Release Apache SkyWalking APM 8.8.0

Release Apache SkyWalking 8.8.0.
By SkyWalking Team |

SkyWalking 8.8.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars.

This is a first OAP server + UI release, Java agent will be release independently. Check the latest compatibility document to find suitable agent releases.

Changes by Version

Project

OAP Server

  • Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090. Upgrade org.apache.commons:commons-compress to 1.21.
  • kubernetes java client upgrade from 12.0.1 to 13.0.0
  • Add event http receiver
  • Support Metric level function serviceRelation in MAL.
  • Support envoy metrics binding into the topology.
  • Fix openapi-definitions folder not being read correctly.
  • Trace segment wouldn’t be recognized as a TopN sample service. Add through #4694 experimentally, but it caused performance impact.
  • Remove version and endTime in the segment entity. Reduce indexing payload.
  • Fix mapper_parsing_exception in ElasticSearch 7.14.
  • Support component IDs for Go-Kratos framework.
  • [Break Change] Remove endpoint name in the trace query condition. Only support query by endpoint id.
  • Fix ProfileSnapshotExporterTest case on OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK-11.0.11+9 (build 11.0.11+9), MacOS.
  • [Break Change] Remove page path in the browser log query condition. Only support query by page path id.
  • [Break Change] Remove endpoint name in the backend log query condition. Only support query by endpoint id.
  • [Break Change] Fix typo for a column page_path_id(was pate_path_id) of storage entity browser_error_log.
  • Add component id for Python falcon plugin.
  • Add rpcStatusCode for rpc.status_code tag. The responseCode field is marked as deprecated and replaced by httpResponseStatusCode field.
  • Remove the duplicated tags to reduce the storage payload.
  • Add a new API to test log analysis language.
  • Harden the security of Groovy-based DSL, MAL and LAL.
  • Fix distinct in Service/Instance/Endpoint query is not working.
  • Support collection type in dynamic configuration core.
  • Support zookeeper grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Fix NPE when OAP nodes synchronize events with each other in cluster mode.
  • Support k8s configmap grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Add desc sort function in H2 and ElasticSearch implementations of IBrowserLogQueryDAO
  • Support configure sampling policy by configuration module dynamically and static configuration file trace-sampling-policy-settings.yml for service dimension on the backend side. Dynamic configurations agent-analyzer.default.sampleRate and agent-analyzer.default.slowTraceSegmentThreshold are replaced by agent-analyzer.default.traceSamplingPolicy. Static configurations agent-analyzer.default.sampleRate and agent-analyzer.default.slowTraceSegmentThreshold are replaced by agent-analyzer.default.traceSamplingPolicySettingsFile.
  • Fix dynamic configuration watch implementation current value not null when the config is deleted.
  • Fix LoggingConfigWatcher return watch.value would not consistent with the real configuration content.
  • Fix ZookeeperConfigWatcherRegister.readConfig() could cause NPE when data.getData() is null.
  • Support nacos grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Support for filter function filtering of int type values.
  • Support mTLS for gRPC channel.
  • Add yaml file suffix limit when reading ui templates.
  • Support consul grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Fix H2MetadataQueryDAO.searchService doesn’t support auto grouping.
  • Rebuilt ElasticSearch client on top of their REST API.
  • Fix ElasticSearch storage plugin doesn’t work when hot reloading from secretsManagementFile.
  • Support etcd grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Unified the config word namespace in the project.
  • Switch JRE base image for dev images.
  • Support apollo grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Fix ProfileThreadSnapshotQuery.queryProfiledSegments adopts a wrong sort function
  • Support gRPC sync grouped dynamic configurations.
  • Fix H2EventQueryDAO doesn’t sort data by Event.START_TIME and uses a wrong pagination query.
  • Fix LogHandler of kafka-fetcher-plugin cannot recognize namespace.
  • Improve the speed of writing TiDB by batching the SQL execution.
  • Fix wrong service name when IP is node IP in k8s-mesh.
  • Support dynamic configurations for openAPI endpoint name grouping rule.
  • Add component definition for Alibaba Druid and HikariCP.
  • Fix Hour and Day dimensionality metrics not accurate, due to the cache read-then-clear mechanism conflicts with low down metrics flush period added in 8.7.0.
  • Fix Slow SQL sampling not accurate, due to TopN works conflict with cache read-then-clear mechanism.
  • The persistent cache is only read when necessary.
  • Add component definition for Alibaba Fastjson.
  • Fix entity(service/instance/endpoint) names in the MAL system(prometheus, native meter, open census, envoy metric service) are not controlled by core’s naming-control mechanism.
  • Upgrade netty version to 4.1.68.Final avoid cve-2021-37136.

UI

  • Fix not found error when refresh UI.
  • Update endpointName to endpointId in the query trace condition.
  • Add Python falcon icon on the UI.
  • Fix searching endpoints with keywords.
  • Support clicking the service name in the chart to link to the trace or log page.
  • Implement the Log Analysis Language text regexp debugger.
  • Fix fetching nodes and calls with serviceIds on the topology side.
  • Implement Alerts for query errors.
  • Fixes graph parameter of query for topology metrics.

Documentation

  • Add a section in Log Collecting And Analysis doc, introducing the new Python agent log reporter.
  • Add one missing step in otel-receiver doc about how to activate the default receiver.
  • Reorganize dynamic configuration doc.
  • Add more description about meter configurations in backend-meter doc.
  • Fix typo in endpoint-grouping-rules doc.

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