Cherry-pick log4j updates into release/0.12

Original MRs: !176 (merged), !183 (merged), and !184 (merged)

(cherry picked from commit 9af46e34)

Part of the #19 (closed) series

added no-detached-pipeline label

assigned to @divido

enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for 8d14814e succeeds

mentioned in commit 9a07349e

merged