2026-02-06 Release of logback version 1.5.28
• Appender names or appender references are no longer subject to variable substitution.
• Fixed issue with configurations with conditionals encompassing appenders. This was reported in issues/1016 reported by Sergey Sazonov.
• The element now admits a 'scan' attribute which can be used to override the 'scan' attribute in the element.
• Fixed NullPointerException thrown by VersionUtil.checkForVersionEquality method occurring with GraalVM Native Images. This issue was reported in issues/1014.
• A bit-wise identical binary of this version can be reproduced by building from source code at commit e7a1855 associated with the tag v_1.5.28. Release built using Java "21" 2023-10-17 LTS build 21.0.1.+12-LTS-29 under Linux Debian 11.6.