To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org, dev@logging.apache.org
Title: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Log4j 2.23.1 released

Apache Log4j team is pleased to announce the 2.23.1
release. Apache Log4j is a versatile, industrial-strength
Java logging framework composed of an API, its implementation,
and components to assist the deployment for various use cases.
For further information (support, download, etc.) see the project
website[1].

[1] https://logging.apache.org/log4j

== Release Notes

This release contains several small fixes and some dependency updates.


[#release-notes-2-23-1-changed]
=== Changed

* Improve performance of `CloseableThreadContext#closeMap()` (#2296)

[#release-notes-2-23-1-fixed]
=== Fixed

* Fix handling of `LoggerContextAware` lookups (#2309)
* Fix NPE in `PatternProcessor` for a `UNIX_MILLIS` pattern (#2346)
* Fix that parameterized message formatting doesn't throw an exception when there are insufficient number of parameters (#2343)
* Fix `StatusLogger` log level filtering when debug mode is enabled (#2337)
* Add `log4j2.StatusLogger.dateFormatZone` system property to set the time-zone `StatusLogger` uses to format `java.time.Instant`. Without this, formatting patterns accessing to time-zone-specific fields (e.g., year-of-era) cause failures. (#2322)
* Fix `StatusLogger` to correctly read `log4j2.StatusLogger.properties` resource (#2354)
* Fix stack overflow in `StatusLogger` (#2322)

[#release-notes-2-23-1-updated]
=== Updated

* Update `jakarta.activation:jakarta.activation-api` to version `2.1.3` (#2335)
* Update `jakarta.mail:jakarta.mail-api` to version `2.1.3` (#2348)
* Update `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` to version `1.26.0` (#2304)
* Update `org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2` to version `2.12.0` (#2344)
* Update `org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients` to version `3.7.0` (#2326)
* Update `org.eclipse.angus:angus-activation` to version `2.0.2` (#2336)
* Update `org.eclipse.angus:jakarta.mail` to version `2.0.3` (#2349)