Changes by Version
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Release Notes.

8.4.0
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#### Project
* Incompatible with previous releases when use H2/MySQL/TiDB storage options, due to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity.
* Chore: adapt `create_source_release.sh` to make it runnable on Linux.

#### Java Agent
* The operation name of quartz-scheduler plugin, has been changed as the `quartz-scheduler/${className}` format.
* Fix jdk-http and okhttp-3.x plugin did not overwrite the old trace header.

#### OAP-Backend
* Make meter receiver support MAL.
* Support influxDB connection response format option. Fix some error when use JSON as influxDB response format.
* Support Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0 to replicate topics between Kafka clusters.
* Add the rule name field to alarm record storage entity as a part of ID, to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity. The scope id has been removed from the ID.
* Fix MAL concurrent execution issues

#### UI
* Fix un-removed tags in trace query.
* Fix unexpected metrics name on single value component.
* Don't allow negative value as the refresh period.
* Fix style issue in trace table view.
* Separation Log and Dashboard selector data to avoid conflicts.
* Fix trace instance selector bug.

#### Documentation
* Update the documents of backend fetcher and self observability about the latest configurations.

All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/68?closed=1)

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Find change logs of all versions [here](changes).