NLog v5 changing to maintenance mode

Author: snakefoot

_posts/2024-10-01-nlog-6-0-goals.md

@@ -19,18 +19,21 @@ NLog v6.0 has the following goals:
   - 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 NLog-package will out of the box only handle file- and console-output, which probably covers 90 pct. of the use cases.
-When needing other output destinations or formats, then additional nuget-packages must be included.
+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.
 
 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.
 Where NLog v5 was mostly an update of default values for the main-application to handle,
 then the upgrade to NLog v6 will affect the entire dependency- / project-tree.
 
-The goal is that all existing nuget-packages with custom NLog targets should continue to function with NLog v6.
-This means NLog v6 will probably continue to support obsolete API-methods, that are relevant for custom NLog targets.
+Another goal is that all existing nuget-packages that depend on NLog v4, should continue to function with NLog v6.
+This means NLog v6 will continue to support obsolete API-methods, that are relevant for custom NLog targets.
 
-.NET8 already have great support for AOT, but many Microsoft teams are still working with updating
-their nuget-packages to support AOT. Believe the goal for .NET9 is to update more nuget-packkage 
-to fully support AOT, so more aplications that depend on ASP.NET or MAUI have full AOT support.
-NLog should not become a blocker, when people wants to make AOT builds.
+.NET8 already have great support for AOT, but many Microsoft teams are still working on updating
+their nuget-packages to support AOT. Believe the goal for .NET9 is to ensure even more nuget-packages
+will fully support AOT, to allow more ASP.NET or MAUI applications to start using AOT.
+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.