NLog/NLog v4.3.0

NLog 4.3

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Features

• Support Windows Phone 8, Xamarin Android and Xamarin iOS (beta)
• Consistent handling of exceptions (BEHAVIOUR CHANGE)
• Control of exception throwing for configuration errors
• API improvements
• Relative paths for fileTarget
• InternalLogger: write to System.Diagnostics.Trace
• Mail Target: Allow virtual paths for SMTP pickup
• EventTarget: option to set the max length of the message and action (discard, split, truncate)
• MethodCallTarget: allow optional parameters in called methods.
• ConsoleTarget: Regex cache is instead of compiled regex, for better memory usage. This is configurable.
• Database target: don't require "ProviderName" attribute when using <connectionStrings>
• RegistryLayout: Support for layouts, RegistryView (32, 64 bit) and all root key names (HKCU/HKLM etc)
• Allow to free CallContext in MappedDiagnosticsLogicalContext
• LogFactory: Add generic-type versions of GetLogger() and GetCurrentClassLogger()
• Added Logger.Swallow(Task task)
• Unused targets will be logged to the internal logger
• Config classes are now thread-safe.
• InternalLogger: improved logging of exceptions (analogous to normal Logger)
• More logging to the internal logger (e.g. Async wrapper and buffer wrapper)
• Added timestamp options for the internal logger.
• Autoload NLog.config in assets folder on Android

Bug fixes

Among others:

• ${callsite} works now for async methods!
• A lot of Filetarget bug fixes regarding with archiving, locking and concurrent writing.
  Most noticeable:
  • Use last-write-time for archive file name. This is far more stable.
    In the past there were some issues with unexpected archive filenames.
  • Fix: archiving won't work when a there is a date in the filename
  • Fix: archiving not working properly with AsyncWrapper
  • Fix: Footer for archiving
  • Fix: Crashes with relative path without ${basedir}
  • Fix: Archive files are never created when there are lot of write in log file
• NetworkTarget: fix possible deadlock
• Fix autoreload nlog.config with parent configs.
• WebServiceTarget: Fix HTTP GET protocol
• Bugfix: Internallogger creates folder, even when turned off
• Fix possible Nullref in ${variable}
• ${processtime}: incorrect milliseconds formatting
• ${processtime}: fix incorrect negative time (rounding issue)
• FileTarget: Fix writing log files to root dir
• Check for TimeToSleepBetweenBatches in AsyncWrapper

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