8.13.0

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This release begins to adopt SkyWalking 9.3.0+ Virtual Cache Analysis and Virtual MQ Analysis

• Support set-type in the agent or plugin configurations
• Optimize ConfigInitializer to output warning messages when the config value is truncated.
• Fix the default value of the Map field would merge rather than override by new values in the config.
• Support to set the value of Map/List field to an empty map/list.
• Add plugin to support Impala JDBC 2.6.x.
• Update guava-cache, jedis, memcached, ehcache plugins to adopt uniform tags.
• Fix Apache ShenYu plugin traceId empty string value.
• Add plugin to support brpc-java-3.x
• Update compose-start-script.template to make compatible with new version docker compose
• Bump up grpc to 1.50.0 to fix CVE-2022-3171
• Polish up nats plugin to unify MQ related tags
• Correct the duration of the transaction span for Neo4J 4.x.
• Plugin-test configuration.yml dependencies support docker service command field
• Polish up rabbitmq-5.x plugin to fix missing broker tag on consumer side
• Polish up activemq plugin to fix missing broker tag on consumer side
• Enhance MQ plugin relative tests to check key tags not blank.
• Add RocketMQ test scenarios for version 4.3 - 4.9. No 4.0 - 4.2 release images for testing.
• Support mannual propagation of tracing context to next operators for webflux.
• Add MQ_TOPIC and MQ_BROKER tags for RocketMQ consumer's span.
• Polish up Pulsar plugins to remove unnecessary dynamic value , set peer at consumer side
• Polish Kafka plugin to set peer at the consumer side.
• Polish NATS plugin to set peer at the consumer side.
• Polish ActiveMQ plugin to set peer at the consumer side.
• Polish RabbitMQ plugin to set peer at the consumer side.

Documentation

• Update configuration doc about overriding default value as empty map/list accordingly.
• Update plugin dev tags for cache relative tags.
• Add plugin dev docs for virtual database tags.
• Add plugin dev docs for virtual MQ tags.
• Add doc about kafka plugin Manual APIs.

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8.12.0

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• Fix Shenyu plugin's NPE in reading trace ID when IgnoredTracerContext is used in the context.
• Update witness class in elasticsearch-6.x-plugin, avoid throw NPE.
• Fix onHalfClose using span operation name /Request/onComplete instead of the wrong name /Request/onHalfClose.
• Add plugin to support RESTeasy 4.x.
• Add plugin to support hutool-http 5.x.
• Add plugin to support Tomcat 10.x.
• Save http status code regardless of it's status.
• Upgrade byte-buddy to 1.12.13, and adopt byte-buddy APIs changes.
• Upgrade gson to 2.8.9.
• Upgrade netty-codec-http2 to 4.1.79.Final.
• Fix race condition causing agent to not reconnect after network error
• Force the injected high-priority classes in order to avoid NoClassDefFoundError.
• Plugin to support xxl-job 2.3.x.
• Add plugin to support Micronaut(HTTP Client/Server) 3.2.x-3.6.x
• Add plugin to support NATS Java client 2.14.x-2.15.x
• Remove inappropriate dependency from elasticsearch-7.x-plugin
• Upgrade jedis plugin to support 3.x(stream),4.x

Documentation

• Add a section in Bootstrap-plugins doc, introducing HttpURLConnection Plugin compatibility.
• Update Plugin automatic test framework, fix inconsistent description about configuration.yml.
• Update Plugin automatic test framework, add expected data format of the log items.

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8.11.0

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• Fix cluster and namespace value duplicated(namespace value) in properties report.
• Add layer field to event when reporting.
• Remove redundant shade.package property.
• Add servicecomb-2.x plugin and Testcase.
• Fix NPE in gateway plugin when the timer triggers webflux webclient call.
• Add an optional plugin, trace-sampler-cpu-policy-plugin, which could disable trace collecting in high CPU load.
• Change the dateformat of logs to yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS(was yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS).
• Fix NPE in elasticsearch plugin.
• Grpc plugin support trace client async generic call(without grpc stubs), support Method type: UNARY、SERVER_STREAMING.
• Enhance Apache ShenYu (incubating) plugin: support trace grpc,sofarpc,motan,tars rpc proxy.
• Add primary endpoint name to log events.
• Fix Span not finished in gateway plugin when the gateway request timeout.
• Support -Dlog4j2.contextSelector=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector in gRPC log report.
• Fix tcnative libraries relocation for aarch64.
• Add plugin.jdbc.trace_sql_parameters into Configuration Discovery Service.
• Fix argument type name of Array in postgresql-8.x-plugin from java.lang.String[] to [Ljava.lang.String;
• Add type name checking in ArgumentTypeNameMatch and ReturnTypeNameMatch
• Highlight ArgumentTypeNameMatch and ReturnTypeNameMatch type naming rule in docs/en/setup/service-agent/java-agent/Java-Plugin-Development-Guide.md
• Fix FileWriter scheduled task NPE
• Optimize gRPC Log reporter to set service name for the first element in the streaming.(No change for Kafka reporter)

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8.10.0

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• [Important] Namespace represents a subnet, such as kubernetes namespace, or 172.10... Make namespace concept as a
  part of service naming format.
• [Important] Add cluster concept, also as a part of service naming format. The cluster name would be
  1. Add as {@link #SERVICE_NAME} suffix.
  2. Add as exit span's peer, ${CLUSTER} / original peer
  3. Cross Process Propagation Header's value addressUsedAtClient[index=8] (Target address of this request used on the
     client end).
• Support Undertow thread pool metrics collecting.
• Support Tomcat thread pool metric collect.
• Remove plugin for ServiceComb Java Chassis 0.x
• Add Guava EventBus plugin.
• Fix Dubbo 3.x plugin's tracing problem.
• Fix the bug that maybe generate multiple trace when invoke http request by spring webflux webclient.
• Support Druid Connection pool metrics collecting.
• Support HikariCP Connection pool metrics collecting.
• Support Dbcp2 Connection pool metrics collecting.
• Ignore the synthetic constructor created by the agent in the Spring patch plugin.
• Add witness class for vertx-core-3.x plugin.
• Add witness class for graphql plugin.
• Add vertx-core-4.x plugin.
• Renamed graphql-12.x-plugin to graphql-12.x-15.x-plugin and graphql-12.x-scenario to graphql-12.x-15.x-scenario.
• Add graphql-16plus plugin.
• [Test] Support to configure plugin test base images.
• [Breaking Change] Remove deprecated agent.instance_properties configuration.
  Recommend agent.instance_properties_json.
• The namespace and cluster would be reported as instance properties, keys are namespace and cluster. Notice, if
  instance_properties_json includes these two keys, they would be overrided by the agent core.
• [Breaking Change] Remove the namespace from cross process propagation key.
• Make sure the parent endpoint in tracing context from existing first ENTRY span, rather than first span only.
• Fix the bug that maybe causing memory leak and repeated traceId when use gateway-2.1.x-plugin or gateway-3.x-plugin.
• Fix Grpc 1.x plugin could leak context due to gRPC cancelled.
• Add JDK ThreadPoolExecutor Plugin.
• Support default database(not set through JDBC URL) in mysql-5.x plugin.

Documentation

• Add link about java agent injector.
• Update configurations doc, remove agent.instance_properties[key]=value.
• Update configurations doc, add agent.cluster and update agent.namespace.

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8.9.0

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Changes by Version

• Support Transaction and fix duplicated methods enhancements for jedis-2.x plugin.
• Add ConsumerWrapper/FunctionWrapper to support CompletableFuture.x.thenAcceptAsync/thenApplyAsync.
• Build CLI from Docker instead of source codes, add alpine based Docker image.
• Support set instance properties in json format.
• Upgrade grpc-java to 1.42.1 and protoc to 3.17.3 to allow using native Mac osx-aarch_64 artifacts.
• Add doc about system environment variables to configurations.md
• Avoid ProfileTaskChannelService.addProfilingSnapshot throw IllegalStateException(Queue full)
• Increase ProfileTaskChannelService.snapshotQueue default size from 50 to 4500
• Support 2.8 and 2.9 of pulsar client.
• Add dubbo 3.x plugin.
• Fix TracePathMatcher should match pattern "**" with paths end by "/"
• Add support returnedObj expression for apm-customize-enhance-plugin
• Fix the bug that httpasyncclient-4.x-plugin puts the dirty tracing context in the connection context
• Compatible with the versions after dubbo-2.7.14
• Follow protocol grammar fix GCPhrase -> GCPhase.
• Support ZGC GC time and count metric collect. (Require 9.0.0 OAP)
• Support configuration for collecting redis parameters for jedis-2.x and redisson-3.x plugin.
• Migrate base images to Temurin and add images for ARM.
• (Plugin Test) Fix compiling issues in many plugin tests due to they didn't lock the Spring version, and Spring 3 is
  incompatible with 2.x APIs and JDK8 compiling.
• Support ShardingSphere 5.0.0
• Bump up gRPC to 1.44.0, fix relative CVEs.

Documentation

• Add a FAQ, Why is -Djava.ext.dirs not supported?.

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8.8.0

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• Split Java agent from the main monorepo. It is a separate repository and going to release separately since 8.8.0.
• Support JDK 8-17 through upgrading byte-buddy to 1.11.18.
• Upgrade JDK 11 in dockerfile and remove unused java_opts.
• DataCarrier changes a #consume API to add properties as a parameter to initialize consumer when
  use Class<? extends IConsumer<T>> consumerClass.
• Support Multiple DNS period resolving mechanism
• Modify Tags.STATUS_CODE field name to Tags.HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS_CODE and type from StringTag to IntegerTag, add Tags.RPC_RESPONSE_STATUS_CODE field to hold rpc response code value.
• Fix kafka-reporter-plugin shade package conflict
• Add all config items to agent.conf file for convenient containerization use cases.
• Advanced Kafka Producer configuration enhancement.
• Support mTLS for gRPC channel.
• fix the bug that plugin record wrong time elapse for lettuce plugin
• fix the bug that the wrong db.instance value displayed on Skywalking-UI when existing multi-database-instance on same host port pair.
• Add thrift plugin support thrift TMultiplexedProcessor.
• Add benchmark result for exception-ignore plugin and polish plugin guide.
• Provide Alibaba Druid database connection pool plugin.
• Provide HikariCP database connection pool plugin.
• Fix NumberFormat exception in jdbc-commons plugin when MysqlURLParser parser jdbcurl
• Provide Alibaba Fastjson parser/generator plugin.
• Provide Jackson serialization and deserialization plugin.
• Fix a tracing context leak of SpringMVC plugin, when an internal exception throws due to response can't be found.
• Make GRPC log reporter sharing GRPC channel with other reporters of agent. Remove config items of agent.conf, plugin.toolkit.log.grpc.reporter.server_host, plugin.toolkit.log.grpc.reporter.server_port, and plugin.toolkit.log.grpc.reporter.upstream_timeout.
  rename plugin.toolkit.log.grpc.reporter.max_message_size to log.max_message_size.
• Implement Kafka Log Reporter. Add config item of agnt.conf, plugin.kafka.topic_logging.
• Add plugin to support Apache HttpClient 5.
• Format SpringMVC & Tomcat EntrySpan operation name to METHOD:URI.
• Make HTTP method in the operation name according to runtime, rather than previous code-level definition, which used to have possibilities including multiple HTTP methods.
• Fix the bug that httpasyncclient-4.x-plugin does not take effect every time.
• Add plugin to support ClickHouse JDBC driver.
• Fix version compatibility for JsonRPC4J plugin.
• Add plugin to support Apache Kylin-jdbc 2.6.x 3.x 4.x
• Fix instrumentation v2 API doesn't work for constructor instrumentation.
• Add plugin to support okhttp 2.x
• Optimize okhttp 3.x 4.x plugin to get span time cost precisely
• Adapt message header properties of RocketMQ 4.9.x

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