2.4.0 / 2024-06-08¶ ↑

Enhancements

• @ag4a fix the rails_compat to work with Rails 7 [PR #246]

Bug Fixes

• @bastelfreak adding license to the gemspec [PR #223]

• @olleolleolle dropping unused gemspec directives [PR #233]

2.3.1 / 2022-05-24¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• logging hangs on JRuby when the stdout appender is closed [PR #237]

• initialize the Logging framework when a Filter is created [PR #238]

2.3.0 / 2020-07-04¶ ↑

Enhancements

• all appender output is now synchronized [PR #219]

• renamed the ‘LogEvent#method` to no longer conflict with `Kernel#method` [PR #218]

• @bhuga (not the Fortnite star) added a ‘raise_errors` method for debugging [PR #203]

• thanks to @olleolleolle for keeping on top of Travis and Ruby versions

Bug Fixes

• conosle appenders can be reopened [PR #220]

• fixed a race condition in the rolling file appender [PR #216]

• fixed a race condition when opening log file destinations [PR #208 #217]

• @MikaelSmith fixed a race condition in Logger creation [PR #201]

• documentation bug fixes [PR #184 #185 #188 #194 #209]

2.2.2 / 2017-04-11¶ ↑

Enhancements

• limit the depth of nested exceptions [PR #167]

2.2.1 / 2017-04-09¶ ↑

Enhancements

• show exception ‘cause` if one exists [PR #165]

2.2.0 / 2017-03-09¶ ↑

Enhancements

• diagnostic context inheritance is now optional [PR #160]

• add support for setting a UTC offset [PR #157]

• setting a basepath for call tracing [PR #154]

Bug Fixes

• use thread-local variables for diagnostic contexts [PR #162]

• replace ‘Fixnum` with `Integer` [PR #161]

• fixed a race condition in the rolling file appender [PR #151]

Deprecations

• dropped Ruby 1.9 support

2.1.0 / 2016-03-13¶ ↑

Enhancements

• appender factories now fail explicitly on bad arguments [PR #117]

• console loggers (stdout, stderr) use ‘write` for compatibility [PR #127]

• allow whitespace in traced method names [PR #128]

• accessor methods for ‘backtrace` settings [PR #134]

• asynchronous writing from buffered appenders [PR #135]

• improve date format performance when outputting microseconds [PR #136]

• added some thread safety to log level setters [PR #137]

• use ‘write` everywhere instead of `syswrite` [PR #138]

Bug Fixes

• fixing encodings in tests [PR #116]

• fix Rails4 logger compatibility [PR #121]

• explicitly adding the MIT license [PR #123]

• update ‘object_id` format in inspect methods [PR #133]

• fixed Travis-CI tests

2.0.0 / 2015-03-28¶ ↑

Enhancements

• added event filtering via the Filter framework

• improvements to buffered logging

• code readability improvements around meta-programming

Bug Fixes

• fixed an ‘already initialized error`

• avoid unnecessary mutex-ing in logger lookup

Deprecations

• dropped Ruby 1.8 support

• removed logger consolidation

• removed YAML style configuration

• removed the Logging::Stats module

• removed the Hash#getopt method

• removed the Growl appender

• moved the Email appender to the logging-email plugin gem

1.8.2 / 2014-01-29¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Adding a ‘formatter` method for Rails 4 compatibility

1.8.1 / 2013-01-02¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Diagnostic context thread inheritance [issue #56]

• Fixing trace reporting in JRuby 1.7

1.8.0 / 2012-09-13¶ ↑

Enhancements

• Appenders handle string encodings [issue #46]

• Support for diagnostic contexts [issues #23, #32, #42]

• Enable JSON formatting of log message [issue #34]

Bug Fixes

• Fix clash with ActiveSupport autoloader (chewie) [issue #39]

1.7.2 / 2012-04-03¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Fixed segmentation fault on exit [issue #30]

• Fixed syswrite warning when IO contains unflushed data in buffer [issue #31]

• Added “mingw” to the list of Windows host versions

1.7.1 / 2012-03-05¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Fixed deprecated use of Config::* [issue #29]

1.7.0 / 2012-02-18¶ ↑

Enhancements

• Move appender factories [issue #28]

• ActionMail compatible options in the email appender [issue #27]

• Add TLS support to the email appender [issue #25]

• Refactoring appender shutdown [issue #20]

Bug Fixes

• File locking fails on windows using JRuby [issue #22]

1.6.2 / 2012-01-05¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Fix typo in the Readme [issue #14]

• Fix spelling in a variety of places [issue #15]

• Solaris does not have Syslog#LOG_PERROR defined [issue #17]

• Fix failing tests for Ruby 1.9.3 [issue #18]

• Check for RUBY_ENGINE for Ruby 1.8.7 [issue #19]

• Whitespace and ‘# EOF’ cleanup

• Support for Rubinious

1.6.1 / 2011-09-09¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Rails compatibility methods [issue #11]

• Blocked rolling file appender [issue #12]

1.6.0 / 2011-08-22¶ ↑

Enhancements

• Adding periodic flushing of buffered messages [issue #10]

• Accessor for a logger’s appenders [issue #9]

• Better support for capturing log messages in RSpec version 1 & 2

1.5.2 / 2011-07-07¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• Changing working directory breaks rolling file appenders [issue #8]

1.5.1 / 2011-06-03¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• IO streams cannot be buffered when using syswrite

• JRuby does not allow shared locks on write only file descriptors

• Fixing tests for JRuby 1.6.X

1.5.0 / 2011-03-22¶ ↑

Minor Enhancements

• removed mutexes in favor of IO#syswrite

• no round tripping through the buffer array when auto_flushing is true

• added a Proxy object that will log all methods called on it

• colorization of log messages

1.4.3 / 2010-05-31¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• rolling file appender calling “super” within a block [Sebastian Georgi]

1.4.2 / 2010-04-18¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• missing require for fileutils

1.4.1 / 2010-03-23¶ ↑

Bug Fixes

• flock(LOCK_UN) was causing errors on windows [issue 4]

1.4.0 / 2010-03-16¶ ↑

Minor Enhancements

• Compatibility with the Rack::CommonLogger

1.3.0 / 2009-12-18¶ ↑

Minor Enhancements

• Using copy/truncate semantics for a faster RollingFile appender

• Global reopen method for using Logging in forked environments

• RollingFile appender can use date stamps instead of numbers

1.2.3 / 2009-12-01¶ ↑

1 bug fix

- Using a reentrant mutex to avoid deadlock in some Rails applications

1.2.2 / 2009-08-18¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Created a reset method for the logging framework

1.2.1 / 2009-08-14¶ ↑

1 bug fix

- Using a bug-fix version of little-plugger

1.2.0 / 2009-08-14¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- Added a gem based plugin system
- LogEvent is now a struct (slightly faster)

1.1.4 / 2009-05-28¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Added a Logging.shutdown method to close out all appenders

1.1.3 / 2009-05-13¶ ↑

1 bug fix

- Fixing an alias bug on the JRuby platform

1.1.2 / 2009-05-05¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Added two new require methods to Kernel

1.1.1 / 2009-04-30¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Added a 'filename' method to the file appenders

1.1.0 / 2009-04-21¶ ↑

3 minor enhancements

- Added a "global" logger method
- Loggers can be consolidated on a per-namespace basis
- Added a precision to the logger name specifier in the pattern layout
  [addresses http://github.com/TwP/logging/issues#issue/1]

1.0.0 / 2009-04-17¶ ↑

2 major enhancements

- Refactored access to the appenders
- Created a much cleaner way to initialize the logging framework

3 minor enhancements

- Added a YAML layout option
- Added a JSON layout option
- Cration of an "examples" directory

1 bug fix

- Logging initialization happens implicitly when a logger, layout, or
  appender is created

0.9.8 / 2009-04-11¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- Adding a to_s method to the StringIo appender's StringIO object
- Added a Spec::LoggingHelper class that will capture log messages
  when using rspec style testing

0.9.7 / 2009-03-17¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Added a StringIO appender

1 bug fix

- Handling objects that cannot be dumped via YAML [Tim Galeckas]

0.9.6 / 2009-02-02¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- Ruby 1.9.1 compatability
- JRuby 1.1.5 compatability

0.9.5 / 2009-01-25¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- The pattern layout can output the current thread name
  if set using Thread.current[:name]         [valodzka]
- Added buffered logging to all IO based loggers
  (console, file, rolling file)

1 bug fix

- Uncaught TimeoutError in the e-mail appender

0.9.4 / 2008-10-04¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- Flag to suppress exception backtraces from being logged
- Cleaning up color codes on Growl output

4 bug fixes

- Child loggers were not being found in some cases
- RollingFileAppender fails to reopen the log file if
  the log file is deleted.
- Fixed a copy/paste error in the YAML configurator
- Bug in the configurator where a nil object was being used

0.9.3 / 2008-09-12¶ ↑

2 minor enhancement

- Added a class for tracking basic statistics
- Will use the 'fastthread' gem if availble

0.9.2 / 2008-09-03¶ ↑

2 bug fixes

- Properly generates logger names for anonymous classes and
  modules and meta-classes
- Fixed the rescue clause when 'turn' cannot be required

0.9.1 / 2008-08-14¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- added a method to show the logging configuration

2 bug fixes

- checking for sync method on the IO streams before calling
- fixed the internal logging levels

0.9.0 / 2008-07-16¶ ↑

2 minor enhancement

- Exceptions from appenders are captured and logged
- Internal logger for the Logging framework (disabled by default)
- Added a DSL configuration format (more readable than YAML)

1 bug fix

- Modules could not have their own logger instance

0.8.0 / 2008-07-02¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Setting the log level of a parent will cause this level to
  be propagated to the children

1 bug fix

- Fixed error with the e-mail appender and missing hostname

0.7.1 / 2008-02-25¶ ↑

1 minor enhancement

- Removed dependency on the Lockfile gem (brought the ruby
  file into the logging/stelan directory)

1 bug fix

- Fixed bug with age based rolling: was not multi-process safe

0.7.0 / 2008-02-12¶ ↑

1 major enhancement

- Rails compatibility
  * renamed Logger#add method to Logger#add_appenders
  * renamed Logger#remove method to Logger#remove_appenders
  * renamed Logger#clear method to Logger#clear_appenders
  * added a new Logger#add method that conforms to the calling
    semantics of the Ruby stdlib Logger

2 minor enhancements

- Speed improvements and test coverage
- Created a top-level Logging.init method that is used to
  define the default logging levels

1 bug fix

- Tweaked windows detection code

0.6.3 / 2008-02-08¶ ↑

2 minor enhancements

- YAML configuration now supports multiple keys -- i.e. development
  or production or whatever
- Reorganized a lot of files so that requiring files is cleaner and
  more deterministic

0.6.2 / 2008-02-06¶ ↑

2 bug fixes

- An extra e-mail was being pushed out when the e-mail
  appender was closed
- Created an at_exit handler to close all appenders

0.6.1 / 2008-01-01¶ ↑

1 bug fix

- Fixed include order to avoid double loading when testing

0.6.0 / 2007-12-26¶ ↑

• Using the new ‘getopt’ method for handling option hashes

• Rolling file appender is safe for multiple processes

• Added an e-mail appender from Jeremy Hinegardner

• Updated tests for the appenders

0.5.3 / 2007-12-08¶ ↑

• Fixed the quoting for messages sent to the growl appender

0.5.2 / 2007-11-28¶ ↑

• Updated the library to work with Ruby 1.9

• Fixed coalescing with the growl appender

0.5.1 / 2007-11-18¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug on Windows when attempting to load the syslog library

0.5.0 / 2007-11-18¶ ↑

• Added the ability to log via the syslog daemon

• Can send messages to the Growl notification system on Mac OS X

• The Growl appender can coalesce messages of the same title/priority

0.4.0 / 2007-03-21¶ ↑

• Added a microsecond flag to the Pattern layout

• All appenders write immediately upon receipt of a logging event

• Added a basic logging method that returns a logger object configured in the same manner as the standard Ruby logger

• Fixed a bug caused by nil log messages

0.3.1 / 2007-02-08¶ ↑

• Bugfix Release

0.3.0 / 2007-02-01¶ ↑

• Remove the ability to log multiple objects from a single log method call

0.2.0 / 2007-01-29¶ ↑

• The “once every four years” release

• Storage and retrieval of appenders by name

• YAML configuration support

• Rolling file appender

0.1.0 / 2007-01-12¶ ↑

• Birthday!