See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

📦 Packaging changes

• Include ARM64 build as part of the releases (#940) @zhzy0077

📝 Documentation updates

• Fix closing tag in the configuration sample (#881) @SimonBiggs
• Fix typo in the configuration sample (#929) @freezingDaniel
• Fix incorrect quotation marks (#930) @freezingDaniel
• Update xml-config-file.md - Add missing / to service account block. (#943) @queglay

👻 Maintenance

• Upgrade to .NET 7 (#1001)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix download exceptions when ignoring errors (#854 <- #853)

📦 Packaging changes

• No self extraction (#807 <- #806)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix download exceptions when ignoring errors (#853)

📦 Packaging changes

• No self extraction (#806)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes (YAML preview)

• Fix inconsistencies in YAML config (#678)
  • resetFailureAfter → resetFailure
  • Runaway process killer
    • pidfile → pidFile
    • stopTimeOut → stopTimeout
    • StopParentFirst → stopParentFirst

🎉 New features

• Send close messages to GUI applications (#737 ← #625)

🚀 Enhancements

• Improve exception logging (#736 ← #673, #751 ← #581)
• Ensure basic logging (#755 ← #725, #755 ← #728)
• Enhance console prompting (#759 ← #758)
• Rework shared directory mapper (#765 ← #510)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Expand environment variables in YAML extensions (#677)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#737 ← #567, #751 ← #555)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#737 ← #584)
• Leave STDIN open (#738 ← #611)
• Set console output code page to UTF-8 (#753 ← #752)
• Allow rotating logs monthly (#761)
• Tweak stdout/stderr redirections (#770 ← #756)

📦 Packaging changes

• Drop .NET Core 3.1 packaging (#715)
• Add .NET 5 packaging (#729)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove runaway process killer (#440)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)
• Remove stopwait command (#589)
  Use stop w/o options instead.
• Remove testwait command (#589)
  Use test w/o options instead.
• Remove /p option (#589)
  Use <prompt> or --username/--password instead.
• Remove <waithint> (#602)
• Remove <sleeptime> (#602)
• Remove <argument>/<startargument>/<stopargument> (#610)
  Use <arguments>/<startarguments>/<stoparguments> instead.
• Make <delayedAutoStart>/<beeponshutdown>/<interactive> a boolean (#613)
• Remove test command (#764)
• Merge shared directory mapping into core (#767)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557, #619, #760)
• New command-line interface (#589, #623, #635, #688)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595, #626)
• Add refresh command (#607, #623)
• Preshutdown support (#614)
• Add customize command (#615)
• Add dev ps command (#620, #685)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)
• Auto refresh (#648)
• Add dev list command (#672)

🚀 Enhancements

• Make <name> and <description> optional (#609)
• Set a default working directory for the wrapper (#616, #636)
• Ensure child processes are cleanup up (#618)
• Allow <stopexecutable> without <stoparguments> (#621)
• Reduce event log entries (#622)
• Distinguish service status as active or inactive (#724)
• Enhance console prompting (#758)
• Include logger names in logs (#773)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix service stop logic (#426, #487, #597, #642, #643)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)
• Leave STDOUT/STDERR open if not redirected (#695)
• Fix XML queries (#722)
• Set console output code page to UTF-8 (#752)
• Tweak stdout/stderr redirections (#756)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.x (#587, #594, #608, #645, #689, #713, #731, #768)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove runaway process killer (#440)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)
• Remove stopwait command (#589)
  Use stop w/o options instead.
• Remove testwait command (#589)
  Use test w/o options instead.
• Remove /p option (#589)
  Use <prompt> or --username/--password instead.
• Remove <waithint> (#602)
• Remove <sleeptime> (#602)
• Remove <argument>/<startargument>/<stopargument> (#610)
  Use <arguments>/<startarguments>/<stoparguments> instead.
• Make <delayedAutoStart>/<beeponshutdown>/<interactive> a boolean (#613)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557, #619)
• New command-line interface (#589, #623, #635, #688)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595, #626)
• Add refresh command (#607, #623)
• Preshutdown support (#614)
• Add customize command (#615)
• Add dev ps command (#620, #685)
• Send close messages to GUI applications (#625)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)
• Auto refresh (#648)
• Add dev list command (#672)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581, #673)
• Make <name> and <description> optional (#609)
• Set a default working directory for the wrapper (#616, #636)
• Ensure child processes are cleanup up (#618)
• Allow <stopexecutable> without <stoparguments> (#621)
• Reduce event log entries (#622)
• Distinguish service status as active or inactive (#724)
• Ensure basic logging (#725, #728)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix service stop logic (#426, #487, #597, #642, #643)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)
• Leave STDIN open (#611)
• Leave STDOUT/STDERR open if not redirected (#695)
• Fix XML queries (#722)

📦 Packaging changes

• Publish self-contained archives (#421)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.x (#587, #594, #608, #645, #689, #713, #731)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove runaway process killer (#440)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)
• Remove stopwait command (#589)
  Use stop w/o options instead.
• Remove testwait command (#589)
  Use test w/o options instead.
• Remove /p option (#589)
  Use <prompt> or --username/--password instead.
• Remove <waithint> (#602)
• Remove <sleeptime> (#602)
• Remove <argument>/<startargument>/<stopargument> (#610)
  Use <arguments>/<startarguments>/<stoparguments> instead.
• Make <delayedAutoStart>/<beeponshutdown>/<interactive> a boolean (#613)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557, #619)
• New command-line interface (#589, #623, #635, #688)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595, #626)
• Add refresh command (#607, #623)
• Preshutdown support (#614)
• Add customize command (#615)
• Add dev ps command (#620, #685)
• Send close messages to GUI applications (#625)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)
• Auto refresh (#648)
• Add dev list command (#672)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581, #673)
• Make <name> and <description> optional (#609)
• Set a default working directory for the wrapper (#616, #636)
• Ensure child processes are cleanup up (#618)
• Allow <stopexecutable> without <stoparguments> (#621)
• Reduce event log entries (#622)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix service stop logic (#426, #487, #597, #642, #643)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)
• Leave STDIN open (#611)
• Leave STDOUT/STDERR open if not redirected (#695)

📦 Packaging changes

• Publish self-contained archives (#421)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.x (#587, #594, #608, #645, #689, #713)

See the migration guide for how to migrate your XML configuration to 3.x.

🚨 Breaking changes

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove runaway process killer (#440)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)
• Remove stopwait command (#589)
  Use stop w/o options instead.
• Remove testwait command (#589)
  Use test w/o options instead.
• Remove /p option (#589)
  Use <prompt> or --username/--password instead.
• Remove <waithint> (#602)
• Remove <sleeptime> (#602)
• Remove <argument>/<startargument>/<stopargument> (#610)
  Use <arguments>/<startarguments>/<stoparguments> instead.
• Make <delayedAutoStart>/<beeponshutdown>/<interactive> a boolean (#613)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557, #619)
• New command-line interface (#589, #623, #635, #688)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595, #626)
• Add refresh command (#607, #623)
• Preshutdown support (#614)
• Add customize command (#615)
• Add dev ps command (#620, #685)
• Send close messages to GUI applications (#625)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)
• Auto refresh (#648)
• Add dev list command (#672)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581, #673)
• Make <name> and <description> optional (#609)
• Set a default working directory for the wrapper (#616, #636)
• Ensure child processes are cleanup up (#618)
• Allow <stopexecutable> without <stoparguments> (#621)
• Reduce event log entries (#622)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix service stop logic (#426, #487, #597, #642, #643)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)
• Leave STDIN open (#611)
• Leave STDOUT/STDERR open if not redirected (#695)

📦 Packaging changes

• Publish self-contained archives (#421)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.x (#587, #594, #608, #645, #689)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Leave STDOUT/STDERR open if not redirected (#694) @NextTurn
• Fix service crashes (#680) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Add the YAML configuration demo link to the documentation (#675) @buddhikac96

👻 Maintenance

• Reorganize projects (#664) @NextTurn