Release Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 8.9.0

Release Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 8.9.0.

SkyWalking Java Agent 8.9.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars. Changes by Version

8.9.0

  • 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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