I have spent last couple months doing significant refactoring of NLog v2 code base with the goal to improve long-term maintainability, extensibility, usability and testability. During that process I discovered (with great help from FxCop) and decided to fix some design issues and align the codebase with .NET Design Guidelines. Fixing some issues required me to introduce some breaking changes which may impact applications using NLog v1 who want to migrate to NLog v2. This post explains the scope of the breaking changes to date and explains general principles I’m following during NLog 2 development. (more…)

NLog now has a blog section where you can track development progress and subscribe to RSS feed with news and comments from users.

Some pre-launch news have been retroactively added to mark some important milestones of NLog development.