So what has changed?
First, the notions of local and global advices has been deprecated. There is instead a unified notion of method-level advices and unified semantics to express what is called elsewhere pointcuts, i.e. to apply advices to join points. When you add an advice to the weaver, you can now specify on which methods it applies and on which operands. We use the IEnumerable interface to pass sets of methods and operands, so it should be forward compatible with C# 3.0 / LINQ.
If I said method-level advices, that's because PostSharp now supports also type-level advices: the only join point currently supported is after instance construction, i.e. in the constructor, just after the base constructor has been called.
Secondly, you cannot call the weaver for individual methods. The Weave method now weaves the complete module according to the advices that were previously added to it.
And finally, the IAdviceProvider has changed. There is now a single ProvideAdvices method in which you should add advices to the given weaver. That's all.
The internal workings have been considerably optimized to work with operand-sensitive join points. Say you want to intercept all calls to the Thread.Sleep() method. You create an advice and apply it to the join points of kind InsteadOfCall with operand Thread.Sleep. Before redesign, the weaver would have woven every method of the module. But now, it will only weave methods that effectively use the Thread.Sleep method.
In order to make it possible, I have implemented the new task IndexUsagesTask, which reads all method bodies an indexes 'uses' and 'used-by' relationships. Why is it better than the previous design? First, because inspection algorithm of this task is much simpler than the one of the weaver. Secondly, because the same information can be used by other tasks.
So at the end of the day, will you be still angry of this design change? Hopefully not, because these changes don't affect your code too much. All you have to do is to change your implementation of IAdviceProvider. And this new design is much better and is prepared for the future.
So let's go!