v2.1.0-rc1

This is the first release candidate for Loki4j v2.1.0. You can use it for evaluation and testing. Please don't hesitate to report any issues or regressions to the project's issue tracker.

New features

#338 Switch project to Java 17
#346 Apache HttpClient5 support (thanks to @zablotskaya)
#351 Upgrade Logback to 1.6.x

Misc

#335 Upgrade protobuf dependency to 4.33
#336 Upgrade JUnit from 4.13 to 6.0 (by @zablotskaya)
#337 Upgrade Gradle wrapper to 9.3.1
#340 Switch compatibility test from Java 24 to Java 25
#341 Recover tests after upgrading to JUnit6
#342 Upgrade protobuf dependency to 4.34 (by @herodotus-ecosystem)
#344 Switch integration test from Loki 3.6.4 to Loki 3.7.3
#345 Switch compatibility test from Java 21 to Java 26
#348 Dependencies upgraded
#349 Upgrade protobuf dependency to 4.35

Compatibility

This release contains breaking changes. You can track the progress on docs update here.