CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Current Version

v2.0.x

• New features
  • Full async support with CancellationToken throughout all logging methods
  • Structured logging with properties, correlation IDs, and JSON serialization via LogEntry class
  • Microsoft.Extensions.Logging integration with ILogger support and DI extensions
  • Thread-safe architecture with proper console color handling and race condition fixes
  • Integrated SyslogServer for end-to-end testing and development scenarios
  • Enhanced header formatting with 15+ parameterized variables for rich log context
• Performance reliability improvements
• Bugfixes and stability
• Additional testing
• New APIs and methods
  • LogEntryAsync() - Async structured logging
  • BeginStructuredLog() - Fluent structured logging builder
  • WithProperty() - Add structured properties to log entries
  • WithCorrelationId() - Add correlation tracking
  • WithSource() - Add source context identification
  • ToJson() - Serialize log entries to JSON format
• Enhanced header format variables including
  • {ts} - Timestamp (customizable format)
  • {host} - Machine/hostname
  • {thread} - Thread ID
  • {sev} - Severity level name
  • {level} - Severity level number (0-7)
  • {pid} - Process ID
  • {user} - Current username
  • {app} - Application/process name
  • {domain} - Application domain name
  • {cpu} - CPU core count
  • {mem} - Memory usage in MB
  • {uptime} - Process uptime (HH:mm:ss)
  • {correlation} - Correlation ID from log entry
  • {source} - Log source from log entry

Previous Versions

v1.3.2

• EnableColors property for console logging
• Expose Log API (thank you @dev-jan!)

v1.3.1

• Bugfix for file logging

v1.3.0

• Breaking changes
• Enumerations now part of the namespace and not nested under LoggingModule class
• Logging to file
• Configurable maximum message length
• Configuration exception logging severity (default: alert)

v1.2.1

• XML documentation

v1.1.x

• Simplified constructors
• Simplified methods
• Added IDisposable support
• Cleanup and fixes, minor refactoring

v1.0.x

• Initial release
• Bugfixes and stability