Changelog #

0.5.0: Centralized Layout & Rigid Alignment #

• Core Architecture & Layout #

  • Centralized Layout Management: Introduced a rigid layout system where Handler.lineLength acts as the primary constraint, falling back to LogSink.preferredWidth (e.g., 80 for Terminal, dynamic for others)
  • LogContext Evolution: LogContext now carries availableWidth, serving as the single, authoritative source of truth for all layout calculations in formatters and decorators
  • Parameter Cleanup: Removed deprecated and redundant lineLength parameters from StructuredFormatter, BoxDecorator, and BoxFormatter to enforce centralized control and reduce API surface

• Component Enhancements #

  • Const-Friendly Decorators: Migrated BoxDecorator and JsonPrettyFormatter to const constructors where possible, improving initialization performance
  • Logical Segment Tags: Added LogTag.prefix to support specialized content prefixes from PrefixDecorator, providing better isolation from header coloring
  • PlainFormatter Refinement: Improved multi-line message handling in PlainFormatter to yield distinct segments, preventing structural breaks during decoration

• Quality & Safety #

  • Width Clamping: Consistent width clamping across the pipeline ensures stability even with extremely narrow terminal configurations
  • Zero-Lint State: Resolved all lingering linting warnings related to the layout API transition across the entire core library, examples, and test suite
  • Comprehensive Test Migration: Full coverage of the new layout model in null_safety_test.dart, layout_safety_test.dart, and decorator_composition_test.dart

0.4.2: Semantic Segments & Visual Overhaul #

• Core Architecture & Structure #

  • Directory Overhaul: Centralized internal modules under lib/src/core/ (coloring, context, utils, logger, time, stack_trace) for cleaner package organization
  • Semantic Tagging Engine: Migrated the entire pipeline to a segment-based architecture. Formatters now emit LogLine objects composed of LogSegments with rich semantic tags (LogTag)

• New Formatters & Sinks #

  • JsonSemanticFormatter: Outputs structured JSON containing both raw data and semantic metadata for programmatic analysis
  • MarkdownFormatter: Generates beautifully structured Markdown with support for headers, code blocks, and nested lists
  • HTMLFormatter & HTMLSink: Dedicated system for producing semantic HTML logs with customizable CSS mapping for browser visualization

• Visual Enhancements #

  • Advanced Header Wrapping: StructuredFormatter now intelligently wraps long headers (logger names, levels, timestamps) while preserving fine-grained semantic tags where possible
  • Expanded Color System: Refined ColorScheme and ColorConfig to leverage semantic tags for precise, multi-layered coloring

• Developer Experience #

  • Logd Theatre Showcase: A new flagship example (example/log_theatre.dart) providing an interactive, "dashboard-style" demonstration of the entire library capability
  • Test Rationalization: Consolidated the fragmented edge-case test suite from 16 files into 5 high-impact safety suites, improving test speed and maintainability

• Maintenance & Fixes #

  • Version Correction: Unified versioning across documentation and package metadata
  • General Stability: Fixed several edge-case wrapping bugs in StructuredFormatter and BoxDecorator

0.4.1: Handler Robustness & Stability #

• Critical Bug Fixes #

  • FileSink Race Condition: Implemented mutex-based synchronization to serialize concurrent writes, preventing data loss during rapid logging
  • TimeRotation Accuracy: Fixed timestamp tracking by updating lastRotation after successful writes, ensuring correct rotation triggers
  • Rotation Error Resilience: Enhanced error handling to continue writing to original file when rotation fails, preventing data loss
  • BoxDecorator Width: Fixed internal content width calculation (lineLength - 2) and added width clamping to prevent crashes
  • PlainFormatter Multi-line: Now joins multi-line messages to prevent format breaks in file logs

• ANSI Code Handling #

  • Added wrapVisiblePreserveAnsi() to maintain ANSI styles across line breaks, fixing style loss in wrapped content
  • Added padRightVisiblePreserveAnsi() to ensure padding inherits styling, preventing visual gaps in colored headers
  • Introduced AnsiColorScheme and AnsiColorConfig for structured color customization
  • Replaced boolean colorHeaderBackground with explicit AnsiColorConfig(headerBackground: true)

• Robustness & Idempotency #

  • Width clamping in StructuredFormatter and BoxDecorator prevents negative width crashes
  • BoxDecorator idempotency check prevents nested box decorations
  • Fixed LogBuffer to avoid unnecessary stack trace creation during sink

• Examples & Documentation #

  • Added 17 comprehensive examples covering basic setups, formatters, decorators, sinks, filters, and edge cases
  • Updated docs/handler/README.md with color customization and edge case handling info
  • Added migration guide for BoxFormatter and color configuration changes

• Test Coverage #

  • Added 13+ edge case test files validating concurrency, null handling, Unicode, ANSI codes, extreme widths, rotation timing, and error handling
  • Over 2,400 new lines of test code ensuring robust behavior under edge conditions

0.4.0: Context-Aware Decorators & Visual Refinement #

• Context-Aware Decoration Pipeline #

  • Full Context Access: LogDecorator.decorate() now accepts the full LogEntry object, granting decorators access to metadata like hierarchyDepth, tags, and loggerName for smarter transformations.
  • Automatic Composition Control: The Handler automatically sorts decorators by type (Transform → Visual → Structural) to ensure correct visual composition, with deduplication to prevent redundant processing.

• Visual Refinements #

  • Independent Coloring: BoxDecorator now supports its own useColors parameter, allowing the structural border to be colored independently of the content. ColorDecorator can now be focused purely on content styling.
  • Header Highlights: ColorDecorator adds a colorHeaderBackground option to apply bold background colors specifically to log headers, improving scannability in dense logs without bleeding into structural elements.
  • Hierarchy Visualization: Introduced HierarchyDepthPrefixDecorator (formerly experimented as TreeDecorator). It adds visual indentation (defaulting to │ ) based on the logger's hierarchy depth, creating a clear tree-like structure in the terminal.

• API & Robustness #

  • Simplified BoxDecorator: Removed internal complexity from BoxDecorator, making it a pure StructuralDecorator focused on layout.
  • Robustness Tests: Expanded test suite to cover deep decorator composition, ensuring that complex chains (Color -> Box -> Indent) render correctly without layout artifacts.

0.3.1: Logger Architecture Refactor & Performance Optimization + Critical Bug Fix #

• Bug Fix: Corrupted Pure Dart support fixed #

  • Version 0.3.0 dropped support for pure dart due to a mis-used library. Fixed in version 0.3.1.

• Architectural Shift: Separated Configuration from Resolution #

  • LoggerConfig & LoggerCache: Introduced a dual-component architecture for logger configuration. LoggerConfig now strictly holds raw, explicitly set configuration values, while the new LoggerCache handles the hierarchical resolution (inheritance) and provides a high-performance caching layer.
  • Versioned Invalidation: Implemented a version-based cache invalidation mechanism. LoggerConfig tracks changes via a _version counter, allowing LoggerCache to lazily re-resolve effective settings only when the source configuration or its ancestry changes.
  • Thread-Safety & Immutability: Resolved configuration objects (like handlers and stackMethodCount) are now returned as unmodifiable collections, protecting the internal state from accidental external mutation.

• Performance: Deep Equality Optimization #

  • Smart Reconfiguration: Logger.configure now performs deep equality checks on collections using internal listEquals and mapEquals utilities. This prevents redundant cache invalidations and descending tree walks when passing new collection instances that contain identical configurations.
  • Comprehensive Equality Support: Implemented operator == and hashCode across the entire configuration surface, including:
    • Handlers: Handler now correctly compares its formatter, sink, filters, and decorators.
    • Time Engine: Timestamp and Timezone (including DST rules and transition logic) now support value-based equality.
    • Stack Logic: StackTraceParser and CallbackInfo now support deep comparison.
    • Filters & Formatters: LevelFilter, RegexFilter, PlainFormatter, BoxFormatter, and JsonFormatter are now value-comparable.

• Resilience & Testing #

  • InternalLogger Resilience: Added targeted tests to verify that InternalLogger remains safe and circular-logging-free even when primary handlers fail, preventing stack overflows during failure recovery.
  • Deep Inheritance: Expanded the test suite to cover complex, multi-level hierarchy inheritance with partial overrides, ensuring configuration correctly "bubbles" through the tree.
  • LogBuffer Integration: Verified the instance-based LogBuffer API (logger.infoBuffer) and its integration with the logging pipeline.

• API & Maintenance #

  • Immutability Enforcement: Applied @immutable annotations to all core configuration and handler classes, providing better compile-time safety and alignment with modern Dart best practices.
  • Core Utilities: Centralized collection equality logic into src/core/utils.dart.

0.3.0: Robust Fallback Logging & Handler Resilience #

• Fallback Logger for Circularity Prevention #

  • Introduced InternalLogger, a safe, direct-to-console logging mechanism for library-internal errors.
  • This prevents circular logging loops where a failure in a sink (like FileSink) could trigger another error log, leading to infinite recursion.
  • Integrated InternalLogger into Logger, FileSink, MultiSink, LogBuffer, and Timezone.

• Improved Handler Resilience #

  • Logger now catches errors from individual handlers. If one handler fails, it reports the error via InternalLogger and continues to process other handlers.
  • MultiSink now iterates through its sinks and handles individual sink failures independently, ensuring a single failing sink doesn't stop the entire output pipeline.

• Bug Fixes & API Refinements #

  • StackTraceParser: Fixed a regex bug that prevented parsing frames with spaces in method names, such as <anonymous closure>.
  • API Visibility: Unhidden LogEntry in the public API, as it is required for users to implement custom LogFormatter instances.
  • InternalLogger Visibility: Marked InternalLogger as @internal to keep it out of the public surface while still available for internal use.

0.2.3: Decoupled System Dependencies for Enhanced Testability #

• Internal Service Locator for System Dependencies #

  • Introduced an internal Context class to act as a service locator for system-level dependencies like Clock and FileSystem.
  • This decouples the library from concrete implementations (e.g., DateTime.now(), dart:io), making it possible to inject mock implementations during testing.
  • Added @visibleForTesting annotations to allow injecting custom Clock and FileSystem instances in test environments.
  • This change significantly improves the testability and reliability of time-sensitive and file-system-dependent components.

0.2.2: Enhanced FileSink Rotation & Custom Formatters #

• Custom Filename Formatters for Rotated Logs #

  • SizeRotation and TimeRotation now accept an optional filenameFormatter function.
  • This allows developers to define custom naming schemes for rotated log files, providing more control over backup organization.

• Robust File Rotation & Cleanup Logic #

  • The backup cleanup logic has been refactored to be more reliable. It now sorts backup files by their last modified timestamp to determine which to delete, instead of parsing potentially fragile filenames.
  • SizeRotation now correctly renames the current log file to the first backup (e.g., .1) before compression.

• Improved Argument Validation & Reliability #

  • FileSink now validates the basePath to ensure it is not empty or a directory.
  • FileRotation and TimeRotation constructors now throw an ArgumentError for invalid arguments (e.g., negative backupCount), replacing previous assert checks.
  • FileSink.write() now writes to the file with flush: true to ensure data is immediately persisted.

0.2.1: Comprehensive Time Component Testing & Fixes #

• Comprehensive Unit Testing #

  • Time & Timezone Tests: Added time_test.dart and timezone_test.dart to verify mockable providers and extensive DST calculations across various rules and hemispheres.
  • Timestamp Formatter Tests: Added timestamp_test.dart to validate formatters, literal parsing, edge cases, and timezone handling.

• Bug Fixes & Refinements #

  • Timestamp Formatting: Corrected iso8601 and rfc2822 formatters by removing extra single quotes to fix timezone literal rendering. The formatter token parser was also updated to correctly handle tokens containing underscores and digits.
  • DST Rules: Updated internal DST transition rules for several European timezones (Europe/Paris, Europe/London, Europe/Berlin) to use the correct local transition times.
  • Time Class: Renamed Time.resetTimeProvide() to Time.resetTimeProvider() for consistency.
  • Code Simplification: Replaced a manual Zeller’s congruence implementation for calculating the day of the week with a simpler call to DateTime.utc().weekday.

0.2.0: Time Engine Overhaul & Mockable Time Provider #

• Timestamp & Timezone Overhaul (Performance, DST, API) #

  • Performance: Implemented a cached token system, eliminating the need to re-parse redundant formatters on every call.
  • Mockable Time Provider: Introduced a mockable time provider (Time.timeProvider) for robust testing of time-sensitive logic. The Time class is now encapsulated with controlled access via setTimeProvider() and resetTimeProvider().
  • DST Support: Added full support for Daylight Saving Time (DST). The local timezone will resolve to a DST-aware timezone if available on the platform.
  • timezone Renaming (Backward Incompatible): The timeZone parameter was renamed to timezone for consistency. The TimeZone class was also renamed to Timezone.
  • DST Calculation Fix: Improved the DST offset calculation logic to better handle transitions.
  • Platform Support: Enhanced platform-aware timezone detection, now including web support.

• Advanced Timestamp Formatter #

  • Literal Support: The formatter now supports single-quoted literals (e.g., 'on', 'at') to include static text in the output.
  • New Format Tokens:
    • 'F...': For microseconds (for high-accuracy benchmarking).
    • 'E...': For weekdays (e.g., 'Monday').
    • 'a': For lowercase "am/pm".
    • 'z': For a standard-compliant timezone offset string (e.g., Z or +0330).
  • Token Changes: Removed the 'SSSS' token as it was redundant.
  • Factory Constructors: Introduced common factory constructors like Timestamp.iso8601(), rfc3339(), rfc2822(), and millisecondsSinceEpoch().

• Other Changes & Refinements #

  • API Clarity: Renamed LogBuffer.sync() to LogBuffer.sink().
  • Improved Error Handling: LogBuffer and FileSink now use the logger instance for error reporting instead of print().
  • Code Refinements: Internal function and variable names related to timezones have been unified for better readability.

0.1.5: Async Logging / File Rotation #

• Asynchronous Logging Pipeline #

  • The entire logging pipeline, from logger.log() to handler.log() and sink.output(), is now async.
  • This prevents I/O operations (like file or network writes) from blocking the main thread.
  • Error handling has been added to logging calls to catch and print exceptions that occur during the logging process itself.

• Advanced File Sink with Rotation #

  • Introduced FileRotation abstract class to enable log file rotation policies.
  • Added SizeRotation: Rotates log files when they exceed a specified size (e.g., '10 MB').
  • Added TimeRotation: Rotates logs based on a time interval.
  • Both rotation policies support keeping a configured number of backup files and optional gzip compression for rotated logs.

• Minor Refinements #

  • MultiSink now outputs to all its sinks concurrently using Future.wait.
  • Added //ignore: one_member_abstracts to LogFilter and LogFormatter to clean up analyzer warnings.

0.1.3: Pure Dart Support / Instantaneous Cached Configurations #

• Pure Dart Optimizations #

  • logd in now Dart ready. Decoupled from Flutter dependencies in favor of Dart standalone support.

• Instantaneous Cached Configurations #

  • Introduced _LoggerConfig: Configuration is now stored in a separate internal _LoggerConfig class, decoupling it from the Logger instance itself. This allows Logger to act as a lightweight proxy.
  • Improved Dynamic Hierarchy Propagation: Configuration changes now dynamically propagate down the logger tree.
  • Cached Configuration: Resolved configuration values are now cached to improve performance by avoiding repeated hierarchy lookups. Caches are automatically cleared when parent configurations change.
  • Simplified configure(): The configure() method now updates the configuration in-place rather than creating a new Logger instance.
  • Normalized Logger Names: Logger names are now consistently normalized to lowercase to ensure case-insensitivity. The root logger is consistently referred to as 'global'.
  • Refactored freezeInheritance(): The freezeInheritance() method has been updated to work with the new _LoggerConfig model, "baking" the current resolved configuration into descendant loggers.
  • Removed attachToUncaughtErrors(): The method was removed from the Logger class.

• TimeZone Improvements #

  • The Timestamp constructor's formatter parameter is now required.
  • A new factory constructor, Timestamp.none(), is introduced to create a Timestamp with an empty formatter.
  • TimeZone.local() now correctly includes the system's current time zone offset.

• Improved FileSink (Still Under Development) #

  • Automatically create parent directories for the log file path.
  • Add more robust error handling:
  • Rethrow exceptions in debug mode for easier debugging.

• Comprehensive example demonstrating all logd features #

0.1.2: Minor API Changes #

0.1.1: Dynamic Logger Tree Hierarchy Inheritance #

• Dynamic Inheritance #

  • Logger tree is now dynamically propagated, rooting at 'global' logger
  • freezeInheritance() is introduced to bake configs into a logger (and it's descendant branch, if any).
  • global getter ditched in favor of uniformity: access global logger using get() or get('global').

0.1.0: Dot-separated Logger Tree Hierarchy + Handlers #

• New Api #

  • Logger has new Api surface.
  • Introduced Dot-separated Logger Tree Hierarchy.
  • Introduced functionalities to attach to Flutter/Dart Error and Unhandled Exceptions

• Logger Tree Hierarchy #

  • Loggers are named, now with a Dot-separated mechanism to inherit from their parent if not explicitly set. (Under Development)
  • global Logger (still) available.
  • Child propagation. (Under Development)

• Handlers #

  • Introduce Handlers: This Replaces Printers in V 0.0.2, no backward compatibility here!
  • Introduced LogFormatters: Separated formatting LogEntries from outputting.
  • Introduced LogSinks: Separated outputting LogEntries from formatting.
  • Introduce LogFilters A way to filter out specific log entries.

• Better Structure and Documentation #

0.0.2: Modularity + Printers #

• Introduced Modular Loggers #

• Introduced LogEvents #

• Introduced Printers #

  • Printers are a way of outputting data. (Soon to be replaced with Handlers: Formatters and Sinks)

0.0.1: Initial version #

• Logger Daemon #

  • Uses LogBuffer to collect and output data.

• Simple BoxPrinter #

  • Formats output in a simple box.

• StackTraceParser #

• TimeStampFormatter and TimeZone #