is anyone else seeing slf4j output when using boot 2.8.0?

$ BOOT_VERSION=2.7.2 boot -P repl
nREPL server started on port 46677 on host 127.0.0.1 - 
REPL-y 0.3.7, nREPL 0.2.12
...

$ BOOT_VERSION=2.8.0 boot -P repl
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See  for further details.
nREPL server started on port 39471 on host 127.0.0.1 - 
REPL-y 0.3.7, nREPL 0.2.13
...

Log4j config file missing isn't it?

I faced this while trying log4j 2. I solved this by adding log4j2 to deps, adding logger config xml in the source folder root