1.6.1-RC1 release note

Plugins

• Added MariaDB 1.5.6 support - #2403
• Added Resin support - #2450 (Contributed by huayaoyue6, bai-yang)
• Added hikariCp support - #2463
• Added commons-dbcp2 support #2396
• Changed JBoss Plugin's JDK Logger policy. From 1.6.1, you must set -Djava.util.logging.manager - #2612
• Added vert.x support (experimental feature) - #1417
  • We do not yet recommend using this in production
    
    
    

Enhancements

• Thread dumps for active threads may be obtained directly from the Web UI - #2286
• Datasource metrics are collected and shown in Inspector view - #2496
• Added dependency injection to agent using google-guice - #2524
  
  
  
• Added CollectionUtils class to commons module - #2310
• Deprecated StringUtils.drop() API - #2312
• Combined various ArrayUtils classes and moved it to commons module - #2317
  
  
  
• Available cluster APIs for each agent are managed agent-side - #2262
• AsyncTraceId async sequence is incremented without holding a lock on the whole object - #2481
  
  
  
• You may omit the password parameter when calling admin APIs - #2249
• GC metrics are calculated more accurately - #2282
• Charts in Inspector view are requested separately - #2331
• CPU metrics are collected when running on OpenJDK - #2332
• Load charts shown when clicking on edges to terminal nodes in the server map are paged for easier navigation - #2434
• Inspector charts show the most recently started agent's data if there are multiple agents using the same agent id in a given tim eslot - #2345
• Transaction data is continuously loaded in Filter Transaction view - #2382
• Guard against cross-site scripting attacks - #2400
• Hashcodes for select VOs are cached for performance - #2432
• Real-time chart layer can be resized by dragging on the boundary - #2452
• Change format for saving application favorite list - #2474
• Inspector charts can be queried over a week - #2484
  
  
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed LinkKey hashcode always returning 0, improving server map query performance - #2394
• Fixed an issue where resources were not read properly when using ASM engine - #2350
  
  
  
• Fixed dbcp profiler.jdbc.* configurations - #2391
• Fixed an issue where networktest script would throw "icmp port unreachable error" - #2334
• Fixed an issue where the agent's IP would always be recorded as the loopback IP - #2505
  
  
  
• Fixed an issue with the call tree focusing on the wrong element when there are duplicate timestamps - #2365
• Fixed rendering issues when using FireFox - #2516
• Fixed an issue where application favorite list was displayed incorrectly - #2580
  
  
  

UI & UX

• Change chart library for the main page (amchart -> chartjs) - #2500
  
  
  

Tasks

• Recompiled TSpan using java:beans options - #2323
• Separated profiler-test module from the profiler module - #2354
• Unified variable names in shell scripts - #2369 (Contributed by marcoblos)
• Changed commons-server module's minimum supported jdk version (1.7 -> 1.6) - #2415
• Added various annotations to signify stability & visibility - #2477
• Added configuration for specifying Hbase root ZNode - #2609 (Contributed by jacarrichan)
  
  
  
• Added VSCode paths to .gitignore - #2369 (Contributed by marcoblos)
• Fixed typos in CONTRIBUTING.md - #2369 (Contributed by marcoblos)
• Fixed help tooltip that were in Korean - #2563 (Contributed by verdantyang)
• Fixed typos in pinpoint.config - #2543 (Contributed by gitzalm)
  
  
  

Library Updates

• Upgraded libraries used internally - #2321
• Upgraded amchart version to 3.20.20) - #2600