NLog 6.0 released

NLog v6 with the following major changes:

• Support Ahead-of-Time (AOT) builds without warnings
• Support Nullable references
• Support ReadOnlySpan to reduce memory allocations
• LogFactory supports FlushAsync and IDisposableAsync
• FileTarget removed support for ConcurrentWrites
• FileTarget refactored file-archive-logic with ArchiveSuffixFormat

NLog v6 reducing its footprint by extracting features into separate nuget-packages:

• NLog.Targets.AtomicFile - ConcurrentWrites using atomic file-append from operating system API.
• NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFile - Original FileTarget with ConcurrentWrites using global mutex from operating system API.
• NLog.Targets.GZipFile - EnableArchiveFileCompression using GZipStream for writing GZip compressed log-files.
• NLog.Targets.Mail - Depends on System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.
• NLog.Targets.Network - Depends on TCP and UDP Network Socket, and adds support for Syslog and Graylog.
• NLog.Targets.Trace - Depends on System.Diagnostics.TraceListener and System.Diagnostics.Trace.CorrelationManager.
• NLog.Targets.WebService - Depends on System.Net.Http.HttpClient.
• NLog.RegEx - Depends on System.Text.RegularExpressions which is a huge dependency for a logging library.

See also List of major changes in NLog v6 for more details.

Many other improvements

Full list of all changes: NLog 6.0 Pull Requests

• Breaking Changes
• Breaking Behavior Changes
• Features
• Improvements
• Performance

Comments and feedback are welcome.

Credits

Additional thanks to all contributers, since last major release:

• ana1250
• Pavan8374
• smnsht
• RomanSoloweow
• wadebaird
• hangy
• lavige777
• jokoyoski
• saltukkos
• nih0n
• michaelplavnik
• Aaronmsv
• ShadowDancer
• Orace
• tvogel-nid
• martinzding
• kurnakovv
• dance
• JohnVerheij