Initial draft of NLog v6 goals

NLog · Oct 1, 2024 · 3a325d7 · 3a325d7
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diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-01-nlog-6-0-goals.md b/_posts/2024-10-01-nlog-6-0-goals.md
@@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ NLog v6.0 has the following goals:
 - Support Nullable references
 - Remove old target platforms `NetStandard1.3` + `NetStandard1.5`
 - Cleanup interfaces for `Logger` / `ILogger` to remove unnecessary boxing optimizations from .NET v1
-- Remove Systeml.RegularExpression dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
-  - Need to implement a minimal syntax-support for NLog Logging Rules. Ex. `?` and `.*`
-- Remove Systeml.Xml dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
+- Remove `System.Text.RegularExpressions` dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
+  - Need to implement a minimal syntax-support for NLog Logging Rules. Ex. `?` and `*`
+- Remove `System.Xml` dependency since a heavy dependency for AOT
   - Need to implement a minimal XML reader to continue loading `NLog.config` XML files
 - Extract NLog.Targets.WebServiceTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.NetworkTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.MailTarget to its own nuget-package
 - Extract NLog.Targets.FileTarget to its own nuget-package NLog.Targets.ConcurrentFileTarget
   - NLog will instead have a simple FileTarget without ConcurrentWrites-support but only KeepFileOpen = false
 
-The overall goal for NLog v6.0 is still to be a fully working logging-library in a single nuget-package.
+The overall goal for NLog v6.0 is to continue being a fully working logging-library in a single nuget-package.
 The NLog-package will out of the box only handle file- and console-output, which will probably cover 90 pct.
-of the use cases. When needing other output destinations or formats, then additional nuget-packages must be included.
+of the use cases. When needing other output targets or formats, then additional nuget-packages must be included.
 
 The planned interface cleanup for `Logger` / `ILogger` will probably give a lot of headache,
 as it will require all dependencies to be upgraded before upgrading the main-application.
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ will fully support AOT, to allow more ASP.NET or MAUI applications to start usin
 NLog should not become a blocker, when wanting to try out AOT builds.
 
 This means NLog v5 will now go into maintenance mode (together with NLog v4), and focus
-will now be on getting NLog v6 preview build ready.
+will now be on getting NLog v6 preview build ready. If having suggestions for the future direction
+of the [NLog v6 milestone](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/milestone/29) then [comments are wellcome](https://github.com/NLog/NLog/issues/4931).
diff --git a/config/targets.json b/config/targets.json
@@ -601,9 +601,9 @@
     },
     {
         "name": "Loupe",
-        "page": "https://github.com/GibraltarSoftware/Gibraltar.Agent.NLog2",
-        "package": "Gibraltar.Agent.NLog4",
-        "description": "Writes NLog messages to Gibraltar https://www.onloupe.com",
+        "page": "https://github.com/gibraltarsoftware/gibraltar.agent.nlog2",
+        "package": "Loupe.Agent.NLog",
+        "description": "Writes NLog messages to Gibraltar Loupe Agent https://www.onloupe.com",
         "external": true,
         "category": "Integrations (Cloud)"
     },
@@ -869,5 +869,13 @@
         "description": "Writes NLog messages to NATS messaging server",
         "external": true,
         "category": "Integrations"
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "ActiveMQ",
+        "page": "https://github.com/YuraSidorets/NLog.Targets.ActiveMQ",
+        "package": "NLog.Targets.ActiveMQ",
+        "description": "Writes NLog messages using Apache ActiveMQ NMS native OpenWire protocol",
+        "external": true,
+        "category": "Integrations"
     }
 ]
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ <h1 class="page-header" id="welcome">
             Welcome to NLog!
         </h1>
         <p class="lead">
-            NLog is a flexible and free logging platform for various .NET platforms, including .NET standard. 
-           
-            NLog makes it easy to write to several  <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/config/?tab=targets">targets</a>. (database, file, console) and change the logging configuration on-the-fly.
+            NLog is a flexible and free logging platform for various .NET platforms, including .NET standard.
+
+            NLog makes it easy to write to several  <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/config/?tab=targets">targets</a>. (console, file, database, etc.) and change the logging configuration on-the-fly.
         </p>
 
         <p>
@@ -34,9 +34,15 @@ <h4>Easy to configure</h4>
                     </p>
                 </div>
                 <div class="col-sm-4">
-                    <h4>Templatable</h4>
+                    <h4>Output formats</h4>
                     <p>
-                        Every log message can be templated with various <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/config/?tab=layout-renderers">layout renders</a>
+                        NLog Layouts are available for several output formats like
+                        <a href="https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/SimpleLayout">Simple Text</a>,
+                        <a href="https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/JsonLayout">JSON</a>,
+                        <a href="https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/XmlLayout">XML</a>,
+                        <a href="https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/CsvLayout">CSV</a> etc.,
+                        The output can be enriched by using the many <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/config/?tab=layout-renderers">layout renders</a>,
+                        that are able to automatically capture additional output details when logging.
                     </p>
                 </div>
                 <div class="col-sm-4">