Changelog

All notable changes to RichColorLog will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[1.0.0] - 2025-10-02

Added

• Initial release of RichColorLog

• Rich-based console handler with table layout

• ANSI-based console handler for simpler output

• Custom log levels: NOTICE, ALERT, EMERGENCY, FATAL

• Emoji icons for all log levels

• Automatic terminal color detection (TrueColor, 256-color, Basic, None)

• Syntax highlighting for code in log messages

• File logging with level-based formatting

• RabbitMQ handler with topic routing

• Kafka handler with optional level-based topics

• ZeroMQ handler (PUB/PUSH patterns)

• Syslog handler with RFC 5424 severity mapping

• Database handler (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite)

• Custom color configuration

• Format templates support

• Performance monitoring

• IPython/Jupyter compatibility mode

• Windows ANSI support

Documentation

• Complete Sphinx documentation

• ReadTheDocs integration

• API reference

• Handler guides

• Configuration examples

[0.9.0] - 2025-09-15

Added

• Beta release for testing

• Core logging functionality

• Rich handler implementation

• Basic color support

Fixed

• Icon display issues on Windows

• Color detection in non-TTY environments

[0.8.0] - 2025-09-01

Added

• Alpha release

• Initial implementation of custom levels

• ANSI color support

Known Issues

• ZeroMQ handler currently supports single endpoint only

• Kafka handler supports single broker only

• Database handler doesn’t support connection pooling (use external pool)

Roadmap

Future releases may include:

• Async logging handlers

• Multi-broker Kafka support

• Connection pooling for database handler

• Elasticsearch handler

• Cloud logging integrations (AWS CloudWatch, GCP Logging, Azure Monitor)

• Log aggregation utilities

• Structured logging format (JSON Lines)

• OpenTelemetry integration