v1.30.0 🐎

New Year, new release and thanks to @mfkeeq199458 we got a Chinese translation!

What's Changed

• owner is already set, no need for parent by @Hirogen in #504
• fixes missing ApplicationStartup.Path, moved Persister to own Test Pr… by @Hirogen in #507
• wrongly used escape characteres in resources files by @Hirogen in #511
• New reader by @Hirogen in #506
• Logtabwindowrefactor by @Hirogen in #522
• small fixes for copy to tab and copy to clipboard by @Hirogen in #523
• Add Chinese Multilingual by @mfkeeq199458 in #521
• Tab controller by @Hirogen in #525
• added backwards compatibility for hilightgroups in old settings files by @Hirogen in #527
• unit tests update by @Hirogen in #528
• MenuToolbarController added and Extracted functionality from LogTabWindow by @Hirogen in #531
• 515 the trusted pluginsjson is written to and loaded from appdatalogexpert in portable mode by @Hirogen in #532
• fixes tooltip always staying on top by @Hirogen in #533
• 518 allow to persist cell select mode per file by @Hirogen in #534
• 514 loading as session file leads to broken UI if a log file in session is not found by @Hirogen in #519

New Contributors

• @mfkeeq199458 made their first contribution in #521

Full Changelog: v.1.21.0...v1.30.0

files will be added shortly

v.1.21.0

What's Changed

• update about dialog by @gureedo in #339
• 402 - Pre PR by @RandallFlagg in #434
• 446 highlighting and action trigger dialog too big for laptop screens by @Hirogen in #447
• Update README.md by @Hirogen in #454 #451
• Add comprehensive GitHub Copilot instructions for LogExpert repository onboarding by @Copilot in #467
• Fix ArgumentException when FontName in setting file is not valid by @AndisGrossteins in #469
• Persister in json by @Hirogen in #472
• added json converter for encoding and bookmarks by @Hirogen in #474
• update settings, should now no longer be lost by @Hirogen in #485
• multi language translation by @Hirogen in #443
• Upgrade .NET Core version from 9.0.x to 10.0.x by @Hirogen in #488 and #489 / #487
• Plugin repository optimizations by @Hirogen in #486
• Missing characters in log view by @Hirogen in #491
• 470 settings deserialization fails if filterparamscurrentcolumnizer cant be deserialized by @Hirogen in #492
• optimizations, resources and housekeeping by @Hirogen in #499 #495 #501
• 448 allow only 1 instance setting does nothing by @Hirogen in #500
• first iteration of darkmode is back but SUPER DUPER EXPERIMENTAL by @Hirogen in #490

New Contributors

• @gureedo made their first contribution in #339
• @stprograms made their first contribution in #452
• @Copilot made their first contribution in #467
• @AndisGrossteins made their first contribution in #469

Full Changelog: v.1.20.0...v.1.21.0

Major Changes

• .net 10 is used LogExpert needs the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
• There is a setup again 🥇
• Fixed a long standing Bug, that you could not copy more than 20k characters (this is now configurable, but at your own risk!)
• LogExpert can no be viewed in German

• The Pluginregistry has been refactored, every plugin has now a HASH and this is checked before it is loaded. This helps with security.

• Columnizers have now all json configuration files, but still can read the old xml files (but are saved in json)

What will the Future bring

• Beginning with the new year, there will be an effort to optimize performance while loading, reading, closing and filtering files, this will be realised in a new filereader that will use TPL (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/parallel-programming/task-parallel-library-tpl)
• The UI will be optimized, Buttons will Autosize to the Text
• More Translations (mostly DEEPL or if one of you likes to translate ;) )

Thanks to all the support and continuous reporting and making LogExpert better

v.1.20.0

What's Changed

• UI Changes - Persistent setting tab by @RandallFlagg in #367
• Replaced the WinFormsUI source code with the NuGet version by @RandallFlagg in #364
• Decouple UI businesslogic by @Hirogen in #372 | #371 | #378
• 382-foreground-and-background-dropdowns-on-highlightdialog-have-dupli… by @Hirogen in #383
• 373-v1120---importing-highlighting-config-is-broken: fixed by @Hirogen in #384
• 380 configure port used by logexpert by @Hirogen in #389
• Seperation - LogTabWindow by @RandallFlagg in #390
• editor config by @Hirogen in #393
• removed bookmark view, optimized a little bit by @Hirogen in #399
• DllImport - Solves #394 by @RandallFlagg in #395
• Default plugins - cleanup and remove windows dependencies by @RandallFlagg in #397
• Organize projects in folders by @RandallFlagg in #406
• wrong file structure, added the files to the correct one by @Hirogen in #409
• Editor config new rules by @RandallFlagg in #405 | #414 | #421
• Removed a lot of warnings by @Hirogen, @RandallFlagg in #410 | #413 | #396
• added truncate file option to context menu - .net 8 by @RandallFlagg in #334
• optimizations by @Hirogen in #387 | #400 | #407
• Moved a file from Core to UI and changed to internal by @RandallFlagg in #422
• Removed config manager from paint helper by @Hirogen in #423
• ColumnizerCallback Improvments by @RandallFlagg in #425
• remove unnecessary chocolatey dependency by @Matze693 in #426
• Organize solution and project files to be more streamlined by @RandallFlagg in #430
• Filter refactoring and warning removal by @RandallFlagg in #428
• Removed Resources from the namespace for a better readability by @RandallFlagg in #431
• 418 gui design highlighting unreadable color by @Hirogen in #424
• Update nuget by @Hirogen in #433 | #439
• Optimizing painting by @Hirogen in #432
• ssh works again, removed no longer used files by @Hirogen in #440
• update to v1.20.0 by @Hirogen in #441

Full Changelog: v.1.12.0...v.1.20.0

Release 1.12.0

What's Changed

• Issue321: Highlights should be there separated .json settings file by @Hirogen in #322
• remove GitVersion.CommandLine, it is deprecated by @Hirogen in #327
• Code improvment by @RandallFlagg in #331
• Status line update - Remove the thread and use event instead by @RandallFlagg in #333
• Issue31 missing again by @Hirogen in #336
• update about dialog by @Hirogen in #343
• Fix: Load all the plugins in the plugins directory by @RandallFlagg in #347
• Improve loading time of a file by changing the default from 500 to 50000 lines per buffer by @RandallFlagg in #345
• Create test_dotnet.yml by @Hirogen in #349
• Update README.md by @Hirogen in #350
• Code Improvements by @RandallFlagg in #346
• Change: Resources file names update to be able to compile on case sensitive file system by @RandallFlagg in #351
• issue355: fix csv columnizer not using high dpi by @Hirogen in #357
• grpc-nuget-update by @Hirogen in #358

Full Changelog: v.1.11.2...v.1.12.0

Release 1.11. Patch 2

What's Changed

• Issue 316: Problem in Highlighting and action trigger rel. 1.11.1 by @Hirogen in #317
• MaximumLineLength is no configurable, but beware it can impact the performance to change it to more then 20.000 by @Hirogen in #319
• Issue321: Highlights are now there own .json file by @Hirogen in #324

Full Changelog: v.1.11.1...v.1.11.2

Release 1.11. Patch 1

Patch for following Issues:
#314
#313
#311

Full Changelog: v.1.11.0...v.1.11.1

Release 1.11.0 .net 8

Well this has been a long awaited release, it has a lot of changes, but probably also brings a few more problems.

Major change logexpert works now with .net 8 LTS

What's Changed

• Column context menu was not working by @joostaarts in #168
• Allow resize and add autosize to the filter box (close #177) by @natenho in #193
• Import new highlight settings (instead of replace) (close #179) by @natenho in #194
• Fix file order selection when using multi-file because it is not guaranteed by OS by @natenho in #192
• Prevent ArgumentOutOfRangeException when navigating through Multifiles (close #202) by @hakanostrom in #203
• Check for an empty dir variable added by @budul100 in #189
• Filterwindow: Missing horizontal scrollbar by @Hirogen in #212
• Cleanups, removing this., OnEventName, and more by @Hirogen in #213
• german translation, renamed a file error in name by @Hirogen in #214
• update Innosetup with correct folders by @Hirogen in #217
• Json options read and write by @Hirogen in #223
• remove no longer used dll by @Hirogen in #218
• Highlight import no json selectable by @Hirogen in #225
• Consistent encoding by @Hirogen in #227
• Add PortableMode for Session Files by @Hirogen in #234
• Plugin config for portable mode by @Hirogen in #235
• Issues/issue 20 memory leak by @Hirogen in #237
• explicit dll transfering in the setup by @Hirogen in #244
• Issues/issue 182 high dpi by @Hirogen in #238
• High dpi filter correction by @Hirogen in #249
• Dark theme by @jrouzies-fr in #252
• Fix anchor on dropdown box by @jrouzies-fr in #255
• Choco package enhancement by @Matze693 in #257
• Issues/issue 245 multi instance warning by @Hirogen in #262
• copy to clipboard: always add line number by @pentop in #277
• Replace lumenworks with csvhelper by @Hirogen in #279
• Added code to the RegexColumnizer to avoid null columns & the resulting NullPointer exceptions by @kniveg in #276
• Replaced chilkat proprietary dll with open source ssh.net by @Hirogen in #280
• Making sure the appBounds in the Settings are within the current virt… by @SoftAllan in #287
• Remove Chocolatey dependency by @Matze693 in #291
• .Net 8 - Build script fix by @RandallFlagg in #300
• High DPI for .Net 8 by @TheNicker in #301
• Update LogStreamReaderBase.cs by @CzmQlik in #310
• Added a property inorder to be able to compile on linux by @RandallFlagg in #309
• Dot net 8 by @Hirogen in #308

New Contributors

• @joostaarts made their first contribution in #168
• @natenho made their first contribution in #193
• @hakanostrom made their first contribution in #203
• @budul100 made their first contribution in #189
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #220
• @jrouzies-fr made their first contribution in #252
• @Matze693 made their first contribution in #257
• @pentop made their first contribution in #277
• @kniveg made their first contribution in #276
• @SoftAllan made their first contribution in #287
• @KaiL3 made their first contribution in #293
• @RandallFlagg made their first contribution in #300
• @TheNicker made their first contribution in #301
• @CzmQlik made their first contribution in #310

Full Changelog: v1.8.7...v.1.11.0

Pre Release with .net 8

This is a pre-release for a .net 8 Version, please be aware that there might be exception.

Thanks to all of the contributions and a happy new year 2025 :)

What's Changed

• Release 1.9.0 by @Hirogen in #239
• High dpi filter correction by @Hirogen in #249
• Choco package enhancement by @Matze693 in #257
• Testversion add by @Hirogen in #258
• Issues/issue 245 multi instance warning by @Hirogen in #262
• Bump NuGet.CommandLine from 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 in /build by @dependabot in #270
• copy to clipboard: always add line number by @pentop in #277
• Replace lumenworks with csvhelper by @Hirogen in #279
• Added code to the RegexColumnizer to avoid null columns & the resulting NullPointer exceptions by @kniveg in #276
• Replaced chilkat proprietary dll with open source ssh.net by @Hirogen in #280
• .Net 8 - Build script fix by @RandallFlagg in #300
• High DPI for .Net 8 by @TheNicker in #301

New Contributors

• @pentop made their first contribution in #277
• @kniveg made their first contribution in #276
• @RandallFlagg made their first contribution in #300
• @TheNicker made their first contribution in #301

Full Changelog: v1.9.0.High.DPI...v.1.10.0_dot_net_8

Testrelease v1.9.1.9001 for the Dark Theme

What's Changed

• Fixing multiple GUI-Location Errors
• Fixed Unitest not working (this is for the CI)
• Fix anchor on dropdown box by @jrouzies-fr in #255 (fixes issue: #254)

Full Changelog: v1.9.0.Dark.Theme...v.1.9.1.9001_DarkTheme

Discord Server

We now have a Discord-Server, where you can ask questions, talk about issues and future developments 😄
https://discord.gg/SjxkuckRe9

Test-Release Dark Theme

Dark Theme is available to test:

What's Changed

• Everything from Version 1.9.0
• Dark theme by @jrouzies-fr in #252

New Contributors

• @jrouzies-fr made their first contribution in #252

Edit: Setup is now correct!

Full Changelog: v1.8.8.RC1...v1.9.0.Dark.Theme