• (ms) Appender::File is now closing (or sysclosing) the file
  on file_close() instead of just undef'ing the handle.
  
• (ms) Added l4p-tmpl helper script to help whipping up a new
  log4perl configuration file.
  
• (ms) Fixed uninitialized warning on XML configuration files,
  reported by jbkilian on the sourceforge mailing list.
  
• (ms) Applied patch [RT 43426] by AFF aff@cpan.org to have
  appender_thresholds_adjust return number of appenders changed.
  
• (ms) [RT 34400] New :nostrict target which allows redefining a
  category within a Log4perl configuration file without error
  or even a warning.
  
• (ms) [RT 34401] Applied patch by Jae Gangemi, who fixed
  code references in @INC on Win32 systems.
  
• (ms) [RT 32259] Patternlayout now supports %R, which returns the
  number of milliseconds elapsed from last logging event to
  the current logging event (thanks to Emmanuel Rodriguez for
  the patch).
  
• (ms) [RT 30899] Color configuration and attribute support
  added to ScreenColoredLevels appender by Jason Kohles.
  
• (ms) [RT 28987] If UNIVERSAL is available, appender existence is
  now verified by checking can() on the appender's new()
  method (applied modified patch by Gabriel Berriz).