What's Changed

• Release 9.5.0 and start 9.6.0 by @wu-sheng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/768
• Bump up dependencies and e2e by @wu-sheng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/770
• Bump up apache parent pom to v35. by @wu-sheng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/771
• Fix span log oom by @hxd123456 in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/773
• Fix CLASS_LOADER_TYPE_CACHE OOM issue with WeakHashMap by @kylixs in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/772
• Fix Jetty client cannot receive the HTTP response body(#13500) by @xhrg in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/775
• Eliminate repeated code with HttpServletRequestWrapper in mvc-annotation-commons. by @jiangyunpeng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/776
• Add the jdk httpclient plugin by @peachisai in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/778
• Fix Gateway 2.0.x plugin not activated for spring-cloud-starter-gateway 2.0.0.RELEASE by @huangguangshan in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/779
• Support kafka-clients-3.9.x intercept & Upgrade kafka-clients version in optional-reporter-plugins to 3.9.1 by @GuiSong01 in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/780
• Fix replaceParam when the replaced string contains a replacement marker by @shichaoyuan in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/782
• Fix JDBCPluginConfig.Plugin.JDBC.SQL_BODY_MAX_LENGTH was not working in some plugins by @weixiang1862 in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/784
• Add the JDK 25 support by @peachisai in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/783
• Ignore classes starting with "sun.nio.cs" in bytebuddy due to potential class loading deadlock by @shichaoyuan in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/785
• Add CLAUDE.md for AI assistant guidance by @wu-sheng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/786
• [Test] Add Spring Cloud Gateway 4.3.3 to gateway scenario by @Siman-hub in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/787
• Split plugin dev guide from root CLAUDE.md into module-level files by @wu-sheng in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/790

New Contributors

• @xhrg made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/775
• @huangguangshan made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/779
• @Siman-hub made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/pull/787

Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/compare/v9.5.0...v9.6.0