v.1.21.0

[Hirogen]

What's Changed

• update about dialog by @gureedo in update about dialog #339
• 402 - Pre PR by @RandallFlagg in 402 - Pre PR #434
• 446 highlighting and action trigger dialog too big for laptop screens by @Hirogen in 446 highlighting and action trigger dialog too big for laptop screens #447
• Update README.md by @Hirogen in Update README.md #454 Update README.md #451
• Add comprehensive GitHub Copilot instructions for LogExpert repository onboarding by @Copilot in Add comprehensive GitHub Copilot instructions for LogExpert repository onboarding #467
• Fix ArgumentException when FontName in setting file is not valid by @AndisGrossteins in Fix ArgumentException when FontName in setting file is not valid #469
• Persister in json by @Hirogen in Persister in json #472
• added json converter for encoding and bookmarks by @Hirogen in added json converter for encoding and bookmarks #474
• update settings, should now no longer be lost by @Hirogen in update settings, should now no longer be lost #485
• multi language translation by @Hirogen in multi language translation #443
• Upgrade .NET Core version from 9.0.x to 10.0.x by @Hirogen in Upgrade .NET Core version from 9.0.x to 10.0.x #488 and Update .NET version from 9.0.x to 10.0.x #489 / Dotnet10 nugetupdates #487
• Plugin repository optimizations by @Hirogen in Plugin repository optimizations #486
• Missing characters in log view by @Hirogen in Missing characters in log view #491
• 470 settings deserialization fails if filterparamscurrentcolumnizer cant be deserialized by @Hirogen in 470 settings deserialization fails if filterparamscurrentcolumnizer cant be deserialized #492
• optimizations, resources and housekeeping by @Hirogen in resources and housekeeping #499 optimizations #495 Prepare release #501
• 448 allow only 1 instance setting does nothing by @Hirogen in 448 allow only 1 instance setting does nothing #500
• first iteration of darkmode is back but SUPER DUPER EXPERIMENTAL by @Hirogen in first iteration of darkrmode, needs to be adapted to the cellpainting #490

New Contributors

• @gureedo made their first contribution in update about dialog #339
• @stprograms made their first contribution in Added snapshot builds on Pull request #452
• @Copilot made their first contribution in Add comprehensive GitHub Copilot instructions for LogExpert repository onboarding #467
• @AndisGrossteins made their first contribution in Fix ArgumentException when FontName in setting file is not valid #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

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This discussion was created from the release v.1.21.0.

[AndisGrossteins]

Great work, @Hirogen and other contributors! I've tried to follow the progress in recent months and I'm impressed and excited to see what's next.

IMHO, this should've been a major version number bump due to some breaking changes and the move to .Net 10 runtime.

More Translations (mostly DEEPL or if one of you likes to translate ;) )
I could translate the UI into Latvian as time permits.

I'd like to add one more thing to the future roadmap: Documentation but that would be worthy of a separate discussion topic. I'm willing to contribute some time towards improving it.

[Hirogen]

Sure, just create the Latvian version with the ResXResourceManager, its currently only 250-300 strings, so not to much.

Yeah. the version is to low... it was to late in the evening i didn't realize it ^^