Version 1.18.0

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This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.18.0.

Note that all artifacts other than io.opentelemetry.javaagent:opentelemetry-javaagent have the -alpha suffix attached to their version number, reflecting that they are still alpha quality and will continue to have breaking changes. Please see the VERSIONING.md for more details.

The opentelemetry-instrumentation-api artifact is declared stable in this release.

Migration notes

• There were a few late-breaking changes in opentelemetry-instrumentation-api, prior to it being declared stable: * InstrumenterBuilder.addAttributesExtractors(AttributesExtractor...) was removed, use instead addAttributesExtractors(AttributesExtractor) or addAttributesExtractors(Iterable<AttributesExtractor>) * SpanLinksExtractor.extractFromRequest() was removed, use instead manual extraction * ErrorCauseExtractor.jdk() was renamed to ErrorCauseExtractor.getDefault() * ClassNames utility was removed with no direct replacement
• The deprecated io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.api.config.Config and related classes have been removed (#6501)
• Net attributes getters were updated to reflect latest specification changes (#6503)
• The deprecated Ordered interface was removed from the opentelemetry-javaagent-extension-api, use instead the Ordered interface from opentelemetry-sdk-extension-autoconfigure-spi (#6589)

📈 Enhancements

• Add Spring Boot service name guesser / ResourceProvider (#6516)
• Move micrometer shim library instrumentation back (#6538)
• Add grpc status code to metrics attrs (#6556)
• Add mongo sanitization configuration (#6541)
• Add kafka client metrics to the javaagent instrumentation (#6533)
• Add experimental span attribute job.system (#6586)
• Add code attributes for Logback (#6591)
• Reactor instrumentation: do not make root context current (#6593)

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Fix default-enabled config (#6491)
• Fix new jdbc javaagent config (#6492)
• Fix jaxrs async instrumentation race (#6523)
• Fix spring webmvc instrumentation name (#6557)
• Fix spring boot @WithSpan handling (#6619)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@breedx-splk
@cartermp
@chalin
@jack-berg
@jeanbisutti
@laurit
@lmolkova
@mateuszrzeszutek
@mingchuno
@ppatierno
@Shivanireddie
@trask

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