[slf4j-dev] 1.5.4?

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello all,

I'd like to soon cut a release for SLF4J 1.5.4.

Here is the change summary.

- Improvements to documentations as well as fix for packaging problems related 
to slf4j-ext module.

- At initialization time, LoggerFactory will check that the version of the 
slf4j-binding matches that of slf4j-api. If there is a mismatch a warning will 
be issued on the console. This should help our users identify SLF4J related 
problems more quickly.

- We now say that markers contain references to other markers. We no longer talk 
about child markers. The javadocs of the Marker interface have been updated to 
reflect this change. Moreover, the hasChildren() method in the Marker interface 
has been deprecated and a new method called hasReferences() was added.

- SLF4JBridgeHandler (part of jul-to-slf4j) now accounts for loggers with 
resourceBundle as well parameters. This feature requested by Darryl Smith in bug 
98 and by Jarek Gawor in bug 103.


Are there any remaining tasks? Thorbjørn is still working on agent 
instrumentation. Ralph has volunteered to add documentation about XLogger. The 
former is open ended, so I don't think we should wait for Thorbjørn. Should we 
wait for Ralph to get a first shot at the xlogger docs? Ralph?

Cheers,


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