CHANGELOG.md

log4js-node changelog

6.4.1

• bug: Fixed to startup multiprocess even when no direct appenders - thanks @nicojs
  • refactor: fixed eslint warnings - thanks @peteriman
• improvement: additional alias for date patterns - thanks @peteriman
• improvement: added emitWarning for deprecation - thanks @peteriman
• type: Fixed wrong types from 6.4.0 regression - thanks @glasser
• chore(docs): changed author to contributors in package.json - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): bump node-fetch from 2.6.6 to 2.6.7 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps-dev): bump typescript from 4.5.4 to 4.5.5 - thanks @peteriman

6.4.0

• security: default file permission to be 0o600 instead of 0o644 - thanks ranjit-git and @peteriman
  • chore(docs): updated fileSync.md and misc comments - thanks @peteriman
• feat: Added warnings when log() is used with invalid levels before fallbacking to INFO - thanks @abernh
• feat: exposed Recording - thanks @polo-language
• bug: Fixed file descriptor leak if repeated configure() - thanks @peteriman
• bug: Fixed MaxListenersExceededWarning from NodeJS - thanks @peteriman
  • test: added assertion for increase of SIGHUP listeners on log4js.configure() - thanks @peteriman
• bug: Fixed missing TCP appender with Webpack and Typescript - thanks @techmunk
• bug: Fixed dateFile appender exiting NodeJS on error - thanks @4eb0da
  • refactor: using writer.writable instead of alive for checking - thanks @peteriman
• bug: Fixed TCP appender exiting NodeJS on error - thanks @jhonatanTeixeira
• bug: Fixed Multiprocess appender exiting NodeJS on error - thanks @harlentan
• test: update fakeFS.read as graceful-fs uses it - thanks @peteriman
• test: update fakeFS.realpath as fs-extra uses it - thanks @peteriman
• test: added tap.tearDown() to clean up test files
  • #1143 - thanks @peteriman
  • #1022 - thanks @abetomo
• type: improved @types for AppenderModule - thanks @nicobao
• type: Updated fileSync appender types - thanks @peteriman
• type: Removed erroneous type in file appender - thanks @vdmtrv
• type: Updated Logger.log type - thanks @ZLundqvist
• type: Updated Logger._log type - thanks @peteriman
• type: Updated Logger.level type - thanks @peteriman
• type: Updated Levels.getLevel type - thanks @saulzhong
• chore(deps): bump streamroller from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): bump date-format from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps-dev): bump eslint from from 8.6.0 to 8.7.0 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps-dev): bump nyc from 14.1.1 to 15.1.0 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps-dev): bump eslint from 5.16.0 to 8.6.0 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): bump flatted from 2.0.2 to 3.2.4 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps-dev): bump fs-extra from 8.1.0 to 10.0.0 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): bump streamroller from 2.2.4 to 3.0.1 - thanks @peteriman
  • feat: allows for zero backups - thanks @peteriman
  • api: migrated from daysToKeep to numBackups due to streamroller@^3.0.0 - thanks @peteriman
  • bug: compressed file ignores dateFile appender "mode" - thanks @rnd-debug
  • issue: addresses additional separator in filename (#1039) - details: streamroller@3.0.0 changelog
  • issue: addresses daysToKeep naming confusion (#1035, #1080) - details: streamroller@3.0.0 changelog
• chore(deps): bump date-format from 3.0.0 to 4.0.2 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): Updated dependencies - thanks @peteriman
  • eslint-config-prettier from 6.15.0 to 8.3.0
  • eslint-plugin-prettier from 3.4.1 to 4.0.0
  • husky from 3.1.0 to 7.0.4
  • prettier from 1.19.0 to 2.5.1
  • typescript from 3.9.10 to 4.5.4
• chore(deps-dev): bump eslint-config-prettier from 6.15.0 to 8.3.0 - thanks @peteriman
• chore(deps): Updated dependencies - thanks @peteriman
  • codecov from 3.6.1 to 3.8.3
  • eslint-config-prettier from 6.5.0 to 6.15.0
  • eslint-import-resolver-node from 0.3.2 to 0.3.6
  • eslint-plugin-import" from 2.18.2 to 2.25.4
  • eslint-plugin-prettier from 3.1.1 to 3.4.1
  • husky from 3.0.9 to 3.1.0
  • prettier from 1.18.2 to 1.19.1
  • typescript from 3.7.2 to 3.9.10
• chore(deps): bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump glob-parent from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump hosted-git-info from 2.7.1 to 2.8.9 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump lodash from 4.17.14 to 4.17.21 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump y18n from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump node-fetch from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps): bump yargs-parser from 13.1.1 to 13.1.2 - thanks @Dependabot
• chore(deps-dev): bump codecov from 3.6.5 to 3.7.1 - thanks @Dependabot

6.3.0

• Add option to file appender to remove ANSI colours - thanks @BlueCocoa
• Do not create appender if no categories use it - thanks @rnd-debug
• Docs: better categories inheritance description - thanks @rnd-debug
• Better jsdoc docs - thanks @wataash
• Typescript: access category field in Logger - thanks @rtvd
• Docs: influxdb appender - thanks @rnd-debug
• Support for fileSync appender in webpack - thanks @lauren-li
• Docs: UDP appender - thanks @iassasin
• Style: spaces and tabs - thanks @abetomo

6.2.1

• Update streamroller to 2.2.4 to fix incorrect filename matching during log rotation

6.2.0

• Add custom message end token to TCP appender - thanks @rnd-debug
• Update acorn (dev dep of a dep) - thanks Github Robots.

6.1.2

• Handle out-of-order appender loading - thanks @mvastola

6.1.1

• Add guards for undefined shutdown callback - thanks @aaron-edwards
• Ignore .bob files - thanks @cesine
• Add mark method to type definitions - thanks @techmunk

6.1.0

• Add pause event to dateFile appender - thanks @shayantabatabaee
• Add pause event to file appender - thanks @shayantabatabaee
• Add pause/resume event to docs

6.0.0

• Update streamroller to fix unhandled promise rejection
• Updated date-format library

5.3.0

• Padding and truncation changes

5.2.2

• Update streamroller to fix overwriting old files when using date rolling

5.2.1

• Update streamroller to fix numToKeep not working with dateFile pattern that is all digits

5.2.0

• Update streamroller to 2.2.0 (copy and truncate when file is busy)

5.1.0

• Update streamroller to 2.1.0 (windows fixes)

5.0.0

• Update streamroller to 2.0.0 (remove support for node v6)
• Update dependencies (mostly dev deps)
• Fix error when cluster not available
• Test coverage improvements

4.5.1

• Update streamroller 1.0.5 -> 1.0.6 (to fix overwriting old backup log files)
• Dependency update: lodash 4.17.4 (dependency of a dependency, not log4js) - thanks Github Automated Security Thing.
• Dependency update: lodash 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0 (dependency of a dependency, not log4js) - thanks Github Automated Security Thing.

4.5.0

• Override call stack parsing - thanks @rommni
• patternLayout filename depth token - thanks @rommni

4.4.0

• Add option to pass appender module in config - thanks @kaxelson
• Added docs for passing appender module
• Updated dependencies

4.3.2

• Types for enableCallStack - thanks @citrusjunoss

4.3.1

• Fix for maxLogSize in dateFile appender

4.3.0

• Feature: line number support - thanks @victor0801x
• Fix for missing core appenders in webpack

4.2.0

• Feature: add appender and level inheritance - thanks @pharapiak
• Feature: add response to context for connectLogger - thanks @leak4mk0
• Fix for broken sighup handler
• Add missing types for Level - thanks @Ivkaa
• Typescript fixes for connect logger context - thanks @leak4mk0
• Upgrade to streamroller-1.0.5 to fix log rotation bug

4.1.1

• Various test fixes for node v12
• Fix layout problem in node v12 - thanks @bjornstar
• Add missing types for addLevels - thanks @Ivkaa
• Allow any return type for layout function - thanks @xinbenlv

4.1.0

• Updated streamroller to 1.0.4, to fix a bug where the inital size of an existing file was ignored when appending
• Updated streamroller to 1.0.3, to fix a crash bug if the date pattern was all digits.
• Updated dependencies

Previous versions

Change information for older versions can be found by looking at the milestones in github.