Release Notes. Changes by Version ================== 5.0.0-alpha ------------------ #### Agent -> Collector protocol - Remove C++ keywords - Move **Ref** into Span from Segment - Add span type, when register an operation #### UI -> Collector GraphQL query protocol - First version protocol #### Agent Changes - Support gRPC 1.x plugin - Support kafka 0.11 and 1.x plugin - Support ServiceComb 0.x plugin - Support optional plugin mechanism. - Support Spring 3.x and 4.x bean annotation optional plugin - Support Apache httpcomponent AsyncClient 4.x plugin - Provide automatic agent daily tests, and release reports [here](https://github.com/SkywalkingTest/agent-integration-test-report). - Refactor Postgresql, Oracle, MySQL plugin for compatible. - Fix jetty client 9 plugin error - Fix async APIs of okhttp plugin error - Fix log config didn't work - Fix a class loader error in okhttp plugin #### Collector Changes - Support metrics analysis and aggregation for application, application instance and service in minute, hour, day and month. - Support new GraphQL query protocol - Support alarm - Provide a prototype instrument for collector. - Support node speculate in cluster and application topology. (Provider Node -> Consumer Node) -> (Provider Node -> MQ Server -> Consumer Node) #### UI Changes - New 5.0.0 UI!!! [Issues and Pull requests](https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/milestone/17)