winsw/CHANGELOG.md

Release Notes

Below you can find release notes for the trunk version of WinSW.

2.0.1

Release date: Jan 06, 2017

Fixed issues:

• Issue #178 - Fix processing of the legacy arguments parameter. Regression in 2.0. (PR #179)

2.0

Release date: Dec 30, 2016

Improvements:

• Issue #103 - Provide the executable for .NET Framework 4.0. (PR #147)
• With this binary patching of exe.config is no longer required to get WinSW running on newest systems.
• Issue #154 - Provide WinSW configuration file samples. (PR #170)
  • Samples are available within release packages
• Introduce the new WinSW Extension Engine. (PR #42)
• Add new SharedDirectoriesMapper extension. See the docs here (PR #42).
• Issue #125 - Add new RunawayProcessKiller extension. See the docs here. (PR #133)
• Issue #69 - Migrate event logging to Apache log4net. (PR #145, PR #73 and others).
• Issue #85 - Use FileStream#SafeFileHandle the deprecated FileStream#Handle in the CLI redirect mode. (PR #167)

Fixed issues:

• Issue #124 - Prevent CPU overutilization when waiting for the process to exit. (PR #135)
• Issue #159 - Properly retrieve waithint, sleeptime, resetfailure, and stoptimeout options from XML configs with metadata before settings. (PR #175)
• Issue #164 - Print warnings in the uninstall command when the service cannot be uninstalled immediately. (PR #165)
• Issue #171 - Prevent failure when stoparguments are defined without stopexecutable in the XML file. (PR #170)
• Issue #59 - Prevent failure during process termination if child processes cannot be retrieved due to the pending system shutdown. (PR #172)
• Issue #54 - Security: Do not dump WinSW environment variables to the Event log. (PR #173)
• Do not propagate exceptions from Process.Kill() if the process actually exits. (PR #166)

Non-code changes:

• Major documentation refactoring and update.
• Use GitHub Releases as a main release source.
• Jenkins Maven repository is no longer the main release source
• It will be periodically updated on-demand
• Issue #65 - Introduce NuGet packaging and publishing.
• Releases are being published on www.nuget.org. Package page
• Issue #80 - Maven releases now pick releases from GitHub Releases. The package version is guaranteed to be same as the assembly version. (PR #162)
• Issue #142 - Introduce the CI/CD flow being hosted on AppVeyor. The project page is here.

Compatibility notes:

• WinSW 2.x is fully compatible with WinSW 1.x in terms of the command-line interface and configuration files.
• Any behavior difference will be considered as a bug
• New features like WinSW extensions are disabled by default. They can be enabled via the configuration file.

1.19.1

Release date: Nov 05, 2016

Fixed issues:

• Fix the version number in the executable file metadata and CLI

1.19

Release date: Aug 02, 2016

• No functional changes.

1.18

Fixed issues: Aug 23, 2015

• Issue #91 - %BASE% contained the executable path instead of the directory path (regression in 1.17)

1.17

Release date: Mar 29, 2015

Changes: See the winsw-1.17 milestone.

Previous versions

WinSW versions older than 1.17 have no explicit changelog. If you need such info, see the commit history.