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		<title>Releases</title>
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		<section name="Release Change Logs">

				<p><a href="jira-report.html#a1.0-alpha1">JIRA change log</a></p>
        <p><a href="changes-report.html#a1.0-alpha1">Manual change log</a></p>

				<p>Apache Log4j 2 is not compatible with the previous versions. Please have the following in mind
				when upgrading to Log4j 2 in your project:</p>

				<ul>
					<li>Log4j 2.4 and greater requires Java 7, versions 2.0-alpha1 to 2.3 required Java 6.</li>
          <li>The XML configuration has been simplified and is not compatible with Log4j 1.x</li>
          <li>Configuration via property files is not supported.</li>
          <li>Configuration via JSON or YAML is supported.</li>
          <li>Although Log4j 2 is not directly compatible with Log4j 1.x a compatibility bridge
            has been provided to reduce the need to make coding changes.</li>
				</ul>

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