[ANNOUNCE] Release Apache SkyWalking Nginx LUA version 0.4.0

[Daming <da...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

Apache SkyWalking  Team is glad to announce the first release of
Apache SkyWalking Nginx LUA 0.4.0

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

SkyWalking Nginx Agent provides the native tracing capability for
Nginx powered by Nginx LUA module.

This release contains a number of new features, bug fixes and
improvements compared to
version 0.4.0(last release). The notable changes since 0.3.0 include:

(Highlight key changes)
1. Add a global field 'includeHostInEntrySpan', type 'boolean', mark
the entrySpan include host/domain.
2. Add destroyBackendTimer to stop reporting metrics.
3. Doc: set random seed in init_worker phase.
4. Local cache some variables and reuse them in Lua module.
5. Enable local cache and use tablepool to reuse the temporary table.

Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://github.com/apache/skywalking-nginx-lua/blob/v0.4.0/CHANGES.md

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

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

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


- Apache SkyWalking Team