# bunyan Changelog

## bunyan 0.10.0

- [pull #24] Support for gzip'ed log files in the bunyan CLI (by
  github.com/mhart):

        $ bunyan foo.log.gz
        ...


## bunyan 0.9.0

- [pull #16] Bullet proof the `bunyan.stdSerializers` (by github.com/rlidwka).

- [pull #15] The `bunyan` CLI will now chronologically merge multiple log
  streams when it is given multiple file arguments. (by github.com/davepacheco)

        $ bunyan foo.log bar.log
        ... merged log records ...

- [pull #15] A new `bunyan.RingBuffer` stream class that is useful for
  keeping the last N log messages in memory. This can be a fast way to keep
  recent, and thus hopefully relevant, log messages. (by @dapsays,
  github.com/davepacheco)

  Potential uses: Live debugging if a running process could inspect those
  messages. One could dump recent log messages at a finer log level than is
  typically logged on
  [`uncaughtException`](http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/all.html#all_event_uncaughtexception).

        var ringbuffer = new bunyan.RingBuffer({ limit: 100 });
        var log = new bunyan({
            name: 'foo',
            streams: [{
                type: 'raw',
                stream: ringbuffer,
                level: 'debug'
            }]
        });

        log.info('hello world');
        console.log(ringbuffer.records);

- Add support for "raw" streams. This is a logging stream that is given
  raw log record objects instead of a JSON-stringified string.

        function Collector() {
            this.records = [];
        }
        Collector.prototype.write = function (rec) {
            this.records.push(rec);
        }
        var log = new Logger({
            name: 'mylog',
            streams: [{
                type: 'raw',
                stream: new Collector()
            }]
        });

  See "examples/raw-stream.js". I expect raw streams to be useful for
  piping Bunyan logging to separate services (e.g. <http://www.loggly.com/>,
  <https://github.com/etsy/statsd>) or to separate in-process handling.

- Add test/corpus/*.log files (accidentally excluded) so the test suite
  actually works(!).


## bunyan 0.8.0

- [pull #21] Bunyan loggers now re-emit `fs.createWriteStream` error events.
  By github.com/EvanOxfeld. See "examples/handle-fs-error.js" and
  "test/error-event.js" for details.

        var log = new Logger({name: 'mylog', streams: [{path: FILENAME}]});
        log.on('error', function (err, stream) {
            // Handle error writing to or creating FILENAME.
        });

- jsstyle'ing (via `make check`)


## bunyan 0.7.0

- [issue #12] Add `bunyan.createLogger(OPTIONS)` form, as is more typical in
  node.js APIs.  This'll eventually become the preferred form.


## bunyan 0.6.9

- Change `bunyan` CLI default output to color "src" info red. Before the "src"
  information was uncolored. The "src" info is the filename, line number and
  function name resulting from using `src: true` in `Logger` creation. I.e.,
  the `(/Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/hi.js:10)` in:

        [2012-04-10T22:28:58.237Z]  INFO: myapp/39339 on banana.local (/Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/hi.js:10): hi

- Tweak `bunyan` CLI default output to still show an "err" field if it doesn't
  have a "stack" attribute.


## bunyan 0.6.8

- Fix bad bug in `log.child({...}, true);` where the added child fields **would
  be added to the parent's fields**. This bug only existed for the "fast child"
  path (that second `true` argument). A side-effect of fixing this is that
  the "fast child" path is only 5 times as fast as the regular `log.child`,
  instead of 10 times faster.


## bunyan 0.6.7

- [issue #6] Fix bleeding 'type' var to global namespace. (Thanks Mike!)


## bunyan 0.6.6

- Add support to the `bunyan` CLI taking log file path args, `bunyan foo.log`,
  in addition to the usual `cat foo.log | bunyan`.
- Improve reliability of the default output formatting of the `bunyan` CLI.
  Before it could blow up processing log records missing some expected
  fields.


## bunyan 0.6.5

- ANSI coloring output from `bunyan` CLI tool (for the default output mode/style).
  Also add the '--color' option to force coloring if the output stream is not
  a TTY, e.g. `cat my.log | bunyan --color | less -R`. Use `--no-color` to
  disable coloring, e.g. if your terminal doesn't support ANSI codes.
- Add 'level' field to log record before custom fields for that record. This
  just means that the raw record JSON will show the 'level' field earlier,
  which is a bit nicer for raw reading.


## bunyan 0.6.4

- [issue #5] Fix `log.info() -> boolean` to work properly. Previous all were
  returning false. Ditto all trace/debug/.../fatal methods.


## bunyan 0.6.3

- Allow an optional `msg` and arguments to the `log.info(<Error> err)` logging
  form. For example, before:

        log.debug(my_error_instance)            // good
        log.debug(my_error_instance, "boom!")   // wasn't allowed

  Now the latter is allowed if you want to expliciting set the log msg. Of course
  this applies to all the `log.{trace|debug|info...}()` methods.

- `bunyan` cli output: clarify extra fields with quoting if empty or have
  spaces. E.g. 'cmd' and 'stderr' in the following:

        [2012-02-12T00:30:43.736Z] INFO: mo-docs/43194 on banana.local: buildDocs results (req_id=185edca2-2886-43dc-911c-fe41c09ec0f5, route=PutDocset, error=null, stderr="", cmd="make docs")


## bunyan 0.6.2

- Fix/guard against unintended inclusion of some files in npm published package
  due to <https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/2144>


## bunyan 0.6.1

- Internal: starting jsstyle usage.
- Internal: add .npmignore. Previous packages had reams of bunyan crud in them.


## bunyan 0.6.0

- Add 'pid' automatic log record field.


## bunyan 0.5.3

- Add 'client_req' (HTTP client request) standard formatting in `bunyan` CLI
  default output.
- Improve `bunyan` CLI default output to include *all* log record keys. Unknown keys
  are either included in the first line parenthetical (if short) or in the indented
  subsequent block (if long or multiline).


## bunyan 0.5.2

- [issue #3] More type checking of `new Logger(...)` and `log.child(...)`
  options.
- Start a test suite.


## bunyan 0.5.1

- [issue #2] Add guard on `JSON.stringify`ing of log records before emission.
  This will prevent `log.info` et al throwing on record fields that cannot be
  represented as JSON. An error will be printed on stderr and a clipped log
  record emitted with a 'bunyanMsg' key including error details. E.g.:

        bunyan: ERROR: could not stringify log record from /Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/unstringifyable.js:12: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON
        {
          "name": "foo",
          "hostname": "banana.local",
          "bunyanMsg": "bunyan: ERROR: could not stringify log record from /Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/unstringifyable.js:12: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON",
        ...

  Some timing shows this does effect log speed:

        $ node tools/timeguard.js     # before
        Time try/catch-guard on JSON.stringify:
         - log.info:  0.07365ms per iteration
        $ node tools/timeguard.js     # after
        Time try/catch-guard on JSON.stringify:
         - log.info:  0.07368ms per iteration


## bunyan 0.5.0

- Use 10/20/... instead of 1/2/... for level constant values. Ostensibly this
  allows for intermediary levels from the defined "trace/debug/..." set.
  However, that is discouraged. I'd need a strong user argument to add
  support for easily using alternative levels. Consider using a separate
  JSON field instead.
- s/service/name/ for Logger name field. "service" is unnecessarily tied
  to usage for a service. No need to differ from log4j Logger "name".
- Add `log.level(...)` and `log.levels(...)` API for changing logger stream
  levels.
- Add `TRACE|DEBUG|INFO|WARN|ERROR|FATAL` level constants to exports.
- Add `log.info(err)` special case for logging an `Error` instance. For
  example `log.info(new TypeError("boom")` will produce:

        ...
        "err": {
          "message": "boom",
          "name": "TypeError",
          "stack": "TypeError: boom\n    at Object.<anonymous> ..."
        },
        "msg": "boom",
        ...


## bunyan 0.4.0

- Add `new Logger({src: true})` config option to have a 'src' attribute be
  automatically added to log records with the log call source info. Example:

        "src": {
          "file": "/Users/trentm/tm/node-bunyan/examples/src.js",
          "line": 20,
          "func": "Wuzzle.woos"
        },


## bunyan 0.3.0

- `log.child(options[, simple])` Added `simple` boolean arg. Set `true` to
  assert that options only add fields (no config changes). Results in a 10x
  speed increase in child creation. See "tools/timechild.js". On my Mac,
  "fast child" creation takes about 0.001ms. IOW, if your app is dishing
  10,000 req/s, then creating a log child for each request will take
  about 1% of the request time.
- `log.clone` -> `log.child` to better reflect the relationship: streams and
  serializers are inherited. Streams can't be removed as part of the child
  creation. The child doesn't own the parent's streams (so can't close them).
- Clean up Logger creation. The goal here was to ensure `log.child` usage
  is fast. TODO: measure that.
- Add `Logger.stdSerializers.err` serializer which is necessary to get good
  Error object logging with node 0.6 (where core Error object properties
  are non-enumerable).


## bunyan 0.2.0

- Spec'ing core/recommended log record fields.
- Add `LOG_VERSION` to exports.
- Improvements to request/response serializations.


## bunyan 0.1.0

First release.