[HIVE-22278] Upgrade log4j to 2.12.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: David Lavati
• Reporter: David Lavati
• Created: 01/Oct/19 16:53
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:50
• Resolved: 08/Oct/19 13:05

Description

Hive's currently using log4j 2.10.0 and according to HIVE-21273, a number of issues are present in it, which can be resolved by upgrading to 2.12.1:

Curly braces in parameters are treated as placeholders
affectsVersions:2.8.2;2.9.0;2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2032?filter=allopenissues
Remove Log4J API dependency on Management APIs
affectsVersions:2.9.1;2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2126?filter=allopenissues
Log4j2 throws NoClassDefFoundError in Java 9
affectsVersions:2.10.0;2.11.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2129?filter=allopenissues
ThreadContext map is cleared => entries are only available for one log event
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2158?filter=allopenissues
Objects held in SortedArrayStringMap cannot be filtered during serialization
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2163?filter=allopenissues
NullPointerException at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.Activator.loadProvider(Activator.java:81) in log4j 2.10.0
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2182?filter=allopenissues
MarkerFilter onMismatch invalid attribute in .properties
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2202?filter=allopenissues
Configuration builder classes should look for "onMismatch"; not "onMisMatch".
affectsVersions:2.4;2.4.1;2.5;2.6;2.6.1;2.6.2;2.7;2.8;2.8.1;2.8.2;2.9.0;2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2219?filter=allopenissues
Empty Automatic-Module-Name Header
affectsVersions:2.10.0;2.11.0;3.0.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2254?filter=allopenissues
ConcurrentModificationException from org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:71)
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2276?filter=allopenissues
Allow SystemPropertiesPropertySource to run with a SecurityManager that rejects system property access
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2279?filter=allopenissues
ParserConfigurationException when using Log4j with oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilderFactory
affectsVersions:2.10.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2283?filter=allopenissues
Log4j 2.10+not working with SLF4J 1.8 in OSGI environment
affectsVersions:2.10.0;2.11.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2305?filter=allopenissues
fix the CacheEntry map in ThrowableProxy#toExtendedStackTrace to be put and gotten with same key
affectsVersions:2.6.2;2.7;2.8;2.8.1;2.8.2;2.9.0;2.9.1;2.10.0;2.11.0
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2389?filter=allopenissues
NullPointerException when closing never used RollingRandomAccessFileAppender
affectsVersions:2.10.0;2.11.1
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LOG4J2/issues/LOG4J2-2418?filter=allopenissues

Issue Links

• relates to: BIGTOP-3615 Upgrade log4j2 of Hive 3.1.2 to 2.16.0
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #798