v1.0.1

The v1.0.1 release includes the following updates:

• Resolve bugs in dependency correlation for plugin wiring in SpecialAgent runtime.
• Standardize -Dsa. prefix for properties of SpecialAgent.
• Support execution of SpecialAgent with a tracer in IDEs.
• Implement ProxyMockTracer, which allows all tests to plug into a real tracer as specified by the -Dsa.tracer=... property.
• General performance improvements.

v1.0.0

The v1.0.0 release supports the following new features:

• Support for Tracer Plugins.
• New Instrumentation Plugins: Elasticsearch 6, RxJava 2, Kafka Client, AsyncHttpClient.
• Performance optimization via exclusion of unintended instrumentation of tracer code.
• Improvements to AgentRunner runtime, Fingerprint algorithm, logging and exception behavior.

v0.9.0

We are happy to announce the public beta release of the OpenTracing-SpecialAgent – a Java Agent that automatically instruments Java applications with OpenTracing instrumentation plugins. As a turn-key solution, the SpecialAgent allows application developers to automatically instrument any Java application running on JVM versions 1.7, 1.8, 9, 10 and 11.