NLog 4.7.3

NLog is a logging platform for .NET with rich log routing and management capabilities.
NLog supports traditional logging, structured logging and the combination of both.

Supported platforms:

- .NET Framework 3.5, 4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 & 4.8
- .NET Standard 1.3+ and 2.0+;
- .NET Framework 4 client profile
- Xamarin Android, Xamarin iOs
- UWP
- Windows Phone 8
- Silverlight 4 and 5
- Mono 4

For ASP.NET Core, check: NLog.Web.AspNetCore

Install-Package NLog -Version 4.7.3

dotnet add package NLog --version 4.7.3

<PackageReference Include="NLog" Version="4.7.3" />

paket add NLog --version 4.7.3

Release Notes

## Features
- Allow to change the RuleName of a LoggingRule (#4017) (@304NotModified)
- logging of  AggregrateException.Data to prevent it from losing it after Flatten call (#3974) (@chaos0307)

## Bugfixes
- LocalIpAddressLayoutRenderer - IsDnsEligible and PrefixOrigin throws PlatformNotSupportedException on Linux (#4011) (@snakefoot)

## Improvements
-  ObjectReflectionCache - Reduce noise from properties that throws exceptions like Stream.ReadTimeout (#4057) (@snakefoot)
-  MessageTemplates - Changed Literal.Skip to be Int32 to support message templates longer than short.MaxValue (#4053) (@snakefoot)
-  ObjectReflectionCache - Skip reflection for Stream objects (#4043) (@snakefoot)
-  LogFactory Shutdown is public so it can be used from NLogLoggerProvider (#3999) (@snakefoot)
-  Editor config with File header template (#3972) (@304NotModified)

## Performance
-  FileTarget - Skip delegate capture in GetFileCreationTimeSource. Fallback only necessary when appender has been closed. (#4058) (@snakefoot)
-  ObjectReflectionCache - Reduce initial memory allocation until needed (#4021) (@snakefoot)
-  FilteringTargetWrapper - Remove delegate allocation (#3977) (@snakefoot)       
     
Full changelog: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

For all config options and platform support, check https://nlog-project.org/config/

Dependencies

• .NETFramework 3.5

  • No dependencies.

• .NETFramework 4.0 Client

  • No dependencies.

• .NETFramework 4.5

  • No dependencies.

• .NETStandard 1.3

  • Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions (>= 1.0.0)
  • NETStandard.Library (>= 1.6.0)
  • System.ComponentModel.Primitives (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Data.Common (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Diagnostics.StackTrace (>= 4.0.1)
  • System.Net.NameResolution (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.Net.Requests (>= 4.0.11)
  • System.Reflection.TypeExtensions (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Xml.XmlDocument (>= 4.0.1)

• .NETStandard 1.5

  • NETStandard.Library (>= 1.6.0)
  • System.ComponentModel.Primitives (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Data.Common (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Diagnostics.Process (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Diagnostics.StackTrace (>= 4.0.1)
  • System.Diagnostics.TraceSource (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.IO.FileSystem.Watcher (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.Net.NameResolution (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.Net.Requests (>= 4.0.11)
  • System.Reflection.TypeExtensions (>= 4.1.0)
  • System.Runtime.Loader (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.Threading.Thread (>= 4.0.0)
  • System.Xml.XmlDocument (>= 4.0.1)

• .NETStandard 2.0

  • No dependencies.

• MonoAndroid 4.4

  • No dependencies.

• Silverlight 4.0

  • No dependencies.

• Silverlight 5.0

  • No dependencies.

• WindowsPhone 8.0

  • No dependencies.

• Xamarin.iOS 1.0

  • No dependencies.

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