2.8.0

• Changed how LogModifiers work to be more flexible and powerful hierarchically
• Automatic parent/child relationships generated by dot-separated logger names
• Simplification of LogHandler
• Improved late evaluation of log messages for performance improvements for excluded log records
• Introduced MDC.global to allow globally defined values
• Updated Formatter's fileName to exclude the local path
• Full support for Scala 2.13, 2.12, and 2.11
• Updated performance benchmarks: https://jmh.morethan.io/?source=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outr/scribe/master/work/benchmark/2020.10.01.benchmarks.json

2.7.0

• Added LogOutput instead of String as the output type for all logging to provide richer logging
• Added color, background color, bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough support for both ANSI output and JavaScript console output
• Added support to MDC for values to be functions instead of values allowing for more powerful logging functionality
• Created DSL for log output functionality
• Added to formatter DSL to support log output functionality
• Updated ConsoleWriter to integrate better for platform-specific functionality
• Updated ConsoleWriter to write errors to System.err automatically
• Added MDC.elapsed convenience functionality to show an elapsed value for each logging message
• Added FlushMode support as a better replacement for autoFlush in FileWriter
• Lots of updates to SLF4J support to provide better integration
• Fixes for native implementation
• Project cleanup for better cross-platform support and better test integration

2.6.0

• Performance tuning (nearly 4x faster than log4j)
• Exposed LogRecord.column to provide access to log, not just line number, but column number as well
• Added zero-arg logging support
• Complete re-write of FileWriter functionality to offer both improved flexibility, but also greater simplicity
• Added Time abstraction both for testability as well as customization for various environments
• Created new DSL for configuring FileWriter
• Support for custom top-level fields in Logstash
• Better support for lazily evaluated message object in LogRecord
• Lots of miscellaneous updates and bug fixes

2.5.0

• Major upgrade to usage of FileWriter
  ** Greater flexibility to customize functionality further
  ** Support for max size in bytes
  ** Support for max number of log files
  ** Support basic builder pattern (more flexibility will be added in 2.6)
• Added ANSI coloring support
• Created special support ExecutionContext and helpers to support asynchronous tracing see
• Upgraded MDC functionality to provide thread-safe and multi-threaded support above the crap that Logback and SLF4J does
• Complete re-write of AsynchronousLogHandler to be more flexible and avoid excessive congestion
• Added time formatting convenience functionaly (@cornerman)
• Updated source maps for Scala.js to point to GitHub repo (@cornerman)
• Added jitpack configuration (@cornerman)

2.4.0

• Re-enabled messages as lazy invoked functions to create zero cost log messages if they are not logged
• Added Logstash support
• Added support for Logger.id as a much more powerful internal reference system
• Use Logger.parentId instead of Logger.parentName for better reliability and consistency
• Major cleanup of configuration functionality
• SLF4J MDC support and more Scala-esque MDC root
• New module slf4j18 to support beta version of SLF4J 1.8
• Addition of LogRecord to the signature of Writer to allow more powerful Writer implementations
• Added LogSupport.includes as a more powerful variation on the standard isLevelEnabled
• Major improvements and cleanup to FileWriter
• Added Loggable[M] to support logging of any custom type with implicit support
• Added fileName to LogRecord and exposed support as a format block
• Added timeStamp format block to write the time in milliseconds the record occurred
• Added padding support for all format blocks
• Added powerful and flexible abbreviation support to all format blocks
• Simplification and cleanup of Macros
• Upgraded Slack module to use youi-client instead of Gigahorse and upickle

2.3.0

• Resolved bugs with interpolation use within logging
• Minor performance optimizations internally
• Added Logger.id and replace() method for much easier logger updating
• Added type identifiers to LogModifiers to replace existing when adding to a Logger or LogHandler
• Minor improvements to SLF4J logging
• Added generic messageValue to LogRecord for more powerful interaction
• Updated LogRecord to support a message and throwable to properly support single-record logging of a trace + message

2.2.0

• Added better time formatting API
• Fixed bug in FileIOWriter instantiating FileNIOWriter
• Added map support to FormatBlock
• Removed Java 8 Time dependencies
• Removed third-party dependencies for Scala.js to reduce resulting JavaScript size
• Fixes to overrideClassName to better deal with method name and line number
• Added Level comparison features

2.1.0

• Moved handlers into their own package "handler".
• Updated LogHandler to be a more simplified trait for extensibility.
• Added convenience FunctionalLogHandler for dealing with LogRecords.
• Updated LevelFilter to be high priority to avoid order of insert issues.

Fastest Logger in the World

• Better support for SLF4J logging adapter (filtering and naming)
• Major optimizations and cleanup
• Much better modification support for Logger to remain immutable
• Asynchronous logging support
• Major improvements to the internal simplicity and light-weight infrastructure
• Benchmarked as fastest logger on the JVM
• Faster interpolation and type-safe formatting
• Formatter interpolation to provide incredibly clean and extensible log formatting
• Lots of other miscellaneous cleanup and optimizations