Project: SkyWalking (Observability and Analysis / Observability)
File: changes-9.6.0.md

Bump up Guava to 32.0.1 to avoid the lib listed as vulnerable due to CVE-2020-8908. This API is never used. Maven artifact `skywalking-log-recevier-plugin` is renamed to `skywalking-log-receiver-plugin`. Bump up cli version 0.11 to 0.12. Bump up the version of ASF parent pom to v30. Make builds reproducible for automatic releases CI. Add Neo4j component ID(112) language: Python. Add Istio ServiceEntry registry to resolve unknown IPs in ALS. Wrap `deleteProperty` API to the BanyanDBStorageClient. [Breaking change] Remove `matchedCounter` from `HttpUriRecognitionService#feedRawData`. Remove patterns from `HttpUriRecognitionService#feedRawData` and add max 10 candidates of raw URIs for each pattern. Add component ID for WebSphere. Fix AI Pipeline uri caching NullPointer and IllegalArgument Exceptions. Fix `NPE` in metrics query when the metric is not exist. Remove E2E tests for Istio < 1.15, ElasticSearch < 7.16.3, they might still work but are not supported as planed. Scroll all results in ElasticSearch storage and refactor scrolling logics, including Service, Instance, Endpoint, Process, etc. Improve Kubernetes coordinator to remove `Terminating` OAP Pods in cluster. Support `SWCORESYNCPERIODHTTPURIRECOGNITIONPATTERN` and `SWCORETRAININGPERIODHTTPURIRECOGNITIONPATTERN` to control the period of training and sync HTTP URI recognition patterns. And shorten the default period to 10s for sync and 60s for training. Fix ElasticSearch scroller bug. Add component ID for Aerospike(ID=149). Packages with name `recevier` are renamed to `receiver`. `BanyanDBMetricsDAO` handles `storeIDTag` in `multiGet` for `BanyanDBModelExtension`. Fix endpoint grouping-related logic and enhance the performance of PatternTree retrieval. Fix metric session cache saving after batch insert when using `mysql-connector-java`. Support dynamic UI menu query. Add comment for `docker/.env` to explain the usage. Fix wrong environment variable name `SWOTELRECEIVERENABLEDOTELRULES` to right `SWOTELRECEIVERENABLEDOTELMETRICS_RULES`. Fix instance query in JDBC implementation. Set the `SWQUERYMAXQUERYCOMPLEXITY` default value to 3000(was 1000). Accept `length=4000` parameter value of the event. It was 2000. Tolerate parameter value in illegal JSON format. Update BanyanDB Java Client to 0.4.0 Support aggregate `Labeled Value Metrics` in MQE. [Breaking change] Change the default label name in MQE from `labe`l to `_`. Bump up grpc version to 1.53.0. [Breaking change] Removed '&' symbols from shell scripts to avoid OAP server process running as a background process. Revert part of #10616 to fix the unexpected changes: if there is no data we should return an array with `0`s, but in #10616, an empty array is returned. Cache all service entity in memory for query. Bump up jackson version to 2.15.2. Increase the default memory size to avoid OOM. Bump up graphql-java to 21.0. Add Echo component ID(5015) language: Golang. Fix `index out of bounds exception` in `aggregate_labels` MQE function. Support MongoDB Server/Cluster monitoring powered by OTEL. Do not print configurations values in logs to avoid sensitive info leaked. Move created the latest index before retrieval indexes by aliases to avoid the 404 exception. This just prevents some interference from manual operations. Add more Go VM metrics, as new skywalking-go agent provided since its 0.2 release. Add component ID for Lock (ID=5016). [Breaking change] Adjust the structure of hooks in the

Support multiple configs for each hook types and specifying the hooks in the alarm rule. Bump up Armeria to 1.24.3. Fix BooleanMatch and BooleanNotEqualMatch doing Boolean comparison. Support LogQL HTTP query APIs. Add Mux Server component ID(5017) language: Golang. Remove ElasticSearch 6.3.2 from our client lib tests. Bump up ElasticSearch server 8.8.1 to 8.9.0 for latest e2e testing. 8.1.0, 7.16.3 and 7.17.10 are still tested. Add OpenSearch 2.8.0 to our client lib tests. Use listening mode for apollo implementation of dynamic configuration. Add `viewasseq` function in MQE for listing metrics in the given prioritized sequence. Fix the wrong default value of `k8sServiceNameRule` if it's not explicitly set. Improve PromQL to allow for multiple metric operations within a single query. Fix MQE Binary Operation between labeled metrics and other type of value result. Add component ID for Nacos (ID=150). Support `Compare Operation` in MQE. Fix the Kubernetes resource cache not refreshed. Fix wrong classpath that might cause OOM in startup. Enhance the `serviceRelation` in MAL by adding settings for the `delimiter` and `component` fields. [Breaking change] Support MQE in the Alerting. The Alarm Rules configuration(alarm-settings.yml), add `expression` field and remove `metrics-name/count/threshold/op/only-as-condition` fields and remove `composite-rules` configuration. Check results in ALS as per downstream/upstream instead of per log. Fix GraphQL query `listInstances` not using endTime query Do not start server and Kafka consumer in init mode. Add Iris component ID(5018). Add OTLP Tracing support as a Zipkin trace input. Fix metric name `browserapperror_rate` in `Browser-Root` dashboard. Fix display name of `endpoint_cpm` for endpoint list in `General-Service` dashboard. Implement customize menus and marketplace page. Fix minTraceDuration and maxTraceDuration types. Fix init minTime to Infinity. Bump dependencies to fix vulnerabilities. Add scss variables. Fix the title of instance list and notices in the continue profiling. Add a link to explain the expression metric, add units in the continue profiling widget. Calculate string width to set Tabs name width. [Breaking change] Removed '&' symbols from shell scripts to avoid web application server process running as a background process. Reset chart label. Fix service associates instances. Remove node-sass. Fix commit error on Windows. Apply MQE on `MYSQL`, `POSTGRESQL`, `REDIS`, `ELASTICSEARCH` and `DYNAMODB` layer UI-templates. Apply MQE on Virtual-Cache layer UI-templates Apply MQE on APISIX, AWSEKS, AWSGATEWAY and AWS_S3 layer UI templates. Apply MQE on RabbitMQ Dashboards. Apply MQE on Virtual-MQ layer UI-templates Apply MQE on Infra-Linux layer UI-templates Apply MQE on Infra-Windows layer UI-templates Apply MQE on Browser layer UI-templates. Implement MQE on topology widget. Fix getEndpoints keyword blank. Implement a breadcrumb component as navigation. Add Go agent into the server agent documentation. Add data unit description in the configuration of continuous profiling policy. Remove `storage extension` doc, as it is expired. Remove `how to add menu` doc, as SkyWalking supports marketplace and new backend-based setup. Separate contribution docs to a new menu structure. Add a doc to explain how to manage i18n. Add a doc to explain OTLP Trace support. Fix typo in `dynamic-config-configmap.md`. Fix out-dated docs about Kafka fetcher. Remove 3rd part fetchers from the docs, as they are not maintained anymore. All issues and pull requests are