1.5.1 release note

1.5.1 release note

Plugins

• Added POSTGRESQL support - #1200
• Added JETTY 8 support - #1257
• Improved stability by adding null/type checks to various plugins - #1276
• LOG4J interceptor method checks are now more strict - #1303
• Improved stability by changing how Accessor was obtained when injecting them in plugins - #1332

Enhancements

• Collector now ignores UDP health check packets by checking their IP - #1195
• Exceptions thrown inside Spring beans can now be configured to not show up as a failed transaction - #1262

profiler.spring.beans.mark.error=false  (default = false, does not mark them as failed transaction)

• Changed Spring version (4.1.7.RELEASE -> 4.1.8.RELEASE) - #1264
• Maven build requirement is checked more strictly (maven 3.2+, jdk 1.7+) - #1267
• Changed configuration for tracing user specified methods from profiler.user.include to profiler.entrypoint - #1288

# Needs to be a comma separated list of fully qualified method names. Wild card not supported.
profiler.entrypoint=
# Ex: foo.bar.MyClass.myMethod, foo.bar.MyClass.anotherMethod

• Interceptor registry size can now be configured (default : 4096 -> 8192) - #1306
• Log4j now uses RollingFileAppender as default - #1326
• Modified various log messages and log levels

Fixes

• Fixed potential concurrency problem when counting active threads - #1244
• Fixed an issue where unsampled continued transactions were left out when calculating TPS - #1271
• Fixed an issue where unsampled transactions would throw an error when using UserInclude plugin - #1288
• Fixed an issue where the agent became unstable when killed via SIGINT - #1298

UI & UX

• Clarified "no active thread" state for Realtime Active ThreadChart - #1269
• Calendars are no longer annoying to use (changed the way they were auto-correcting) - #1309
• Agents that have been dead for over a week no longer shows up in Realtime Active ThreadChart - #1318
• Every transactions inside the transaction list now has their unique URL - #1330

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