diff --git a/Jamfile b/Jamfile
index 20732e597..d3e130bea 100755
--- a/Jamfile
+++ b/Jamfile
@@ -34,14 +34,12 @@ project torrent
 	<link>static
 	<threading>multi
 	<toolset>msvc:<cxxflags>/Zc:wchar_t
-	<variant>debug:<define>TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING
 
 	: usage-requirements 
 
 	<include>./include
 	<include>$(BOOST_ROOT)
 	<variant>release:<define>NDEBUG
-	<variant>debug:<define>TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING
 	<define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB
 
 	;
@@ -94,6 +92,10 @@ LIBS = ;
 		LIBS += wsock32 ;
 	}
 
+variant release_log : release : <define>TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING ;
+variant debug_log : debug : <define>TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING ;
+
+
 lib torrent
 	:
 	src/$(SOURCES)
diff --git a/docs/manual.html b/docs/manual.html
index d2c15a5a6..4c030da15 100755
--- a/docs/manual.html
+++ b/docs/manual.html
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@ windows format (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:/boost_1_32_0</
 libtorrent will have pretty expensive invariant checks and asserts built into it. If you
 want to disable such checks (you want to do that in a release build) you can see the
 table below for which defines you can use to control the build. The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Jamfile</span></tt> will define
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt> when it's building a release build.</p>
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt> when it's building a release build. There are two other build variants available
+in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Jamfile</span></tt>. debug_log and release_log, these two variants inherits from the
+debug and release variants respectively, but adds extra logging (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGIN</span></tt>).</p>
 <table border="1" class="docutils">
 <colgroup>
 <col width="40%" />
@@ -265,10 +267,7 @@ other debug settings.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING</span></tt></td>
 <td>If you define this macro, every peer connection
-will log its traffic to a log file.
-This setting requires a debug build, i.e.
-if you set <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt> aswell, no logs will be
-written.</td>
+will log its traffic to a log file.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_STORAGE_DEBUG</span></tt></td>
 <td>This will enable extra expensive invariant
diff --git a/docs/manual.rst b/docs/manual.rst
index bbbdd0b57..213298725 100755
--- a/docs/manual.rst
+++ b/docs/manual.rst
@@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ The ``Jamfile`` can build both a release and debug version of libtorrent. In deb
 libtorrent will have pretty expensive invariant checks and asserts built into it. If you
 want to disable such checks (you want to do that in a release build) you can see the
 table below for which defines you can use to control the build. The ``Jamfile`` will define
-``NDEBUG`` when it's building a release build.
+``NDEBUG`` when it's building a release build. There are two other build variants available
+in the ``Jamfile``. debug_log and release_log, these two variants inherits from the
+debug and release variants respectively, but adds extra logging (``TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGIN``).
 
 +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
 | macro                          | description                                     |
@@ -163,9 +165,6 @@ table below for which defines you can use to control the build. The ``Jamfile``
 +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
 | ``TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING``    | If you define this macro, every peer connection |
 |                                | will log its traffic to a log file.             |
-|                                | This setting requires a debug build, i.e.       |
-|                                | if you set ``NDEBUG`` aswell, no logs will be   |
-|                                | written.                                        |
 +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
 | ``TORRENT_STORAGE_DEBUG``      | This will enable extra expensive invariant      |
 |                                | checks in the storage, including logging of     |