Version 1.24.0

This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.24.0.

Note that many artifacts have the -alpha suffix attached to their version number, reflecting that they are still alpha quality and will continue to have breaking changes. Please see the VERSIONING.md for more details.

Migration notes

🌟 New javaagent instrumentation

• Add Apache Pulsar client instrumentation (#5926, #7999, #7943, #8007)
• Add Jodd-Http instrumentation (#7868)

🌟 New library instrumentation

• Add Ktor client instrumentation (#7982, #7997)
• Add Spring Webflux server instrumentation (#7899)

📈 Enhancements

• Implement messaging.kafka.* attributes spec (#7824, #7860)
• Make RxJava2 instrumentation Android-friendly (#7895)
• Support more semantic convention for RocketMQ trace (#7871)
• Instrumenting cassandra executeReactive method (#6441)
• Make the OpenTelemetry Logback appender work with GraalVM native images (#7989)
• Add baggage to Logback MDC; controlled by a configuration flag (#7892)
• Make the Spring Boot autoconfigure module work with Spring Boot 3 (#8028, #8051)

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Handle JMX MBean attributes with embedded dots (#7841)
• Fix ClassCastException when using -Dotel.jmx.target.system=tomcat (#7884)
• Fix NPE in the AWS SDK 2 instrumentation when request instrumentation is suppressed (#7953)
• Fix Kotlin coroutine context propagation (#7879)
• Fix the JAX-RS annotation instrumentation on Open Liberty (#7890)
• Fix an AbstractMethodError in the Logback instrumentation (#7967)
• Fix NPE in the RabbitMQ instrumentation (#8021)
• Fix JMX metrics usage examples (#7877)

🧰 Tooling

• Remove deprecated instrumentation-api-semconv code (#7838)
• Look up helper class bytes when they are needed (#7839)
• Run smoke tests using Open Liberty 21.0.0.12 and 22.0.0.12 (#7878, #7857)
• Add additional groovy script classloaders to ignore list. (#7460)
• Make AggregationTemporality configurable for OtlpInMemoryMetricExporter in the agent-for-testing module (#7904)
• Upgrade to gradle 8.0.2 (#7910, 7978)
• Replace the test-sets plugin with Gradle test suites (#7930, #7933, #7932, #7931, #7929, #7946, #7945, #7944, #7943, #7942, #7928, #7951)
• Add a utility for tracking HTTP resends (#7986)
• Remove deprecated messaging.url attribute from messaging getter (#8008)
• Add protocol name&version to net attribute getters (#7994)
• Test http client captured headers (#7993)
• Improve compatibility with other agents (#7916)
• Share timer class used by messaging instrumentations (#8009)
• Convert groovy tests to java (#7976, #7975, #7912)
• Check that extracting extension jar doesn't escape designated directory (#7908)
• Assert user agent when it is present in HTTP client tests (#7918)
• Update the OpenTelemetry SDK version to 1.24.0 (#8027)
• Provide ability to add HTTP server response headers, with Tomcat implementation (#7990)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@aaron-ai
@adamleantech
@agoallikmaa
@amexboy
@anuragagarwal561994
@arik-dig
@asarkar
@awelless
@bherbst
@breedx-splk
@devkanro
@fmhwong
@hansh0801
@heyams
@hubxx
@jack-berg
@jamesmoessis
@jeanbisutti
@KevinLiLu
@laurit
@lennartfricke
@mateuszrzeszutek
@mellis3000
@neroux
@oswin886
@PeterF778
@PhilKes
@ptrdom
@raamcosta
@riferrei
@SimoneGiusso
@tjiuming
@trask
@tylerbenson
@yonigibbs
@zeitlinger