NLog 4.6.0-rc2

• .NETFramework 3.5

  • No dependencies.

• .NETFramework 4.0 Client

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• .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.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

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• Silverlight 5.0

  • No dependencies.

• WindowsPhone 8.0

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• Xamarin.iOS 1.0

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## Changes since RC1

### Breaking

Breaking changes since NLog 4.6 RC1, no breaking changes with 4.5.11

- #3131 DatabaseTarget - Removed logEvent-parameter from CreateDatabaseParameter (@snakefoot)
- #3138 Split XML layout to XMLELement and XmlElementBase (#3138) (@304NotModified)

### Features

- #3124 NetworkTarget - Added support for KeepAliveTimeSeconds (@snakefoot)
- #3129 ConfigSetting - Preregister so it can be accessed without extension registration (#3129) (@snakefoot)

### Improvements

- #3162 ContextProperty with IncludeEmptyValue means default value for ValueType (#3162) (@snakefoot)
- #3160 Refactor filetarget + target to reduce code complexity (@snakefoot)
- #3159 AppSettingLayoutRenderer - Include Item for NLog.Extended (@snakefoot)
- #3155 PlatformDetector - Introduced detection of MacOSX, and removed WindowsCE (@snakefoot)
- #3144 TryGetRawValue instead of GetRawValue (@304NotModified)
- #3141 AppSettingLayoutRenderer2 - Use Item instead of Name as it matches GDC + MDC + MDLC (#3141) (@snakefoot)
- #3121 All Hyperlinks to https (@304NotModified)

## All changes NLog 4.6

### Features

* #2363 + #2899 + #3085 + #3091 Database target: support for DbType for parameters (including SqlDbType) -  (@hubo0831,@ObikeDev,@sorvis, @304NotModified, @snakefoot)
* #2610 AsyncTargetWrapper with LogEventDropped- + LogEventQueueGrow-events (@Pomoinytskyi)
* #2670 + #3014 XmlLayout - Render LogEventInfo.Properties as XML (@snakefoot)
* #2678 NetworkTarget - Support for SSL & TLS (@snakefoot)
* #2709 XML Config: Support for constant variable in level attributes (level, minlevel, etc) (@304NotModified)
* #2848 Added defaultAction for <filter> (@304NotModified)
* #2849 IRawValue-interface and ${db-null} layout renderer (@304NotModified)
* #2902 JsonLayout with support for System.Dynamic-objects (@304NotModified)
* #2907 New Substring, Left & Right Wrappers (@304NotModified)
* #3098 <rule> support for one or more '*' and '?' wildcards and in any position  (@beppemarazzi)
* #2909 AsyncTaskTarget - BatchSize + RetryCount (@snakefoot)
* #3018 ColoredConsoleTarget - Added EnableAnsiOutput option (VS Code support) (@jp7677 + @snakefoot)
* #3031 + #3092 Support ${currentdir},${basedir},${tempdir} and Environment Variables for internalLogFile when parsing nlog.config (@snakefoot)
* #3050 Added IncludeGdc property in JsonLayout (@casperc89)
* #3071 ${HostName} Layout Renderer for full computer DNS name (@amitsaha)
* #3053 ${AppSetting} Layout Renderer (app.config + web.config) moved from NLog.Extended for NetFramework (@snakefoot)
* #3060 TargetWithContext - Support for PropertyType using IRawValue-interface (@snakefoot)

### Enhancements

* #2989 JsonLayout includes Type-property when rendering Exception-object (@snakefoot)
* #2891 LoggingConfigurationParser - Extracted from XmlLoggingConfiguration (Prepare for appsettings.json)  (@snakefoot)
* #2910 Added support for complex objects in MDLC and NDLC on Net45  (@snakefoot)
* #2918 PerformanceCounter - Improve behavior for CPU usage calculation  (@snakefoot)
* #2941 TargetWithContext - Include all properties even when duplicate names  (@snakefoot)
* #2974 Updated resharper annotations for better validation (@imanushin)
* #2979 Improve default reflection support on NetCore Native (@snakefoot)
* #3017 EventLogTarget with better support for MaximumKilobytes configuration (@Coriolanuss)
* #3039 Added Xamarin PreserveAttribute for the entire Assembly to improve AOT-linking (@snakefoot)
* #3045 Create snupkg packages and use portable PDB (@snakefoot)
* #3048 KeepFileOpen + ConcurrentWrites on Xamarin + UWP - #3079 (@304NotModified)
* #3082 + #3100  WebService Target allow custom override of SoapAction-header for Soap11 (@AlexeyRokhin)
* Various refactorings (15 pull requests) (@beppemarazzi, @304NotModified, @snakefoot)

### Performance

* #2650 AsyncTargetWrapper using ConcurrentQueue for NetCore2 for better thread-concurrency (@snakefoot)
* #2890 AsyncTargetWrapper - TimeToSleepBetweenBatches changed default to 1ms (@snakefoot)
* #2897 InternalLogger performance optimization when LogLevel.Off (@snakefoot)
* #2935 InternalLogger LogLevel changes to LogLevel.Off by default unless being used. (@snakefoot)
* #2934 CsvLayout - Allocation optimizations and optional skip quoting-check for individual columns. (@snakefoot)
* #2949 MappedDiagnosticsLogicalContext - SetScoped with IReadOnlyList (Prepare for MEL BeginScope) (@snakefoot)
* #2973 IRenderString-interface to improve performance for Layout with single LayoutRenderer (@snakefoot)
* #3103 StringBuilderPool - Reduce memory overhead until required (@snakefoot)

**LibLog Breaking change**

* [damianh/LibLog#181](https://github.com/damianh/LibLog/pull/181) - Sub-components using LibLog ver. 5.0.3 (or newer) will now use MDLC + NDLC (Instead of MDC + NDC) when detecting application is using NLog ver. 4.6. Make sure to update NLog.config to match this change. Make sure that all sub-components have upgraded to LibLog ver. 5.0.3 (or newer) if they make use of `OpenNestedContext` or `OpenMappedContext`.

See also [NLog 4.6 Milestone](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/milestone/44?closed=1)

Full changelog: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Supported can be found on https://nlog-project.org/config/