2026-05-12 - Release of SLF4J 2.0.18
• In the logViaLocationAwareLoggerAPI() method of slf4j-api/DefaultLoggingEventBuilder the first marker from the markerList is now passed to locationAwareLogger.log() instead of null.
• The renderLevel() method in slf4j-simple/SimpleLogger now uses CONFIG_PARAMS.warnLevelString for WARN instead of hardcoded "WARN". This issue was reported in issues/471.
• A bit-wise identical binary of this version can be reproduced by building from source code at commit 58b66c2 associated with the tag v_2.0.18. Release built using Java "21" 2023-10-17 LTS build 21.0.1.+12-LTS-29 under Linux Debian 11.6.