Changes from 1.01:
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!)
Changes from 0.51:
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 <jmanning@alisa-jon.net> 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.
Changes from 0.48:
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 <roger.yager@eyestreet.com>
* (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 <kane@xs4all.net> and
Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com> 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_<level> 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.
