| Changes by Version |
| ================== |
| Release Notes. |
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| 8.13.0 |
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| **This release begins to adopt SkyWalking 9.3.0+ [Virtual Cache Analysis](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/next/en/setup/service-agent/virtual-cache/),[Virtual MQ Analysis](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/next/en/setup/service-agent/virtual-mq/)** |
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| * Support set-type in the agent or plugin configurations |
| * Optimize ConfigInitializer to output warning messages when the config value is truncated. |
| * Fix the default value of the Map field would merge rather than override by new values in the config. |
| * Support to set the value of Map/List field to an empty map/list. |
| * Add plugin to support [Impala JDBC](https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/connectors/impala/jdbc/2-6-29.html) 2.6.x. |
| * Update guava-cache, jedis, memcached, ehcache plugins to adopt uniform tags. |
| * Fix `Apache ShenYu` plugin traceId empty string value. |
| * Add plugin to support [brpc-java-3.x](https://github.com/baidu/starlight/tree/brpc-java-v3) |
| * Update `compose-start-script.template` to make compatible with new version docker compose |
| * Bump up grpc to 1.50.0 to fix CVE-2022-3171 |
| * Polish up nats plugin to unify MQ related tags |
| * Correct the duration of the transaction span for Neo4J 4.x. |
| * Plugin-test configuration.yml dependencies support docker service command field |
| * Polish up rabbitmq-5.x plugin to fix missing broker tag on consumer side |
| * Polish up activemq plugin to fix missing broker tag on consumer side |
| * Enhance MQ plugin relative tests to check key tags not blank. |
| * Add RocketMQ test scenarios for version 4.3 - 4.9. No 4.0 - 4.2 release images for testing. |
| * Support mannual propagation of tracing context to next operators for webflux. |
| * Add MQ_TOPIC and MQ_BROKER tags for RocketMQ consumer's span. |
| * Polish up Pulsar plugins to remove unnecessary dynamic value , set peer at consumer side |
| * Polish Kafka plugin to set peer at the consumer side. |
| * Polish NATS plugin to set peer at the consumer side. |
| * Polish ActiveMQ plugin to set peer at the consumer side. |
| * Polish RabbitMQ plugin to set peer at the consumer side. |
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| #### Documentation |
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| * Update `configuration` doc about overriding default value as empty map/list accordingly. |
| * Update plugin dev tags for cache relative tags. |
| * Add plugin dev docs for virtual database tags. |
| * Add plugin dev docs for virtual MQ tags. |
| * Add doc about kafka plugin Manual APIs. |
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| All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/150?closed=1) |
