OpenKit Java Changelog

Unreleased

1.4.4 [Release date: 2020-08-25]

GitHub Releases

Changed

Fix taking over HTTP headers (specifically the retry-after field) when receiving an HTTP response with response codes >= 400.
Fix potential NPE occurring with empty response body.

1.4.3 [Release date: 2019-10-31]

GitHub Releases

Added

Technology type support for error and crashes

Changed

Fix sending of session number in web request tracer tag to honor the data collection level. The session number will only be sent with data collection level 'User Behavior'.
Add OpenKit.createSession overload without IP address parameter.
The IP address is determined in this case on the server side.

1.4.2 [Release date: 2019-07-17]

GitHub Releases

Changed

On OpenKitBuilder creation device ID is parsed from the given string. Non-numeric device IDs are hashed to a corresponding numeric value. Internally a numeric type is used for the device ID.
Fix wrong value for Content-Length HTTP header that was added when sending beacon data.

1.4.1 [Release date: 2019-03-04]

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Changed

Only one binary is built with Java 6 compatibility
Otherwise the jcenter sync does not work

1.4.0 [Release date: 2019-02-19]

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Added

Java 11 Support
Deployment to JFrog Bintray, which makes it easier for users to retrieve the package

Changed

Application ID and Device ID are correctly encoded for special characters The encoding is a percent-encoding based on RFC 3986 with additional encoding of underscore characters.
Set file encoding to UTF-8 in gradle build
Fixed problem with infinite time sync requests
This problem occurred mainly in AppMon settings.

1.3.0 [Release date: 2018-10-25]

GitHub Releases

Added

Device ID can be specified as String in addition to long
This allows to send UUIDs or other specifiers
Standalone web request tagging
A WebRequestTracer can also be obtained from a Session

1.2.0 [Release date: 2018-09-14]

GitHub Releases

Added

Server overload prevention
Additional HTTP 429 response code handling

Changed

Fix wrong Session start time
Fix wrong SimpleDatePattern, which does not work with Java 6
Fix wrong device ID in web requests
This has only an impact, if DataCollectionLevel.PERFORMANCE was used

Improved

OpenKit internal version handling

1.1.0 [Release date: 2018-07-20]

GitHub Releases

Added

Extend OpenKit objects from java.io.Closeable to add try-with-resources statement compatibility
The following objects are affected
- OpenKit
- Session
- RootAction/Action
- WebRequestTracer
Build support on Jenkins CI server
coveralls.io Coverage integration
Server overload prevention
GDPR compliance

Changed

BeaconSender's thread name is now correct
Enhanced null checks in public interface implementation
No exception are thrown, if nulls are passed via public interfaces
OpenKit internal threads are daemon threads
Further actions on already left/closed OpenKit objects are no longer possible
Calling the methods is still allowed, but nothing is reported to the backend
HTTPClient checks response type from server when parsing
Thread IDs are no longer reported as 64-bit integer, but as 32-bit integer
Only positive integers are used, since the sign bit is always 0.
Enhanced state transition in internal state engine
WebRequestTracer's start time is initialized in constructor
Advanced URL validation when tracing web requests
The URL must have the form
<scheme>://<any character>[<any character>]*
Where scheme must be as defined in RFC 3986
InetAddress validation for IPv6 mixed mode addresses
Major logging improvements (more and better messages)

Improved

Unit tests in protocol package
Enhanced BeaconCache documentation
Various typos fixed
Testing improvements (method names, wrong assertions)

1.0.1 [Release date: 2018-01-29]

GitHub Releases

Initial public release