[slf4j-dev] Release of SLF4J version 1.7.8

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hello all,

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version
1.7.8 which can automatically detect and report mismatches between the
class where a logger is defined and the logger name. For more details
on this feature see:

   http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#loggerNameMismatch

The relevant artifacts should hit the Maven central repository within
the next few hours.

Please refer to the the news page for more details on this release:

    http://www.slf4j.org/news.html

I am grateful to Matt Bishop for managing the SLF4J project in the
last few months and in particular for handling the various pull
requests submitted on github. This release would not have been
possible without his help.

The logger name mismatch detection mechanism, an exciting and new
feature introduced in this release, was contributed by Alexander
Dorokhine. I join the undoubtedly many SLF4J users in thanking
Alexander for his great work.

The 1.7.x series:

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple
facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks,
e.g. java.util.logging, log4j and logback, allowing the end user to
plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.

The 1.7.x series adds varargs support in Logger methods.  Compared to
previous versions, 1.7.5 significantly improves logger retrieval
times. Users are highly encouraged to migrate to SLF4J 1.7.5 or
later.

Binary compatibility:

Mixing mixing different versions of slf4j-api.jar and SLF4J binding
can cause problems. For example, if you are using slf4j-api-1.7.1.jar,
then you should also use slf4j-simple-1.7.1.jar, using
slf4j-simple-1.5.5.jar will not work.

 From the client's perspective all versions of slf4j-api are
compatible. Client code compiled with slf4j-api-N.jar will run
perfectly fine with slf4j-api-M.jar for any N and M. You only need to
ensure that the version of your binding matches that of the
slf4j-api.jar. You do not have to worry about the version of
slf4j-api.jar used to compile a given dependency in your project. You
can always use *any* version of slf4j-api.jar, and as long as the
version of slf4j-api.jar and its binding match, you should be fine.

At initialization time, if SLF4J suspects that there may be an api
vs. binding version mismatch problem, it will emit a warning about the
suspected mismatch.

Version 1.7.x series takes compatibility one step further so that
slf4j-api and SLF4J bindings can be freely mixed with artifacts from
the 1.6.x or 1.7.x series.  In other words, when running under JDK 1.5
or later, version 1.7.x is totally 100% no-ifs-or-buts compatible with
the 1.6.x series.

Downloading SLF4J:

You can download SLF4J, including full source code, class files and
documentation on our download page:

     http://www.slf4j.org/download.html

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Enjoy,

-- 
Ceki