CHANGES.md

Changes by Version
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Release Notes.

8.6.0
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#### Project


#### Java Agent
* Add `trace_segment_ref_limit_per_span` configuration mechanism to avoid OOM.
* Improve `GlobalIdGenerator` performance.
* Add an agent plugin to support elasticsearch7.
* Add `jsonrpc4j` agent plugin.
* Add Seata in the component definition. Seata plugin hosts on Seata project.
* Extended Kafka plugin to properly trace consumers that have topic partitions directly assigned

#### OAP-Backend
* BugFix: filter invalid Envoy access logs whose socket address is empty.
* Fix K8s monitoring the incorrect metrics calculate. 

#### UI


#### Documentation
* Polish k8s monitoring otel-collector configuration example.

All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/84?closed=1)

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