Move org.apache.log4j.rewrite package and org.apache.log4j.helpers.UtilLoggingLevel from the to-be-discontinued receivers companion to log4j.
Committed rev 1165491.
It seems that the DTD for log4j.xml was not updated properly A xml fragment such as this <appender name="rewrite" class="org.apache.log4j.rewrite.RewriteAppender"> <appender-ref ref="console"/> <rewritePolicy class="logtest.MyRewriter"/> </appender> Causes the following parse error on initialization: log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 15 and column 50 log4j:WARN Element type "rewritePolicy" must be declared. log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 16 and column 14 log4j:WARN The content of element type "appender" must match "(errorHandler?,param*,rollingPolicy?,triggeringPolicy?,connectionSource?,layout?,filter*,appender-ref*)".