@peteriman this is a breaking change, as we just noticed this. it breaks things in Kubernetes e.g. when using a sidecar to read logs. (Even though it is configurable the defaults broke). So it probably should have been reserved for 7.X.

You are right. My mistake.

In hindsight, probably should have used 7.x.x instead to not break things for existing users who uses the default file permissions.

I have updated the changelog (7010a7d) to have a more indicative warning now we are unable to go back in time.

For whoever might be reading this, to workaround the breaking change:

1. Either run the other applications, that needs to read the log, using the same user account (due to 0o600), or
2. Manually specify the permission (such as 0o644) to be used through the mode options as listed in the fileAppender docs.