Thank you François for reporting this bug. It was fixed in the trunk. François Terrier wrote:

Hi,

there is a little NPE when calling setContextMap on a fresch MDC. This could raises a NPE:

public static void main(String[] args) { MDC.setContextMap(new HashMap<String, String>()); }

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