4perl::Appender::ScreenColoredLevels work on Win32, updated docs. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #76827] UTF-8 encoded configuration files are now supported (see Log::Log4perl::Config). * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #77501] Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated with perl 5.17. Times we live in. 1.36 (2012/02/21) * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #74833] Reini Urban fixed "defined @array" for perl 5.16 * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #74836] Cope with Carp's questionable decision to add a trailing dot to its messages. 1.35 (2012/01/03) * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #73462] Changed logwarn/logcluck/logcarp/error_warn to warn() unconditionally and send the message to log4perl which will log it only if the log level conditions are met. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #73598] Gerda Shank reported test suite problems with DBD::CSV-0.26. Bumped up to DBD::CSV-0.33 if installed. 1.34 (2011/11/04) * (ms) InternalDebug now replaces all instances of INTERNAL_DEBUG, not just the first one. * (ms) Added test case for get_logger() with a ref() on the actual object instead of on a static category. Updated docs. * (ms) %d{e} in PatternLayout now returns epoch seconds * (ms) [RT 72056] Messages blocked by an appender threshold are no longer passed on to the L4p::Appender::Buffer as undefined entries. 1.33 (2011/05/31) * (ms) [RT 67132] Applied patch by Darin McBride to allow for empty syswrite messages in the file appender. * (ms) [RT 68105] Fixed init-hash handling of subroutine references, reported by Frew Schmidt. * (ms) Mike Schwern noticed confusing DESTROY calls to clean up loggers and appenders (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5914088 and https://github.com/mschilli/log4perl/issues/7), so I put on my hazmat suit and cleaned it up. Now perl's garbage collector takes care of disposing of logger and appender carcasses. * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl->remove_logger($logger) to remove a logger from the system. 1.32 (2011/02/26) * (ms) Fixed %T caller_depth with wrapper_register(), reported by David Christensen. * (ms) [RT 63053] Fixed for qw() {} deprecated (Todd Rinaldo) * (ms) [RT 62674] Fixed call to deprecated form of UNIVERSAL::can (Karen Etheridge). * (ms) [RT 62896] Log::Log4perl::Appender::ScreenColoredLevels now inherits from Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen and therefore supports the utf8 flag. * (ms) [RT 64318] Andrew Sayers provided a better error message for "threshold needs to be uppercase". * (ms) CharleyDixon fixed LOGWARN when :no_extra_logdie_message is in use to no longer exit(). 1.31 (2010/10/27) * (ms) Fixed the number of skipped tests for Windows for previous fix of [RT 60665]. 1.30 (2010/08/30) * (ms) [RT 60665] HUP handlers are stacked on top of each other now, to make sure that multiple file appenders recreate multiple files and not just one (patch provided by Karen Etheridge). * (ms) [RT 60197] Fixed uninitialized value warnings with the multiline appender and provided a test case (patch provided by Karen Etheridge) * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #59617] Fixed system-wide threshold without appender thresholds. Bug reported by Dmitry Bigunyak. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #24884] Using require() instead of incomplete logic in L4p::Util::module_available(). local __DIE__ handler takes care of user-defined __DIE__ handlers ignoring $^S (suggested by Eric Wilhelm and others). * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #60386] Fixed init_and_watch() which double-bumped the caller_level and led to uninitialized values in the pattern layout. Thanks to Mitja Bartsch for the report. * (ms) Applied patch by Karsten Silkenbäumer to add an optional $log_dispatch_level to create_custom_level(). Updated documentation. 1.29 (2010/06/16) * (ms) Added documentation on how to use Log4perl's :easy macros with Catalyst in Log::Log4perl::Catalyst. * (ms) wrapper_register() now deals with caller_depth automatically. Backwards compatibility with old wrapper classes using caller_depth directly is provided. Documentation has been updated. * (ms) Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann reported Resurrector.pm crashes, fixed as suggested by setting the %INC value to the module path. * (ms) Another caller_depth fix in Log::Log4perl::Catalyst. * (ms) Fixed logdie() caller_depth bug reported by Rob Retter. * (ms) [RT 56145] Saving errstr in DBI appender to survive ping() * (ms) Added INTERNAL_DEBUG env variable to test suite triggering all _INTERNAL_DEBUG statements to be printed for better error diagnosis on misbehaving systems. 1.28 (2010/02/24) * (ms) Fixed caller stack with Buffer composite appender * (ms) Fixed 'local caller_depth' error in various places. First localizing a variable and then increasing it is incorrect, as this ignores previous settings. The correct way of increasing the caller level is: 'local depth = depth + 1'. * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl::Catalyst for use in Catalyst applications. 1.27 (2010/02/07) * (ms) ***WARNING: This might break backward compatibility with some wrapper classes. [RT 52913] Fixed category fetching in wrapper classes (reported by Martin Evans). Wrapper classes now need to call Log::Log4perl->wrapper_register to adapt get_logger() category fetching. Detailed docs under "Using Log::Log4perl with wrapper functions and classes" * (ms) Made meta tag compatible with MakeMaker versions < 6.50 (ms) [RT 52083] Fixed manifest glitch from 1.26 (reported by Lars Thegler). * (ms) Added note to FAQ on 'no init happened' warnings for API initializations, as suggested by Malcolm Nooning. * (ms) Applied patch by Christopher Mckay which sets Log4perl::Logger::INITIALIZED only if it's fully initialized. * (ms) Emmanuel Rodriguez suggested changing TestBuffer's reset() method to leave the logger population alone. Added clear() to accomodate the need for a single buffer reset. * (ms) Xavier Caron added %p{1} to allow abbreviated priority strings in the pattern layout. * (ms) Redid composite appenders to address problems with incorrect caller() data. L4p now supports a $cache parameter to be passed to the log() function, which stores the completely rendered message and can be passed to log_cached() later on. 1.26 (2009/11/22) * (ms) [RT 50495] Perl code in the config file is now evaluated/ compiled after the configuration parser has done its work, opening up Perl subroutines to all configuration parsers, not just PropertyConfigurator. Configuration subs for cspecs, filter, warp_message and appender triggers are sheltered. The previous, flawed implementation surfaced while using a 'trigger' category, reported by Olivier Bilodeau. * (ms) [RT 50090] Added non-portable linebreaks to PatternLayout (requested by Zdeněk Juran). * (ms) [RT 50094] Docfix for PatternLayout in main manpage (spotted by Peter Rabbitson). * (ms) [RT 28679] Added exists() to "Threshold" keyword uppercase check. * (ms) Took out Class::Prototyped testcase after it got all weird and introduced backward-incompatible changes. 1.25 (2009/09/27) * (ms) Appender::File is now closing (or sysclosing) the file on file_close() instead of just undef'ing the handle. * (ms) Added l4p-tmpl helper script to help whipping up a new log4perl configuration file. * (ms) Fixed uninitialized warning on XML configuration files, reported by jbkilian on the sourceforge mailing list. * (ms) Applied patch [RT 43426] by AFF to have appender_thresholds_adjust return number of appenders changed. * (ms) [RT 34400] New :nostrict target which allows redefining a category within a Log4perl configuration file without error or even a warning. * (ms) [RT 34401] Applied patch by Jae Gangemi, who fixed code references in @INC on Win32 systems. * (ms) [RT 32259] Patternlayout now supports %R, which returns the number of milliseconds elapsed from last logging event to the current logging event (thanks to Emmanuel Rodriguez for the patch). * (ms) [RT 30899] Color configuration and attribute support added to ScreenColoredLevels appender by Jason Kohles. * (ms) [RT 28987] If UNIVERSAL is available, appender existence is now verified by checking can() on the appender's new() method (applied modified patch by Gabriel Berriz). 1.24 (2009/07/08) * (ms) Fixed bug with Log::Log4perl::Util::tmpfile_name which surfaced on VMS, reported by Ben Humphreys. * (ms) Fixed system-wide threshold to no longer lower appender thresholds. Bug reported by Jean-Denis Muys. * (ms) Added benchmark to determine impact of eval-free handlers * (ms) Merged with eval_free branch. Now there are no more eval("") statements left in the code, making it much easier to debug. Performance on init() is about the same, performance on init_and_watch() (noops and logged statements alike) is 25% slower but still in the range of 400,000/sec on my 1.80Ghz CPU. 1.23 (2009/05/12) * (ms) DBI-1.608 removed a DBD::File 'feature' that allowed leaving out parameters in a bound execute(). This caused the test suite to fail (http://groups.google.com/group/perl.cpan.testers/browse_thread/thread/af1f5c875165c387). Fixed the test cases to pass the correct number of parameters every time. * (ms) Better error message in the DBI appender on bad SQL, missing bind parameters, or other execute() errors. * (ms) Made DBI test suite more robust against preexisting conditions * (ms) Added force_next_check() for init_and_watch(), cleaned up Config::Watcher code. * (ms) Fixed test suite to run on Strawberry Perl on Win32 (reported by kmx on https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45983) * (ms) Added 'utf8' option to screen appender and easy mode, some of it suggested in http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36673 by Shantanu Bhadoria. 1.22 (2009/05/02) * (ms) is_xxx() returned true prior to L4p initialization. Fixed it and adapted test suite. * (ms) Added test cases on syswrite in recreate mode * (ms) Applied patch by Jens Berthold to avoid semaphore cleanup in spawned children. * (ms) Added %m{chomp} feature, 'message_chomp_before_newline' option, and documentation on newlines and logging messages, all suggested by Tim Bunce (see PatternLayout). 1.21 (2009/03/16) * (ms) Documentation typos fixed, reported by Breno G. de Oliveira [rt.cpan.org #42428]. * (ms) Fixed DBI appender error message, bug reported by DavidZ. * (ms) Fixed [rt.cpan.org #43740] reported by Martin Koehler. Now using proper POSIX return code EEXISTS instead of error message depending on English locale. 1.20 (2008/12/09) * (ms) Using semctl to reset the value of the semaphore in the Synchronized appender to prevent "Numerical result out of range" problem caused by an unbalanced SEM_UNDO when incrementing it. Reported by John Little. * (ms) Added parameters in curly braces to cspecs in PatternLayout. * (ms) As explained in http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41505 the latest LWP release (5.822) got rid of all of its internal debugging functions, making infiltrate_lwp() and its test case useless. Disabling it for LWP>=5.822. 1.19 (2008/10/22) * (ms) Applied patch by Peter Rabbitson, which fixes the caller() level when calling get_logger() on a subclass of Log4perl. * (ms) Added documentation on is_xxx() methods and clarified that it doesn't necessarily mean that a message gets logged if they're returning true (requested by Conway Allen via [rt.cpan.org #39085]. * (ms) Applied patch by Lee Johnson to appender_by_name() to allow for undefined appender names without issuing a warning, which was occurring with Catalyst::Log4perl. * (ms) Added docs on numerical levels and level strings in Log::Log4perl::Level. * (ms) Applied patch by Anthony Foiani for support of literal text in DateFormat format strings. 1.18 (2008/08/23) * (ms) Added explanation that categories and loggers are the same thing (thanks to Rabbit). * (ms) Fixed t/053Resurrect to work with 5.005_03 * (ms) Added preinit_callback function for init_and_watch() * (ms) Applied patch by Andy Grundman which speeds up is_LEVEL() calls by skipping unnecessary string concatenations (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38537). * (ms) Applied patch by Jae Gangemi addding a no_warning option to the socket appender (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=34399). 1.17 (2008/07/19) * (ms) Fixed test suite to run on Strawberry Perl on Win32. * (ms) Added 'l4p' as a valid prefix in configuration files (equal to 'log4j' and 'log4perl' now). 1.16 (2008/05/15) * (ms) Changed appender destruction during cleanup to show warning messages thrown by destructors. Previously L4p ignored these messages which caused failed DB flushes to go unnoticed with the DB appender. * (ms) Added explanation for Log4perl messages during global destruction to FAQ. * (ms) Corrected 'Trapper' listing in FAQ, thanks to Christian Reiber. * (ms) Applied patch by Mitchell Perilstein for 5.005it and the two-argument binmode() that 5.005 doesn't support. (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=34051) * (ms) Applied patch by Emmanuel Rodriguez (POTYL) doing away with hard-coded line numbers in 024WarnDieCarp.t to make it work cpan2rpm for building RPM packages (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35370) * (ms) Fixed recreate_check_interval = 0 bug reported by Bill Moseley. * (ms) Added 'header_text' parameter to the file appender to have it write a header every time it opens (or re-opens) a new log file (suggested by Steven Lembark). 1.15 (2008/02/10) * (ms) appender_thresholds_adjust() with a parameter of 0 now does nothing (requested by Oliver Koch). * (kg) Added 'defer_connection' to Socket appender so it's more useful under Apache. * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #32738] fixed caller_depth for error_warn() (reported by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann) * (ms) [rt.cpan.org #32942] fixed get_logger() for subclassed Log4perl (reported by Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann) 1.14 (2007/11/18) * (ms) Fixed test suite bug which surfaced in Darwin because temporary files contain '++' which freaked out the sloppy regex match. * (ms) Better handling of empty config files (reported by Robert Raisch) * (ms) Rewrote the Synchronized appender to use semaphores exclusivly (got rid of IPC::Shareable). * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl::Util::Semaphore for easy semop handling * (ms) Fixed t/026FileApp.t to work on MSWin32. 1.13 (2007/10/11) * (ms) Another doc fix by Craig * (ms) Applied Fedora 7 patches * (ms) Added create_at_logtime option to file appender * (ms) Added trace level color (yellow) in ScreenColoredLevels appender as suggested by Arvind Jayaprakash in https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1791445&group_id=56939&atid=482388 1.12 (2007/06/23) * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl::Resurrector to resurrect commented-out Log4perl statements in all subsequently loaded modules (allows for deploying L4p-enabled CPAN modules without requiring L4p). * (ms) Added ALWAYS easy mode macro (level=OFF) * (ms) Fixed logconfess() frame level bug reported by Ali Mesdaq. Added test case. 1.11 (2007/05/29) * (ms) Added PatternLayout::Multiline code by Cory Bennett to render multiline messages. * (ms) Added log level TRACE (lets through even more messages than DEBUG) (suggested by Craig). * (ms) Added 'syswrite' flag to file appender to have it use 'syswrite' instead of 'print', avoiding buffered or interleaving messages originating from different processes (thanks to Evan Miller). 1.10 (2007/03/27) * (kg) Nikita Dedik pointed out that Saturday is missing from @Log::Log4perl::DateFormat::WEEK_DAYS * (ms) Scott Cline noticed a potential problem with the DBI appender reconnection logic in 'buffered' mode. Applied a patch. * (ms) Changed DBI reconnect logic to perform even if the DB is pingable again. * (ms) Applied code by Valerio Valdez Paolini with modifications to PropertyConfigurator.pm to allow pulling values from the property configurator by path. 1.09 (2007/02/07) * (ms) Added $^S check to FAQ, as suggested by J. David Blackstone. * (ms) Applied Robert Jacobson's patch for the "DDD" formatter in L4p::DateFormats, which now formats the day-of-year values numerically and precedes them with zeroes if necessary. * (ms) Added %M{x} PatternLayout notation as requested by Ankur Gupta. * (ms) Another Win32 test suite fix, no longer deleting an open file but moving it aside (rt.cpan:23520). 1.08 2006/11/18 * (ms) Applied test suite patch by Lars Thegler for ancient perl 5.005_03. * (ms) Applied patch by Jeremy Bopp to fix test suite running under Cygwin. * (ms) Fixed documentation bug in L4p:Appender::File, s/recreate_signal/recreate_check_signal. Thanks to Todd Chapman and Robert Jacobson for reporting this. * (ms) Fixed init(), which now deletes any config file watchers left over from previous init_and_watch() calls. Reported by Andreas Koenig who saw sporadic errors in the test suite, thanks! 1.07 2006/10/11 * (ms) Removed checks for unlink() in t/017Watch.t since they failed on win32. * (ms) Fixed doc bug in Appender::File reported by Robert Jacobson. * (ms) Added FAQ on why to use Log4perl and not another logging system on CPAN. * (ms) Fixed %M, %L, etc. level in logcarp/cluck/croak/confess (thanks to Ateeq Altaf) * (ms) Autocorrecting rootlogger/rootLogger typo * (ms) Better warning on missing loggers in config sanity check 1.06 2006/07/18 * (ms) Applied patch by Robert Jacobson to fix day-of-year in DateFormat, which was off by one. * (ms) Added FAQ on syslog * (ms) umask values for the file appender are now also accepted in octal form (0xxx). * (ms) The file appender now accepts owner/group settings of newly created log files. * (ms) Fixed appender cleanup, a bug caused composite appenders to be cleaned up during global destruction, which caused an ugly segfault with the Synchronized appender on FreeBSD. 1.05 2006/06/10 * (ms) Added recreate signal handler to L4p::Appender::File for newsyslog support. Two new FAQ entries on dealing with newsyslog and log files being removed by external apps. * (ms) L4p::Config::Watch no longer sets the global $SIGNAL_CAUGHT by default but uses an instance variable instead to prevent clobbering L4p's config and watch mechanism. * (ms) die() on undefined configuration (rt 18103 by justice8@wanadoo.fr) * (ms) Hugh Esco submitted a FAQ on where to put logfiles * (ms) Applied patch provided by Chia-liang Kao to suppress an error message and skip tests in the suite when DBI is missing. 1.04 2006/02/26 * (ms) Duplicate log4perl directives, which previously just overwrote existing ones, are no longer permitted and cause the config parser to throw an error. * (ms) If a conversion pattern was specified twice in a config file, the output was "ARRAY(0x804da00)" (bug reported by Bill Mason). Now, gobbling up property configurator values into an array is limited to appender properties and excludes the conversion pattern. * (ms) Multiple calls to import (usually happens if 'use L4p' gets called twice within the same namespace) caused nasty warnings, bug reported by Greg Olszewski. Fixed by ignoring subsequent calls from the same package to import(). * (ms) Changed rendering of logdie/warn/cluck/croak/... messages to fix a bug reported by Martin J. Evans. * (ms) Added a L4p::Appender::String appender to handle the rendering internally. * (ms) Documentation patch by Matisse Enzer on increased/ decreased log levels. * (ms) Fixed stack trace level of logcarp() * (ms) Carl Franks reported that the test suite failed on WinXP SP2 because of a hardcoded /tmp - fixed by File::Spec->tempdir(). * (ms) Added reconnect_attempts and reconnect_sleep parameters to DBI appender. * (ms) Bugfix for rt.cpan.org #17886 (tmp files in test suite) 1.03 (2006/01/30) * (ms) Some perl-5.6.1 installations have a buggy Carp.pm. Skipping 4 test cases for these. Reported by Andy Ford and Matisse Enzer. * (ms) The DBI appender now reconnects on stale DB connections. * (ms) Fixed Win32 test bug as reported in http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17436 by barbie. Instead of deleting a file still in use by an appender (which Windows doesn't like), the file gets now truncated. 1.02 (2005/12/10) * (ms) Adapted t/006Config-Java.t to cope with Win32 path separators * (ms) Corrected typo in Chainsaw FAQ, reported by Bernd Dirksen. * (ms) Brian Edwards noticed that (Screen, File) were missing a base class declaration, causing $logger->add_appender() to fail. Fixed with test case. * (ms) Log::Log4perl::Appender::File now handles the case where the logfile suddenly disappears. * (ms) Fixed section indentation in main man page * (ms) Converted Ceki's last name to UTF-8 (a historic step!) 1.01 (09/29/2005) * (ms) Added 'utf8' and 'binmode' flags to Log::Log4perl::Appender::File per suggestion by Jonathan Warden. * (ms) Made test cases 003Layout.t and 033UsrCspec.t resilient against broken ActiveState 5.8.4 and 5.8.7. * (ms) Skipped failing test cases for 5.005, looks like the caller() level in carp() is wrong, but not worth fixing. * (ms) Fixed the bug with the caller level of the first log message sent after init_and_watch() detected a change. Added test case to 027Watch2.t. * (ms) Added FAQ on UTF-8. * (ms) Applied patch by David Britton, improving performance during the init() call. * (ms) Fixed bug https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14776 to prevent it from modifying $_. Thanks to Steffen Winkler. 1.00 (08/13/2005) * (ms) Added tag qw(:no_extra_logdie_message) to suppress duplicate die() messages in scripts using simple configurations and LOGDIE(). Added logexit() as an alternative way. * (ms) Fixed bug with logcarp/croak/cluck, which were using the wrong Carp level. * (kg) Fixing bug in Appender::Limit regarding $_ scope * (ms) corrected typo in Synchronized.pm found by Rob Redmon. * (ms) Fixed bug with Appender::File reported by Michael Smith. Checking now if print() succeeds, catching errors with full disks and ulimit'ed environments. * (ms) Added LOGCARP(), LOGCLUCK(), LOGCONFESS(), LOGCROAK() macros in :easy mode (suggested by Jud Dagnall). * (ms) $INITIALIZED now gets reset during logger cleanup. 0.52 (05/08/2005) * (ms) Jonathan Manning provided a patch for DateFormat.pm to fix 3-letter month abbreviations and a shortcut to simulate Apache's log format. * (kg) Ola Finsbraaten provided a patch to provide a better error message when a logger is defined twice in a config. 0.51 (01/08/2005) * (ms) Jon Bjornstad noticed that the file appender wasn't including $! in the die() exception thrown if open_file() fails. Added it. * (ms) Added umask option to file appender * (ms) Fix to L4p::Util::module::available() for Win32 compliance by Roger Yager * (ms) Added check to L4p::Util::module_available() returning true if the pm file is available in %INC, indicating that it has already been loaded. This fixes a problem when running L4p in a PAR binary. * (ms) Added remove_appender() and eradicate_appender() method to Logger.pm, test cases and documentation on the main Log4perl page. * (ms) Added a generic buffered composite appender, L4p::Appender::Buffer, buffering messages until a trigger condition is met. 0.50 (12/08/2004) * (ms) Added ':resurrect' source filter, which uncomments all lines starting with "###l4p". Can be used for hidden L4p statements, which are then activated by calling 'use Log::Log4perl qw(:resurrect)'. * (ms) Fixed Win32 test suite bug: File::Spec->catfile() returns '/' as a path separator on both Unix and Win32, while Log4perl's layouts (derived from caller() info) use '\' on Win32 and '/' on Unix. Changed tests to only verify file name, not path. * (ms) Added 'appender_by_name()' to retrieve an appender defined in the configuration file by name later. * (ms) Added FAQ on "stubbing out" L4p macros in environments that don't have L4p installed. * (ms) Added convenience function appender_thresholds_adjust() to adjust thresholds of chosen (or all) appenders * (ms) Got rid of Test::Simple dependency * (ms) Moved autoflush setting in L4p::Appender::File from log() to file_open(), running only once, not with every message. * (ms) Applied doc fixes suggested by Jon Bjornstad. * (ms) Added ScreenANSIColor appender to colorize messages based on their priority. See Log::Log4perl::Appender::ScreenANSIColor. 0.49 (11/07/2004) * (ms) init_and_watch() no longer die()s on reloading syntactically wrong configuration files but issues a warning and then reloads the last working config. * (ms) init() now also accepts an open file handle (passed in as a glob) to a configuration file or a ref to an IO::File object. * (ms) Jos I. Boumans and Chris Winters reported an error thrown by L4p in their app SPOPS: During global construction. Looks like the Logger object's internal hash is cleared and then the is_ method gets called, resulting in a runtime exception. Added proposed remedy checking if the called method is defined by ref. * (ms) Added check to init_and_watch if obtaining the mod timestamp failed. 0.48 (08/20/2004) * (ms) fixed bug reported by Chip Salzenberg : logdie() and logwarn() are now compliant with the warn() and die() standard which suppresses the "at file line x" message if the message ends with a "\n". * (ms) New interface for custom config parsers. Log::Log4perl::Config::BaseConfigurator now provides a base class for new config parsers. Init can now be called like Log::Log4perl->init($parser) with a parser object, which is derived from Log::Log4perl::Config::BaseConfigurator and provides a parse() method (no arguments). The file (or whatever) to be parsed can be set by calling $parser->text(\@lines) or $parser->file($name) before calling L4p->init($parser). The Property, DOM and LDAP configurators have been adapted, check their implementation for details. * (ms) Added integrity check for Log4perl configurations: Log4perl now issues a warning if a configuration doesn't define any appenders. Should anyone not like this, it can be turned off by setting $L4p::Config::CONFIG_INTEGRITY_CHECK = 0 before calling init(). * (ms) Fixed bug reported by Johannes Kilian with __DIE__ handler and "PatternLayout" shortcut. Replaced 'eval { require ... }' by L4p::Util::module_available in L4p::Config.pm. * (ms) Did away with $IS_LOADED internal variable. * (ms) Fixed bug with L4p::INITIALIZED vs. L4P::Logger::INITIALIZED, added t/020Easy2.t. * (ms) Added adm/cvskwexp script to check if we're running into CVS trouble because of Log keyword expansion. 0.47 (07/11/2004) * (ms) Added suggestion by Hutton Davidson to make the socket appender more forgiving. New option "silent_recovery" will silently ignore errors and recover if possible on initiallly dead socket connections. * (ms) Fixed bug with initialized() -- checking once caused subsequent calls to return true. * (ms) run t/045Composite.t only if Storable is installed -- earlier perl versions (like 5.6.1) don't have it by default. * (ms) fixed test case in t/020Easy.t for buggy perl 5.6.1 * (ms) added Log::Log4perl::infiltrate_lwp() to make LWP::UserAgent play in the L4p framework upon request. * (ms) perl 5.00503 mysteriously core dumps in t/017Watch.t, seems like this was introduced in 0.46. Disabled these tests for now if we're on 5.00503 to avoid installation hickups. Longer term, need to investigate. 0.46 (06/13/2004) * (ms) removed superfluous eval() in Log4perl.pm, reported anonymously on the CPAN bugtracker. * (ms) Added a cleanup() function to Logger.pm which is used by an END {} block in Logger.pm to tear down all Loggers/Appenders before global destruction kicks in. In addition, Kevin found that the eval "" is the cause of an Appender memleak. Moved assignment variable out of the eval to plug the leak. Added $Log::Log4perl::CHATTY_DESTROY_METHODS, which shows what L4p objects are destroyed and when. * (ms) Kevin's idea is in now, on localizing $? in the L4p global END {} block. It prevents logdie() et. al from exiting with unwanted exit codes when global cleanup / global destruction modifies $?, as seen by Tim with the Email appender. * (ms) Dave Viner added isLevelEnabled() methods as aliases to is_level(). 0.45 (05/23/2004) * (ms) fix for t/045Composite.t on perl 5.6.1 by Jeff Macdonald (specify number of test cases, getting rid of no_plan). * (ms) Dennis Gregorovic provided a patch to protect applications who are tinkering with $/. It is set to "\n" now locally when L4p is reading the conf file. Added a test case to t/004Config.t. * (ms) Fixed a documentation error with initialized(), pointed out by Victor Felix . 0.44 (04/25/2004) * (ms) added filename() method to L4P::Appender::File as suggested by Lee Carmichael * (ms) added RRDs appender Log::Log4perl::Appender::RRDs and testcases * (ms) fixed Log::Log4perl::Appender to check if a an appender package has already been loaded and skip 'require' in this case. Packages injected via Class::Prototyped caused an error with this. * (ms) Extended the FAQ's "How can I write my own appender?" on how to dynamically create new appenders via Class::Prototyped. 0.43 (03/22/2004) * (ms) Applied patch by Markus Peter for 'pipe' mode in Log::Log4perl::Appender::File * (ms) Added composite appender Log::Log4perl::Appender::Limit to limit message delivery to adjustable time windows. * (ms) Fixed last 033UsrCspec.t test case to run on Win32 as well (path fixed). * (ms) Lars Thegler provided a patch to keep compatibility with 5.005_03. * (ms) Added a patch to avoid warnings on undefined MDC values referenced via %X in PatternLayout. Now, the string "[undef]" is used. Bug was reported by Ritu Kohli 0.42 (02/14/2004) * (kg) added filters to XML DOMConfig and DTD * (ms) Fixed caller level to cspecs by adding one * (ms) Added init_once() and documentation * (ms) Worked around the perl bug that triggers __DIE__ handlers even if die() occurs within an eval(). So if you did BEGIN { $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { print "ouch!"; die }; } use Log::Log4perl; and Time::HiRes wasn't available, the eval { require Time::HiRes } in PatternLayout.pm triggered the __DIE__ handler. Now there's a function module_available() in L4p::Util to check if a module is installed. * (ms) Fixed %M cspec in PatternLayout in case a logging method is called within one (or more) eval {} block(s). caller(n+m) will be called repeatedly if necessary to get the next real subroutine. Anonymous subroutines will still be called __ANON__, but this can be overridden by defining local *__ANON__ = "subroutine_name"; in them explicitely (thanks, Perlmonks :). 0.41 (12/12/2003) * (ms) Applied documentation update for Synchronized appender, suggested by David Viner Edviner@yahoo-inc.comE * (ms) Added option to Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout to enable people to provide their own timer functions. 0.40 (11/11/2003) * (ms) perl 5.005_03 fix for l4p::Appender::Synchronized * (ms) Fixed a bug in 0.39 (thanks to James King for finding) which caused composite appenders like Synchronized to just use SimpleLayout. With the fix, composite appenders are now relaying messages unmodified to their delegates, which can then apply any layout they desire. * (ms) Added file_open(), file_close() and file_switch() to l4p::Appender::File 0.39 (10/23/2003) * (kg) fixed bug in interaction between Logger::Level and Level::is_valid so that now you can do $logger->level('INFO') instead of just $INFO. * (ms) Added logic for 'composite appenders'. Appenders can now be configured to relay messages to other appenders. Added Log::Log4perl::Appender::Synchronized, an appender guaranteeing atomic logging of messages via semaphores. * (ms) Added basic substitution to PropertyConfigurator. Now you can define variables (like in "name=value") and subsequent patterns of "${name}" will be replaced by "value" in the configuration file. * (kg) Followed Mike's lead and added variable substitution to the DOMConfigurator. * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl::Appender::Socket as a simple Socket appender featuring connection recovery. 0.38 (09/29/2003) * (kg) fixed bug where custom_levels beneath DEBUG didn't work * (ms) fixed 5.00305 incompatibility reported by Brett Rann (constants with leading _). * (ms) Log::Log4perl->easy_init() now calls ->reset() first to make sure it's not duplicating the existing logging environment. Thanks to William McKee for bringing this up. * (ms) fixed bug with error_die() - printed the wrong function/line/file. Reported by Brett Rann . * (ms) added %T to PatternLayout as a stack traced as suggested by Brett Rann . 0.37 (09/14/2003) * (kg) adjusting tests for XML::Parser 2.32 having broken XML::DOM 1.42 and lower * (ms) Added signal handling to init_and_watch * (ms) renamed l4p-internal DEBUG constant to avoid confusion with DEBUG() and $DEBUG as suggested by Jim Cromie . * (ms) Applied patch by Mac Yang for Log::Log4perl::DateFormat to calculate the timezone for the 'Z' conversion specifier. 0.36 (07/22/2003) * (ms) Matthew Keene suggested to have an accessor for all appenders currently defined -- added appenders() method * (ms) Test case 041SafeEval.t didn't share $0 explicitely and created some warnings, fixed that with (jf)'s help. * (ms) Added performance improvements suggested by Kyle R. Burton . is_debug/is_info/etc. are now precompiled, similar to the debug/info/etc. methods. * (ms) Added a fix to have is_debug()/is_info()/etc. pay attention to on-the-fly config file changes via init_and_watch(). * (ms) Fixed bug that reloaded the config under init_and_watch() every time the check period expired, regardless if the config file itself had changed. Added test case. 0.35 06/21/2003 * (kg) got rid of warnings during make test in 014ConfErrs.t added user-defined hooks to JavaMap * Jim Cromie provided a patch to get rid of deprecated our-if syntax in Level.pm * (ms) removed test case for RollingFileAppender because of recent instability. Added dependency for Log::Dispatch::RollingFile 1.10 in Log/Log4perl/JavaMap/RollingFileAppender.pm. 0.34 06/08/2003 * (ms) James FitzGibbon noticed a major bug in Log::Log4perl::Appender::File and provided a patch. Problem was that 0.33 was reusing the same file handle for every opened file, causing all messages to end up in the same file. 0.33 05/30/2003 * (kg) CPAN rt#2636, coordinating XML::DOM version required across modules and unit tests * (ms) Removed Log::Dispatch dependency, added standard Log::Log4perl::Appender appenders File and Screen. Log::Dispatch is still supported for backwards compatibility and special purpose appenders implemented within this hierarchy. 0.32 05/17/2003 * (ms) Added fix to Makefile.PL to compensate for MakeMaker bug in perl < 5.8.0, causing man pages below Log::Log4perl::Config not to be installed. Thanks to Mathieu Arnold for bringing this up. * (ms) 0.31 had a Win32 test suite glitch, replaced getpwuid() (not implemented) by stat() for Safe test. 0.31 05/08/2003 * (kg) fixed bug Appender::DBI where it was consuming the message array before other appenders could get to it * (ms) changed config_and_watch to ignore clock differences between system time and file system time (helpful with skewed NFS systems). Added Log::Log4perl::Config::Watch. * James FitzGibbon : Added support for optionally restricting eval'd code to Safe compartments. * (ms) allow/deny code in configuration files should now be controlled via the accessor Log::Log4perl::Config->allow_code(0/1). $Log::Log4perl::ALLOW_CODE_IN_CONFIG_FILE is still supported for backwards compatibility. 0.30 03/14/2003 * (ms) Added Log4perl custom filter logic and standard filter set * (kg) Added url support to init(), finally documenting it * (kg) Finished implementation of DOMConfigurator allowing xml configs. * (ms) Corrected DateFormat inconsistencies as reported by Roger Perttu 0.29 01/30/2003 * (kg) Removing debugging from 0.28, big woops * (kg) Fixing 036JSyslog.t, Syslog implementations are too often broken to base any results on. * (kg) Fixing XML-DOM tests, Data::Dumper doesn't return data exactly the same way. 0.28 (01/28/2003) * (ms) '#' in the conf file are now interpreted as comment starters only if they're at the start of a line with optional whitespace. The previous setting (comments starting anywhere) had problems with code containing '#''s, like in layout.cref = sub { $#_ = 1 } * (ms) warp_message accepts code refs or function names * (kg) Split config bits into PropertyConfigurator and implemented DOMConfigurator for XML configs. * (kg) Adding appender.warp_message parameter as a help to DBI appender * (kg) Added NoopLayout to help DBI appender * (ms) Added message output filters: log({filter => \&filter, value => $value}) * (kg) t/024WarnDieCarp was assuming / as directory separator, failed on Win32 * (kg) implemented JavaMaps for NTEventLogAppender, SyslogAppender * (kg) found and addressed circular ref problem in Logger->reset * (kg) moved TestBuffer under Appender/ directory along with DBI * (kg) fixed docs, Pattern layout, %f not supported, s/b %F * (kg) added Log::Log4perl::Appender::DBI to implement JDBCAppender * (ms) Every value in the config file can now be a perl function, dynamically replaced by its return value at configuration parse time * (ms) NDC now prints entire stack, not just top element (as mandated by Log4j) * (ms) Allow trailing spaces after a line-breaking '\' in the config file to be fault-tolerant on cut-and-pasted code 0.27 12/06/2002 * (ms) Updated FAQ with "Recipes of the Week" * (ms) Added Log::Log4perl::NDC (Nested Diagnostic Contexts) and Log::Log4perl::MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Contexts) * (ms) LOGDIE and LOGWARN added to stealth loggers * (ms) Logging methods ($lo->debug(), $lo->info() ...) now return a value, indicating the number of appenders that the message was propagated to. If the message was suppressed due to level constraints, undef is returned. Updated manpage (new section "return values"). * (ms) Fixed bug reported by Francisco Olarte Sanz. : ISO date format and documentation mixed up MM with mm in the simple date format * (kg) User-defined conversion specifiers for PatternLayout in configuration file and as C API * (kg) implementing map to log4j.RollingFileAppender * (kg) trying out oneMessagePerAppender parameter * (kg) changed unit tests to use File::Spec 0.26 11/11/2002 * (kg) enabled %l (was missing from PatternLayout::define) * (kg) got rid of "Use of uninitialized value in join or string" message when some of $logger->debug(@array) when some of @array are undef * (ms) Stealth loggers and documentation * (kg) Better error message for case reported by Hai Wu * (ms) Added Log/Log4perl/FAQ.pm, which the homepage links to * (ms) Took dependency on Test::More and Test::Simple out of the PPD file because of a problem with Activestate 5.6.1 reported by James Hahn * (ms) Added Log::Dispatch equivalent levels to the Log4perl loggers, which are passed on the Log::Dispatch appenders now according to the priority of the message instead of the default "DEBUG" setting * (ms) Added %P process ID to PatternLayout as suggested by Paul Harrington . Also added %H as hostname * (kg) Added %min.max formatter to PatternLayout * (ms) Updated docs for Log::Log4perl::DateFormat 0.25 10/06/2002 * (ms) backwards-compatibility with perl 5.00503 * (ms) added system-wide threshold, fixed java-app thresholds * (kg) Nested configuration structures for appenders like L::D::Jabber * (ms) ::Log4perl::Appender::threshold() accepts strings or integer levels (as submitted by Aaron Straup Cope ) * (ms) Fixed logdie/logwarn caller(x) offset bug reported by Brian Duffy * (ms) dies now on PatternLayout without ConversionPattern (helps detecting typos in conf files) 0.24 09/26/2002 * (kg) Fix for init_and_watch and test cases * (ms) Added documentation for Log::Log4perl::Config * (ms) Added log4perl.additivity.loggerName conf file syntax * (ms) Assume Log::Log4perl::Layout prefix of 'relative' layout class names in conf file (say 'SimpleLayout' instead of 'Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout'). * (ms) accidently appending a ';' at the end of an appender class in a conf file now spits out a reasonable error message * (ms) added a by_name() method to TestBuffer to retrieve an instance of the TestBuffer population by name instead of relying on the order of creation via POPULATION[x] (for testing only). * (kg) Win32 compatibility fixes 0.23 09/14/2002 * Both Log4perl/log4perl is now accepted in conf file * Added documentation to Log::Log4perl::Appender * Made Time::HiRes optional. If it's missing, PatternLayout will just use full seconds as %r. * SimpleDateFormat "%d{HH:SS}", including predefined formats (DATE etc.) * Added another cut-and-paste example to the docs (EXAMPLE) * Added new logdie/logwarn/error_warn/error_die/logcarp/ logcluck/logcroak/logconfess functions written by Erik Selberg * Added PatternLayout documentation * Changed suppression of duplicate newline in log message algorithm * Custom levels and inc_level/dec_level/more_logging/less_logging added by Erik Selberg * Append to logfile by default if Log::Dispatch::File is used (previously clobbered by default) * Kevin's init_and_watch fix 0.22 8/17/2002 * Threshold settings of appenders: $appender->threshold($ERROR); log4j.appender.A.Threshold = ERROR * Chris R. Donnelly submitted two patches: - extended init() to take obj references (added, also added a test case and documentation) - fixed %F and %L if Log4perl is used by a wrapper class (accepted, but changed variable name to Log::Log4perl::caller_depth as a tribute to Log::Dispatch::Config, added test case 022Wrap and documentation 0.21 8/08/2002 * Synopsis shows code samples in Log4perl.pm/README * Slight Log4j incompatibility but useful: %F{n} lets you limit the number of entries the source file path is logged * Erik W. Selberg (erik@selberg.com) suggested having PatternLayout.pm suppress another \n if the messages already contains a \n and the format requires a %n. Done. * Erik W. Selberg (erik@selberg.com) suggested loggers should take any number of messages and concatenate them. Done. * Fixed double-init problem and added a test case. Now the entire configuration is cleared before the second init(). However, this surfaced a problem with init_and_watch: If a program obtains references to one or more loggers, rewriting the configuration file during program execution and re-initing makes these reference point to loggers which hold obsolete configurations. Fixed that by code in debug(), info(), etc. which *replaces* (shudder) the logger reference the program hands in to them with a new one of the same category. This happens every time if 'init_and_watch' has been enabled. However, this introduces a small runtime penalty. This is different from the original log4j, which does some half-assed re-initialization, because Java isn't expressive enough to allow for it. Making this thread-safe might be tough, though. * Added DEBUG statements to Logger.pm and Config.pm to trace execution (debugging won't work because of "eval"s). Both files define a constant named DEBUG towards the top of the file, which will have perl optimize away the debug statements in case it's set to 0. * A warning is issued now (once) if init() hasn't been called or no appenders have been defined. * Added ':levels' target to Log::Log4perl to import $DEBUG, $ERROR, etc. levels (just like 'use Log::Log4perl::Level' works). * Added ':easy' target to allow for simple setup * Code references can be passed in as log messages to avoid parameter passing penalty 0.20 7/23/2002 * Strip trailing spaces in config file * Accept line continuations in properties file * Refactored Logger.pm for speed, defined the logging behavior when the logger is created, not when a message is logged * Fixing test suites so that SimpleFormat newline is accounted for * Fixed a bug with root inheritance where the category name wasn't coming through * added init_and_watch 0.19 07/16/2002 * Added Log::Log4perl::Appender::TestBuffer back in the distribution, otherwise regression test suite would fail. 0.18 07/16/2002 * Failed attempt to fix the Log::Dispatch::Buffer problem. 0.17 07/11/2002 * Updated documentation according to Dave Rolsky's suggestions * Lots of other documentation fixes * Fixed bug in renderer, %M was displayed as the logger function bumped up the level by 1 * Fixed %% bug 0.16 07/10/2002 * Updated documentation for CPAN release * Applied Kevin's patch to limit it to one Log::Dispatcher 0.15 07/10/2002 * There were name conflicts in Log::Dispatch, because we used *one* Log::Dispatch object for the *all* loggers in the Log::Log4perl universe (it still worked because we were using log_to() for Log::Dispatch to send messages to specific appenders only). Now every logger has its own Log::Dispatch object. Logger.pm doesn't call Kevin's anti-dupe logic anymore -- is this ok? Maybe there's some leftovers which need to be cleaned up. * Kevin fixed t/014ConfErrs.t after last night's Appender.pm change 0.14 07/09/2002 * (!) Added new class Log::Log4perl::Appender as a wrapper around Log::Dispatch::*. Layouts are no longer attached to the loggers, but to the appenders instead. $app->layout($layout) sets the layout. $logger->add_appender($app) is the new syntax to add an appender to a logger. The $logger->layout method is gone for that reason. * Added documentation on categories * Added documentation on Log::Log4perl::Appender, Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout, Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout. 0.13 07/09/2002 * in the config files, 'debug' is not a level, 'DEBUG' is * expanded the layouts so that we can add subclassess, added SimpleLayout, note that api usage changes -$logger->layout('buf',"The message is here: %m"); +$logger->layout(new Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout('buf',"The message is here: %m")); * did benchmarks, see doc/benchmark*, t/013Bench.t * further tweaked errors for bad configuration, added a test for those 0.12 07/08/2002 * Log::Log4perl::Logger->get_logger now accessible via Log::Log4perl->get_logger() * Log::Log4perl::Config->init now accessible via Log::Log4perl->init() * Adapted test cases to new shortcuts * Constrained some files to 80 chars width * Added test case t/009Deuce.t for two appenders in one category via the config file * Changed default layout in case there's none defined (SimpleLayout) * Implemented dictatory date format for %d: yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss 0.11 07/07/2002 * added documentation to Log/Log4perl.pm * added is_debug/is_error/is_info etc. functions to Logger.pm, test cases to t/002Logger.t 0.10 07/05/2002 * %p should return level name of the calling function, so $logger->warn('bad thing!!') should print 'WARN - bad thing' even if the category is set to debug, so took level_str out of Logger.pm (kg) 0.09 07/03/2002 * %p should return level name, not number, adding level_str to Logger.pm (kg) * Level.pm - discriminating: priorities are 1-4, levels are 'info','debug',etc (kg) 0.08 07/03/2002 * Non-root loggers are working now off the config file 0.07 07/02/2002 * Updated documentation * removed "diagnostics" 0.06 07/01/2002 * Bug discovered by Kevin Goess , revealed in 004-Config.t: Wrong layout used if Appender is inherited. Fixed. * Changed Log::Log4perl::Appender::TestBuffer to keep track of the object population -- so we can easily reference them in the Log::Log4perl test cases. Got rid of get_buffer(). * Added a reset() method to Log::Log4perl and Log::Log4perl::Logger for easier testing. It resets all persistent loggers to the inital state. * Added documentation 0.05 06/30/2002 * Fixed bug with mapped priorities between java/Log::Dispatch * Java/Perl integration with conf file 0.04 06/30/2002 * Layout tests * %r to layout * Added lib4j configuration file stuff and tests 0.03 06/30/2002 * Layout * Curly braces in Layout first ops 0.02 06/30/2002 * Created Logger and test cases 0.01 06/22/2002 * Where it all began TODO List: ################################################## * Layout.pm: '%t' * Wild idea: Could we possibly utilize the compiler frontend to eliminate log statements that are not going to be triggered? This would be a HUGE performance increase! * get_logger() thread safety (two try to create it at the same time) * Thread safety with re-reading the conf file (watch) * log4j.logger.blah = INHERITED, app