Releases: apache/skywalking
8.0.0
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- v3 protocol is added and implemented. All previous releases are incompatible with 8.x releases.
- Service, Instance, Endpoint register mechanism and inventory storage entities are removed.
- New GraphQL query protocol is provided, the legacy procotol is still supported(plan to remove at the end of this year).
- Support Prometheus network protocol. Metrics in Prometheus format could be transferred into SkyWalking.
- Python agent provided.
- All inventory caches have been removed.
- Apache ShardingSphere(4.0.0, 4.1.1) agent plugin provided.
Java Agent
- Add MariaDB plugin.
- Vert.x plugin enhancement. More cases are covered.
- Support v3 extension header.
- Fix ElasticSearch 5.x plugin TransportClient error.
- Support Correlation protocol v1.
- Fix Finagle plugin bug, in processing Noop Span.
- Make
CommandService
daemon to avoid blocking target application shutting down gracefully. - Refactor spring cloud gateway plugin and support tracing spring cloud gateway 2.2.x
OAP-Backend
- Support meter system for Prometheus adoption. In future releases, we will add native meter APIs and MicroMeter(Sleuth) system.
- Support endpoint grouping.
- Add SuperDataSet annotation for storage entity.
- Add superDatasetIndexShardsFactor in the ElasticSearch storage, to provide more shards for @SuperDataset annotated entites. Typically TraceSegment.
- Support alarm settings for relationship of service, instance, and endpoint level metrics.
- Support alarm settings for database(conjecture node in tracing scenario).
- Data Model could be added in the runtime, don't depend on the bootstrap sequence anymore.
- Reduce the memory cost, due to no inventory caches.
- No buffer files in tracing and service mesh cases.
- New ReadWriteSafe cache implementation. Simplify codes.
- Provide default way for metrics query, even the metrics doesn't exist.
- New GraphQL query protocol is provided. Support the metrics type query.
- Set up length rule of service, instance, and endpoint.
- Adjust the default jks for ElasticSearch to empty.
- Fix Apdex function integer overflow issue.
- Fix profile storage issue.
- Fix TTL issue.
- Fix H2 column type bug.
- Add JRE 8-14 test for the backend.
UI
- UI dashboard is 100% configurable to adopt new metrics definited in the backend.
Document
- Add v8 upgrade document.
- Make the coverage accurate including UT and e2e tests.
- Add miss doc about collecting parameters in the profiled traces.
CVE
- Fix SQL Injection vulnerability in H2/MySQL implementation.
- Upgrade Nacos to avoid the FastJson CVE in high frequency.
- Upgrade jasckson-databind to 2.9.10.
7.0.0
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- SkyWalking discards the supports of JDK 1.6 and 1.7 on the java agent side. The minimal requirement of JDK is JDK8.
- Support method performance profile.
- Provide new E2E test framework.
- Remove AppVeyor from the CI, use GitHub action only.
- Provide new plugin test tool.
- Don't support SkyWalking v5 agent in-wire and out-wire protocol. v6 is required.
Java Agent
- Add lazy injection API in the agent core.
- Support Servlet 2.5 in the Struts plugin.
- Fix RestTemplate plugin ClassCastException in the Async call.
- Add Finagle plugin.
- Add test cases of H2 and struts.
- Add Armeria 0.98 plugin.
- Fix ElasticSearch plugin bug.
- Fix EHCache plugin bug.
- Fix a potential I/O leak.
- Support Oracle SID mode.
- Update Byte-buddy core.
- Performance tuning: replace AtomicInteger with AtomicIntegerFieldUpdater.
- Add AVRO plugin.
- Update to JDK 1.8
- Optimize the ignore plugin.
- Enhance the gRPC plugin.
- Add Kotlin Coroutine plugin.
- Support HTTP parameter collection in Tomcat and SpringMVC plugin.
- Add @tag annotation in the application toolkit.
- Move Lettuce into the default plugin list.
- Move Webflux into the default plugin list.
- Add HttpClient 3.x plugin.
OAP-Backend
- Support InfluxDB as a new storage option.
- Add
selector
in theapplication.yml
. Make the provider activation more flexible through System ENV. - Support sub-topology map query.
- Support gRPC SSL.
- Support HTTP protocol for agent.
- Support Nginx LUA agent.
- Support skip the instance relationship analysis if some agents doesn't have upstream address, currently for LUA agent.
- Support metrics entity name in the storage. Optional, default OFF.
- Merge the HOUR and DAY metrics into MINUTE in the ElasticSearch storage implementation. Reduce the payload for ElasticSearch server.
- Support change detection mechanism in DCS.
- Support Daily step in the ElasticSearch storage implementation for low traffic system.
- Provide profile export tool.
- Support alarm gRPC hook.
- Fix PHP language doesn't show up on the instance page.
- Add more comments in the source codes.
- Add a new metrics type, multiple linears.
- Fix thread concurrency issue in the alarm core.
UI
- Support custom topology definition.
- Support profile.
Document
- Add FAQ about
python2
command required in the compiling. - Add doc about new e2e framework.
- Add doc about the new profile feature.
- Powered-by page updated.
6.6.0
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- [IMPORTANT] Local span and exit span are not treated as endpoint detected at client and local. Only entry span is the endpoint. Reduce the load of register and memory cost.
- Support MiniKube, Istio and SkyWalking on K8s deployment in CI.
- Support Windows and MacOS build in GitHub Action CI.
- Support ElasticSearch 7 in official dist.
- Hundreds plugin cases have been added in GitHub Action CI process.
Java Agent
- Remove the local/exit span operation name register mechanism.
- Add plugin for JDK Threading classes.
- Add plugin for Armeria.
- Support set operation name in async span.
- Enhance webflux plugin, related to Spring Gateway plugin. Webflux plugin is in optional, due to JDK8 required.
- Fix a possible deadlock.
- Fix NPE when OAL scripts are different in different OAP nodes, mostly in upgrading stage.
- Fix bug about wrong peer in ES plugin.
- Fix NPE in Spring plugin.
- Fix wrong class name in Dubbo 2.7 conflict patch.
- Fix spring annotation inheritance problem.
OAP-Backend
- Remove the local/exit span operation name register mechanism.
- Remove client side endpoint register in service mesh.
- Service instance dependency and related metrics.
- Support
min
func in OAL - Support
apdex
func in OAL - Support custom ES config setting at the index level.
- Envoy ALS proto upgraded.
- Update JODA lib as bugs in UTC +13/+14.
- Support topN sample period configurable.
- Ignore no statement DB operations in slow SQL collection.
- Fix bug in docker-entrypoint.sh when using MySQL as storage
UI
- Service topology enhancement. Dive into service, instance and endpoint metrics on topo map.
- Service instance dependency view and related metrics.
- Support using URL parameter in trace query page.
- Support apdex score in service page.
- Add service dependency metrics into metrics comparison.
- Fix alarm search not working.
Document
- Update user list and user wall.
- Add document link for CLI.
- Add deployment guide of agent in Jetty case.
- Modify Consul cluster doc.
- Add document about injecting traceId into the logback with logstack in JSON format.
- ElementUI license and dependency added.
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6.5.0
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- Compatible with 6.4.0 release
- TTL E2E test (#3437)
- Test coverage is back in pull request check status (#3503)
- Plugin tests begin to be migrated into main repo, and is in process. (#3528, #3756, #3751, etc.)
- Switch to SkyWalking CI (exclusive) nodes (#3546)
- MySQL storage e2e test. (#3648)
- E2E tests are verified in multiple jdk versions, jdk 8, 9, 11, 12 (#3657)
- Jenkins build jobs run only when necessary (#3662)
OAP-Backend
- Support dynamically configure alarm settings (#3557)
- Language of instance could be null (#3485)
- Make query max window size configurable. (#3765)
- Remove two max size 500 limit. (#3748)
- Parameterize the cache size. (#3741)
- ServiceInstanceRelation set error id (#3683)
- Makes the scope of alarm message more semantic. (#3680)
- Add register persistent worker latency metrics (#3677)
- Fix more reasonable error (#3619)
- Add GraphQL getServiceInstance instanceUuid field. (#3595)
- Support namespace in Nacos cluster/configuration (#3578)
- Instead of datasource-settings.properties, use application.yml for MySQLStorageProvider (#3564)
- Provide consul dynamic configuration center implementation (#3560)
- Upgrade guava version to support higher jdk version (#3541)
- Sync latest als from envoy api (#3507)
- Set telemetry instanced id for Etcd and Nacos plugin (#3492)
- Support timeout configuration in agent and backend. (#3491)
- Make sure the cluster register happens before streaming process. (#3471)
- Agent supports custom properties. (#3367)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes (#3567)
UI
- Feature: node detail display in topo circle-chart view.
- BugFix: the jvm-maxheap & jvm-maxnonheap is -1, free is no value
- Fix bug: time select operation not in effect
- Fix bug: language initialization failed
- Fix bug: not show instance language
- Feature: support the trace list display export png
- Feature: Metrics comparison view
- BugFix: Fix dashboard top throughput copy
Java Agent
- Spring async scenario optimize (#3723)
- Support log4j2 AsyncLogger (#3715)
- Add config to collect PostgreSQL sql query params (#3695)
- Support namespace in Nacos cluster/configuration (#3578)
- Provide plugin for ehcache 2.x (#3575)
- Supporting RequestRateLimiterGatewayFilterFactory (#3538)
- Kafka-plugin compatible with KafkaTemplate (#3505)
- Add pulsar apm plugin (#3476)
- Spring-cloud-gateway traceId does not transmit #3411 (#3446)
- Gateway compatible with downstream loss (#3445)
- Provide cassandra java driver 3.x plugin (#3410)
- Fix SpringMVC4 NoSuchMethodError (#3408)
- BugFix: endpoint grouping rules may be not unique (#3510)
- Add feature to control the maximum agent log files (#3475)
- Agent support custom properties. (#3367)
Document
- Remove travis badge (#3763)
- Replace user wall to typical users in readme page (#3719)
- Update istio docs according latest istio release (#3646)
- Use chart deploy sw docs (#3573)
- Reorganize the doc, and provide catalog (#3563)
- Committer vote and set up document. (#3496)
- Update als setup doc as istio 1.3 released (#3470)
- Fill faq reply in official document. (#3450)
6.4.0
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Project
- Highly recommend to upgrade due to Pxx metrics calculation bug.
- Make agent working in JDK9+ Module system.
Java Agent
- Make agent working in JDK9+ Module system.
- Support Kafka 2.x client libs.
- Log error in OKHTTP OnFailure callback.
- Support injecting traceid into logstack appender in logback.
- Add OperationName(including endpoint name) length max threshold.
- Support using Regex to group operation name.
- Support Undertow routing handler.
- RestTemplate plugin support operation name grouping.
- Fix ClassCastException in Webflux plugin.
- Ordering zookeeper server list, to make it better in topology.
- Fix a Dubbo plugin incompatible issue.
- Fix MySQL 5 plugin issue.
- Make log writer cached.
- Optimize Spring Cloud Gateway plugin
- Fix and improve gRPC reconnect mechanism.
- Remove Disruptor dependency from agent.
Backend
- Fix Pxx(p50,p75,p90,p95,p99) metrics func bug.(Critical)
- Support Gateway in backend analysis, even when it doesn't have suitable language agent.
- Support using HTTPs SSL accessing ElasticSearch storage.
- Support Zookeeper ACL.
- Make alarm records listed in order.
- Fix Pxx data persistence failure in some cases.
- Fix some bugs in MySQL storage.
- Setup slow SQL length threshold.
- Fix TTL settings is not working as expected.
- Remove scope-meta file.
UI
- Enhance alarm page layout.
- Support trace tree chart resize.
- Support trace auto completion when partial traces abandoned somehow.
- Fix dashboard endpoint slow chart.
- Add radial chart in topology page.
- Add trace table mode.
- Fix topology page bug.
- Fix calender js bug.
- Fix "The "topo-services" component did not update the data in time after modifying the time range on the topology page.
Document
- Restore the broken Istio setup doc.
- Add etcd config center document.
- Correct span_limit_per_segment default value in document.
- Enhance plugin develop doc.
- Fix error description in build document.
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6.3.0
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- e2e tests have been added, and verify every pull request.
- Use ArrayList to replace LinkedList in DataCarrier for much better performance.
- Add plugin instrumentation definition check in CI.
- DataCarrier performance improvement by avoiding false-sharing.
Java Agent
- Java agent supports JDK 9 - 12, but don't support Java Module yet.
- Support JVM class auto instrumentation, cataloged as bootstrap plugin.
- Support JVM HttpClient and HttpsClient plugin.[Optional]
- Support backend upgrade without rebooting required.
- Open Redefine and Retransform by other agents.
- Support Servlet 2.5 in Jetty, Tomcat and SpringMVC plugins.
- Support Spring @async plugin.
- Add new config item to restrict the length of span#peer.
- Refactor
ContextManager#stopSpan
. - Add gRPC timeout.
- Support Logback AsyncAppender print tid
- Fix gRPC reconnect bug.
- Fix trace segment service doesn't report
onComplete
. - Fix wrong logger class name.
- Fix gRPC plugin bug.
- Fix
ContextManager.activeSpan()
API usage error.
Backend
- Support agent reset command downstream when the storage is erased, mostly because of backend upgrade.
- Backend stream flow refactor.
- High dimensionality metrics(Hour/Day/Month) are changed to lower priority, to ease the storage payload.
- Add OAP metrics cache to ease the storage query payload and improve performance.
- Remove DataCarrier in trace persistent of ElasticSearch storage, by leveraging the elasticsearch bulk queue.
- OAP internal communication protocol changed. Don't be compatible with old releases.
- Improve ElasticSearch storage bulk performance.
- Support etcd as dynamic configuration center.
- Simplify the PxxMetrics and ThermodynamicMetrics functions for better performance and GC.
- Support JVM metrics self observability.
- Add the new OAL runtime engine.
- Add gRPC timeout.
- Add Charset in the alarm web hook.
- Fix buffer lost.
- Fix dirty read in ElasticSearch storage.
- Fix bug of cluster management plugins in un-Mixed mode.
- Fix wrong logger class name.
- Fix delete bug in ElasticSearch when using namespace.
- Fix MySQL TTL failure.
- Totally remove
IDs can't be null
log, to avoid misleading. - Fix provider has been initialized repeatedly.
- Adjust providers conflict log message.
- Fix using wrong gc time metrics in OAL.
UI
- Fix refresh is not working after endpoint and instance changed.
- Fix endpoint selector but.
- Fix wrong copy value in slow traces.
- Fix can't show trace when it is broken partially(Because of agent sampling or fail safe).
- Fix database and response time graph bugs.
Document
- Add bootstrap plugin development document.
- Alarm documentation typo fixed.
- Clarify the Docker file purpose.
- Fix a license typo.
6.2.0
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- ElasticSearch storage implementation performance improved, and CHANGED totally. Must delete all existing indexes to do the upgrade.
- CI and Integration tests provided by ASF INFRA.
- Plan to enhance tests including e2e, plugin tests in all pull requests, powered by ASF INFRA.
- DataCarrier queue write index controller performance improvement. 3-5 times quicker than before.
- Add windows compile support in CI.
Java Agent
- Support collect SQL parameter in MySQL plugin.[Optional]
- Support SolrJ plugin.
- Support RESTEasy plugin.
- Support Spring Gateway plugin for 2.1.x
- TracingContext performance improvement.
- Support Apache ShardingSphere(incubating) plugin.
- Support
span#error
in application toolkit. - Fix OOM by empty stack of exception.
- FIx wrong cause exception of stack in span log.
- Fix unclear the running context in SpringMVC plugin.
- Fix CPU usage accessor calculation issue.
- Fix SpringMVC plugin span not stop bug when doing HTTP forward.
- Fix lettuce plugin async commend bug and NPE.
- Fix webflux plugin cast exception.
- [CI]Support
import
check.
Backend
- Support time series ElasticSearch storage.
- Provide dynamic configuration module and implementation. Slow SQL threshold supports dynamic config today.
- Dynamic Configuration module provide multiple implementations, DCS(gRPC based), Zookeeper, Apollo, Nacos.
- Provide P99/95/90/75/50 charts in topology edge.
- New topology query protocol and implementation.
- Support Envoy ALS in Service Mesh scenario.
- Support Nacos cluster management.
- Enhance metric exporter. Run in increment and total modes.
- Fix module provider is loaded repeatedly.
- Change TOP slow SQL storage in ES to Text from Keyword, as too long text issue.
- Fix H2TopologyQuery tiny bug.
- Fix H2 log query bug.(No feature provided yet)
- Filtering pods not in 'Running' phase in mesh scenario.
- Fix query alarm bug in MySQL and H2 storage.
- Codes refactor.
UI
- Fix some
ID is null
query(s). - Page refactor, especially time-picker, more friendly.
- Login removed.
- Trace timestamp visualization issue fixed.
- Provide P99/95/90/75/50 charts in topology edge.
- Change all P99/95/90/75/50 charts style. More readable.
- Fix 404 in trace page.
Document
- Go2Sky project has been donated to SkyAPM, change document link.
- Add FAQ for ElasticSearch storage, and links from document.
- Add FAQ fro WebSphere installation.
- Add several open users.
- Add alarm webhook document.
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6.1.0
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Project
SkyWalking graduated as Apache Top Level Project.
- Support compiling project agent, backend, UI separately.
Java Agent
- Support Vert.x Core 3.x plugin.
- Support Apache Dubbo plugin.
- Support
use_qualified_name_as_endpoint_name
anduse_qualified_name_as_operation_name
configs in SpringMVC plugin. - Support span async close APIs in core. Used in Vert.x plugin.
- Support MySQL 5,8 plugins.
- Support set instance id manually(optional).
- Support customize enhance trace plugin in optional list.
- Support to set peer in Entry Span.
- Support Zookeeper plugin.
- Fix Webflux plugin created unexpected Entry Span.
- Fix Kafka plugin NPE in Kafka 1.1+
- Fix wrong operation name in postgre 8.x plugin.
- Fix RabbitMQ plugin NPE.
- Fix agent can't run in JVM 6/7, remove
module-info.class
. - Fix agent can't work well, if there is whitespace in agent path.
- Fix Spring annotation bug and inheritance enhance issue.
- Fix CPU accessor bug.
Backend
Performance improved, especially in CPU limited environment. 3x improvement in service mesh scenario(no trace) in 8C16G VM.
Significantly cost less CPU in low payload.
- Support database metric and SLOW SQL detection.
- Support to set max size of metadata query. And change default to 5000 from 100.
- Support ElasticSearch template for new feature in the future.
- Support shutdown Zipkin trace analysis, because it doesn't fit production environment.
- Support log type, scope HTTP_ACCESS_LOG and query. No feature provided, prepare for future versions.
- Support .NET clr receiver.
- Support Jaeger trace format, no analysis.
- Support group endpoint name by regax rules in mesh receiver.
- Support
diable
statement in OAL. - Support basic auth in ElasticSearch connection.
- Support metric exporter module and gRPC implementor.
- Support
>, <, >=, <=
in OAL. - Support role mode in backend.
- Support Envoy metric.
- Support query segment by service instance.
- Support to set host/port manually at cluster coordinator, rather than based on core settings.
- Make sure OAP shutdown when it faces startup error.
- Support set separated gRPC/Jetty ip:port for receiver, default still use core settings.
- Fix JVM receiver bug.
- Fix wrong dest service in mesh analysis.
- Fix search doesn't work as expected.
- Refactor
ScopeDeclaration
annotation. - Refactor register lock mechanism.
- Add SmartSql component for .NET
- Add integration tests for ElasticSearch client.
- Add test cases for exporter.
- Add test cases for queue consume.
UI
- RocketBot UI has been accepted and bind in this release.
- Support CLR metric.
Document
- Documents updated, matching Top Level Project requirement.
- UI licenses updated, according to RocketBot UI IP clearance.
- User wall and powered-by list updated.
- CN documents removed, only consider to provide by volunteer out of Apache.
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6.0.0-GA
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Java Agent
- Support gson plugin(optional).
- Support canal plugin.
- Fix missing ojdbc component id.
- Fix dubbo plugin conflict.
- Fix OpenTracing tag match bug.
- Fix a missing check in ignore plugin.
Backend
- Adjust service inventory entity, to add properties.
- Adjust service instance inventory entity, to add properties.
- Add nodeType to service inventory entity.
- Fix when operation name of local and exit spans in ref, the segment lost.
- Fix the index names don't show right in logs.
- Fix wrong alarm text.
- Add test case for span limit mechanism.
- Add telemetry module and prometheus implementation, with grafana setting.
- A refactor for register API in storage module.
- Fix H2 and MySQL endpoint dependency map miss upstream side.
- Optimize the inventory register and refactor the implementation.
- Speed up the trace buffer read.
- Fix and removed unnecessary inventory register operations.
UI
- Add new trace view.
- Add word-break to tag value.
Document
- Add two startup modes document.
- Add PHP agent links.
- Add some cn documents.
- Update year to 2019
- User wall updated.
- Fix a wrong description in
how-to-build
doc.
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6.0.0-beta
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Protocol
- Provide Trace Data Protocol v2
- Provide SkyWalking Cross Process Propagation Headers Protocol v2.
Java Agent
- Support Trace Data Protocol v2
- Support SkyWalking Cross Process Propagation Headers Protocol v2.
- Support SkyWalking Cross Process Propagation Headers Protocol v1 running in compatible way. Need declare open explicitly.
- Support SpringMVC 5
- Support webflux
- Support a new way to override agent.config by system env.
- Span tag can override by explicit way.
- Fix Spring Controller Inherit issue.
- Fix ElasticSearch plugin NPE.
- Fix agent classloader dead lock in certain situation.
- Fix agent log typo.
- Fix wrong component id in resettemplete plugin.
- Fix use transform
ignore()
in wrong way. - Fix H2 query bug.
Backend
- Support Trace Data Protocol v2. And Trace Data Protocol v1 is still supported.
- Support MySQL as storage.
- Support TiDB as storage.
- Support a new way to override application.yml by system env.
- Support service instance and endpoint alarm.
- Support namespace in istio receiver.
- Support service throughput(cpm), successful rate(sla), avg response time and p99/p95/p90/p75/p50 response time.
- Support backend trace sampling.
- Support Zipkin format again.
- Support init mode.
- Support namespace in Zookeeper cluster management.
- Support consul plugin in cluster module.
- OAL generate tool has been integrated into main repo, in the maven
compile
stage. - Optimize trace paging query.
- Fix trace query don't use fuzzy query in ElasticSearch storage.
- Fix alarm can't be active in right way.
- Fix unnecessary condition in database and cache number query.
- Fix wrong namespace bug in ElasticSearch storage.
- Fix
Remote clients selector error: / by zero
. - Fix segment TTL is not working.
UI
- Support service throughput(cpm), successful rate(sla), avg response time and p99/p95/p90/p75/p50 response time.
- Fix TopN endpoint link doesn't work right.
- Fix trace stack style.
- Fix CI.
Document
- Add more agent setting documents.
- Add more contribution documents.
- Update user wall and powered-by page.
- Add RocketBot UI project link in document.
All issues and pull requests are here