CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• Added DotNetConsoleLogger.cs static class to provide initialization, access, and shutdown for the logger instance used in console applications.

Changed

• Fixed loading of appsettings.Development.json during check-deps runs by forcing the Development environment for dependency validation.
• Updated Scrutor to v6.1.0.
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions packages to latest patch versions.

Removed

• Removed obsolete serialization constructor and [Serializable] attribute from DotNetConsoleException as formatter-based serialization is no longer supported or recommended in modern .NET.

5.0.1 - 2026-03-25

Added

• ConfigureAppConfiguration method to DotNetConsoleBuilder (re-)enabling custom configuration providers
• CustomArgumentParsingAttribute to allow verbs to accept unknown arguments for manual parsing

Fixed

• Fixed configuration provider timing: DotNetConsole.Configuration now properly reflects all configuration providers (including those added via ConfigureAppConfiguration) when accessed early in the application lifecycle.

5.0.0 - 2025-01-27

Added

• Added cancellation token support for commands
• Added a built-in check-deps command that validates the application's Dependency Injection setup by ensuring all required services are fully and correctly registered in the composition root.

Changed

• Updated Scrutor to v6.0.1
• Updated NLog.Extensions.Logging to v5.3.15
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json to v8.0.1
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets to v8.0.1
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to v8.0.1
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting to v8.0.1
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Logging to v8.0.1
• Updated Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Configuration to v8.0.1

3.0.4 - 2024-11-28

Fixed

• Resolved another case where appsettings.json was being loaded from the current working directory instead of the executable's directory.

3.0.3 - 2024-10-09

Fixed

• Resolved an issue where appsettings.json was being loaded from the current working directory instead of the executable's directory.

3.0.2 - 2024-10-04

Fixed

• If a default verb is defined, calls of the application that only use parameters should be allowed

Changed

• Updated NLog.Extensions.Logging to v5.3.14

3.0.1 - 2024-10-02

Fixed

• Bump version number to 3.0.1 to release the package to nuget.org

3.0.0 - 2024-09-30

Changed

• Updated everything to .NET 8
• Enabled nullable reference types
• Changed app builder initialization code to resemble the current default ASP.NET Core hosting model
• If a default verb is defined, the verb passed by the user must strictly match one of the available verbs
• Updated NLog to v5.3.4
• Updated NLog.Extensions.Logging to v5.3.13

Added

• Commands are now async by default, they must use the new IDotNetConsoleCommand interface instead of IConsoleAppCommand and IAsyncConsoleAppCommand.

Removed

• Lots of classes that were originally copied from the ASP.NET Core hosting model source code and are now no longer needed
• Removed IAsyncConsoleAppCommand and IConsoleAppCommand in favor of the new IDotNetConsoleCommand interface

2.0.2 - 2024-06-06

Fixed

• Added README.md file to the NuGet package

2.0.1 - 2024-06-06

Changed

• Updated NLog to v5.3
• Updated Neolution.CodeAnalysis to v3.0.5

2.0.0 - 2024-02-07

Fixed

• Create Console App Scope asynchronously
• Cleaned repository from now unused Azure DevOps files

Added

• Async Console Application variant
• MIT licence expression for NuGet package

Changed

• Updated NLog to V5
• Updated CommandLineParser to v2.9.1

Removed

• Removed AWS NLog Logger assembly that was used for logging to Amazon CloudWatch