| 7.0.0 |
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| #### Project |
| * SkyWalking discards the supports of JDK 1.6 and 1.7 on the java agent side. The minimal requirement of JDK is JDK8. |
| * Support method performance profile. |
| * Provide new E2E test framework. |
| * Remove AppVeyor from the CI, use GitHub action only. |
| * Provide new plugin test tool. |
| * Don't support SkyWalking v5 agent in-wire and out-wire protocol. v6 is required. |
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| #### Java Agent |
| * Add lazy injection API in the agent core. |
| * Support Servlet 2.5 in the Struts plugin. |
| * Fix RestTemplate plugin ClassCastException in the Async call. |
| * Add Finagle plugin. |
| * Add test cases of H2 and struts. |
| * Add Armeria 0.98 plugin. |
| * Fix ElasticSearch plugin bug. |
| * Fix EHCache plugin bug. |
| * Fix a potential I/O leak. |
| * Support Oracle SID mode. |
| * Update Byte-buddy core. |
| * Performance tuning: replace AtomicInteger with AtomicIntegerFieldUpdater. |
| * Add AVRO plugin. |
| * Update to JDK 1.8 |
| * Optimize the ignore plugin. |
| * Enhance the gRPC plugin. |
| * Add Kotlin Coroutine plugin. |
| * Support HTTP parameter collection in Tomcat and SpringMVC plugin. |
| * Add @Tag annotation in the application toolkit. |
| * Move Lettuce into the default plugin list. |
| * Move Webflux into the default plugin list. |
| * Add HttpClient 3.x plugin. |
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| #### OAP-Backend |
| * Support InfluxDB as a new storage option. |
| * Add `selector` in the `application.yml`. Make the provider activation more flexible through System ENV. |
| * Support sub-topology map query. |
| * Support gRPC SSL. |
| * Support HTTP protocol for agent. |
| * Support Nginx LUA agent. |
| * Support skip the instance relationship analysis if some agents doesn't have upstream address, currently for LUA agent. |
| * Support metrics entity name in the storage. Optional, default OFF. |
| * Merge the HOUR and DAY metrics into MINUTE in the ElasticSearch storage implementation. Reduce the payload for ElasticSearch server. |
| * Support change detection mechanism in DCS. |
| * Support Daily step in the ElasticSearch storage implementation for low traffic system. |
| * Provide profile export tool. |
| * Support alarm gRPC hook. |
| * Fix PHP language doesn't show up on the instance page. |
| * Add more comments in the source codes. |
| * Add a new metrics type, multiple linears. |
| * Fix thread concurrency issue in the alarm core. |
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| #### UI |
| * Support custom topology definition. |
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| #### Document |
| * Add FAQ about `python2` command required in the compiling. |
| * Add doc about new e2e framework. |
| * Add doc about the new profile feature. |
| * Powered-by page updated. |
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| All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/37?closed=1) |
