[ANNOUNCE] Apache SkyWalking 8.5.0 released

[Sheng Wu <wu...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

Apache SkyWalking Team is glad to announce the first release of Apache
SkyWalking 8.5.0.

SkyWalking: APM (application performance monitor) tool for distributed systems,
especially designed for microservices, cloud native and
container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

This release contains a number of new features, bug fixes and
improvements compared to
version 8.4.0(last release). The notable changes since 8.4.0 include:

1. **Incompatible Change**. Indices and templates of
ElasticSearch(6/7, including zipkin-elasticsearch7) storage option
have been changed.
2. Upgrade the Zipkin Elasticsearch storage from 6 to 7. Zipkin trace
receiver is product ready.
3. Support Kubernetes monitoring.

Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/changes/changes-8.5.0.md

Apache SkyWalking website:
http://skywalking.apache.org/

Downloads:
http://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ASFSkyWalking

SkyWalking Resources:
- GitHub: https://github.com/apache/skywalking
- Issue: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues
- Mailing list: dev@skywalkiing.apache.org


- Apache SkyWalking Team

Sheng Wu 吴晟
Twitter, wusheng1108