[slf4j-user] Release of SLF4J version 1.7.0

[Jason Dillon]

Awesome!

--jason


On Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM, ceki wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version
> 1.7.0. This version adds varargs support in Logger methods. (Hey, it
> only took 6 years!) The relevant artifacts should hit the Maven
> central repository within the next few hours.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Binary compatibility:
> 
> Mixing mixing different versions of slf4j-api.jar and SLF4J binding
> can cause problems. For example, if you are using slf4j-api-1.7.0.jar,
> then you should also use slf4j-simple-1.7.0.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 by 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 1.7.0 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 1.7.0 is totally 100% no-ifs-or-buts compatible with the 1.6.x
> series.
> 
> Release notes:
> 
> Please refer to the the news page for precise details.
> 
> http://www.slf4j.org/news.html
> 
> You can download SLF4J, including full source code, class files and
> documentation on our download page, shown below.
> 
> http://www.slf4j.org/download.html
> 
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> Enjoy,
> 
> -- 
> Ceki
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