It has been year+, community wise, this library looks entirely dead.  Many are confused on what version to use.  2.x and by extension logback 1.3 are incredibly stable.  However, a huge use case simply will never use the beta/alpha releases (ie spring boot) resulting in best usage of 2.x only to drop back to 1.x.  So please just release as is.  Its been nearly 2 years already with visibly next to no activity at all.  Effort to release as is is slim to none and would at least show this library is still active.