Ramesh created SLF4J-441: ---------------------------- Summary: XLogger exit() method is not backward compatible after we update SLF4J API to 1.7.25 Key: SLF4J-441 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-441 Project: SLF4J Issue Type: Bug Components: Core API Affects Versions: 1.7.25 Environment: JDK 1.8 Maven Eclipse Jetty plugin 9.4.8.v20180619 SLF4J API - 1.7.25 SLF4J EXT -  1.7.25     Reporter: Ramesh Assignee: SLF4J developers list Our code has the below code in different places with different version of exit() method. LOGGER.exit() LOGGER.exit(Object) LOGGER.exit(booleanValue) We are currently using SLF4J API 1.7.2 and now we are trying to update to SLF4J 1.7.25 to address one security vulnerability issue. During update, we are seeing this exception {color:#ff0000}Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.ext.XLogger.exit(Ljava/lang/Object;)V{color} {color:#ff0000}{color:#333333}Seems XLogger exit() method is enhanced in 1.7.6 and see the method signature is changed from{color} public void exit(Object result) \{{color} {color:#ff0000}}{color} {color:#ff0000}{color:#333333}to{color} {color} {color:#ff0000}public <T> T exit(T result) \{{color} {color:#ff0000}}{color} {color:#333333}I think this change is not backward compatible and we could not able to update the SLF4J version.{color}   {color:#333333}Is it possible to make the change backward compatible? Or Please suggest how we can overcome the exception during update?{color} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.3.1#73012)