Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA.2!

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

• 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)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Unknown constant pool issue with modeule-info.class when using older versions of ClassGraph.
• Fixed potential issue with URI building in ConnectionString parsing.
• Fixed memory leak with ChannelFetcher when TelemetryClient is instantiated in large numbers.