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The v1.7.3 release includes the following updates:

• Improved runtime performance in BootLoaderAgent (#552)
• Resolution to "self tracing" issue experienced with Jaeger (#531 #548)
• Support -DskipTests in itest-maven-mojo (#568)
• Upgrade LightStep Tracer Bundle to v0.20.1 (#566)

The v1.7.2 release includes the following updates:

• Make CI/CD stable, and reduce time for releases and PR checks (#538 #539)
• Prefer compiled invocation rather than via reflection in servlet rule (#547)
• Fix to sparkjava integration test failing (#560 #561)
• Fix to ZuulITest failure with span not error (#558 #559)
• Remove "unchained" agent rule spring-web-* in favor of HttpUrlConnection (improved startup performance) (#556 #557)
• Merge all "unchained" spring-webmvc-* rules into one "chained" spring-webmvc (improved startup performance) (#553 #554)
• Chain rules in BootLoaderAgent (improved startup performance)

The v1.7.1 release includes the following updates:

• Fix Span.KIND for apache:httpclient rule (#550) 👈 Thank you @zeitlinger
• Install Memcached for integration testing in Circle CI (#545)
• Fix incorrect http.status_code being set in servlet rule (#533)
• Merge all lettuce rules into one (#544 #546)
• Split CXF rules into server and client parts (#532) 👈 Thank you @jianshaow
• Fix classpath property for custom integration rules (#537)
• Fix class loader isolation issue in IsoClassLoader (#540)
• Turn on Mule integration test for jdk8 (#534) 👈 Thank you @jam01
• Fix StackOverflowError in jdbc rule (#541)
• Upgrade JDBC Integration to v0.2.10

The v1.7.0 release includes the following updates:

• Improve rule loading performance (#492 #524)
• Switch to OpenTelemetry's terminology {#522)
• Fix for: CassandraTest (#508)
• Fix for: Jetty 7.6.21: "Illegal type in constant pool" (#509)
• Combine jms:1 and jms:2 rules in jms rule (#521 #498 #523)
• Determine min & max instrumented versions of libs supported by default (#468)
• Add integration tests for spring-data (#520)
• Add integration rules for Dubbo 2.6 and 2.7 (#505) 👈 Thank you @limfriend
• Upgrade LightStep trace exporter to v0.20.0 with support for metrics

The v1.6.1 release includes the following updates:

• Fix spring-kafka Static Deferred Attach (#461 #483 #484)
• Support target runtimes that import OpenTracing API (#440)
• Add new Instrumentation Rule: Kafka Streams (#494)
• Add compatibility tests for com.typesafe.akka:akka-http_2.1[123] (#471 #497)
• Add support for Kafka Streams Processor (#490)
• Add support for CXF Interceptors (#506)
• Resolve overlapping instrumentations for spring-web-* rules (#467)
• Resolve couplings of jms-1 and jms-2 to spring-jms (#463)
• Resolve fingerprint dependency coupling (#464 #507)
• Revised class loading architecture (#504)
• Add integration tests for JDBI (#511)
• Add integration tests for Hystrix (#512)
• Add <passCompatibility> for Ratpack (#513)
• Add <passCompatibility> for Solr Client (#514)
• Add <passCompatibility> for SparkJava (#516)
• Support custom span decorators for Apache Http Client (#510) 👈 Thank you @jianshaow
• Support custom span decorators for Feign (#515) 👈 Thank you @jianshaow
• Document pass/fail compatibility spec (#473)
• Sunset @AgentRunner.Config(isolateClassLoader=false) (#517)

The v1.6.0 release includes the following updates:

• Rewritable Tracer (#407 #415 #437 #479 #486) 👈 Thank you @zeitlinger
• Support "optional deferrable" rule attibute (#445)
• Static Deferred Attach: Fix spring-kafka (#461)
• Static Deferred Attach: Fix spring-messaging (#460 #470)
• Static Deferred Attach: Fix spring-websocket (#474 #478)
• Static Deferred Attach: Fix spring-messaging and spring-kafka (#481)
• Auto-Compatibility Test: Auto-assert compatibility of instrumentation plugins (#462)
• Auto-Compatibility Test: Support multiple pass/fail compatibility specs (#469)
• Auto-Compatibility Test: Support complex pass/fail compatibility specs (#472)
• Fix generated classes in Thrift rule (#489)
• Implement Apache CXF Instrumentation Plugin (#476) 👈 Thank you @jianshaow

The v1.5.9 release includes the following updates:

• Enable Static Deferred Attach for spring-kafka integration test (#425)
• Fix failing Pulsar Functions integration test (#418)
• Selective assertion of span count in Pulsar Functions integration test (#419)
• Remove deprecated methods in TestUtil (#422)
• Concurrent-safe and self-healing builds in Travis CI (#429 #436)
• Implement LocalSpanContext to avoid duplication of Context pattern (#432 #433)
• Refactor duplicated onError(...) methods to AgentRuleUtil (#435)
• Upgrade LightStep Tracer Plugin to v0.19.0 (#447)

The v1.5.8 release includes the following updates:

• New instrumentation plugins: Mule 4 (#324), Pulsar Functions (#398)
• New integration tests: Pulsar Functions (#408 #411 #412)
• Mechanism to load customized span decorators externally (#410)
• Mechanism in TestUtil to check span count by component name (#413 #414)
• Rebase servlet rule with current implementation of java-web-servlet-filter (#400)
• Modify servlet rule to add skipPattern and spanDecorators (#399)
• Modify servlet rule to allow creation of tags from HTTP headers (#402)
• Solution to prevent tracers getting instrumented by SpecialAgent (#381)
• Fix Static Deferred Attach not executing hook for Spring Boot apps (#382)
• Fix to stack-overflow in FilterAgentIntercept (#391)
• Fix to memory leak in servlet rule with Jetty 9.4 and Spring 5 (#395)
• Fix error tag for jedis (#396)
• Cleanup and refactor patterns (#397)

The v1.5.7 release includes the following updates:

• Improve intercept logging (#385)
• Improve test coverage for init patterns (#342)
• Fix download links in README.md (#386)
• Make TracedMessage distributable (#380)
• Fix Static Deferred Attach for Spring Boot based apps (#379)
• Determine libs transitively supported by existing instrumentation task (#329)
• Implement integration tests for transitively supported libs (#330)
• Add integration tests for Ratpack (#378)
• Add integration tests for SparkJava (#373)
• Add integration tests for Twilio (#371)
• Fix NoSuchMethodException: TracingFilter.buildSpan(...) (#369)
• Use WrapperProxy from "io.opentracing.contrib:common" (#374)
• Implement Dynamic Instrumentation Rule (#375)
• Fix "object is not an instance of declaring class" resulting from DynamicProxy (#368)
• Fix incorrect return from PluginManifest.getPluginManifest when called from AgentRunner (#372)
• Fix different span behavior for Spring WebMVC with Static Deferred Attach (#358)
• Make JmsTest in JMS-2 more stable (#364)
• Allow Static Deferred Attach to work with Spring Boot apps built with spring-boot-maven-plugin (#362)
• Add support for global tags when using LightStep Tracer (#320)
• Update SpecialAgentUtil.convertToNameRegex(...) to match name literals (i.e. "spring:boot") (#363)
• Update Instrumentation Plugins (#387)
• Tokenize ${sa.itest.args} in itest-maven-plugin to (#388)
• Fix VerifyError: "Illegal type in constant pool" due to isEnabled(Class,String) (#389)
• Fix Static Deferred Attach initializing Spring Boot too early (#367)

The v1.5.6 release includes the following updates:

• Improve test module structure (#348)
• Use DynamicProxy for all objects instrumented via inheritance pattern (#359)
• Update CouchbaseClientTest to resemble CouchbaseClientITest (#352)
• Static deferred attach is unavailable (#356)
• Upgrade JDBC Plugin to v0.2.7