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Posted to commits@logging.apache.org by vy...@apache.org on 2023/01/13 16:14:36 UTC

[logging-log4j2] branch release-2.x updated: LOG4J2-3628 Replace `maven-changes-plugin` with `log4j-changelog` (#1145)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/release-2.x by this push:
     new f22731a889 LOG4J2-3628 Replace `maven-changes-plugin` with `log4j-changelog` (#1145)
f22731a889 is described below

commit f22731a889e89882ff039331eb3365a7f9805a78
Author: Volkan Yazıcı <vo...@yazi.ci>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 13 17:14:26 2023 +0100

    LOG4J2-3628 Replace `maven-changes-plugin` with `log4j-changelog` (#1145)
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
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index 0000000000..36395490a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+:log4j-changelog-ref: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-tools/tree/master/log4j-changelog[log4j-changelog]
+
+== Where are changelogs stored?
+
+Changelogs are stored in xref:src/changelog[`src/changelog`] directory.
+
+{log4j-changelog-ref} is used to generate AsciiDoc-formatted changelog files during Maven `pre-site` phase and export them to xref:target/generated-sources/site/asciidoc/changelog[`target/generated-sources/site/asciidoc/changelog`] directory.
+These exported AsciiDoc files are not committed, since they are only relevant for the website, and they cause merge-conflicts between feature branches.
+`./mvnw -N site` command can be used to manually generate these files.
+
+See {log4j-changelog-ref} project for further details; how to use this changelog system, what steps are needed while making a new release, etc.
+
+== I am about to deploy a new release. What shall I do?
+
+Just before a release, three things need to happen in the changelog sources:
+
+. *changelog entry files needs to be moved* from the _upcoming_ release changelog directory `src/changelog/.<releaseVersionMajor>.x.x`  to the _new_ release changelog directory `src/changelog/<releaseVersion>`
+. *`.changelog.adoc.ftl` needs to be copied* from the _upcoming_ release changelog directory to the _new_ release changelog directory, unless it already exists in the target
+. *`.release.xml` needs to be created* in the _new_ release changelog directory
+
+Due to the nature of release candidates, above steps might need to be repeated multiple times.
+
+[TIP]
+====
+Log4j _releases_ and _release candidates_ all get deployed to the same https://repository.apache.org/#stagingRepositories[_staging repository_].
+Their `pom.xml` files all contain the same release version, e.g., `2.19.0`.
+There are no `-rc1`, `-rc2`, etc. suffixes in the version of a release candidate.
+Once a release candidate voting reaches to a consensus for release, associated artifacts simply get promoted from the _staging_ to the _public_ repository.
+Hence, there are no differences between releases and release candidates.
+====
+
+How to carry out aforementioned changes are explained below in steps:
+
+. Populate the `src/changelog/<releaseVersion>` directory (e.g., `src/changelog/2.19.0`) from the upcoming release changelog directory (e.g., `src/changelog/.2.x.x`):
++
+[source,bash]
+----
+./mvnw -N -P changelog-releaser
+----
++
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+`changelog-releaser` Maven profile obtains the new release version from `Log4jReleaseVersion` property.
+If needed, you can override it to point to another release version:
+
+[source,bash]
+----
+./mvnw -N -P changelog-releaser -DLog4jReleaseVersion=6.6.6
+----
+====
+. Verify that all changelog entry files are moved from `src/changelog/.<releaseVersionMajor>.x.x` directory (e.g., `src/changelog/.2.x.x`)
+. Verify that `src/changelog/<releaseVersion>` directory (e.g., `src/changelog/2.19.0`) is created, and it contains `.changelog.adoc.ftl`, `.release.xml`, and changelog entry files
++
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+If `src/changelog/<releaseVersion>` directory (e.g., `src/changelog/2.19.0`) already exists with certain content, `changelog-releaser` profile will only move new changelog entry files and override `.release.xml`; `.changelog.adoc.ftl` will not be touched, if it already exists.
+This allows one to run `changelog-releaser` profile multiple times, e.g., to incorporate changes added to a release candidate.
+====
+. Edit the populated `.changelog.adoc.ftl`
+. `git add` the changes in `src/changelog` and commit them
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-<!---
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
--->
-# Apache Log4j 2.19.0 Release Notes
-
-The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.19.0 release!
-
-Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade
-to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides
-many other modern features such as support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy logging,
-property substitution using Lookups, multiple patterns on a PatternLayout and asynchronous
-Loggers. Another notable Log4j 2 feature is the ability to be "garbage-free" (avoid allocating
-temporary objects) while logging. In addition, Log4j 2 will not lose events while reconfiguring.
-
-The artifacts may be downloaded from https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html.
-
-This release primarily contains bug fixes and minor enhancements.
-
-Due to a break in compatibility in the SLF4J binding, Log4j now ships with two versions of the SLF4J to Log4j adapters.
-log4j-slf4j-impl should be used with SLF4J 1.7.x and earlier and log4j-slf4j2-impl should be used with SLF4J 2.x and
-later. SLF4J-1.8.x is no longer supported as a GA release never occurred.
-
-The Log4j 2.19.0 API, as well as many core components, maintains binary compatibility with previous releases.
-
-## GA Release 2.19.0
-
-Changes in this version include:
-
-### New Features
-* [LOG4J2-3583](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3583):
-Add support for SLF4J2 stack-valued MDC. Thanks to Pierrick Terrettaz.
-* [LOG4J2-2975](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2975):
-Add implementation of SLF4J2 fluent API. Thanks to Daniel Gray.
-
-### Fixed Bugs
-* [LOG4J2-3578](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3578):
-Generate new SSL certs for testing.
-* [LOG4J2-3556](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3556):
-Make JsonTemplateLayout stack trace truncation operate for each label block. Thanks to Arthur Gavlyukovskiy.
-* [LOG4J2-3550](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3550):
-SystemPropertyArbiter was assigning the value as the name. Thanks to DongjianPeng.
-* [LOG4J2-3560](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3560):
-Logger$PrivateConfig.filter(Level, Marker, String) was allocating empty varargs array. Thanks to David Schlosnagle.
-* [LOG4J2-3561](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3561):
-Allows a space separated list of style specifiers in the %style pattern for consistency with %highlight. Thanks to Robert Papp.
-* [LOG4J2-3564](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3564):
-Fix NPE in `log4j-to-jul` in the case the root logger level is null.
-* [LOG4J2-3545](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3545):
-Add correct manifest entries for OSGi to log4j-jcl Thanks to Johan Compagner.
-* [LOG4J2-3565](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3565):
-Fix RollingRandomAccessFileAppender with DirectWriteRolloverStrategy can't create the first log file of different directory.
-* [LOG4J2-3579](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3579):
-Fix ServiceLoaderUtil behavior in the presence of a SecurityManager. Thanks to Boris Unckel.
-* [LOG4J2-3559](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3559):
-Fix resolution of properties not starting with `log4j2.`. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
-* [LOG4J2-3557](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3557):
-Fix recursion between Log4j 1.2 LogManager and Category. Thanks to Andreas Leitgeb.
-* [LOG4J2-3587](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3587):
-Fix regression in Rfc5424Layout default values. Thanks to Tomas Micko.
-* [LOG4J2-3548](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3548):
-Improve support for passwordless keystores. Thanks to Kristof Farkas-Pall.
-* [LOG4J2-708](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-708):
-Add async support to `Log4jServletFilter`.
-
-### Changes
-* [LOG4J2-3572](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3572):
-Add getExplicitLevel method to LoggerConfig.
-* [LOG4J2-3589](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3589):
-Allow Plugins to be injected with the LoggerContext reference.
-* [LOG4J2-3588](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3588):
-Allow PropertySources to be added.
-
-### Removed
-* [LOG4J2-3573](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3573):
-Removed build page in favor of a single build instructions file. Thanks to Wolff Bock von Wuelfingen.
-* [LOG4J2-3590](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3590):
-Remove SLF4J 1.8.x binding.
----
-
-Apache Log4j 2.19.0 requires a minimum of Java 8 to build and run.
-Log4j 2.12.4 is the last release to support Java 7.
-Log4j 2.3.2 is the last release to support Java 6.
-Java 6 and Java 7 are no longer supported by the Log4j team.
-
-For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how to submit bug
-reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Log4j 2 website:
-
-https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
-
----
-
-Earlier release notes are accessible in [Release History](https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/changes-report.html).
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   </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-        <reportSets>
-          <reportSet>
-            <reports>
-              <report>changes-report</report>
-            </reports>
-          </reportSet>
-        </reportSets>
-        <configuration>
-          <issueLinkTemplate>%URL%/show_bug.cgi?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
-          <useJql>true</useJql>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/log4j-to-jul/src/site/site.xml b/log4j-to-jul/src/site/site.xml
index 6b84b63c2b..c7f15e5288 100644
--- a/log4j-to-jul/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/log4j-to-jul/src/site/site.xml
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
     </menu>
 
     <menu name="Log4j Project Reports" img="icon-cog">
-      <item name="Changes Report" href="../changes-report.html" />
-      <item name="JIRA Report" href="../jira-report.html" />
       <item name="Surefire Report" href="../surefire-report.html" />
       <item name="RAT Report" href="../rat-report.html" />
     </menu>
diff --git a/log4j-to-slf4j/pom.xml b/log4j-to-slf4j/pom.xml
index 0294eb668a..b6c87fe3e7 100644
--- a/log4j-to-slf4j/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-to-slf4j/pom.xml
@@ -95,21 +95,6 @@
   </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-        <reportSets>
-          <reportSet>
-            <reports>
-              <report>changes-report</report>
-            </reports>
-          </reportSet>
-        </reportSets>
-        <configuration>
-          <issueLinkTemplate>%URL%/show_bug.cgi?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
-          <useJql>true</useJql>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/log4j-to-slf4j/src/site/site.xml b/log4j-to-slf4j/src/site/site.xml
index 0f2364ee20..7715af4c4d 100644
--- a/log4j-to-slf4j/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/log4j-to-slf4j/src/site/site.xml
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
     </menu>
 
     <menu name="Log4j Project Reports" img="icon-cog">
-      <item name="Changes Report" href="../changes-report.html" />
-      <item name="JIRA Report" href="../jira-report.html" />
       <item name="Surefire Report" href="../surefire-report.html" />
       <item name="RAT Report" href="../rat-report.html" />
     </menu>
diff --git a/log4j-web/pom.xml b/log4j-web/pom.xml
index 484e545ac3..25eb6caf82 100644
--- a/log4j-web/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-web/pom.xml
@@ -105,21 +105,6 @@
   </build>
   <reporting>
     <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-        <reportSets>
-          <reportSet>
-            <reports>
-              <report>changes-report</report>
-            </reports>
-          </reportSet>
-        </reportSets>
-        <configuration>
-          <issueLinkTemplate>%URL%/show_bug.cgi?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
-          <useJql>true</useJql>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/log4j-web/src/site/site.xml b/log4j-web/src/site/site.xml
index 0f3fd0fe6c..0ad38d049c 100644
--- a/log4j-web/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/log4j-web/src/site/site.xml
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
     </menu>
 
     <menu name="Log4j Project Reports" img="icon-cog">
-      <item name="Changes Report" href="../changes-report.html" />
-      <item name="JIRA Report" href="../jira-report.html" />
       <item name="Surefire Report" href="../surefire-report.html" />
       <item name="RAT Report" href="../rat-report.html" />
     </menu>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 61cfac6632..c1b416f81b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@
       </roles>
       <timezone>America/Detroit</timezone>
     </developer>
+    <developer>
+      <id>rgupta</id>
+      <name>Raman Gupta</name>
+      <email>rgupta@apache.org</email>
+      <roles>
+        <role>Committer</role>
+      </roles>
+      <timezone>Asia/Kolkata</timezone>
+    </developer>
     <developer>
       <id>mikes</id>
       <name>Mikael Ståldal</name>
@@ -164,6 +173,15 @@
       </roles>
       <timezone>Europe/Warsaw</timezone>
     </developer>
+    <developer>
+      <id>grobmeier</id>
+      <name>Christian Grobmeier</name>
+      <email>grobmeier@apache.org</email>
+      <roles>
+        <role>PMC Member</role>
+      </roles>
+      <timezone>Europe/Berlin</timezone>
+    </developer>
   </developers>
   <!-- Contributors -->
   <contributors>
@@ -261,10 +279,11 @@
     <coveralls-maven-plugin.version>4.3.0</coveralls-maven-plugin.version>
     <docker-maven-plugin.version>0.40.2</docker-maven-plugin.version>
     <exam-maven-plugin.version>4.13.5</exam-maven-plugin.version>
+    <exec-maven-plugin.version>3.1.0</exec-maven-plugin.version>
     <findsecbugs-plugin.version>1.12.0</findsecbugs-plugin.version>
     <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.8</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
+    <log4j-tools.version>0.1.0</log4j-tools.version>
     <maven-bundle-plugin.version>5.1.8</maven-bundle-plugin.version>
-    <maven-changes-plugin.version>2.12.1</maven-changes-plugin.version>
     <maven-checkstyle-plugin.version>3.2.0</maven-checkstyle-plugin.version>
     <maven-dependency-plugin.version>3.3.0</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
     <maven-doap-plugin.version>1.2</maven-doap-plugin.version>
@@ -1109,6 +1128,11 @@
           <artifactId>exam-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${exam-maven-plugin.version}</version>
         </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+          <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${exec-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
           <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -1144,11 +1168,6 @@
             </execution>
           </executions>
         </plugin>
-        <plugin>
-          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-          <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>${maven-changes-plugin.version}</version>
-        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -1502,25 +1521,66 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <!-- export AsciiDoc-formatted sources to `target/generated-sources/site/asciidoc/changelog` -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>changelog-export</id>
+            <phase>pre-site</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>java</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+          <includeProjectDependencies>false</includeProjectDependencies>
+          <includePluginDependencies>true</includePluginDependencies>
+          <executableDependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-changelog</artifactId>
+          </executableDependency>
+          <mainClass>org.apache.logging.log4j.changelog.exporter.ChangelogExporter</mainClass>
+          <systemProperties>
+            <systemProperty>
+              <key>log4j.changelog.directory</key>
+              <value>${project.basedir}/src/changelog</value>
+            </systemProperty>
+            <systemProperty>
+              <key>log4j.changelog.exporter.outputDirectory</key>
+              <value>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/site/asciidoc/changelog</value>
+            </systemProperty>
+          </systemProperties>
+        </configuration>
+        <dependencies>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-changelog</artifactId>
+            <version>${log4j-tools.version}</version>
+          </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
+          <!-- copy `src/site` to `target/generated-sources/site` -->
           <execution>
-            <id>copy-sitecss</id>
-            <!-- fetch site.xml before creating site documentation -->
+            <id>copy-site</id>
             <phase>pre-site</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>copy-resources</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
-              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/site</outputDirectory>
+              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/site</outputDirectory>
               <resources>
                 <resource>
-                  <directory>${log4jParentDir}/src/site/resources</directory>
-                  <includes>
-                    <include>**/*</include>
-                  </includes>
+                  <directory>${log4jParentDir}/src/site</directory>
+                  <excludes>
+                    <exclude>/resources/glyphicons-halflings-2-1.zip</exclude>
+                    <exclude>/resources/logo/**/*</exclude>
+                  </excludes>
                 </resource>
               </resources>
             </configuration>
@@ -1539,13 +1599,12 @@
           </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <configuration>
+          <siteDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/site</siteDirectory>
           <!-- only build English site even on other language OS -->
           <locales>en</locales>
-          <!-- Exclude the navigation file for Maven 1 sites
-               and the changes file used by the changes-plugin,
-               as they interfere with the site generation. -->
+          <!-- Exclude the navigation file for Maven 1 sites as it interferes with the site generation. -->
           <moduleExcludes>
-            <xdoc>navigation.xml,changes.xml</xdoc>
+            <xdoc>navigation.xml</xdoc>
           </moduleExcludes>
           <asciidoc>
             <attributes>
@@ -1631,25 +1690,6 @@
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <!-- Changes report -->
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-        <inherited>false</inherited>
-        <reportSets>
-          <reportSet>
-            <reports>
-              <report>changes-report</report>
-              <report>jira-report</report>
-            </reports>
-          </reportSet>
-        </reportSets>
-        <configuration>
-          <statusIds>Resolved, Closed</statusIds>
-          <columnNames>Type,Key,Summary,Assignee,Status,Resolution,Fix Version</columnNames>
-          <useJql>true</useJql>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -1774,39 +1814,51 @@
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>
+    <!-- populate `src/changelog/<releaseVersion>` from `src/changelog/.<releaseVersionMajor>.x.x` -->
     <profile>
-      <id>release-notes</id>
+      <id>changelog-releaser</id>
       <build>
+        <defaultGoal>validate</defaultGoal>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
-            <configuration>
-              <template>announcement.vm</template>
-              <templateDirectory>src/changes</templateDirectory>
-              <runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>true</runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>
-              <announcementDirectory>.</announcementDirectory>
-              <announcementFile>RELEASE-NOTES.md</announcementFile>
-              <issueManagementSystems>
-                <issueManagementSystem>changes.xml</issueManagementSystem>
-                <!--<issueManagementSystem>JIRA</issueManagementSystem> -->
-              </issueManagementSystems>
-              <version>${Log4jReleaseVersion}</version>
-              <announceParameters>
-                <releaseVersion>${Log4jReleaseVersion}</releaseVersion>
-                <releaseCount>${Log4jReleaseCount}</releaseCount>
-              </announceParameters>
-              <useJql>true</useJql>
-            </configuration>
+            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
             <executions>
               <execution>
-                <id>create-release-notes</id>
-                <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+                <id>changelog-releaser</id>
+                <!-- Choosing the earlier possible phase, since `ChangelogReleaser` execution doesn't depend on anything: -->
+                <phase>validate</phase>
                 <goals>
-                  <goal>announcement-generate</goal>
+                  <goal>java</goal>
                 </goals>
               </execution>
             </executions>
+            <configuration>
+              <includeProjectDependencies>false</includeProjectDependencies>
+              <includePluginDependencies>true</includePluginDependencies>
+              <executableDependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>log4j-changelog</artifactId>
+              </executableDependency>
+              <mainClass>org.apache.logging.log4j.changelog.releaser.ChangelogReleaser</mainClass>
+              <systemProperties>
+                <systemProperty>
+                  <key>log4j.changelog.directory</key>
+                  <value>${project.basedir}/src/changelog</value>
+                </systemProperty>
+                <systemProperty>
+                  <key>log4j.changelog.releaseVersion</key>
+                  <value>${Log4jReleaseVersion}</value>
+                </systemProperty>
+              </systemProperties>
+            </configuration>
+            <dependencies>
+              <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>log4j-changelog</artifactId>
+                <version>${log4j-tools.version}</version>
+              </dependency>
+            </dependencies>
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d5f3d8235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+Changes staged for the next version that is yet to be released.
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-1631_Honor-timezone-in-file-name-pattern.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-1631_Honor-timezone-in-file-name-pattern.xml
index 54e09e7e5f..c04bef0ccb 100644
--- a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-1631_Honor-timezone-in-file-name-pattern.xml
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-1631_Honor-timezone-in-file-name-pattern.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,25 @@
-<entry type="fixed">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
   <issue id="LOG4J2-1631" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1631"/>
   <author id="pkarwasz"/>
   <author name="Danas Mikelinskas"/>
   <description format="asciidoc">
-    Add support for timezones in `RollingFileAppender` date pattern.
+    Add support for timezones in `RollingFileAppender` date pattern
   </description>
 </entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2297_Fix_java_sql_Time_object_formatting_in_MapMessage.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2297_Fix_java_sql_Time_object_formatting_in_MapMessage.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1f973cf9e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2297_Fix_java_sql_Time_object_formatting_in_MapMessage.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-2297" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2297"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix `java.sql.Time` object formatting in `MapMessage`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2678_Add_LogEvent_timestamp_to_ProducerRecord_in_KafkaAppender.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2678_Add_LogEvent_timestamp_to_ProducerRecord_in_KafkaAppender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..52569ce234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2678_Add_LogEvent_timestamp_to_ProducerRecord_in_KafkaAppender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-2678" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2678"/>
+  <author id="pkarwasz"/>
+  <author name="Federico D'Ambrosio"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add `LogEvent` timestamp to `ProducerRecord` in `KafkaAppender`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2785_PatternLayout_abrreviate_all_except_2_rightmost.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2785_PatternLayout_abrreviate_all_except_2_rightmost.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79940b7323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-2785_PatternLayout_abrreviate_all_except_2_rightmost.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-2785" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2785"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Markus Spann"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add `PatternLayout` support for abbreviating the name of all logger components except the 2 rightmost</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3357_Fix_CronTriggeringPolicy.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3357_Fix_CronTriggeringPolicy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67fd8bf6d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3357_Fix_CronTriggeringPolicy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3357" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3357"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix previous fire time computation in `CronTriggeringPolicy`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3487_Correct_default_to_not_include_AsyncRootLoggers.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3487_Correct_default_to_not_include_AsyncRootLoggers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de47ca1eaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3487_Correct_default_to_not_include_AsyncRootLoggers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3487" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3487"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Dave Messink"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Correct default to not include location for ``AsyncRootLogger``s</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3628_New_changelog_infra.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3628_New_changelog_infra.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3cba39eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3628_New_changelog_infra.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3628" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3628"/>
+  <author id="vy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Replace `maven-changes-plugin` with a custom changelog implementation</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3631_Fix_Configurator_setLevel_for_internal_classes.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3631_Fix_Configurator_setLevel_for_internal_classes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..080fb22eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3631_Fix_Configurator_setLevel_for_internal_classes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3631" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3631"/>
+  <author id="pkarwasz"/>
+  <author name="Jeff Thomas"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix `Configurator#setLevel` for internal classes</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3634_Fix_level_propagation_in_Log4jBridgeHandler.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3634_Fix_level_propagation_in_Log4jBridgeHandler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..521b21a59f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3634_Fix_level_propagation_in_Log4jBridgeHandler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3634" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3634"/>
+  <author id="pkarwasz"/>
+  <author name="Marcel Koch"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix level propagation in `Log4jBridgeHandler`</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3644_Deprecate_package_scanning_for_plugins.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3644_Deprecate_package_scanning_for_plugins.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1fcd5e7f58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/LOG4J2-3644_Deprecate_package_scanning_for_plugins.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="deprecated">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-3644" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3644"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Deprecate support for package scanning for plugins</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d096e49717
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<#if entriesByType?size gt 0>== Changes
+<#list entriesByType as entryType, entries>
+
+== ${entryType?capitalize}
+
+<#list entries as entry>
+* ${entry.description.text?replace("\\s+", " ", "r")} (for <@compress single_line=true>
+<#list entry.issues as issue>${issue.link}[${issue.id}]<#if issue?has_next>, </#if></#list> by
+<#list entry.authors as author>
+<@compress single_line=true>
+<#if !author.id?has_content>${author.name}
+<#elseif author.id == "rgoers">Ralph Goers
+<#elseif author.id == "ggregory">Gary Gregory
+<#elseif author.id == "sdeboy">Scott Deboy
+<#elseif author.id == "rpopma">Remko Popma
+<#elseif author.id == "nickwilliams">Nick Williams
+<#elseif author.id == "mattsicker">Matt Sicker
+<#elseif author.id == "bbrouwer">Bruce Brouwer
+<#elseif author.id == "rgupta">Raman Gupta
+<#elseif author.id == "mikes">Mikael Ståldal
+<#elseif author.id == "ckozak">Carter Kozak
+<#elseif author.id == "vy">Volkan Yazıcı
+<#elseif author.id == "rgrabowski">Ron Grabowski
+<#elseif author.id == "pkarwasz">Piotr P. Karwasz
+<#else>`${author.id}`
+</#if>
+</...@compress><#if author?has_next>, </#if>
+</#list>
+</...@compress>)
+</#list>
+</#list>
+</#if>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.index.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/.index.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e6e82babd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.index.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= Release changelogs
+
+<#list releases as release>
+* xref:${release.changelogFileName}[${release.version}]<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+</#list>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a36144f16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2012-07-29" version="2.0-alpha1"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-50_Make_sure_all_application_facing_log_methods_use_their_own_F.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-50_Make_sure_all_application_facing_log_methods_use_their_own_F.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc8349cb30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-50_Make_sure_all_application_facing_log_methods_use_their_own_F.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-50" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-50"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="John Vasileff"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Make sure all application facing log methods use their own FQCN. This patch
+        resolves a unit test failure for the %C pattern when using the Category logger.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-51_Remove_LoggerContext_support_for_custom_logger_factories_Al.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-51_Remove_LoggerContext_support_for_custom_logger_factories_Al.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1694066a04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-51_Remove_LoggerContext_support_for_custom_logger_factories_Al.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-51" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-51"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="John Vasileff"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Remove LoggerContext support for custom logger factories. All Loggers returned
+        by LoggerContext should be compatible and of the same type.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-56_Level_toLevel_would_throw_an_IllegalArgumentException_instea.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-56_Level_toLevel_would_throw_an_IllegalArgumentException_instea.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed24954743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-56_Level_toLevel_would_throw_an_IllegalArgumentException_instea.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-56" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-56"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="John Owen Atala"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Level.toLevel would throw an IllegalArgumentException instead of returning the default value.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-60_Added_ability_to_filter_on_the_AppenderRef_by_adding_either.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-60_Added_ability_to_filter_on_the_AppenderRef_by_adding_either.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a08eacba83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha1/LOG4J2-60_Added_ability_to_filter_on_the_AppenderRef_by_adding_either.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-60" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-60"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Shane Kelly"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added ability to filter on the AppenderRef by adding either a level or a filter.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e1c49d1b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2012-08-24" version="2.0-alpha2"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-64_Fix_compilation_problems_in_Java_7.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-64_Fix_compilation_problems_in_Java_7.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ffbd742ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-64_Fix_compilation_problems_in_Java_7.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-64" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-64"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix compilation problems in Java 7.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-65_Allow_variable_substitution_on_the_configuration_attributes.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-65_Allow_variable_substitution_on_the_configuration_attributes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f571ad975
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-65_Allow_variable_substitution_on_the_configuration_attributes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-65" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-65"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow variable substitution on the configuration attributes and on the root log level.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-67_Allow_components_besides_core_to_create_a_PluginMap_for_fast.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-67_Allow_components_besides_core_to_create_a_PluginMap_for_fast.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf8e0aa148
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-67_Allow_components_besides_core_to_create_a_PluginMap_for_fast.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-67" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-67"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow components besides core to create a PluginMap for faster plugin loading and not
+        having to specify the plugin package in the configuration.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-68_Add_support_for_formatting_using_String_format.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-68_Add_support_for_formatting_using_String_format.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..76693fb7c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-68_Add_support_for_formatting_using_String_format.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-68" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-68"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for formatting using String.format().</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-69_Allow_Flume_agents_to_be_embedded_into_the_Flume_Appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-69_Allow_Flume_agents_to_be_embedded_into_the_Flume_Appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9623d17723
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-69_Allow_Flume_agents_to_be_embedded_into_the_Flume_Appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-69" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-69"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow Flume agents to be embedded into the Flume Appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-70_Add_getLogger_Class_to_LogManager.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-70_Add_getLogger_Class_to_LogManager.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca14b5e023
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-alpha2/LOG4J2-70_Add_getLogger_Class_to_LogManager.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-70" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-70"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add getLogger(Class) to LogManager.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b8d4a3cd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2012-09-18" version="2.0-beta1"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Added_AsynchAppender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Added_AsynchAppender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..68743e276e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Added_AsynchAppender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added AsynchAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Created_web_module_to_allow_web_applications_to_include_the.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Created_web_module_to_allow_web_applications_to_include_the.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f05493e66b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Created_web_module_to_allow_web_applications_to_include_the.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Created web module to allow web applications to include the Log4j context listener in WEB-INF/lib even if
+        Log4j is in the container's class path. Allow locating the LoggerContext to include the ClassLoader. Updated
+        the Loader utility to always choose the child ClassLoader. Verified in Jboss 5 and Tomcat.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-71_FileRenameAction_did_not_create_the_parent_directories_of_th.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-71_FileRenameAction_did_not_create_the_parent_directories_of_th.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a2848ca76a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-71_FileRenameAction_did_not_create_the_parent_directories_of_th.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-71" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-71"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">FileRenameAction did not create the parent directories of the archive files causing the rollover to fail.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-72_NullPointerException_in_RollingFileManager_when_filePattern.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-72_NullPointerException_in_RollingFileManager_when_filePattern.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f0c578167
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-72_NullPointerException_in_RollingFileManager_when_filePattern.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-72" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-72"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">NullPointerException in RollingFileManager when filePattern does not cause the file to be compressed.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-74_Logger_error_Marker_Message_Throwable_was_internally_usin.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-74_Logger_error_Marker_Message_Throwable_was_internally_usin.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eac2bffc4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-74_Logger_error_Marker_Message_Throwable_was_internally_usin.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-74" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-74"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Logger.error(Marker, Message, Throwable) was internally using Level.TRACE.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-75_Enhanced_Log4jContextListener_to_accept_a_configuration_file.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-75_Enhanced_Log4jContextListener_to_accept_a_configuration_file.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2781b16a4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-75_Enhanced_Log4jContextListener_to_accept_a_configuration_file.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-75" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-75"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Enhanced Log4jContextListener to accept a configuration file location. Modified FileConfigurationMonitor
+        to monitor files configured that way. Fixed other reconfiguration related bugs. Tested in JBoss and
+        Tomcat.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-76_RewriteAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_of_the_reference.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-76_RewriteAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_of_the_reference.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82d73108c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-76_RewriteAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_of_the_reference.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-76" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-76"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RewriteAppender was calling the stop method of the referenced appender causing the referenced appender's
+        manager to have its use count decremented too many times.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-77_RoutingAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_for_each_of_its.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-77_RoutingAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_for_each_of_its.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8654775a98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-77_RoutingAppender_was_calling_the_stop_method_for_each_of_its.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-77" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-77"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RoutingAppender was calling the stop method for each of its referenced Appenders and was calling
+        the stop method of the default Appender a second time. It will now only call the stop method of
+        Appenders it creates.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-78_LogFactoryImpl_setAttribute_in_the_Commons_Logging_bridge_go.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-78_LogFactoryImpl_setAttribute_in_the_Commons_Logging_bridge_go.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e16c827e15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-78_LogFactoryImpl_setAttribute_in_the_Commons_Logging_bridge_go.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-78" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-78"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">LogFactoryImpl.setAttribute in the Commons Logging bridge got a NullPointerException when passed a null value.
+        It will now remove the attribute.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-80_Allow_Log4j_2_to_be_used_as_the_implementation_with_SLF4J_an.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-80_Allow_Log4j_2_to_be_used_as_the_implementation_with_SLF4J_an.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a00c430284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-80_Allow_Log4j_2_to_be_used_as_the_implementation_with_SLF4J_an.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-80" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-80"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Oliver Lamy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow Log4j 2 to be used as the implementation with SLF4J and SLF4J's jcl-over-slf4j by adding filtering
+        to the log method in SLF4JLogger.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-81_PatternLayout_was_not_honoring_format_modifiers.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-81_PatternLayout_was_not_honoring_format_modifiers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ead7c55416
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-81_PatternLayout_was_not_honoring_format_modifiers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-81" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-81"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">PatternLayout was not honoring format modifiers.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-82_MarkerFilter_called_MarkerManager_getMarker_causing_the_Mark.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-82_MarkerFilter_called_MarkerManager_getMarker_causing_the_Mark.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..915677a3eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/LOG4J2-82_MarkerFilter_called_MarkerManager_getMarker_causing_the_Mark.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-82" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-82"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">MarkerFilter called MarkerManager.getMarker causing the Marker to be created during the processing of the
+        configuration. This prevents the application from creating the Marker with any parents. MarkerWrapper in
+        SLF4J-impl was getting a ClassCastException in instanceOf because the Marker isn't a MarkerWrapper.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Update_the_versions_of_SLF4J_and_Logback.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Update_the_versions_of_SLF4J_and_Logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f4ff03835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta1/Update_the_versions_of_SLF4J_and_Logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update the versions of SLF4J and Logback.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f70c21a8e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2012-10-07" version="2.0-beta2"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_getFormats_to_MultiformatMessage_and_allow_StructuredDat.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_getFormats_to_MultiformatMessage_and_allow_StructuredDat.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a1d4c6e2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_getFormats_to_MultiformatMessage_and_allow_StructuredDat.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add getFormats to MultiformatMessage and allow StructuredDataMessage to format as XML.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_support_for_ANSI_colors_by_adding_the_highlight_and_styl.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_support_for_ANSI_colors_by_adding_the_highlight_and_styl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b029503d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Add_support_for_ANSI_colors_by_adding_the_highlight_and_styl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for ANSI colors by adding the highlight and style pattern converters. Fix pattern
+        parsing to allow nested patterns.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Allow_the_status_logging_to_be_directed_to_stderr_or_to_a_fi.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Allow_the_status_logging_to_be_directed_to_stderr_or_to_a_fi.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b78848b264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Allow_the_status_logging_to_be_directed_to_stderr_or_to_a_fi.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow the status logging to be directed to stderr or to a file.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/DefaultConfiguration_was_not_starting_the_Console_Appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/DefaultConfiguration_was_not_starting_the_Console_Appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..04682c35d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/DefaultConfiguration_was_not_starting_the_Console_Appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">DefaultConfiguration was not starting the Console Appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-35_Add_interval_and_modulate_options_to_TimeBasedTriggeringPoli.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-35_Add_interval_and_modulate_options_to_TimeBasedTriggeringPoli.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27d339f829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-35_Add_interval_and_modulate_options_to_TimeBasedTriggeringPoli.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-35" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-35"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add interval and modulate options to TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy to allow more fine-grained control of
+        when file rolling should occur.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-58_Add_support_for_filtering_packages_from_stack_traces.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-58_Add_support_for_filtering_packages_from_stack_traces.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..02405b9209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-58_Add_support_for_filtering_packages_from_stack_traces.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-58" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-58"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for filtering packages from stack traces.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_system_property_disableThreadContextMap_is_set_puts_to.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_system_property_disableThreadContextMap_is_set_puts_to.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf5c7e7833
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_system_property_disableThreadContextMap_is_set_puts_to.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-83" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-83"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">If system property "disableThreadContextMap" is set puts to the ThreadContext will be ignored. If
+        system property "disableThreadContext" is set both puts and pushes will be ignored.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_the_ThreadContext_map_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contain.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_the_ThreadContext_map_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contain.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db2c70c26d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-83_If_the_ThreadContext_map_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contain.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-83" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-83"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">If the ThreadContext map is empty the LogEvent will contain a null value to reduce the overhead of creating
+        log events and in the size of the serialized object.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_system_property_disableThreadContextStack_is_set_pushes.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_system_property_disableThreadContextStack_is_set_pushes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01c127d21b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_system_property_disableThreadContextStack_is_set_pushes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-84" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-84"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">If system property "disableThreadContextStack" is set pushes to the ThreadContext will be ignored. If
+        system property "disableThreadContext" is set both puts and pushes will be ignored.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_the_ThreadContext_stack_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contai.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_the_ThreadContext_stack_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contai.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e21a394f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-84_If_the_ThreadContext_stack_is_empty_the_LogEvent_will_contai.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-84" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-84"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">If the ThreadContext stack is empty the LogEvent will contain a null value to reduce the overhead of
+        creating log events and in the size of the serialized object. Changed the ThreadContext stack to use
+        a custom stack interface instead of java.util.Stack as that class is overly heavy. This change will
+        cause an API incompatibility.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-88_Many_logging_methods_in_AbstractLogger_were_set_to_an_incorr.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-88_Many_logging_methods_in_AbstractLogger_were_set_to_an_incorr.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec45c1c201
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-88_Many_logging_methods_in_AbstractLogger_were_set_to_an_incorr.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-88" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-88"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Many logging methods in AbstractLogger were set to an incorrect logging level. catching was
+        using the THROWING marker and was set to debug instead of error.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-90_Add_documentation_on_client_vs_server_mode_to_performance_pa.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-90_Add_documentation_on_client_vs_server_mode_to_performance_pa.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..435d72fa58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-90_Add_documentation_on_client_vs_server_mode_to_performance_pa.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-90" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-90"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add documentation on client vs server mode to performance page.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-91_Log4j_1_2_adapter_s_Category_class_was_missing_3_log_methods.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-91_Log4j_1_2_adapter_s_Category_class_was_missing_3_log_methods.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0448cf157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-91_Log4j_1_2_adapter_s_Category_class_was_missing_3_log_methods.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-91" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-91"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Log4j 1.2 adapter's Category class was missing 3 log methods.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-92_Converted_DynamicThresholdFilter_to_use_KeyValuePair_Fixed.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-92_Converted_DynamicThresholdFilter_to_use_KeyValuePair_Fixed.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48a6308ea5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/LOG4J2-92_Converted_DynamicThresholdFilter_to_use_KeyValuePair_Fixed.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-92" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-92"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Converted DynamicThresholdFilter to use KeyValuePair. Fixed bugs in the Map-based filters
+        to allow declaration of multiple values for a key to match the documentation.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Made_ParameterizedMessage_StringFormattedMessage_and_Thread.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Made_ParameterizedMessage_StringFormattedMessage_and_Thread.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07f5a14577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Made_ParameterizedMessage_StringFormattedMessage_and_Thread.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Made ParameterizedMessage, StringFormattedMessage and ThreadDumpMessage immutable. LocalizedMessage is
+        immutable except that it will be updated with the logger name when it is added to the LogEvent.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Move_variable_substitution_from_PatternLayout_to_appropriate.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Move_variable_substitution_from_PatternLayout_to_appropriate.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6304ce4725
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta2/Move_variable_substitution_from_PatternLayout_to_appropriate.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Move variable substitution from PatternLayout to appropriate converters to improve performance.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..61eefe97f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2012-11-11" version="2.0-beta3"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Avoid_NPE_when_duplicate_LoggerContextFactorys_are_present.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Avoid_NPE_when_duplicate_LoggerContextFactorys_are_present.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..707403250f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Avoid_NPE_when_duplicate_LoggerContextFactorys_are_present.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Avoid NPE when duplicate LoggerContextFactorys are present. Allow factories to specify a weight to allow
+        real implementations to outrank test implementations. Provide a simple default LoggerContextFactory.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Created_combined_jar_to_combine_API_and_Core_contents_for_us.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Created_combined_jar_to_combine_API_and_Core_contents_for_us.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..190c576839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Created_combined_jar_to_combine_API_and_Core_contents_for_us.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Created combined jar to combine API and Core contents for users who only want the Log4j implementation.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-101_A_NullPointerException_would_occur_if_no_format_value_was_pa.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-101_A_NullPointerException_would_occur_if_no_format_value_was_pa.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..878a9a5c1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-101_A_NullPointerException_would_occur_if_no_format_value_was_pa.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-101" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-101"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Emanuele Colombo"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">A NullPointerException would occur if no format value was passed to the SyslogAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-102_The_Facility_value_was_being_improperly_calculated.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-102_The_Facility_value_was_being_improperly_calculated.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abda3e5bc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-102_The_Facility_value_was_being_improperly_calculated.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-102" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-102"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Emanuele Colombo"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">The Facility value was being improperly calculated.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-103_The_LogEvent_was_wrapping_a_ThrowableProxy_with_another_Thro.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-103_The_LogEvent_was_wrapping_a_ThrowableProxy_with_another_Thro.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69416c72d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-103_The_LogEvent_was_wrapping_a_ThrowableProxy_with_another_Thro.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-103" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-103"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Das Archive"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">The LogEvent was wrapping a ThrowableProxy with another ThrowableProxy when deserializing.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-104_Convert_LogManager_binding_to_use_regular_java_properties.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-104_Convert_LogManager_binding_to_use_regular_java_properties.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ac39012d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-104_Convert_LogManager_binding_to_use_regular_java_properties.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-104" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-104"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Convert LogManager binding to use "regular" java properties instead of XML properties to work around a
+        bug in Oracle's xmlparserv2 jar.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-105_Add_ability_to_customize_the_names_of_the_Levels_in_the_Leve.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-105_Add_ability_to_customize_the_names_of_the_Levels_in_the_Leve.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18cf28f179
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-105_Add_ability_to_customize_the_names_of_the_Levels_in_the_Leve.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-105" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-105"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add ability to customize the names of the Levels in the LevelPatternConverter.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-107_PatternParser_was_not_properly_handling_adjacent_nested_opti.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-107_PatternParser_was_not_properly_handling_adjacent_nested_opti.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b6d7d1558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-107_PatternParser_was_not_properly_handling_adjacent_nested_opti.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-107" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-107"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">PatternParser was not properly handling adjacent nested options</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-108_Fix_NullPointerException_in_ClassLoaderContextSelector_when.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-108_Fix_NullPointerException_in_ClassLoaderContextSelector_when.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..efa007bced
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-108_Fix_NullPointerException_in_ClassLoaderContextSelector_when.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-108" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-108"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix NullPointerException in ClassLoaderContextSelector when no class is returned from
+        the SecurityManager.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-28_Added_PropertiesRewritePolicy_and_ability_to_define_properti.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-28_Added_PropertiesRewritePolicy_and_ability_to_define_properti.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1394ccc65e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-28_Added_PropertiesRewritePolicy_and_ability_to_define_properti.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-28" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-28"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added PropertiesRewritePolicy and ability to define properties on a Logger.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-29_Added_font_and_fontSize_parameters_to_HTMLLayout_Replace_ne.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-29_Added_font_and_fontSize_parameters_to_HTMLLayout_Replace_ne.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a88b95e4f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-29_Added_font_and_fontSize_parameters_to_HTMLLayout_Replace_ne.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-29" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-29"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added font and fontSize parameters to HTMLLayout. Replace newlines in message with br tag.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-55_Added_ability_to_configure_from_an_InputSource.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-55_Added_ability_to_configure_from_an_InputSource.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..44cae61a92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-55_Added_ability_to_configure_from_an_InputSource.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-55" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-55"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added ability to configure from an InputSource.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-85_Add_ThreadContext_push_String_format_Object_args.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-85_Add_ThreadContext_push_String_format_Object_args.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea8988ddec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-85_Add_ThreadContext_push_String_format_Object_args.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-85" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-85"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add ThreadContext.push(String format, Object... args)</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-87_Build_pdf_of_user_s_guide.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-87_Build_pdf_of_user_s_guide.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd92892c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-87_Build_pdf_of_user_s_guide.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-87" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-87"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Build pdf of user's guide.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-94_Interpolator_was_not_stripping_Lookup_key_separator_when_try.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-94_Interpolator_was_not_stripping_Lookup_key_separator_when_try.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e659708bf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-94_Interpolator_was_not_stripping_Lookup_key_separator_when_try.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-94" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-94"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Denis Treskunov"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Interpolator was not stripping Lookup key separator when trying to locate the default value for a variable.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-95_Add_support_for_loading_plugins_inside_the_OSGi_bundle.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-95_Add_support_for_loading_plugins_inside_the_OSGi_bundle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f497759749
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-95_Add_support_for_loading_plugins_inside_the_OSGi_bundle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-95" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-95"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for loading plugins inside the OSGi bundle.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-97_Added_several_missing_classes_and_methods_for_Log4j_1_x_comp.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-97_Added_several_missing_classes_and_methods_for_Log4j_1_x_comp.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fbf76aec01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-97_Added_several_missing_classes_and_methods_for_Log4j_1_x_comp.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-97" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-97"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added several missing classes and methods for Log4j 1.x compatibility.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-99_MapRewritePolicy_had_an_extra_call_to_putAll_that_caused_upd.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-99_MapRewritePolicy_had_an_extra_call_to_putAll_that_caused_upd.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5bd835ccc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/LOG4J2-99_MapRewritePolicy_had_an_extra_call_to_putAll_that_caused_upd.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-99" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-99"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Das Archive"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">MapRewritePolicy had an extra call to putAll that caused updates to behave like adds.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Log4j_1_2_Category_forcedLog_was_wrapping_the_message_with_a.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Log4j_1_2_Category_forcedLog_was_wrapping_the_message_with_a.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3b04fb928
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta3/Log4j_1_2_Category_forcedLog_was_wrapping_the_message_with_a.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Log4j 1.2 Category.forcedLog was wrapping the message with an ObjectMessage even if the parameter was an
+        ObjectMessage.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f1d28de942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2013-01-28" version="2.0-beta4"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Add_MessageFormatMessage_and_FormattedMessage.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Add_MessageFormatMessage_and_FormattedMessage.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e86c7c8b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Add_MessageFormatMessage_and_FormattedMessage.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add MessageFormatMessage and FormattedMessage.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Flume_Appender_samples.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Flume_Appender_samples.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..01c87f400a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Flume_Appender_samples.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added Flume Appender samples.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Log4j_2_to_SLF4J_adapter.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Log4j_2_to_SLF4J_adapter.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1a6613f3ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_Log4j_2_to_SLF4J_adapter.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added Log4j 2 to SLF4J adapter.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_hostName_and_contextName_to_property_map.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_hostName_and_contextName_to_property_map.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..576f16571c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Added_hostName_and_contextName_to_property_map.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added hostName and contextName to property map.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Allow_FlumeAvroManager_to_initialize_even_if_it_cannot_conne.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Allow_FlumeAvroManager_to_initialize_even_if_it_cannot_conne.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6dfa1b9cc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/Allow_FlumeAvroManager_to_initialize_even_if_it_cannot_conne.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow FlumeAvroManager to initialize even if it cannot connect to an agent.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-110_Renamed_log4j12_api_to_log4j_1_2_api.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-110_Renamed_log4j12_api_to_log4j_1_2_api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f1c5cf14db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-110_Renamed_log4j12_api_to_log4j_1_2_api.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-110" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-110"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Renamed log4j12-api to log4j-1.2-api.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-111_Enhanced_javadoc_copyright_statement.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-111_Enhanced_javadoc_copyright_statement.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3225cae63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-111_Enhanced_javadoc_copyright_statement.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-111" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-111"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Enhanced javadoc copyright statement.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-113_StructuredDataFilter_createFilter_was_annotated_with_PluginA.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-113_StructuredDataFilter_createFilter_was_annotated_with_PluginA.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a61d9f919
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-113_StructuredDataFilter_createFilter_was_annotated_with_PluginA.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-113" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-113"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">StructuredDataFilter createFilter was annotated with PluginAttr instead of PluginElement for the
+        KeyValuePairs.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-114_StructuredDataMessage_was_validating_the_length_of_the_value.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-114_StructuredDataMessage_was_validating_the_length_of_the_value.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42986b339f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-114_StructuredDataMessage_was_validating_the_length_of_the_value.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-114" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-114"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Arkin Yetis"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">StructuredDataMessage was validating the length of the values in the event Map instead of the lengths
+        of the keys.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-115_ThreadContext_Map_elements_with_null_values_are_now_ignored.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-115_ThreadContext_Map_elements_with_null_values_are_now_ignored.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59ff059f13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-115_ThreadContext_Map_elements_with_null_values_are_now_ignored.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-115" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-115"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">ThreadContext Map elements with null values are now ignored when constructing a Flume event and in the
+        RFC5424 Layout.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-116_File_renaming_was_using_the_wrong_date_value_Enhanced_Defau.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-116_File_renaming_was_using_the_wrong_date_value_Enhanced_Defau.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6c927ad77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-116_File_renaming_was_using_the_wrong_date_value_Enhanced_Defau.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-116" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-116"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">File renaming was using the wrong date value. Enhanced DefaultRolloverStrategy to store newest files in
+        highest index as well as lowest.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-119_A_broken_socket_connection_would_cause_the_TCPSocketManager.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-119_A_broken_socket_connection_would_cause_the_TCPSocketManager.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a84df238a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-119_A_broken_socket_connection_would_cause_the_TCPSocketManager.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-119" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-119"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">A broken socket connection would cause the TCPSocketManager to continuously reconnect.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-120_TCPSocketManager_would_fail_if_the_initial_connection_could.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-120_TCPSocketManager_would_fail_if_the_initial_connection_could.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..13aff8171c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-120_TCPSocketManager_would_fail_if_the_initial_connection_could.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-120" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-120"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">TCPSocketManager would fail if the initial connection could not be established.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-122_Add_unit_test_to_verify_exceptions_are_thrown_when_the_socke.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-122_Add_unit_test_to_verify_exceptions_are_thrown_when_the_socke.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e6339f0fc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-122_Add_unit_test_to_verify_exceptions_are_thrown_when_the_socke.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-122" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-122"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add unit test to verify exceptions are thrown when the socket connection fails.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-123_The_example_for_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_incorrect.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-123_The_example_for_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_incorrect.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a9e36df10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-123_The_example_for_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_incorrect.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-123" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-123"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Olivier Lamy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">The example for ThreadContextMapFilter was incorrect.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-125_JMSQueue_and_JMSTopic_Appenders_did_not_allow_name_to_be_spe.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-125_JMSQueue_and_JMSTopic_Appenders_did_not_allow_name_to_be_spe.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3faf0ab3f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-125_JMSQueue_and_JMSTopic_Appenders_did_not_allow_name_to_be_spe.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-125" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-125"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">JMSQueue and JMSTopic Appenders did not allow name to be specified.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-126_Allow_JMS_appenders_to_recover_if_the_queue_or_topic_is_unav.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-126_Allow_JMS_appenders_to_recover_if_the_queue_or_topic_is_unav.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2eeb84582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-126_Allow_JMS_appenders_to_recover_if_the_queue_or_topic_is_unav.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-126" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-126"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow JMS appenders to recover if the queue or topic is unavailable.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-127_AbstractLogger_methods_were_not_passing_Markers_to_the_isEna.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-127_AbstractLogger_methods_were_not_passing_Markers_to_the_isEna.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd83ae2d10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-127_AbstractLogger_methods_were_not_passing_Markers_to_the_isEna.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-127" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-127"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">AbstractLogger methods were not passing Markers to the isEnabled methods.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-128_Add_follow_attribute_to_Console_Appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-128_Add_follow_attribute_to_Console_Appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c0bf6a67f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-128_Add_follow_attribute_to_Console_Appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-128" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-128"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add follow attribute to Console Appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-129_RoutingAppender_was_only_creating_a_single_appender_for_the.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-129_RoutingAppender_was_only_creating_a_single_appender_for_the.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de42b904ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-129_RoutingAppender_was_only_creating_a_single_appender_for_the.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-129" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-129"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RoutingAppender was only creating a single appender for the default Route.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-130_PatternLayout_should_format_throwables_without_requiring_a_c.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-130_PatternLayout_should_format_throwables_without_requiring_a_c.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6017f8d97a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-130_PatternLayout_should_format_throwables_without_requiring_a_c.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-130" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-130"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">PatternLayout should format throwables without requiring a converter.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-131_Add_SMTPAppender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-131_Add_SMTPAppender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..52b9ffaeb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-131_Add_SMTPAppender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-131" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-131"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Scott Severtson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add SMTPAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-132_AbstractLogger_catching_Throwable_checks_for_DEBUG_level_bu.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-132_AbstractLogger_catching_Throwable_checks_for_DEBUG_level_bu.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f36052a87d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-132_AbstractLogger_catching_Throwable_checks_for_DEBUG_level_bu.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-132" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-132"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">AbstractLogger.catching(Throwable) checks for DEBUG level but logs at ERROR level.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-133_Allow_custom_message_creation_via_a_message_factory.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-133_Allow_custom_message_creation_via_a_message_factory.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3544c1e07f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-133_Allow_custom_message_creation_via_a_message_factory.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-133" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-133"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow custom message creation via a message factory.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-134_Use_red_white_blue_and_so_on_in_the_console_appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-134_Use_red_white_blue_and_so_on_in_the_console_appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c14fd6d2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-134_Use_red_white_blue_and_so_on_in_the_console_appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-134" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-134"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Use %red, %white, %blue, and so on in the console appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-135_BaseConfiguration_does_not_close_the_first_appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-135_BaseConfiguration_does_not_close_the_first_appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8f31eda99a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-135_BaseConfiguration_does_not_close_the_first_appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-135" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-135"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <author name="Ingo Feltes"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">BaseConfiguration does not close the first appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-136_Allow_newlines_to_be_escaped_in_Syslog_and_RFC5424_layouts.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-136_Allow_newlines_to_be_escaped_in_Syslog_and_RFC5424_layouts.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0829f479f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-136_Allow_newlines_to_be_escaped_in_Syslog_and_RFC5424_layouts.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-136" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-136"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Scott Severtson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow newlines to be escaped in Syslog and RFC5424 layouts. Allow Throwables to be included in
+        the output from RFC5424Layout.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-137_Fix_hang_in_Dumbster_SMTP_test_server.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-137_Fix_hang_in_Dumbster_SMTP_test_server.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..91c82325b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-137_Fix_hang_in_Dumbster_SMTP_test_server.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-137" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-137"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix hang in Dumbster SMTP test server.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-139_Fix_null_pointer_exception_in_SocketAppender_if_no_protocol.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-139_Fix_null_pointer_exception_in_SocketAppender_if_no_protocol.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92d0695e4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-139_Fix_null_pointer_exception_in_SocketAppender_if_no_protocol.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-139" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-139"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix null pointer exception in SocketAppender if no protocol is specified. The protocol will default
+        to TCP for the SocketAppender and UDP for the SyslogAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-140_Typo_in_documentation_of_SocketAppender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-140_Typo_in_documentation_of_SocketAppender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a3e1d504c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-140_Typo_in_documentation_of_SocketAppender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-140" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-140"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <author name="Joern Huxhorn"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Typo in documentation of SocketAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-142_Serialized_LogEvents_were_not_reset_in_the_output_stream_cau.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-142_Serialized_LogEvents_were_not_reset_in_the_output_stream_cau.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6bb7702d0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-142_Serialized_LogEvents_were_not_reset_in_the_output_stream_cau.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-142" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-142"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Serialized LogEvents were not reset in the output stream causing them to deserialize incorrectly.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-143_MessagePatternConverter_now_returns_null_if_the_log_messag.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-143_MessagePatternConverter_now_returns_null_if_the_log_messag.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e449df4601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-143_MessagePatternConverter_now_returns_null_if_the_log_messag.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-143" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-143"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">MessagePatternConverter now returns "null" if the log message is null.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-144_NullPointerException_in_RFC5424Layout.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-144_NullPointerException_in_RFC5424Layout.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..09c757ebf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-144_NullPointerException_in_RFC5424Layout.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-144" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-144"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">NullPointerException in RFC5424Layout.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-145_Add_missing_serial_version_IDs.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-145_Add_missing_serial_version_IDs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d20e8fe03e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-145_Add_missing_serial_version_IDs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-145" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-145"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add missing serial version IDs.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-147_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_matching_on_the_key_instead_of_th.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-147_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_matching_on_the_key_instead_of_th.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17399164c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-147_ThreadContextMapFilter_was_matching_on_the_key_instead_of_th.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-147" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-147"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="William Burns"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">ThreadContextMapFilter was matching on the key instead of the value of the key.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-149_SMTPAppender_will_only_cache_filtered_events.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-149_SMTPAppender_will_only_cache_filtered_events.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e27055fd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-149_SMTPAppender_will_only_cache_filtered_events.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-149" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-149"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Scott Severtson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">SMTPAppender will only cache filtered events.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-150_Convert_all_System_getProperty_calls_to_use_PropertiesUtil_t.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-150_Convert_all_System_getProperty_calls_to_use_PropertiesUtil_t.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54cd2bd85c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-150_Convert_all_System_getProperty_calls_to_use_PropertiesUtil_t.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-150" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-150"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Convert all System.getProperty calls to use PropertiesUtil to suppress SecurityExceptions.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-152_RollingFileAppender_s_FileRenameAction_was_throwing_a_NullPo.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-152_RollingFileAppender_s_FileRenameAction_was_throwing_a_NullPo.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..76e600e036
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-152_RollingFileAppender_s_FileRenameAction_was_throwing_a_NullPo.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-152" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-152"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RollingFileAppender's FileRenameAction was throwing a NullPointerException if no directory was specified
+        on the target file name.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-156_LocalizedMessageTest_fails_on_linux_system.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-156_LocalizedMessageTest_fails_on_linux_system.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16ed892734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta4/LOG4J2-156_LocalizedMessageTest_fails_on_linux_system.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-156" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-156"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <author name="Andreas Born"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">LocalizedMessageTest fails on linux system.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3525f86f44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2013-04-20" version="2.0-beta5"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/Added_FlumePersistentManager_which_writes_to_BerkeleyDB_and.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/Added_FlumePersistentManager_which_writes_to_BerkeleyDB_and.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc323eed01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/Added_FlumePersistentManager_which_writes_to_BerkeleyDB_and.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added FlumePersistentManager which writes to BerkeleyDB and then writes to Flume asynchronously.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-151_Allow_Logger_and_LoggerContext_to_be_subclassed.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-151_Allow_Logger_and_LoggerContext_to_be_subclassed.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7aa3019953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-151_Allow_Logger_and_LoggerContext_to_be_subclassed.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-151" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-151"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow Logger and LoggerContext to be subclassed.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-153_Added_ability_to_include_or_exclude_location_information.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-153_Added_ability_to_include_or_exclude_location_information.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..485729d172
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-153_Added_ability_to_include_or_exclude_location_information.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-153" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-153"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Added ability to include or exclude location information.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-155_Expose_file_appender_configuration_details_via_an_advertisem.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-155_Expose_file_appender_configuration_details_via_an_advertisem.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ea06d0077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-155_Expose_file_appender_configuration_details_via_an_advertisem.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-155" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-155"/>
+  <author id="sdeboy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Expose file appender configuration details via an advertisement mechanism.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-157_Allowed_Loggers_access_to_the_properties_in_the_LoggerConfig.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-157_Allowed_Loggers_access_to_the_properties_in_the_LoggerConfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e9ea389150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-157_Allowed_Loggers_access_to_the_properties_in_the_LoggerConfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-157" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-157"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allowed Loggers access to the properties in the LoggerConfig.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-158_Add_RFC_5424_compliant_escaping_rules_to_RFC5424Layout.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-158_Add_RFC_5424_compliant_escaping_rules_to_RFC5424Layout.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d69006cf33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-158_Add_RFC_5424_compliant_escaping_rules_to_RFC5424Layout.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-158" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-158"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Scott Severtson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add RFC 5424 compliant escaping rules to RFC5424Layout.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-159_Add_Fragment_Host_to_MANIFEST_MF_for_log4j_core.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-159_Add_Fragment_Host_to_MANIFEST_MF_for_log4j_core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea5b059504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-159_Add_Fragment_Host_to_MANIFEST_MF_for_log4j_core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-159" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-159"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Jan Winter"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add Fragment-Host to MANIFEST.MF for log4j-core.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-160_Move_Throwable_pattern_converter_options_processing_to_Throw.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-160_Move_Throwable_pattern_converter_options_processing_to_Throw.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..865bfa444c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-160_Move_Throwable_pattern_converter_options_processing_to_Throw.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-160" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-160"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Joanne Polsky"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Move Throwable pattern converter options processing to ThrowableFormatOptions class.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-161_Modify_ClassLoaderContextSelector_to_use_the_first_ClassLoad.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-161_Modify_ClassLoaderContextSelector_to_use_the_first_ClassLoad.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc6e3b8d3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-161_Modify_ClassLoaderContextSelector_to_use_the_first_ClassLoad.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-161" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-161"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Modify ClassLoaderContextSelector to use the first ClassLoader in the child parent hierarchy that
+        has a Context with a configuration to allow JSPs to use the WebApp's context and configuration.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-163_Add_support_for_asynchronous_loggers.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-163_Add_support_for_asynchronous_loggers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d062262c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-163_Add_support_for_asynchronous_loggers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-163" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-163"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for asynchronous loggers.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-164_Add_methods_is_setEndOfBatch_to_LogEvent.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-164_Add_methods_is_setEndOfBatch_to_LogEvent.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3093a910cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-164_Add_methods_is_setEndOfBatch_to_LogEvent.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-164" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-164"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add methods is/setEndOfBatch to LogEvent.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-167_Configurator_throws_a_ClassCastException_if_LogManager_retur.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-167_Configurator_throws_a_ClassCastException_if_LogManager_retur.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66515c7c2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-167_Configurator_throws_a_ClassCastException_if_LogManager_retur.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-167" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-167"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Configurator throws a ClassCastException if LogManager returns a SimpleLoggerContext.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-169_ConfigurationFactory_was_adding_factories_on_every_call.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-169_ConfigurationFactory_was_adding_factories_on_every_call.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4fa042eae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-169_ConfigurationFactory_was_adding_factories_on_every_call.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-169" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-169"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">ConfigurationFactory was adding factories on every call.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-175_Plugin_cache_should_be_reset_when_addPackages_is_called.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-175_Plugin_cache_should_be_reset_when_addPackages_is_called.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e778acc0ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-175_Plugin_cache_should_be_reset_when_addPackages_is_called.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-175" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-175"/>
+  <author id="sdeboy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Plugin cache should be reset when addPackages is called.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-176_Avoid_IllegalArgumentException_in_AsynchAppender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-176_Avoid_IllegalArgumentException_in_AsynchAppender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f7925a7ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-176_Avoid_IllegalArgumentException_in_AsynchAppender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-176" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-176"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Avoid IllegalArgumentException in AsynchAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-177_Fix_NullPointerException_in_DatagramOutputStream_when_flush.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-177_Fix_NullPointerException_in_DatagramOutputStream_when_flush.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..77b4ca10be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-177_Fix_NullPointerException_in_DatagramOutputStream_when_flush.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-177" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-177"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix NullPointerException in DatagramOutputStream when flush is called from multiple threads.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-179_Add_Logger_interface_APIs_to_log_at_given_levels.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-179_Add_Logger_interface_APIs_to_log_at_given_levels.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc39e7d1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-179_Add_Logger_interface_APIs_to_log_at_given_levels.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-179" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-179"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add Logger interface APIs to log at given levels.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-181_OutputStreamManager_now_adds_the_layout_header_whenever_the.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-181_OutputStreamManager_now_adds_the_layout_header_whenever_the.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b96f32b79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-181_OutputStreamManager_now_adds_the_layout_header_whenever_the.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-181" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-181"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">OutputStreamManager now adds the layout header whenever the OutputStream is set.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-187_Add_tag_library.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-187_Add_tag_library.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6bab28e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-187_Add_tag_library.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-187" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-187"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Nick Williams"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add tag library.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-188_AppenderRefs_on_AsynchAppender_didn_t_support_the_level_and.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-188_AppenderRefs_on_AsynchAppender_didn_t_support_the_level_and.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f56082dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-188_AppenderRefs_on_AsynchAppender_didn_t_support_the_level_and.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-188" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-188"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Werner"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">AppenderRefs on AsynchAppender didn't support the level and filter elements.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-189_The_blocking_parameter_did_not_work_properly_on_AsynchAppend.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-189_The_blocking_parameter_did_not_work_properly_on_AsynchAppend.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53555f6096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-189_The_blocking_parameter_did_not_work_properly_on_AsynchAppend.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-189" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-189"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Werner"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">The blocking parameter did not work properly on AsynchAppender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-190_BaseConfiguration_addLoggerAppender_saved_appender_using_the.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-190_BaseConfiguration_addLoggerAppender_saved_appender_using_the.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b41bc9de08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-190_BaseConfiguration_addLoggerAppender_saved_appender_using_the.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-190" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-190"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Werner"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">BaseConfiguration addLoggerAppender saved appender using the Logger name.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-193_RollingFastFileAppender_in_log4j_async_did_not_roll_over.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-193_RollingFastFileAppender_in_log4j_async_did_not_roll_over.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eba6dba5d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-193_RollingFastFileAppender_in_log4j_async_did_not_roll_over.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-193" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-193"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RollingFastFileAppender (in log4j-async) did not roll over.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-194_ThrowableFormatOptionsTest_failed_on_Windows_due_to_CR_LF_is.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-194_ThrowableFormatOptionsTest_failed_on_Windows_due_to_CR_LF_is.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..041372dda8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-194_ThrowableFormatOptionsTest_failed_on_Windows_due_to_CR_LF_is.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-194" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-194"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">ThrowableFormatOptionsTest failed on Windows due to CR/LF issue.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-195_Unit_tests_now_create_files_in_the_target_directory.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-195_Unit_tests_now_create_files_in_the_target_directory.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3eb0294fd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-195_Unit_tests_now_create_files_in_the_target_directory.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-195" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-195"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Unit tests now create files in the target directory.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-196_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-196_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e7f10d90b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-196_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-196" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-196"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-198_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-198_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0208f412b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-198_FlumeAvroManager_now_uses_Flume_RPCClient.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-198" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-198"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">FlumeAvroManager now uses Flume RPCClient.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-199_Highlight_subprojects_in_sub_navigation.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-199_Highlight_subprojects_in_sub_navigation.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f92d48b829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-199_Highlight_subprojects_in_sub_navigation.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-199" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-199"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Highlight subprojects in sub-navigation.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-200_LoggerContext_method_renamed_to_removeFilter_from_removeFile.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-200_LoggerContext_method_renamed_to_removeFilter_from_removeFile.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9371bd5357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-200_LoggerContext_method_renamed_to_removeFilter_from_removeFile.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-200" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-200"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">LoggerContext method renamed to removeFilter from removeFiler.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-205_Fix_deadlock_in_SocketAppender_Added_option_to_not_wait_for.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-205_Fix_deadlock_in_SocketAppender_Added_option_to_not_wait_for.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..263f8252f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-205_Fix_deadlock_in_SocketAppender_Added_option_to_not_wait_for.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-205" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-205"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix deadlock in SocketAppender. Added option to not wait for socket reconnect.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Add_JMX_support.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Add_JMX_support.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c207b9692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Add_JMX_support.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-207" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-207"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add JMX support.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Use_the_Maven_group_ID_org_apache_logging_log4j_for_all_arti.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Use_the_Maven_group_ID_org_apache_logging_log4j_for_all_arti.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b2d72fc78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-207_Use_the_Maven_group_ID_org_apache_logging_log4j_for_all_arti.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-207" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-207"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Use the Maven group ID org.apache.logging.log4j for all artifacts.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-208_Move_async_subproject_into_core.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-208_Move_async_subproject_into_core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aeaf20fe50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-208_Move_async_subproject_into_core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-208" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-208"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Move async subproject into core.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-210_MapMessage_was_not_enclosing_key_value_in_quotes_when_genera.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-210_MapMessage_was_not_enclosing_key_value_in_quotes_when_genera.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6230f8dd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-210_MapMessage_was_not_enclosing_key_value_in_quotes_when_genera.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-210" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-210"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Arkin Yetis"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">MapMessage was not enclosing key value in quotes when generating XML.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-211_Removing_extra_spaces_in_entry_and_exit_method_output.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-211_Removing_extra_spaces_in_entry_and_exit_method_output.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40cd565252
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-211_Removing_extra_spaces_in_entry_and_exit_method_output.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-211" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-211"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Nick Williams"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Removing extra spaces in entry and exit method output.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Call_LoggerContext_stop_when_the_application_is_shutdown.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Call_LoggerContext_stop_when_the_application_is_shutdown.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4d2b47aff2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Call_LoggerContext_stop_when_the_application_is_shutdown.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-212" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-212"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Call LoggerContext.stop when the application is shutdown.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Loggers_without_a_had_no_parent_logger.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Loggers_without_a_had_no_parent_logger.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..566e1878e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-212_Loggers_without_a_had_no_parent_logger.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-212" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-212"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Loggers without a "." had no parent logger.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-214_Async_documentation_update.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-214_Async_documentation_update.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..447d18d08f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta5/LOG4J2-214_Async_documentation_update.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-214" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-214"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Async documentation update.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b9e8061913
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2013-05-05" version="2.0-beta6"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-159_Use_OSGi_version_format_in_Fragment_Host.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-159_Use_OSGi_version_format_in_Fragment_Host.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72559498f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-159_Use_OSGi_version_format_in_Fragment_Host.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-159" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-159"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Use OSGi version format in Fragment-Host</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-192_Add_support_for_interpolating_Environment_variables_when_pro.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-192_Add_support_for_interpolating_Environment_variables_when_pro.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..352e4f21e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-192_Add_support_for_interpolating_Environment_variables_when_pro.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-192" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-192"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for interpolating Environment variables when processing the configuration.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-201_Renamed_Plugin_annotation_attribute_from_type_to_category.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-201_Renamed_Plugin_annotation_attribute_from_type_to_category.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc8d057034
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-201_Renamed_Plugin_annotation_attribute_from_type_to_category.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-201" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-201"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Renamed Plugin annotation attribute from "type" to "category".</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-215_Various_small_documentation_fixes.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-215_Various_small_documentation_fixes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1335f1c80d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-215_Various_small_documentation_fixes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-215" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-215"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Various small documentation fixes.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-217_Ensure_PluginManager_streams_are_always_closed.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-217_Ensure_PluginManager_streams_are_always_closed.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d56246aa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-217_Ensure_PluginManager_streams_are_always_closed.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-217" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-217"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <author name="Fabien Sanglard"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Ensure PluginManager streams are always closed.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-219_Fix_install_default_root_logger_if_not_configured_this_is.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-219_Fix_install_default_root_logger_if_not_configured_this_is.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d889728a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-219_Fix_install_default_root_logger_if_not_configured_this_is.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-219" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-219"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <author name="Peter DePasquale"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix: install default root logger if not configured (this is unchanged),
+        but make sure to include configured named loggers. Clarified documentation.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-221_Remove_hundreds_of_compiler_warnings.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-221_Remove_hundreds_of_compiler_warnings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ca0cec59b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-221_Remove_hundreds_of_compiler_warnings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-221" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-221"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Nick Williams"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Remove hundreds of compiler warnings.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-222_Disruptor_will_now_shut_down_during_Tomcat_shutdown.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-222_Disruptor_will_now_shut_down_during_Tomcat_shutdown.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c7ea7810bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-222_Disruptor_will_now_shut_down_during_Tomcat_shutdown.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-222" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-222"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Steven Yang"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Disruptor will now shut down during Tomcat shutdown.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-223_Fix_LoggerContext_start_and_stop_to_eliminate_IllegalStateEx.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-223_Fix_LoggerContext_start_and_stop_to_eliminate_IllegalStateEx.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3037daaf55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-223_Fix_LoggerContext_start_and_stop_to_eliminate_IllegalStateEx.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-223" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-223"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix LoggerContext start and stop to eliminate IllegalStateException and NoClassDefFound errors.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-224_The_FlumeAppender_failed_to_start_if_the_Flume_RPCClient_cou.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-224_The_FlumeAppender_failed_to_start_if_the_Flume_RPCClient_cou.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..969a5cc158
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-224_The_FlumeAppender_failed_to_start_if_the_Flume_RPCClient_cou.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-224" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-224"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">The FlumeAppender failed to start if the Flume RPCClient could not connect to any Flume agents.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-225_Documentation_updates_to_clarify_use_and_impact_of_location.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-225_Documentation_updates_to_clarify_use_and_impact_of_location.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1e57c81dde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-225_Documentation_updates_to_clarify_use_and_impact_of_location.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-225" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-225"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Documentation updates to clarify use and impact of location in pattern layouts.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-230_Improved_error_reporting_when_misconfigured.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-230_Improved_error_reporting_when_misconfigured.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf0333e531
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-230_Improved_error_reporting_when_misconfigured.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-230" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-230"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <author name="Wojciech Zaręba"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Improved error reporting when misconfigured.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-231_Logger_getParent_was_not_returning_the_correct_Logger.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-231_Logger_getParent_was_not_returning_the_correct_Logger.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..521a3de4f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-231_Logger_getParent_was_not_returning_the_correct_Logger.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-231" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-231"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Logger.getParent() was not returning the correct Logger.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-233_Fixed_link_to_log4j_user_mailing_list.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-233_Fixed_link_to_log4j_user_mailing_list.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..90047b725e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-233_Fixed_link_to_log4j_user_mailing_list.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-233" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-233"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fixed link to log4j-user mailing list.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-234_RegexFilter_threw_a_NullPointerException_when_used_as_a_cont.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-234_RegexFilter_threw_a_NullPointerException_when_used_as_a_cont.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9fb654c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-234_RegexFilter_threw_a_NullPointerException_when_used_as_a_cont.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-234" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-234"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">RegexFilter threw a NullPointerException when used as a context-wide filter.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-235_Removed_dependency_on_tools_jar_from_core_module_made_jcons.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-235_Removed_dependency_on_tools_jar_from_core_module_made_jcons.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30211108f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-235_Removed_dependency_on_tools_jar_from_core_module_made_jcons.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-235" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-235"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <author name="Sebastian Oerding"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Removed dependency on tools jar from core module, made jconsole dependency optional.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-237_Moved_JMX_Client_GUI_classes_into_separate_jmx_gui_submodule.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-237_Moved_JMX_Client_GUI_classes_into_separate_jmx_gui_submodule.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3020203496
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/LOG4J2-237_Moved_JMX_Client_GUI_classes_into_separate_jmx_gui_submodule.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-237" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-237"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Moved JMX Client GUI classes into separate jmx-gui submodule.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Moved_Clock_interface_to_package_org_apache_logging_log4j_co.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Moved_Clock_interface_to_package_org_apache_logging_log4j_co.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5aa038bea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Moved_Clock_interface_to_package_org_apache_logging_log4j_co.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Moved Clock interface to package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.helpers.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Removed_CheckStyle_false_positives_for_NewlineAtEndOfFile_an.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Removed_CheckStyle_false_positives_for_NewlineAtEndOfFile_an.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..46653b5e29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Removed_CheckStyle_false_positives_for_NewlineAtEndOfFile_an.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Removed CheckStyle false positives for NewlineAtEndOfFile and whitespace following '*' at end of line in javadoc.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Renamed_AsynchAppender_to_AsyncAppender_Plugin_name_became.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Renamed_AsynchAppender_to_AsyncAppender_Plugin_name_became.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19261f20be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta6/Renamed_AsynchAppender_to_AsyncAppender_Plugin_name_became.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Renamed AsynchAppender to AsyncAppender. Plugin name became Async (was Asynch).</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..436955484d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2013-06-01" version="2.0-beta7"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-10_Break_up_core_into_multiple_osgi_jars.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-10_Break_up_core_into_multiple_osgi_jars.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53d97af224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-10_Break_up_core_into_multiple_osgi_jars.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-10" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-10"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Timothy Ward"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Break up core into multiple osgi jars.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-154_Improve_ThreadContext_performance_with_copy_on_write_map_and.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-154_Improve_ThreadContext_performance_with_copy_on_write_map_and.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..76b4457302
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-154_Improve_ThreadContext_performance_with_copy_on_write_map_and.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-154" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-154"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Improve ThreadContext performance with copy-on-write map and stack.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-223_Remove_LoggerContext_when_LoggerContext_is_stopped.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-223_Remove_LoggerContext_when_LoggerContext_is_stopped.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..501a8f110a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-223_Remove_LoggerContext_when_LoggerContext_is_stopped.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-223" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-223"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Remove LoggerContext when LoggerContext is stopped.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-228_UDP_now_sends_one_event_per_packet.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-228_UDP_now_sends_one_event_per_packet.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..571c69fd6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-228_UDP_now_sends_one_event_per_packet.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-228" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-228"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">UDP now sends one event per packet.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-229_New_JDBC_JPA_and_NoSQL_database_Appenders.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-229_New_JDBC_JPA_and_NoSQL_database_Appenders.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de98468b7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-229_New_JDBC_JPA_and_NoSQL_database_Appenders.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-229" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-229"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <author name="Nick Williams"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">New JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL database Appenders.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-242_StringFormattedMessage_and_MessageFormatMessage_now_will_acc.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-242_StringFormattedMessage_and_MessageFormatMessage_now_will_acc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82345e4fa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-242_StringFormattedMessage_and_MessageFormatMessage_now_will_acc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-242" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-242"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">StringFormattedMessage and MessageFormatMessage now will accept a Throwable as their last argument and
+        pass it on.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-243_Allow_custom_LogEventFactories.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-243_Allow_custom_LogEventFactories.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ae4eea5b9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-243_Allow_custom_LogEventFactories.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-243" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-243"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow custom LogEventFactories.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-244_Rewrite_Appender_was_ignoring_filters_on_referenced_appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-244_Rewrite_Appender_was_ignoring_filters_on_referenced_appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c9a3aedeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-244_Rewrite_Appender_was_ignoring_filters_on_referenced_appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-244" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-244"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Rewrite Appender was ignoring filters on referenced appenders.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-245_Avoid_EmptyStack_exception_if_getCallerClass_and_SecurityMan.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-245_Avoid_EmptyStack_exception_if_getCallerClass_and_SecurityMan.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..60c79270f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-245_Avoid_EmptyStack_exception_if_getCallerClass_and_SecurityMan.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-245" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-245"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Avoid EmptyStack exception if getCallerClass and SecurityManager are not available.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-246_Data_buffer_is_reset_in_finally_clause.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-246_Data_buffer_is_reset_in_finally_clause.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ba86060da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-246_Data_buffer_is_reset_in_finally_clause.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-246" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-246"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Data buffer is reset in finally clause.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-247_SocketServer_isActive_should_be_volatile_because_it_is_acces.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-247_SocketServer_isActive_should_be_volatile_because_it_is_acces.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69f0b7e2d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-247_SocketServer_isActive_should_be_volatile_because_it_is_acces.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-247" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-247"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">SocketServer.isActive should be volatile because it is accessed from different threads.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-249_Allow_context_parameters_in_Log4jContextListener_to_include.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-249_Allow_context_parameters_in_Log4jContextListener_to_include.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..565ba169f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-249_Allow_context_parameters_in_Log4jContextListener_to_include.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-249" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-249"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Allow context parameters in Log4jContextListener to include properties.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-251_Provide_configuration_information_location_content_type_c.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-251_Provide_configuration_information_location_content_type_c.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41f841583d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-251_Provide_configuration_information_location_content_type_c.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="added">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-251" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-251"/>
+  <author id="sdeboy"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Provide configuration information (location, content type, content if possible) via a registered Advertiser.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-254_Mark_OutputStream_in_OutputStreamManager_as_volatile_Mark_h.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-254_Mark_OutputStream_in_OutputStreamManager_as_volatile_Mark_h.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..345dd8e29d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-254_Mark_OutputStream_in_OutputStreamManager_as_volatile_Mark_h.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-254" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-254"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Mark OutputStream in OutputStreamManager as volatile. Mark header and footer as final.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-255_Multi_byte_character_strings_are_now_assumed_to_be_in_the_pl.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-255_Multi_byte_character_strings_are_now_assumed_to_be_in_the_pl.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e56b2e271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-255_Multi_byte_character_strings_are_now_assumed_to_be_in_the_pl.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-255" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-255"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Multi-byte character strings are now assumed to be in the platform default encoding, not UTF-8.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-257_XML_layout_ignores_charset_for_the_XML_processing_instructio.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-257_XML_layout_ignores_charset_for_the_XML_processing_instructio.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3eded603b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-257_XML_layout_ignores_charset_for_the_XML_processing_instructio.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-257" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-257"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">XML layout ignores charset for the XML processing instruction's encoding attribute.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-258_HTML_layout_does_not_output_meta_element_for_charset.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-258_HTML_layout_does_not_output_meta_element_for_charset.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..697a0e47e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-258_HTML_layout_does_not_output_meta_element_for_charset.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-258" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-258"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">HTML layout does not output meta element for charset.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-259_HTML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-259_HTML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37b7403ad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-259_HTML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-259" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-259"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">HTML layout does not specify charset in content type.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-260_XML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-260_XML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0015dcdc24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-260_XML_layout_does_not_specify_charset_in_content_type.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-260" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-260"/>
+  <author id="ggregory"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">XML layout does not specify charset in content type.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-261_Add_missing_not_to_error_message.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-261_Add_missing_not_to_error_message.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7c362257c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-261_Add_missing_not_to_error_message.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-261" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-261"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Edward Sargisson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add missing "not" to error message.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-262_Add_support_for_interceptors_in_the_embedded_Flume_Appender.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-262_Add_support_for_interceptors_in_the_embedded_Flume_Appender.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56d9561d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-262_Add_support_for_interceptors_in_the_embedded_Flume_Appender.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-262" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-262"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Edward Sargisson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add support for interceptors in the embedded Flume Appender.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-263_Do_not_allow_a_charset_on_RFC5424Layout_use_UTF_8.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-263_Do_not_allow_a_charset_on_RFC5424Layout_use_UTF_8.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..60b96c6419
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-263_Do_not_allow_a_charset_on_RFC5424Layout_use_UTF_8.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-263" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-263"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Do not allow a charset on RFC5424Layout - use UTF-8.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-268_Add_guid_to_FlumeEvent_headers_for_non_Map_Messages.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-268_Add_guid_to_FlumeEvent_headers_for_non_Map_Messages.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..11ed822614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-268_Add_guid_to_FlumeEvent_headers_for_non_Map_Messages.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-268" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-268"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Add guid to FlumeEvent headers for non-Map Messages.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-269_Use_transaction_when_batch_size_is_1.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-269_Use_transaction_when_batch_size_is_1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19c04dc292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/LOG4J2-269_Use_transaction_when_batch_size_is_1.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-269" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-269"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Use transaction when batch size is 1.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/Method_name_changes_in_interface_org_apache_logging_log4j_sp.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/Method_name_changes_in_interface_org_apache_logging_log4j_sp.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f230b924f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta7/Method_name_changes_in_interface_org_apache_logging_log4j_sp.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Method name changes in interface org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.ThreadContextMap:
+        getContext() to getCopy(), get() to getImmutableMapOrNull().</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.changelog.adoc.ftl b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.changelog.adoc.ftl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7dfdf788f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.changelog.adoc.ftl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+////
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+////
+
+= ${release.version}<#if release.date?has_content> (${release.date})</#if>
+
+<#include "../.changelog-entries.adoc.ftl">
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.release.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.release.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5418a8669b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/.release.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<release date="2013-07-10" version="2.0-beta8"/>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-139_Fix_NullPointerException_regression_due_to_fix_for_LOG4J2_2.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-139_Fix_NullPointerException_regression_due_to_fix_for_LOG4J2_2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c797861cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-139_Fix_NullPointerException_regression_due_to_fix_for_LOG4J2_2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-139" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-139"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Fix NullPointerException (regression due to fix for LOG4J2-228)</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-168_Include_arbitrary_message_fields_in_RFC_5424_structured_data.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-168_Include_arbitrary_message_fields_in_RFC_5424_structured_data.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2087d12cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-168_Include_arbitrary_message_fields_in_RFC_5424_structured_data.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-168" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-168"/>
+  <author id="rgoers"/>
+  <author name="Scott Severtson"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Include arbitrary message fields in RFC-5424 structured data.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-267_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-267_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8624448d3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-267_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-267" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-267"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works correctly if append=false.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-270_Improved_logging_initialization_in_Servlet_containers_espec.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-270_Improved_logging_initialization_in_Servlet_containers_espec.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b7aa271d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-270_Improved_logging_initialization_in_Servlet_containers_espec.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-270" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-270"/>
+  <author id="nickwilliams"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Improved logging initialization in Servlet containers, especially Servlet 3.0 and newer where Log4j now
+        initializes and deinitializes automatically with no deployment descriptor configuration.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-271_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-271_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed150ca3b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-271_FastRollingFileAppender_with_TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy_now_w.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="fixed">
+  <issue id="LOG4J2-271" link="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-271"/>
+  <author id="rpopma"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">FastRollingFileAppender with TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy now works correctly if append=false.</description>
+</entry>
diff --git a/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-273_Wasted_work_in_XMLLayout_toSerializable.xml b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-273_Wasted_work_in_XMLLayout_toSerializable.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3c350a09c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/2.0-beta8/LOG4J2-273_Wasted_work_in_XMLLayout_toSerializable.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<entry type="changed">
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