Version 9.4.0

New features and improvements

• Remove linking metadata blob @NewFields from log4j-2.11 module 2917
• Support for cluster mode in the lettuce-6.0 and lettuce-6.5 modules 2922
• New instrumentation modules for Vert.x web and core 5.x 2920
• Added new Java Server Faces instrumentation modules to replace legacy point cuts 2944
• Added a new Portlet module to replace legacy point cuts 2953
• Migrate shadow plugin from com.github.johnrengelman to com.gradleup 2945
• Weave class instrumentation replacement for HandlerMethodInvoker3PointCut point cut 2967
• Remove @NewField annotations from the jdbc-generic module 2963
• Remove HandlerMethodInvokerPointCut point cut 2977
• Remove SpringPointCut point cut 2990
• Add new http.request.method attribute to all external call spans 2985 3010
• Adds support for decorating JFR data with APM labels (as configured in the java agent) 3007
• [Hybrid Agent] Decorate OpenTelemetry dimensional metrics with otlp_resource_attributes from connect response 2956

Fixes

• Fix MDC leak issue in the apache-log4j-2.11 module 2926
• Remove java.rmi namespaced exceptions 2932
• Use Jakarta servlet exception attribute in the wildfly-27 module 2929
• Serverless mode now sends payload to the console if file pipe not written 2975
• Change ForceRestartException log to INFO 2989
• New build time Patcher instance to remove problem enum values from the shadowed jspecify library @NullMarked class 2982
• Segment instance cleanup for Netty Reactor HTTP calls 3004
• Fix transaction linking metadata during some async operations 3006

New Contributors

• @vetrovk made their first contribution in #2929
• @thejainamjain made their first contribution in #2945

Full Changelog: v9.3.0...v9.4.0