Version 2.5.0

This release targets the OpenTelemetry SDK 1.39.0.

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.

📈 Enhancements

• Add support for Informix connection string parsing in JDBC instrumentation (#11542)
• Generate an SBOM for the javaagent artifact (#11075)
• Extract sql operation even when the sanitizer is disabled (#11472)
• Improve security manager support (#11466)
• Generate Log4j2Plugin.dat for OpenTelemetryAppender (#11503)
• Stop kotlin coroutine dispatcher from propagating context (#11500)
• Handle Vert.x sub routes (#11535)
• Undertow: run response customizer on all ServerConnection implementations (#11539)
• Allow configuring MDC key names for trace_id, span_id, trace_flags (#11329)
• Apply async end strategy to all kotlin coroutine flows (#11583)

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Fix container.id issue in some crio scenarios (#11382)
• Fix Finagle http client context propagation (#11400)
• Fix sporadically failing finagle test (#11441)
• Fix request header capture corrupting tomcat request (#11469)
• Fix Ktor server instrumentation when Ktor client library is not present (#11454)
• Fix gRPC instrumentation adding duplicates to metadata instead of overwriting (#11308)
• Avoid NullPointerException when JMS destination is not available (#11570)
• Fix Spring Kafka instrumentation closing the trace too early (#11471)

🙇 Thank you

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

@AlchemyDing
@breedx-splk
@cleverchuk
@heyams
@himamulch
@jack-berg
@jaydeluca
@jeanbisutti
@JonasKunz
@KarinaGanieva-sl
@kintan-singh-backend
@kjschnei001
@laurit
@liurui-1
@ofelbaum
@pavelvodrazka
@pepeshore
@philsttr
@Questlog
@rickardoberg
@s-af
@steverao
@SylvainJuge
@trask
@tylerbenson
@wgy035
@zeitlinger
@zhangjiabin1010