Components

Configuration at Runtime

• ✨ Add process tags as list to remote config payload (#8705 - @amarziali)

Continuous Integration Visibility

• 🐛 Add span propagation for Pekko scheduled tasks (#8765 - @nikita-tkachenko-datadog)
• ✨ Update test.retry_reason to use full name of the feature (#8689 - @daniel-mohedano)
• 🧹 Remove unused TestEventsHandler methods (#8674 - @nikita-tkachenko-datadog)

Dynamic Instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix exclude identifiers normalization (#8742 - @jpbempel)
• ✨ Make source file tracking asynchronous (#8684 - @jpbempel)
• ✨ Add scope filtering for symbol extraction (#8676 - @jpbempel)
• ✨ Add support for @key and @value for Map filtering (#8669 - @jpbempel)

Library Injection

• ✨ Add system property to force injection of the tracing library even though multiple javaagents have been detected (#8697 - @cecile75)

Metrics

• ✨ Allow dogstatsd port to be configurable with DD_DOGSTATSD_PORT (#8693 - @randomanderson)

Profiling

• ✨ Bump ddprof-java to 1.25.1 (#8750 - @jbachorik)
• 🐛 Remove cleanup-on-shutdown for temporary files (#8746 - @jbachorik)
• ✨⚡ Replace a regex-based SMAP parser with a hand-crafted one (#8730 - @jbachorik)
• ✨ Improve error reporting on profiler startup (#8714 - @jbachorik)
• ✨ Exclude ProxyLeakTask exception from exception profiling (#8666 - @jbachorik)
• ✨ Use jvmstat for JDKs 9+ programmatically (#8641 - @MattAlp)

Telemetry

• ✨ Allow dogstatsd port to be configurable with DD_DOGSTATSD_PORT (#8693 - @randomanderson)
• 🐛 Fix appsec.waf.requests telemetry metric (#8644 - @jandro996)

Tracer core

• ✨ Exclude jackson afterburner dynamic classes from instrumentation (#8747 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Introduce Java 8 bytecode bridge for instrumentation API (#8736 - @PerfectSlayer)
• ⚡🧹 Use byte-buddy classes optimized for Java8+ (#8735 - @mcculls)
• 🐛 Do not set the hibernate or datanucleus span service name when disabled (#8727 - @ygree)
• ✨ Update bytebuddy and ASM to support JDK 24 (#8720 - @sarahchen6)
• 🐛 Turn off JDK socket support by default (#8715 - @mcculls)
• 🐛 Log warning when trace buffer overflow occurs (#8712 - @ygree)
• ✨🧪 Introducing an internal integration name (#8708 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Add process tags to client stats payload (#8704 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Collect process tags for tracing (#8698 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Stable Config file: target system properties in process_arguments and support template variables in YamlParser (#8690 - @mtoffl01)
• ✨⚡ Use prefix trie for proxy ignores (#8678 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Allow agent to be automatically injected when running aside Log4J patch agent (#8648 - @paullegranddc)
• ✨ Use jvmstat for JDKs 9+ programmatically (#8641 - @MattAlp)

Tracer internal logging

• 🐛 Delete print line (#8686 - @sarahchen6)

Instrumentations

Akka instrumentation

• 🐛 Handle reentrant scope cleanup in Akka/Pekko actor instrumentations (#8722 - @mcculls)

Apache Spark instrumentation

• ✨ Use OpenLineage root parent information to generate trace id (#8726 - @mobuchowski)
• ✨ Spark job cancellation no longer marks application as failed (#8701 - @paul-laffon-dd)

JDBC instrumentation

• 💡 Add support for sybase tds jdbc driver (#8764 - @amarziali)

Kotlin instrumentation

• 🐛 Take defensive copy of parent scope stack when closing nested coroutines (#8749 - @mcculls)

Reactor instrumentation

• ✨⚡ Do not inspect reactor context when not needed (#8745 - @amarziali)