NLog 6.0 Release Post

Author: snakefoot

_posts/2025-04-29-nlog-6-0-major-changes.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ But reflection does not always work well with build-trimming, and before NLog ma
 NLog includes many features, and each feature often introduces additional dependencies on the .NET library.
 This can lead to overhead for AOT builds, as it must include and compile all the relevant source code.
 
-NLog v6 attempts to reduce its footprint by extracting several features into separate nuget-packages:
+NLog v6 reducing its footprint by extracting features into separate nuget-packages:
 
 - [NLog.Targets.AtomicFile](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.AtomicFile) - ConcurrentWrites using atomic file-append from operating system API.
 - [NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFile](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFile) - ConcurrentWrites using global mutex from operating system API.
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ This is to simpilfy the NLog `SimpleLayout` API, and to make it clear that NLog
 
 ## Many other improvements
 
-For full list of all changes: [NLog 6.0 Pull Requests](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+Full list of all changes: [NLog 6.0 Pull Requests](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
 
 - [Breaking Changes](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22breaking%20change%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
 - [Breaking Behavior Changes](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22breaking%20behavior%20change%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)

_posts/2025-06-21-nlog-6-0-released.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: NLog 6.0 released
+---
+
+NLog v6 with the following major changes:
+
+- Support Ahead-of-Time (AOT) builds without warnings
+- Support Nullable references
+- Support ReadOnlySpan to reduce memory allocations
+- LogFactory supports FlushAsync and IDisposableAsync
+- FileTarget removed support for ConcurrentWrites
+- FileTarget refactored file-archive-logic with ArchiveSuffixFormat
+
+NLog v6 reducing its footprint by extracting features into separate nuget-packages:
+
+- [NLog.Targets.AtomicFile](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.AtomicFile) - ConcurrentWrites using atomic file-append from operating system API.
+- [NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFile](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFile) - ConcurrentWrites using global mutex from operating system API.
+- [NLog.Targets.GZipFile](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.GZipFile) - EnableArchiveFileCompression using GZipStream for writing GZip compressed log-files.
+- [NLog.Targets.Mail](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.Mail) - Depends on System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.
+- [NLog.Targets.Network](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.Network) - Depends on TCP and UDP Network Socket, and adds support for Syslog and Graylog.
+- [NLog.Targets.Trace](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.Trace) - Depends on System.Diagnostics.TraceListener.
+- [NLog.Targets.WebService](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Targets.WebService) - Depends on System.Net.Http.HttpClient.
+- [NLog.RegEx](https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.RegEx) - Depends on System.Text.RegularExpressions which is a huge dependency for a logging library.
+
+See also [List of major changes in NLog v6](https://nlog-project.org/2025/04/29/nlog-6-0-major-changes.html) with more details.
+
+## Many other improvements
+
+Full list of all changes: [NLog 6.0 Pull Requests](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+
+- [Breaking Changes](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22breaking%20change%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+- [Breaking Behavior Changes](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22breaking%20behavior%20change%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+- [Features](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22Feature%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+- [Improvements](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22Enhancement%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+- [Performance](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22Performance%22+is%3Amerged+milestone:%226.0%22)
+
+[Comments and feedback](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/issues/4931) are welcome.
+
+## Credits
+Additional thanks to all contributers, since last major release:
+
+- [ana1250](https://github.com/ana1250)
+- [Pavan8374](https://github.com/Pavan8374)
+- [smnsht](https://github.com/smnsht)
+- [RomanSoloweow](https://github.com/RomanSoloweow)
+- [wadebaird](https://github.com/wadebaird)
+- [hangy](https://github.com/hangy)
+- [lavige777](https://github.com/lavige777)
+- [jokoyoski](https://github.com/jokoyoski)
+- [saltukkos](https://github.com/saltukkos)
+- [nih0n](https://github.com/nih0n)
+- [michaelplavnik](https://github.com/michaelplavnik)
+- [Aaronmsv](https://github.com/Aaronmsv)
+- [ShadowDancer](https://github.com/ShadowDancer)
+- [Orace](https://github.com/Orace)
+- [tvogel-nid](https://github.com/tvogel-nid)
+- [martinzding](https://github.com/martinzding)
+- [kurnakovv](https://github.com/kurnakovv)
+- [dance](https://github.com/dance)
+- [JohnVerheij](https://github.com/JohnVerheij)