title: “Release Apache SkyWalking APM 8.0.0” date: 2020-06-15 author: SkyWalking Team
SkyWalking APM 8.0.0 is release. Go to downloads page to find release tars.
- v3 protocol is added and implemented
- New Dashboard UI and new Query Protocol are provided
- Prometheus fetcher is supported. Once you have Prometheus SDK instrumented app, the metrics could be read by SkyWalking.
- Register mechanism has been removed due to buckets effect on performance and memory cost.