diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7053eb365..bc0f2e791 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Java 9+ support
 - Chinese translation updated
 - Enable bulk replace for single typed tags
+- Option to use logging configuration file (ffdec home / logging.properties)
 
 ### Removed
 - Due to Java9+ limited support of reflection, following features were removed:
diff --git a/src/com/jpexs/decompiler/flash/gui/Main.java b/src/com/jpexs/decompiler/flash/gui/Main.java
index af64fbc66..a9ae5e3d8 100644
--- a/src/com/jpexs/decompiler/flash/gui/Main.java
+++ b/src/com/jpexs/decompiler/flash/gui/Main.java
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FilenameFilter;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ import java.util.logging.FileHandler;
 import java.util.logging.Formatter;
 import java.util.logging.Handler;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.LogManager;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -2357,6 +2359,16 @@ public class Main {
     }
 
     public static void initLogging(boolean debug) {
+        File loggingFile = new File(Configuration.getFFDecHome() + "/logging.properties");
+        if (loggingFile.exists()) { //use manual configuration file
+            final LogManager logManager = LogManager.getLogManager();
+            try {
+                logManager.readConfiguration(new FileInputStream(loggingFile));
+                return;
+            } catch (IOException ex) {
+                //ignore
+            }
+        }
         try {
             Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("");
             logger.setLevel(Configuration.logLevel);