The next major Release will ship with the following changes. Currently, this is not finalized. Suggestions and feedback is very welcome.

Upgrades:

• Java 17 required, Jakarta bindings (e.g servlet)
• SLF4j 2.x, with necessary upgrades of Logback (1.4.x+) and Log4j2

Removals:

• cf-java-logging-support-jersey (Jersey integration)
• cf-java-logging-support-servlet (to be replaced by cf-java-logging-support-servlet-jakarta)
• cf-java-monitoring-custom-metrics-clients/* (custom metrics support)
• sample (Jersey sample app, Spring Boot will stay)

New Features:

• SPI support for ContextFieldSupplier, LogbackContextFieldSupplier, Log4jContextFieldSupplier
• SPI support for DynamicLogLevelConfiguration and DynamicLogLevelProcessor
• W3CTraceContext support
• OpenTelemetry SpanContext support
• OpenTelemetry SAP CF resource provider (to provide meaningful resource attributes)
• SAP Cloud Logging OpenTelemetry binding auto-configuration