Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0!

There were no changes since 2.6.0-BETA.3.

Changes Since 2.5.0

Deprecations

If using Local Forwarder Channel, this will be a breaking change.

• Removed Local Forwarder Channel. Local Forwarder is now a deprecated solution.
  The classes and configuration elements which supported this solution have been removed.

Enhancements

• Improved MongoDB instrumentation (#1132)
• W3C tracing with back-compat is now enabled by default (#1141)
• Use newer id format when reporting request and dependency telemetry (#1174)
• Removed unused dependencies from azure-application-ingishts-spring-boot-starter (xmlpull, xstream).
• Updated to the latest version of the struts API library (used by com.microsoft.applicationinsights.web.struts.RequestNameInterceptor).
• Various stability improvements (#1177)
• Agent now supports Java 13 (#1149)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory leak with ChannelFetcher when TelemetryClient is instantiated in large numbers.
• Fixed Unknown constant pool issue with modeule-info.class when using older versions of ClassGraph.
• Older Jersey versions failing when scanning classes due to inclusion of a few Java 8 class files (#1142)
• Fixed potential issue with URI building in ConnectionString parsing.
• Fix remote dependency target field format (#1138)