[ANNOUNCE] Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 8.8.0 released

[Kai Wan <wa...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

Apache SkyWalking Team is glad to announce the first release of Apache
SkyWalking Java Agent 8.8.0.

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

The Java Agent for Apache SkyWalking, which provides the native
tracing/metrics/logging abilities for Java projects.

This is the first time to release separate from OAP Server. release
contains a number of new features, bug fixes and improvements compared
to version 8.7.0(last release).
The notable changes since 8.8.0 include:

(Highlight key changes)
1. JDK17 supported.
2. ApacheKylin, ClickHouseDB, HTTPClient5, OKHTTP plugins added.
3. New endpoint naming, METHOD:URI, for SpringMVC.
4. Separated from SkyWalking repository.


Please refer to the change log for the complete list of changes:
https://github.com/apache/skywalking-java/blob/master/changes/changes-8.8.0.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-java
- Issue: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues
- Mailing list: dev@skywalkiing.apache.org


- Apache SkyWalking Team
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Kai Wan
GitHub @wankai123