NLog/NLog v4.6-rc3 on GitHub

Changes since RC2

Oops, again a breaking change with the previous NLog 4.6 RC

Database target: dropped UseRawValue option on parameters (introduced in NLog 4.6 RC1), introduced ${myRenderer:noRawValue=true} (@snakefoot)

Note, there are no breaking changes with NLog 4.5.11. Semver is important!

Database target: support for DbType for parameters (including SqlDbType) - #2363 + #2899 + #3085 + #3091 (@hubo0831, @ObikeDev, @sorvis, @304NotModified, @snakefoot)

Added support for constant variable in level attributes - #2709 (level, minlevel, etc) (@304NotModified)
Added defaultAction option for - #2848 (@304NotModified)
Rules now support multiple '*' and '?' wildcards and in any position - #3098 (@beppemarazzi)
Added Support ${currentdir}, ${basedir}, ${tempdir} and environment variables in internalLogFile value - #3031 + #3092 (@snakefoot)

Added XmlLayout - Render LogEventInfo.Properties as XML - #2670 + #3014 (@snakefoot)
Added ${db-null} layout renderer - #2849 (@304NotModified)
Added New ${substring}, ${left} & ${right} layoutrenderer wrappers - #2907 (@304NotModified)
Added ${HostName} Layout Renderer for full computer DNS name - #3071 (@amitsaha)
Added ${AppSetting} Layout Renderer (app.config + web.config) moved from NLog.Extended for NetFramework - #3053 (@snakefoot)
Added noRawValue layout wrapper - #3165 (@snakefoot)

AsyncTargetWrapper: added LogEventDropped + LogEventQueueGrow events - #2610 (@Pomoinytskyi)
NetworkTarget - Support for SSL & TLS - #2678 (@snakefoot)
JsonLayout: support for System.Dynamic-objects - #2902 (@304NotModified)
AsyncTaskTarget: Added support for BatchSize and RetryCount - #2909 (@snakefoot)
ColoredConsoleTarget - Added EnableAnsiOutput option (VS Code support) - #3018 (@jp7677 + @snakefoot)
Added IncludeGdc property in JsonLayout - #3050 (@casperc89)
TargetWithContext - Support for PropertyType using IRawValue-interface - #3060 (@snakefoot)

JsonLayout includes Type-property when rendering Exception-object - #2989 (@snakefoot)
LoggingConfigurationParser - Extracted from XmlLoggingConfiguration - #2891 (Prepare for appsettings.json) (@snakefoot)
Added support for complex objects in MDLC and NDLC on Net45 - #2910 (@snakefoot)
PerformanceCounter - Improve behavior for CPU usage calculation - #2918 (@snakefoot)
TargetWithContext - Include all properties even when duplicate names - #2941 (@snakefoot)
Updated resharper annotations for better validation - #2974 (@imanushin)
Improve default reflection support on .NET Core Native - #2979 (@snakefoot)
EventLogTarget with better support for MaximumKilobytes configuration - #3017 (@Coriolanuss)
Added Xamarin PreserveAttribute for the entire Assembly to improve AOT-linking - #3039 (@snakefoot)
Create snupkg packages and use portable PDB - #3045 (@snakefoot)
KeepFileOpen + ConcurrentWrites on Xamarin + UWP - #3079 - #3048 (@304NotModified)
WebService Target allow custom override of SoapAction-header for Soap11 - #3082 + #3100 (@AlexeyRokhin)
Various refactorings (15 pull requests) (@beppemarazzi, @304NotModified, @snakefoot)

AsyncTargetWrapper using ConcurrentQueue for .NET Core 2 for better thread-concurrency - #2650 (@snakefoot)
AsyncTargetWrapper - TimeToSleepBetweenBatches changed default to 1ms - #2890 (@snakefoot)
InternalLogger performance optimization when LogLevel.Off - #2897 (@snakefoot)
InternalLogger LogLevel changes to LogLevel.Off by default unless being used. - #2935 (@snakefoot)
CsvLayout - Allocation optimizations and optional skip quoting-check for individual columns. - #2934 (@snakefoot)
MappedDiagnosticsLogicalContext - SetScoped with IReadOnlyList (Prepare for MEL BeginScope) - #2949 (@snakefoot)
IRenderString-interface to improve performance for Layout with single LayoutRenderer - #2973 (@snakefoot)
StringBuilderPool - Reduce memory overhead until required - #3103 (@snakefoot)

LibLog Breaking change

damianh/LibLog#181 - Sub-components using LibLog ver. 5.0.3 (or newer) will now use MDLC + NDLC (Instead of MDC + NDC) when detecting application is using NLog ver. 4.6. Make sure to update NLog.config to match this change. Make sure that all sub-components have upgraded to LibLog ver. 5.0.3 (or newer) if they make use of OpenNestedContext or OpenMappedContext.