Hello all, I am happy to announce the release of logback version 1.3.0-beta0. It requires slf4j-api version 2.0.0-beta1 or later. Although marked as beta, it should be considered a stable version. Logback 1.3.0-GA should be released later this month. The 1.3.x series the fluent-API introduced in SLF4J 2.0.x. It also supports Jigsaw/Java9 modularization. Joran, logback's configuration system, has been rewritten to use an internal representation model which can be processed separately. Given the breadth of the changes, support for SiftingAppender was dropped temporarily and reintroduced in logback version 1.3.0-alpha16. Support for Groovy configuration was dropped for security reasons but was recovered by Tucker Pelletier (virtualdogbert). See: https://github.com/virtualdogbert/logback-groovy-config Note that new features were introduced this version. Future releases will gradually introduce new features made possible by Joran representation model. For benchmarking figures please see: http://logback.qos.ch/performance.html The 1.3.x series requires Java 8 at runtime. If you wish to build logback from source, you will need Java 9. Reproducible builds require Java 18. Recent logback releases are reproducible. This means that anyone checking out the code corresponding to the release version from github and building that local copy, will get obtain an identical binary to the binary found on Maven central. Note that due to issue MJAR-275 with the module-info.java produced in earlier java versions, reproducible builds require Java 18. Donations and sponsorship You can also support SLF4J/logback/reload4j projects via donations and sponsorship. We thank our current supporters and sponsors for their continued contributions. Sponsorship link: https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch?o=esb Announcement mailing list: You can receive SLF4J/logback/reload4j related announcements by subscribing QOS.ch announce list, please visit the following URL. http://www.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/announce Enjoy, -- Ceki Gülcü Sponsoring SLF4J/logback/reload4j at https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch