OAP Server

• Fix wrong indices in the eBPF Profiling related models.
• Support exclude the specific namespaces traffic in the eBPF Access Log receiver.
• Add Golang as a supported language for Elasticsearch.
• Remove unnecessary BanyanDB flushing logs(info).
• Increase SW_CORE_GRPC_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE to 50MB.
• Support to query relation metrics through PromQL.
• Support trace MQE query for debugging.
• Add Component ID(158) for the Solon framework.
• Fix metrics tag in HTTP handler of browser receiver plugin.
• Increase alarm_record#message column length to 2000 from 200.
• Remove alarm_record#message column indexing.
• Add Python as a supported language for Pulsar.
• Make more proper histogram buckets for the persistence_timer_bulk_prepare_latency, persistence_timer_bulk_execute_latency and persistence_timer_bulk_all_latency metrics in PersistenceTimer.
• [Break Change] Update Nacos version to 2.3.2. Nacos 1.x server can't serve as cluster coordinator and configuration server.
• Support tracing trace query(SkyWalking and Zipkin) for debugging.
• Fix BanyanDB metrics query: used the wrong Downsampling type to find the schema.
• Support fetch cilium flow to monitoring network traffic between cilium services.
• Support labelCount function in the OAL engine.
• Support BanyanDB internal measure query execution tracing.
• BanyanDB client config: rise the default maxBulkSize to 10000, add flushTimeout and set default to 10s.
• Polish BanyanDB group and schema creation logic to fix the schema creation failure issue in distributed race conditions.
• Support tracing topology query for debugging.
• Fix expression of graph Current QPS in MySQL dashboard.
• Support tracing logs query for debugging.
• BanyanDB: fix Tag autocomplete data storage and query.
• Support aggregation operators in PromQL query.
• Update the kubernetes HTTP latency related metrics source unit from ns to ms.
• Support BanyanDB internal stream query execution tracing.
• Fix Elasticsearch, MySQL, RabbitMQ dashboards typos and missing expressions.
• BanyanDB: Zipkin Module set service as Entity for improving the query performance.
• MQE: check the metrics value before do binary operation to improve robustness.
• Replace workaround with Armeria native supported context path.
• Add an http endpoint wrapper for health check.
• Bump up Armeria and transitive dependencies.
• BanyanDB: if the model column is already a @BanyanDB.TimestampColumn, set @BanyanDB.NoIndexing on it to reduce indexes.
• BanyanDB: stream sort-by time query, use internal time-series rather than index to improve the query performance.
• Bump up graphql-java to 21.5.
• Add Unknown Node when receive Kubernetes peer address is not aware in current cluster.
• Fix CounterWindow concurrent increase cause NPE by PriorityQueue
• Fix format the endpoint name with empty string.
• Support async query for the composite GraphQL query.
• Get endpoint list order by timestamp desc.
• Support sort queries on metrics generated by eBPF receiver.
• Fix the compatibility with Grafana 11 when using label_values query variables.
• Nacos as config server and cluster coordinator supports configuration contextPath.
• Update the endpoint name format to <Method>:<Path> in eBPF Access Log Receiver.
• Add self-observability metrics for OpenTelemetry receiver.
• Support service level metrics aggregate when missing pod context in eBPF Access Log Receiver.
• Fix query getGlobalTopology throw exception when didn't find any services by the given Layer.
• Fix the previous analysis result missing in the ALS k8s-mesh analyzer.
• Fix findEndpoint query requires keyword when using BanyanDB.
• Support to analysis the ztunnel mapped IP address and mTLS mode in eBPF Access Log Receiver.
• Adapt BanyanDB Java Client 0.7.0.
• Add SkyWalking Java Agent self observability dashboard.
• Add Component ID(5022) for the GoFrame framework.
• Bump up protobuf java dependencies to 3.25.5.
• BanyanDB: support using native term searching for keyword in query findEndpoint and getAlarm.
• BanyanDB: support TLS connection and configuration.
• PromQL service: query API support RFC3399 time format.
• Improve the performance of OTEL metrics handler.
• PromQL service: fix operators result missing rangeExpression flag.
• BanyanDB: use TimestampRange to improve "events" query for BanyanDB.
• Optimize network_address_alias table to reduce the number of the index.
• PromQL service: support round brackets operator.
• Support query Alarm message Tag for auto-complete.

UI

• Highlight search log keywords.
• Add Error URL in the browser log.
• Add a SolonMVC icon.
• Adding cilium icon and i18n for menu.
• Fix the mismatch between the unit and calculation of the "Network Bandwidth Usage" widget in Windows-Service Dashboard.
• Make a maximum 20 entities per query in service/instance/endpoint list widgets.
• Polish error nodes in trace widget.
• Introduce flame graph to the trace profiling.
• Correct services and instances when changing page numbers.
• Improve metric queries to make page opening brisker.
• Bump up dependencies to fix CVEs.
• Add a loading view for initialization page.
• Fix a bug for selectors when clicking the refresh icon.
• Fix health check to OAP backend.
• Add Service, ServiceInstance, Endpoint dashboard forwarder to Kubernetes Topologies.
• Fix pagination for service/instance list widgets.
• Add queries for alarm tags.
• Add skywalking java agent self observability menu.

Documentation

• Update the version description supported by zabbix receiver.
• Move the Official Dashboard docs to marketplace docs.
• Add marketplace introduction docs under quick start menu to reduce the confusion of finding feature docs.
• Update Windows Metrics(Swap -> Virtual Memory)

New Contributors

• @xsShuang made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12347
• @friendlytkyj made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12363
• @shalk made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12362
• @kael-aiur made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12505
• @wetool19 made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12558
• @huicunjun made their first contribution in https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pull/12624

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