Prepare release notes for 3.0.0-beta2

Author: ppkarwasz

src/changelog/3.0.0-beta2/.release-notes.adoc.ftl

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+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+This release provides a continuation of the modularisation process of Log4j Core.
+The following features were moved to separate artifacts:
+
+* The async logger feature was moved to `log4j-async-logger` and it was upgraded to use LMAX Disruptor 4.x.
+The async appender is still available by default in `log4j-core`.
+* The YAML configuration is available now in `log4j-config-yaml`.
+* The Java properties configuration was removed and replaced with a similar format based on https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-text/tree/2.17/properties[`jackson-dataformat-properties`].
+
+Other features were removed:
+
+* Jetty 9.x users are encouraged to migrate to Jetty 10.x or later and replace `log4j-appserver` with `log4j-slf4j2-impl`.
+* Tomcat JULI support will be available from a third-party (cf. https://github.com/copernik-eu/log4j-plugins/pull/102[copernik-eu/log4j-plugins]).
+* Apache Commons Logging users are encouraged to upgrade `commons-logging` to version 1.3.0 or later and remove `log4j-jcl`.
+* Support for the XML layout was dropped.
+* Support for JMX was dropped and will be replaced with a more recent technology.
+
+<#include "../.changelog.adoc.ftl">

src/changelog/3.0.0-beta2/.release.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+<release xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.3.xsd"
+         date="2024-02-17" version="3.0.0-beta2"/>