[ANNOUNCE] Apache SkyWalking 8.9.0 released

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

Hi all,

Apache SkyWalking Team is glad to announce the first release of Apache
SkyWalking 8.9.0.

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 8.8.1. The notable changes since 8.9.0 include:

1. Support JDK 16 and 17
2. Add Docker images for arm64 architecture.
3. Optimize endpoint dependency.
4. New time range selector and time range setting.
5. Recover zipkin-receiver plugin.

Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/changes/changes-8.9.0.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