Merge changes from 2.25.2 release

pom.xml

@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@
     <!-- project version -->
     <revision>2.26.0-SNAPSHOT</revision>
     <!-- Versions used on the site: no snapshots! -->
-    <site-log4j-api.version>2.25.1</site-log4j-api.version>
-    <site-log4j-core.version>2.25.1</site-log4j-core.version>
-    <site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>2.25.1</site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>
+    <site-log4j-api.version>2.25.2</site-log4j-api.version>
+    <site-log4j-core.version>2.25.2</site-log4j-core.version>
+    <site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>2.25.2</site-log4j-layout-template-json.version>
 
     <!-- =================
          Common properties
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
          2. This value is employed in various places while creating the distribution
          To mitigate these, we define a *dummy* value here and let the CI replace it during a release.
          Hence, *DO NOT MANUALLY EDIT THIS VALUE*! -->
-    <project.build.outputTimestamp>2025-07-05T19:48:56Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
+    <project.build.outputTimestamp>2025-09-18T18:02:17Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
 
     <!-- ========================
          Site-specific properties

src/changelog/2.25.0/update_com_fasterxml_jackson_jackson_bom.xml

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
        xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
        xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
        type="updated">
-  <issue id="3708" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3708"/>
-  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom` to version `2.19.0`</description>
+  <issue id="3847" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3847"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom` to version ``</description>
 </entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/.release-notes.adoc.ftl

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+////
+    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-notes-' + release.version?replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "-", "r")}]
+== ${release.version}
+
+<#if release.date?has_content>Release date:: ${release.date}</#if>
+
+This patch release addresses certain minor issues detailed in the changelog.
+
+<#include "../.changelog.adoc.ftl">

src/changelog/2.25.2/.release.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?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="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+         date="2025-09-18" version="2.25.2"/>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3819_logback-builder-reuse.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3819" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3819"/>
+  <issue id="3824" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3824"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix potential memory leak involving `LogBuilder` in Log4j API to Logback bridge
+  </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3828_fix_log_placeholder_mismatch.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+    <issue id="3828" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3828"/>
+    <issue id="3831" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3831"/>
+    <description format="asciidoc">
+        Prevent unnecessary warnings in `AbstractDriverManagerConnectionSource`
+    </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3835-default-layout.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3835" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3835"/>
+  <issue id="3851" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3851"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix missing newlines in default logging configuration for `log4j-core`
+  </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3852-default-target.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3852" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3852"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix missing default `Target` value in Console Appender
+  </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3872_fix_RollingFileManager_initialTime.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+    <issue id="3068" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3068"/>
+    <issue id="3872" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3872"/>
+    <description format="asciidoc">
+        Discard the sub-second part while obtaining the initial time (i.e., creation time) of a file in `RollingFileManager`
+    </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3873_throwable_converter_new_line.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+    <issue id="3873" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3873"/>
+    <issue id="3919" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3919"/>
+    <description format="asciidoc">
+        Fix Pattern Layout exception stack trace converters to no longer prepend newlines based on context
+    </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3905_fix_error_prone_dep.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3779" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3779"/>
+  <issue id="3785" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3785"/>
+  <issue id="3822" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3822"/>
+  <issue id="3905" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3905"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix the `com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations` dependency whose version property gets erased due to flattening
+  </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3920-nested-throwables.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3920" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3920"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix detection of `Throwable` converters inside nested Pattern Layout patterns when applying `alwaysWriteExceptions`
+  </description>
+</entry>

src/changelog/2.25.2/3930_date-converter.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns
+           https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="3930" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/3930"/>
+  <issue id="3932" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3932"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix parsing and merging of literals in `InstantPatternDynamicFormatter`
+  </description>
+</entry>