Release Apache SkyWalking APM 8.3.0

Release Apache SkyWalking 8.3.0.
By SkyWalking Team |

SkyWalking 8.3.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars.

Project

  • Test: ElasticSearch version 7.0.0 and 7.9.3 as storage are E2E tested.
  • Test: Bump up testcontainers version to work around the Docker bug on MacOS.

Java Agent

  • Support propagate the sending timestamp in MQ plugins to calculate the transfer latency in the async MQ scenarios.
  • Support auto-tag with the fixed values propagated in the correlation context.
  • Make HttpClient 3.x, 4.x, and HttpAsyncClient 3.x plugins to support collecting HTTP parameters.
  • Make the Feign plugin to support Java 14
  • Make the okhttp3 plugin to support Java 14
  • Polish tracing context related codes.
  • Add the plugin for async-http-client 2.x
  • Fix NPE in the nutz plugin.
  • Provide Apache Commons DBCP 2.x plugin.
  • Add the plugin for mssql-jtds 1.x.
  • Add the plugin for mssql-jdbc 6.x -> 9.x.
  • Fix the default ignore mechanism isn’t accurate enough bug.
  • Add the plugin for spring-kafka 1.3.x.
  • Add the plugin for Apache CXF 3.x.
  • Fix okhttp-3.x and async-http-client-2.x did not overwrite the old trace header.

OAP-Backend

  • Add the @SuperDataset annotation for BrowserErrorLog.
  • Add the thread pool to the Kafka fetcher to increase the performance.
  • Add contain and not contain OPS in OAL.
  • Add Envoy ALS analyzer based on metadata exchange.
  • Add listMetrics GraphQL query.
  • Add group name into services of so11y and istio relevant metrics
  • Support keeping collecting the slowly segments in the sampling mechanism.
  • Support choose files to active the meter analyzer.
  • Support nested class definition in the Service, ServiceInstance, Endpoint, ServiceRelation, and ServiceInstanceRelation sources.
  • Support sideCar.internalErrorCode in the Service, ServiceInstance, Endpoint, ServiceRelation, and ServiceInstanceRelation sources.
  • Improve Kubernetes service registry for ALS analysis.
  • Add health checker for cluster management
  • Support the service auto grouping.
  • Support query service list by the group name.
  • Improve the queryable tags generation. Remove the duplicated tags to reduce the storage payload.
  • Fix the threads of the Kafka fetcher exit if some unexpected exceptions happen.
  • Fix the excessive timeout period set by the kubernetes-client.
  • Fix deadlock problem when using elasticsearch-client-7.0.0.
  • Fix storage-jdbc isExists not set dbname.
  • Fix searchService bug in the InfluxDB storage implementation.
  • Fix CVE in the alarm module, when activating the dynamic configuration feature.
  • Fix CVE in the endpoint grouping, when activating the dynamic configuration feature.
  • Fix CVE in the uninstrumented gateways configs, when activating the dynamic configuration feature.
  • Fix CVE in the Apdex threshold configs, when activating the dynamic configuration feature.
  • Make the codes and doc consistent in sharding server and core server.
  • Fix that chunked string is incorrect while the tag contains colon.
  • Fix the incorrect dynamic configuration key bug of endpoint-name-grouping.
  • Remove unused min date timebucket in jdbc deletehistory logical
  • Fix “transaction too large error” when use TiDB as storage.
  • Fix “index not found” in trace query when use ES7 storage.
  • Add otel rules to ui template to observe Istio control plane.
  • Remove istio mixer
  • Support close influxdb batch write model.
  • Check SAN in the ALS (m)TLS process.

UI

  • Fix incorrect label in radial chart in topology.
  • Replace node-sass with dart-sass.
  • Replace serviceFilter with serviceGroup
  • Removed “Les Miserables” from radial chart in topology.
  • Add the Promise dropdown option

Documentation

  • Add VNode FAQ doc.
  • Add logic endpoint section in the agent setup doc.
  • Adjust configuration names and system environment names of the sharing server module
  • Tweak Istio metrics collection doc.
  • Add otel receiver.

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