open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation v0.11.0

Version 0.11.0

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This update is compatible with the OpenTelemetry Java SDK 0.11.0.

NB! That release contains A LOT OF breaking changes related to builders, please read its change log carefully!

🌟 New instrumentation

• AWS Lambda Instrumentation of HTTP requests (e.g., API Gateway) #1650 #1536
• http4k (hosted out of tree but please give it a try!) #1605
• reactor-netty context propagation #1601
• Struts 2 #1628
• Runtime metrics (JVM metrics) moved from SDK repository #1720
• RXJava (previously existed only in agent, now published as library) #1732

📈 Improvements

• Anyone interested in the challenges of working with classloaders in Java agents can check out our design doc
• JDBC span names now include the statement name, DB name, and DB table #1533
• Many new SPIs to better configure the agent in restributions #1613
• Servlet Filter instrumented directly instead of FilterChain #1606
• Mongo command scrubber improvements #1663 #1662
• System metrics instrumentation updated to follow new specification #1705
• Baggage propagator enabled by default #1545
• Anyone creating a custom distribution of the agent should check out the example #1621

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Muzzle configuration issue effecting Wildfly and JDBC instrumentation #1585 #1593
• B3 multi propagation format can be configured with b3multi flag #1647
• AWS SDK v2 instrumentation now applied to all clients, not just ones after the first one #1759
• Context is propagated to requests from AWS SDK v2 / v1 #1763 #1771
• Kotlin auto instrumentation updated to use context element, should have less issues (please file any issues if you run into them!) #1618

🧰 Tooling

• Significant refactoring to instrumentation module setup introducing the InstrumentationModule interface #1528
• Byte buddy version bumped to 1.10.18 (should fix issues with Weblogic Server) #1596
• Gradle toolchains feature implemented to allow running tests on different JVMs without having to install them yourself #1627
• We now use checkstyle to check for some code conventions (not formatting) of the Google style guide #1641
• Muzzle now automatically generates injected helpers instead of being maintained manually #1714

☢️ Breaking changes

• Several configuration options have been renamed

otel.trace.enabled --> otel.javaagent.enabled
otel.trace.debug --> otel.javaagent.debug
otel.trace.config --> otel.javaagent.config
otel.trace.runtime.context.field.injection --> otel.javaagent.runtime.context.field.injection
otel.instrumentations.enabled --> otel.instrumentations.default-enabled
otel.trace.classes.excludes --> otel.javaagent.exclude-classes

###🙇 Thank you
This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@agoallikmaa
@anuraaga
@daviddenton
@hasanfd
@holyjak
@iNikem
@jkwatson
@jamal
@jamesylgan
@jyemin
@kubawach
@malafeev
@mateuszrzeszutek
@MrCull
@pavolloffay
@snyder114
@TeeVenDick
@trask
@vovencij