3.0.3-rc1

What's Changed

• Bumped NUnit to 4.2.2 by @FreeAndNil in #200
• Enable Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers by @FreeAndNil in #201
• File scoped namespaces and CA warnings fixed in examples by @FreeAndNil in #202
• Fix empty string received by .NET 8 users on Linux on userName by @gdziadkiewicz in #199
• Use raw strings for config files in unit tests by @FreeAndNil in #203
• Made RollOverRenameFiles virtual to allow compression etc. in derived classes by @FreeAndNil in #206 (solves #205 reported by @FerdinandStapenhorst)
• MDC was accidentally renamed into Mdc in #196 - this change was reverted
• NDC was accidentally renamed into Ndc in #196 - this change was reverted

New Contributors

• @gdziadkiewicz made their first contribution in #199

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.2...rc/3.0.3-rc1
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.3

3.0.3-preview.1

What's Changed

• bumped NUnit to 4.2.2 by @FreeAndNil in #200
• Enable Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.NetAnalyzers by @FreeAndNil in #201
• MDC was accidentally renamed into Mdc in #196 - this change was reverted
• NDC was accidentally renamed into Ndc in #196 - this change was reverted

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.2...rc/3.0.3-preview.1
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.3-preview.1

3.0.2

What's Changed

• #189 separate review instructions for log4net by @FreeAndNil in #190
• #194 (reported by @VianneyTremelo) fixed a bug in the Dispose-Logic of TelnetAppender by @FreeAndNil in #195
• more modern coding style by @FreeAndNil in #196
• #197 fix IndexOutOfRangeException when creating child loggers multithreaded by @FreeAndNil in #198

Known Issues

• MDC was accidentally renamed into Mdc in #196 - this will be reverted in 3.0.3
• NDC was accidentally renamed into Ndc in #196 - this will be reverted in 3.0.3

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.1...rel/3.0.2
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.2

3.0.2-preview.1

What's Changed

• #189 separate review instructions for log4net by @FreeAndNil in #190
• #194 ObjectDisposedException in TelnetAppender (3.0.1) (reported by @VianneyTremelo) - fixed by @FreeAndNil in #195

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.1...rc/3.0.2-preview.1
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.2-preview.1

3.0.1

What's Changed

• #176 added source link by @FreeAndNil
• #177 use ManagedThreadId for long running tasks (reported by @Audela-220) fixed in #180 by @FreeAndNil
• #181 automate version bumps by @FreeAndNil
• #183 Unable to set property [file] on object [log4net.Appender.FileAppender] (reported by @sc-mk and @geirg71) fixed in #184 by @FreeAndNil

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.0...rel/3.0.1
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.1

3.0.1-preview.2

What's Changed

• #183 Unable to set property [file] on object [log4net.Appender.FileAppender] (reported by @sc-mk and @geirg71) fixed in #184 by @FreeAndNil

Full Changelog: rc/3.0.1-preview.1...rc/3.0.1-preview.2
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.1-preview.2

3.0.1-preview.1

What's Changed

• #176 added source link by @FreeAndNil
• #177 use ManagedThreadId for long running tasks (reported by @Audela-220) fixed in #180 by @FreeAndNil
• #181 automate version bumps by @FreeAndNil

Full Changelog: rel/3.0.0...rc/3.0.1-preview.1
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.1-preview.1

3.0.0

Apache log4net 3.0.0 addresses the following issues:

Breaking Changes

Framework Support

Attention: Starting with 3.0.0 we only support the following target frameworks

• net462
• netstandard2.0

The reasoning for this change can be found in #111

Deleted obsolete API (#125)

• obsolete since 1.2.14 - 2015

  • log4net.Appender.BufferingAppenderSkeleton.OnlyFixPartialEventData and log4net.Appender.MemoryAppender.OnlyFixPartialEventData (you will need to change your config files from onlyFixPartialEventData value="true" to fix value="Partial")

  • log4net.Appender.ColoredConsoleAppender.ctor(ILayout)

  • log4net.Appender.ColoredConsoleAppender.ctor(ILayout, bool)

  • log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender.ctor(ILayout)

  • log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender.ctor(ILayout, bool)

  • log4net.Appender.DebugAppender.ctor(ILayout)

  • log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender.ctor(ILayout)

  • log4net.Appender.FileAppender.ctor(ILayout, string)

  • log4net.Appender.FileAppender.ctor(ILayout, string, bool)

  • log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender.LocationInfo

  • log4net.Appender.TextWriterAppender.ctor(ILayout, Stream)

  • log4net.Appender.TextWriterAppender.ctor(ILayout, TextWriter)

  • log4net.Appender.TraceAppender.ctor(ILayout)

  • log4net.Config.DOMConfigurator

  • log4net.Config.AliasDomainAttribute

  • log4net.Config.DomainAttribute

  • log4net.Config.DOMConfiguratorAttribute

  • log4net.Core.LoggerManager.GetLoggerRepository

  • log4net.Core.LoggerManager.CreateDomain

  • log4net.Core.LoggingEventData.TimeStamp

  • log4net.Core.LoggingEvent.GetExceptionStrRep

  • log4net.Core.LoggingEvent.FixVolatileData

  • log4net.LogManager.GetLoggerRepository

  • log4net.LogManager.CreateDomain

• obsolete since 2.0.6 - 2016
  • log4net.Util.SystemInfo.ProcessStartTime

Other changes

• dropped log4net.Appender.RemotingAppender (see #154 - Remove RemotingAppender)
• dropped log4net.Appender.NetSendAppender (see #158 - NetSendAppender removed)
• dropped support for legacy serialization for .netstandard (see #174 and #175)
• log4net.Config.AliasRepositoryAttribute is now sealed (#124)
• log4net.Config.RepositoryAttribute is now sealed (#124)
• log4net.Config.XmlConfiguratorAttribute is now sealed (#124)
• interface log4net.Appender.AppenderCollection.IAppenderCollectionEnumerator is now obsolete and must be replaced by IEnumerator<IAppender> (#124)
• log4net.Appender.MemoryAppender.m_eventsList (protected field) was changed from ArrayList to List<LoggingEvent> (#124)
  • for getting m_eventsList.SyncRoot you need to cast it: ((ICollection)m_eventsList).SyncRoot
• log4net.Repository.Hierarchy.Hierarchy.EmittedNoAppenderWarning is now internal (see #157)

Bugs

• Regression: Creating nested loggers in reverse order fails in 3.0.0-preview.1 (#156 by @FreeAndNil)
• System.NullReferenceException when comparing with a null Level (#169 by @FreeAndNil)
• ColoredConsoleAppender writes UTF-8 preamble to the console on initialization (#168 reported by @RoboBurned, fixed by @FreeAndNil)
• Culture-Specific String Comparisons Cause RollingFileAppender Failure in log4net on NET 5+ (#177 reported by @stianeklund)

Enhancements

• #111 (by @fluffynuts and @FreeAndNil)
• #124 (by @erikmav)
• #125 (by @erikmav)
• #127 (by @FreeAndNil)
• #109 (by @mobilebilly)

New Contributors

• @DanAtkinson made their first contribution in #133
• @mobilebilly made their first contribution in #164

A big thanks to @erikmav for the hard work regarding nullable annotations and moving to generic collections.

Full Changelog: rel/2.0.17...rel/3.0.0
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.0

3.0.0-preview.4

Apache log4net 3.0.0-preview.4 is probably the last preview of log4net 3.0.0 and addresses the following issues:

What's Changed

• dropped support for legacy serialization for .netstandard (see #174 and #175)

Full Changelog: rc/3.0.0-preview.3...rc/3.0.0-preview.4
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.0-preview.4

3.0.0-preview.3

Apache log4net 3.0.0-preview.3 is the third preview of log4net 3.0.0 and addresses the following issues:

What's Changed

• #109 fixed 'Fix dotnet (ie not netfx) test run' by @mobilebilly in #164
• #169 fixed NullReferenceException when comparing with a null Level by @FreeAndNil in #170
• #168 wrap encoding in ColoredConsoleAppender for skipping preamble by @FreeAndNil in #172

New Contributors

• @mobilebilly made their first contribution in #164

Full Changelog: rc/3.0.0-preview.2...rc/3.0.0-preview.3
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net/3.0.0-preview.3