winsw/winsw v3.0.0-alpha.4

WinSW v3.0.0-alpha.4

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See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove runaway process killer (#440)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)
• Remove stopwait command (#589)
  Use stop w/o options instead.
• Remove testwait command (#589)
  Use test w/o options instead.
• Remove /p option (#589)
  Use <prompt> or --username/--password instead.
• Remove <waithint> (#602)
• Remove <sleeptime> (#602)
• Remove <argument>/<startargument>/<stopargument> (#610)
  Use <arguments>/<startarguments>/<stoparguments> instead.
• Make <delayedAutoStart>/<beeponshutdown>/<interactive> a boolean (#613)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557, #619)
• New command-line interface (#589, #623, #635)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595, #626)
• Add refresh command (#607, #623)
• Preshutdown support (#614)
• Add customize command (#615)
• Add dev ps command (#620)
• Send close messages to GUI applications (#625)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)
• Auto refresh (#648)
• Add dev list command (#672)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581, #673)
• Make <name> and <description> optional (#609)
• Set a default working directory for the wrapper (#616, #636)
• Ensure child processes are cleanup up (#618)
• Allow <stopexecutable> without <stoparguments> (#621)
• Reduce event log entries (#622)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix service stop logic (#426, #487, #597, #642, #643)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)
• Leave STDIN open (#611)

📦 Packaging changes

• Publish self-contained archives (#421)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.x (#587, #594, #608, #645)