Release Notes

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

2.0

Release date: Coming Soon

Improvements:

Provide the executable for .NET Framework 4.0. With this binary patching of exe.config is no longer required to get WinSW running on newest systems. (PR #147)
Introduce the WinSW extension engine, which allows extending the wrapper's behavior. (PR #42).
Add new SharedDirectoriesMapper extension. See the docs here. (PR #42).
Add new RunawayProcessKiller extension. See the docs here. (PR #133).
Migrate event logging to Apache log4net. (PR #145, PR #73 and others).

Fixed issues:

Issue #124 - Prevent the CPU overutilization when waiting for the process to exit. (PR #135)
It should also fix issues related to the process termination failures, to be confirmed

Non-code changes:

Documentation refactoring and update
Introduced the CI flow being hosted on AppVeyor. The project page is here
Starting from WinSW 2.0, GitHub and NuGet will be the release sources
Maven repository will be periodically updated on-demand

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.