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The final release version 2.5.0 contains the same set of features as tinylog 2.5.0-M2.1 as no further bugs were found.

Special thanks to f4lco for his generous donation to tinylog!

• Fix VerifyError while loading configuration on legacy Android versions (discovered on Android 4.4, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72727738/tinylog-android-verifyerror-exception)
• Update Kotlin to version 1.4.21 due to CVE-2020-29582

• Keep buffer of JdbcWriter after connection loss (#91)
• DynamicPolicy continues existing files (#251, thanks to @simon04)
• Require module java.naming by org.tinylog.api for JndiValueResolver (#248)
• Line-delimited JSON support for JsonWriter (#229)

Fix resolving environment variables, JNDI values, and system properties in configuration properties files

• Support for System.Logger as third-party logging API (#221 and #224, thanks to @Trigtrig)
• Close JSON array after every flush() of JSON writer (#205)
• New dynamic label and dynamic policy for programmatic interaction (#230, thanks to @simon04)
• Support resolving JNDI values in configuration (#235)
• Support Scala 2.13 by tinylog's Scala logging API (#237)
• Allow extending TinylogLoggingProvider for using another ContextProvider (#239)
• Support defining a schema for JDBC writer (#243 and #244, thanks to @Sollder1)

Compatibility fix for SLF4J 2.0

The final release version 2.4.0 contains the same set of features as the first and second milestone. Additionally, it adds support for the latest alpha 5 of SLF4J 2.0 (see #222).

• Support for defining size or maximum size for format pattern placeholders (#219, thanks to @kropp)
• Trim white space around configuration values automatically
• Support custom time zones by date policies (#217)
• Use class loader from class if context loader provides no service files (#216)
• Support multiple tags by a single tagged logger (#201, thanks to @kahgoh)
• All fixed from tinylog 2.3.1 and 2.3.2

• Fix using user defined configuration loaders instead of tinylog's default properties file loader (#210)
• Fix using GZIP compression in a Java Platform Module System project (see #211)

• Fix writing log entries into log files when using charsets that have BOMs as charset headers like UTF-16 and UTF-32 (#207)