Release v1.54.4

🚀 Enhancements

🔹 Kafka Span Links for Pub/Sub Tracing

GoFr now supports OpenTelemetry span links for Kafka, significantly improving observability in event-driven systems.

• Improved Traceability: Connects producer and consumer spans even in asynchronous messaging patterns, providing a complete picture of the request lifecycle.
• Enhanced Observability: Users can now visualize the relationship between messages, making it easier to debug complex microservices interactions.
• Semantic Conventions: Follows OpenTelemetry messaging semantic conventions for consistent spans and links.

🔹 Metrics Export for Cron Jobs

Introduced native support for exporting metrics for background tasks managed through Cron Jobs.

• Performance Monitoring: Automatically tracks execution duration and success/failure counts for scheduled tasks.
• Better Visibility: Allows developers to monitor the health and performance of background workers using the same telemetry stack as their HTTP services.
• Customizable: Leverages GoFr's internal metrics provider for seamless integration with Prometheus or other exporters.

🛠️ Fixes

🔹 HTTP Server Auto-detection

Resolved an issue where the HTTP server wouldn't start if only a static directory was auto-detected without any explicit route registration.

• Robust Static Hosting: Ensures that applications serving only static content boot correctly and serve assets as expected.

🔹 Reduced HTTP Shutdown Noise

Optimized the server shutdown sequence to eliminate unnecessary log noise and warnings during graceful termination.

• Cleaner Logs: Provides a more streamlined and less cluttered logging experience during application restarts and deployments.