newrelic/newrelic-java-agent v8.11.0

Version 8.11.0

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New features and improvements

• Add HTTP/2 support for Netty 4.1.16.Final + 1815

• Support external calls inside Spring Reactor call chains 1828

• Support for Apache Pekko (i.e. the pekko-actor library). Support for Pekko HTTP coming soon. 1811

• Add configuration to allow the OTel SDK integration to be completely disabled 1821

  Configuration via yaml:

  opentelemetry:
    sdk: 
      autoconfigure:
        enabled: false
  

  Configuration via system property:

    -Dnewrelic.config.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.enabled=false
  

• Treat OpenTelemetry @WithSpan annotation as @Trace in the Java Agent API 1841

Fixes

• Fix high CPU usage with HttpURLConnection by reverting InboundWrapper changes introduced in 8.10.0 1840
• Prevent duplicate HTTP external calls when using the DynamoDB SDK 1827

Deprecations

• The browser footer injection APIs have been deprecated and will be removed in a future agent release. The header injection API now adds both the header and footer scripts. 1679

The following instrumentation modules are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release:

• aws-wrap-0.7.0
• java.completable-future-jdk8
• play-2.3
• spring-3.0.0
• netty-3.4
• Struts v1

IAST

Changes

• Json Version bump to 1.2.0 207
• IAST replay header decryption due to Security Findings 207

Fixes

• Fix issue related to the instrumentation of the Rhino JavaScript Engine that occurred while reading the script 211

Full Changelog: v8.10.0...v8.11.0