opentelemetry-java-instrumentation v2.26.0

This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.60.1.

Note that many artifacts have the -alpha suffix attached to their version number, reflecting that they are still alpha quality and will continue to have breaking changes. Please see the VERSIONING.md for more details.

⚠️ Breaking changes to non-stable APIs

• Remove deprecated AWS Lambda v2.2 wrappers and forceFlush(int, TimeUnit) overload (#16170)
• Remove deprecated HTTP client/server methods (#16167)
• Remove deprecated database instrumentation methods and classes (#16164)
• Remove deprecated peer-service mapping APIs (#16165)
• Make runtime-telemetry deprecated classes now internal (#16173)
• Remove AttributesExtractorUtil (#16152)
• Remove marker interface from SqlClientAttributesGetter (#16205)
• Merge network/server getter methods into DB attribute getters (#16264, #16268)
• Rename SQL sanitizer classes to SQL analyzer (#16269)
• Rename internal common module packages to follow new naming convention (#16284, #16308, #16327, #16341, #16373)

🚫 Deprecations

• Deprecated individual runtime-telemetry module classes in favor of unified module (#16087)
• Deprecated old HTTP server query parameter methods in favor of sensitive query param handling (#16097)
• Deprecated old RPC attributes getter methods in favor of new ones supporting stable semantic conventions (#16130)
• Deprecated old ClickHouse instrumentation methods as part of simplification (#16206)
• Deprecated old R2DBC methods in favor of ones supporting db.system.name (#16251)
• Deprecated old DbClientAttributesGetter methods; added getErrorType() with implementations (#16276)
• Deprecated old RPC metrics methods in favor of ones supporting stable semantic conventions (#16298)
• Deprecated old DbClientAttributesGetter methods; added getDbName() to better support old/stable semconv split (#16318)

📈 Enhancements

• Add server address and port attributes for Spymemcached (#15242)
• Add Kafka Connect as a built-in JMX metrics target (#15561)
• Convert Lettuce instrumentation to use Instrumenter (#15838)
• OpenSearch Java client: capture sanitized search query bodies (#15634)
• Apply stable semantic conventions to Camel JMX metrics (#16088)
• Add jvm.file_descriptor.limit metric (#16174)
• Run gRPC client callbacks with parent context (#16175)
• SQL summary: handle EXPLAIN statements (#16184)
• Simplify InfluxDB instrumentation (#16207)
• Update histogram buckets for db.client.operation.duration (#16222)
• SQL summary: support Oracle dblink syntax (#16230)
• Add instrumentation for ZIO HTTP server route (#16232)
• Remove network attributes under database stable semconv flag (#16257)
• Support Javalin 7 (#16261)
• gRPC: initial stable semconv support (#16304)
• Populate os.version resource attribute (#16311)
• Camel: don’t emit db spans under stable semconv (#16275)
• Dubbo: stable semconv support (#16352)
• Update the OpenTelemetry SDK version to 1.60.0 (#16407)
• Use new stable LogRecordBuilder.setException() (#16423)
• Configure semconv-stability.opt-in with declarative config API (#16443)
• Support otel.event.name (#16220)

🛠️ Bug fixes

• SQL sanitizer now treats double-quoted fragments as string literals by default (#15582)
• Clear recorded exception when request completes (#16138)
• Clear URL connection state after ending span (#16155)
• Fix Spring declarative config with environment variable substitution (#15775)
• Fix Ktor server send pipeline error handling (#16192)
• Logging appenders: KeyValue attributes should take priority over MDC (#16239)
• Create new PekkoRouteHolder for each request (#16258)
• Tomcat JMX: ignore negative thread and session limits (#16355)
• server.port is required on HTTP client spans (#16388)
• Fix Ktor server instrumentation resolving peer address (#16392)
• Fix class cast exception in servlet instrumentation (#16403)
• Fix empty response body on Jetty HttpClient 9.4.24–9.4.43 (#16406)

🙇 Thank you

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

@aaaugustine29 @Arpan200502 @breedx-splk @filipl @fuleow @hilmarf @huange7 @imrahul23 @jack-berg @jaydeluca @jonasplaum @laurit @lmolkova @lucacavenaghi97 @minwoox @mznet @pepeshore @richard-salac @robsunday @samwright @self-sasi @steverao @SylvainJuge @trask @zeitlinger

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