winsw/winsw v2.0.0

WinSW v2.0.0

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Improvements

• Provide the executable for .NET Framework 4.0. (#147)
  • With this binary patching of .exe.config is no longer required to get WinSW running on newer systems.
• Provide WinSW configuration file samples. (#170)
  • Samples are available within release packages
• Introduce the new WinSW Extension Engine. (#42)
• Add new SharedDirectoriesMapper extension. See the docs here. (#42)
• Add new RunawayProcessKiller extension. See the docs here. (#133)
• Migrate event logging to Apache log4net. (#145, #73 and others)
• Use FileStream#SafeFileHandle the deprecated FileStream#Handle in the CLI redirect mode. (#167)

Bug fixes

• Prevent CPU overutilization when waiting for the process to exit. (#135)
• Properly retrieve waithint, sleeptime, resetfailure, and stoptimeout options from XML configs with metadata before settings. (#175)
• Print warnings in the uninstall command when the service cannot be uninstalled immediately. (#165)
• Prevent failure when stoparguments are defined without stopexecutable in the XML file. (#170)
• Prevent failure during process termination if child processes cannot be retrieved due to the pending system shutdown. (#172)
• Security: Do not dump WinSW environment variables to the Event log. (#173)
• Do not propagate exceptions from Process.Kill() if the process actually exits. (#166)

Non-code changes

• Major documentation refactoring and update.
• Use GitHub Releases as a main release source.
  • Jenkins Maven repository is no longer the main release source
  • It will be periodically updated on-demand
• Introduce NuGet packaging and publishing.
  • Releases are being published on Nuget
• Maven releases now pick releases from GitHub Releases. The package version is guaranteed to be same as the assembly version. (#162)
• Introduce the CI/CD flow being hosted on AppVeyor. The project page is here.

Compatibility notes

• WinSW v2 is fully compatible with WinSW v1 in terms of the command-line interface and configuration files.
• Any behavior difference will be considered as a bug
• New features like WinSW extensions are disabled by default. They can be enabled via the configuration file.