Allow a HTMLLayout title to contain characters special to HTML (#513)

swebb2066 · web-flow · commit 4b7bde555ac1 · 2025-07-22T11:33:19.000+10:00
* Update change report
diff --git a/src/main/cpp/htmllayout.cpp b/src/main/cpp/htmllayout.cpp
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void HTMLLayout::appendHeader(LogString& output, Pool& p)
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_STR("<head>"));
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_EOL);
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_STR("<title>"));
-	output.append(m_priv->title);
+	Transform::appendEscapingTags(output, m_priv->title);
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_STR("</title>"));
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_EOL);
 	output.append(LOG4CXX_STR("<style type=\"text/css\">"));
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/change-report-gh.md b/src/site/markdown/change-report-gh.md
@@ -57,9 +57,15 @@ Release 1.5.0 includes the following new features:
    \[[#488](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/pull/488)\]
 * TelnetAppender can now deliver messages when the socket is in a TIME_WAIT state
    \[[#495](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/pull/495)\]
+* TelnetAppender can be restricted to specific network
+   \[[#498](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/pull/498)\]
 
 The following issues have been addressed:
 
+* HTML output was illformed when the title contained the special HTML characters
+   \[[#513](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/issues/513)\]
+* JSON output illformed when a message contained certain control characters
+   \[[#512](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/issues/512)\]
 * Undefined behaviour when reloading a configuration file after calling LogManager::shutdown
    \[[#504](https://github.com/apache/logging-log4cxx/issues/504)\]
 * Compilation error when using gcc on MacOS
