- 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 protocol 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(4.1.0, 4.1.1) agent plugin provided.
- 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
- 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 dashboard is 100% configurable to adopt new metrics definited in the backend.
- Add v8 upgrade document.
- Make the coverage accurate including UT and e2e tests.
- Add miss doc about collecting parameters in the profiled traces.
- 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.
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