5.6.0

Fixed issue #191: Added option EagerlyEmitFirstEvent by implementing new PeriodicBatchingSink API.
Replaced SinkOptions with MSSqlServerSinkOptions and cleaned up namespaced (thanks to @jonorossi for the contribution).
Target .NET Core 2.1 (LTS) instead of 2.2
Fixed issue #312: Data conversion issue causes logging to silently fail.

5.5.1

Fixed issue #300 Support DateTime2 data type for TimeStamp column (thanks to @stedel for the contribution).
Added Sourcelink support and publish symbols to nuget.org which allows consumers of the package to debug into the sink code.
Added troubleshooting tip in README with workaround for SqlClient issue regarding missing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.Sni.dll in .NET Framework apps and updated samples\AppConfigDemo accordingly.
Added information in README about batched sink SqlBulkCopy behavior according to issue #209.

5.5.0

Implemented enhancement #208: use Microsoft.Data.SqliClient for all platforms except net452 to enable Column Encryption (thanks to @mungk for the contribution).
Fixed issue #290 MissingMethodException with .NET Standard 2.0.
Added .NET Standard 2.0 sample program.
Minor bug fixes.
Completed overall refactoring and added unit tests for all refactored code.

5.4.0

Added support for Azure Managed Identities for Resources authentication (thanks to @darrenschwarz for the contribution).
New interface using SinkOptions parameter. Marked old interfaces obsolete.
Implemented Enhancement #182: configurable property names for custom columns (thanks to @rocknet for the contribution).
Lots of refactoring and new unit tests.

5.3.0

Code quality release.

Added code analysis and editorconfig rules based on Microsoft standards.
Fixed code analysis errors where possible and added justified suppressions the few remainig.
Use Visual Studio 2019 for AppVeyor builds
Updated some dependencies.
Added CombinedConfigDemo sample program showing how to combine config and code based sink intitialization.
Added a lot of unit tests.

5.2.0

Enhancement #232: Allow to override formatter for rendering LogEvent column.
Fixed #187 (again - still an exception when using logevent column with TimeStamp column type DateTimeOffset).
Added sample programs

5.1.4

Fixed #187 Support datetimeoffset as a column type for default column TimeStamp.
Fixed #229 Slight issue with documentation.

5.1.3

Support binary data type, support specify data length in column config, support specify allow null column
Also build on unit-test commits
Added issue templase
Hybrid config implementation
Bugfixes

5.1.2

Support for Audit sink added (#118/#110).

4.0.0

Serilog 2.0
Documentation fix

2.0.33

Option added to exclude redundant properties from serialized JSON in column LogEvent. (serilog-mssql#27)

2.0.32

Safe conversion of data types. Also included selflog for bulk operation errors. (serilog-mssql#4)

2.0.31

Added the ability to configure additional columns via XML configuration (serilog-mssql#6)

2.0.30

You can optionally save the log event inside the database too. Also added ability to exclude the properties if they are saved already inside additional columns. (serilog-mssql#7)

2.0.28

Added explicit column mappings (serilog-mssql#10)

2.0.27

Option added to automatically create a database table (by Kiran Varsani (https://github.com/varsanikp))

2.0.13

Ability to add additional properties as columns in the database

2.0.1

Option to write times in UTC

1.5

Moved from serilog/serilog