History.txt

== 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!