winsw

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

🐛 Bug fixes

• Restore case-insensitive search of extensions by class names (regression in v2.10.0) (#663) @NextTurn

🚀 Enhancements

• Add a JSON schema for validating YAML configuration files (#656) @buddhikac96
  • A standalone tool is needed, e.g. the YAML Language Support by Red Hat
    plugin for Visual Studio Code.
  • See the documentation page for more info.

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)
• 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)
• 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)

📦 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)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix installation crashes when allowservicelogon is true (#660) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Add documentation for extension management in YAML (#655) @buddhikac96

🎉 New features

• Add YAML configuration support preview (#543, #638, #647) @buddhikac96
  • Documentation

🚨 Removed

• Remove undocumented support for *.vshost.exe files (#641) @buddhikac96
• Remove undocumented support for configuration file lookup in directory hierarchy (#641) @buddhikac96

🐛 Bug fixes

• Stop parent process first by default if the stopParentFirst option is not set (#580) @NextTurn
• Fix file length accumulation in log modes with file size based rotation (#582) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Use log instead of the deprecated logmode tag in documentation (#548) @DanielW10001
• Document the project structure (#534) @buddhikac96
• Fix typos in the documentation (#653, #644, #542) @albaltimore @Yinux @NextTurn

⬆️ Dependency updates

• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 16.4.0 to 16.7.1 (#563, #637, #652) @dependabot
• Bump NUnit3TestAdapter from 3.16.0 to 3.17.0 (#561, #576) @dependabot
• Bump ilmerge from 3.0.29 to 3.0.41 (#559, #571) @dependabot
• Bump coverlet.collector from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (#560) @dependabot
• Update Release Drafter to v5.11.0 (#629) @oleg-nenashev

👻 Maintenance

• Setup code coverage, powered by Codecov (#572) @NextTurn
• Remove unnecessary project items (#569) @NextTurn
• Enable Dependabot in the repository (#558) @oleg-nenashev

Check out the v3 branch for the latest documentation.

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)
• 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)
• Send close messages to GUI applications (#625)
• Add stdout/stderr path settings (#631)
• Add dev kill command (#639)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581)
• 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)

📦 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)

Check out the v3 branch for the latest documentation.

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

🚨 Removed

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• 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)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557)
• New command-line interface (#589)
• Add prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop settings (#595)
• Add refresh command (#607)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix the stop logic (#426)
• Fix missing wrapper logs (#485)
• Fix process termination (#487)
• Remove dependencies on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)
• Fix service termination (#597)
• Catch all exceptions (#598)
• Disable undocumented argument concatenation (#603)

📦 Packaging changes

• Publish self-contained archives (#421)

📝 Documentation updates

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

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

🚨 Removed

• Remove /redirect option (#413)
• Remove <stopparentprocessfirst> setting (#487)
• Merge <domain> and <user> into <username> (#556)
• Stop supporting .NET Framework 2.0/4.0 (#579)

🎉 New features

• Support user principal name (#556)
• Allow prompting for credentials (#557)

🚀 Enhancements

• Rework shared directory mapper (#510)
• Improve exception logging (#581)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix process termination (#487)
• Remove dependency on WMI (#555, #567)
• Check start time of possible child processes (#584)

📝 Documentation updates

• Rename docs for SEO (#406)
• Revise docs for 3.0.0-alpha.1 (#587)

🚀 New features and enhancements

• Support proxy attribute for <download> (#528) @koraniar
• Add a new stopwait command which waits until the service is actually stopped (#341) @new-mikha

🐛 Bug fixes

• Properly request additional time for shutdown (#417) @NextTurn
• Fix support of <startarguments> and <stoparguments> (#532) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Note about the "incremental download" feature (#527) @NextTurn
• Warn about broken log auto-archiving settings (#522) @NextTurn
• Remove content about renaming running executables (#516) @NextTurn

👻 Maintenance

• Remove app manifest file (#410) @NextTurn
• Stop building the project on Appveyor, remove the build definition (#525) @oleg-nenashev
• Merge build and release pipelines into a single run (#524) @NextTurn @oleg-nenashev
• Increase code coverage (#531) @NextTurn

🚀 New features and enhancements

• Prompt for permission elevation when administrative access is required (#457) @NextTurn
• Enable strong cryptography when running .NET 2.0 and 4.0 binaries on .NET 4.6 (#498) @NextTurn
• Enable system default TLS versions when targeting .NET Framework 4.6.1 (#491) @NextTurn
• Support adding multi-line entries to startarguments, newlines will be truncated (#483) @scottselberg

🐛 Bug fixes

• Ensure event source is registered during installation (#515) @NextTurn
• Fix default working directory on .NET Core (#511) @NextTurn
• Always set process priority if specified (#502) @NextTurn
• Fix versioning of Windows Service Wrapper builds (#495) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Cleanup and restructure the README page (#500) @oleg-nenashev
• Revise the installation guide (#514) @NextTurn
• Remove offline mode section from installation guide (#512) @NextTurn
• Remove Windows Service Wrapper v1 documentation from README (#486) @NextTurn

👻 Maintenance

• Remove dead codes (#506) @NextTurn
• Remove strong name signing (#478) @NextTurn
• Disable PR trigger in release builds (#499) @NextTurn
• Use variable group in pipelines (#494) @NextTurn

👷 Build and release pipelines

• Move CI and release pipelines to Azure DevOps (#477, #494, #499, #507) @NextTurn @oleg-nenashev
• Fix versioning of Windows Service Wrapper builds (#495) @NextTurn
• Update tag format in Release Drafter (#484) @NextTurn

🚦 Tests

• Skip the failing process helper test (#505) @NextTurn
• Increase code coverage (#371) @NextTurn
• Skip the failing Runaway Process Killer test (#496) @NextTurn

Windows Service Wrapper is now hosted on its own GitHub organization (announcement)! Also, join our new Gitter channel.

🚀 New features and enhancements

• Support security descriptor string (#431) @NextTurn
• Add .NET 4.6.1 executables to the NuGet package (#452) @oleg-nenashev
• Support 'If-Modified-Since' for downloads (#403) @NextTurn

🐛 Bug fixes

• Ensure that environment variables are loaded before resolving configurations (#361) @NextTurn
• Fix default domain name in serviceaccount parameter (#464) @NextTurn

📝 Documentation updates

• Document special accounts and the default domain (#474) @NextTurn
• Update documentation headers (#473) @NextTurn
• Clean up documentation, move changelog archive to GitHub releases (#458) @NextTurn
• Update the repository locations in Documentation and the NuGet spec (#448) @oleg-nenashev
• Update license for GitHub (#441) @NextTurn

🌐 Community

• Move the project to the new GitHub organization @kohsuke @oleg-nenashev
• Add a Gitter chat for the project (#450) @oleg-nenashev
• Initialize contributing guidelines (#459) @NextTurn
• Update CODEOWNERS to request reviews from all maintainers (#451) @oleg-nenashev
• Create Issue templates (#456) @oleg-nenashev

👻 Maintenance

• Split commands into functions (#465) @NextTurn
• Update .gitignore (#476) @NextTurn
• Annotate for NRT (#463) @NextTurn
• Set description via advapi32 (#392) @NextTurn
• Optimize DynamicProxy (#357) @NextTurn
• Move CI and release flows to a new winsw organization on AppVeyor (#449) @oleg-nenashev
• Improve P/Invoke signatures (#362) @NextTurn
• Fix NuGet warning about the deprecated license field (#443) @NextTurn
• Use generic enum parsing methods in all packages except .NET 2.0 (#430) @NextTurn
• Use StringBuilder to build WMI queries (#428) @NextTurn