Finalize the 8.4.0 changes, and open the release process soon. (#6298)
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index d6f62bb..e4183de 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,138 +2,24 @@
==================
Release Notes.
-8.4.0
+8.5.0
------------------
#### Project
-* Incompatible with previous releases when use H2/MySQL/TiDB storage options, due to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity.
-* Chore: adapt `create_source_release.sh` to make it runnable on Linux.
-* Add `package` to `.proto` files, prevent polluting top-level namespace in some languages; The OAP server supports previous agent releases, whereas the previous OAP server (<=8.3.0) won't recognize newer agents since this version (>= 8.4.0).
-* Add ElasticSearch 7.10 to test matrix and verify it works.
-* Replace Apache RAT with skywalking-eyes to check license headers.
-* Set up test of Envoy ALS / MetricsService under Istio 1.8.2 to verify Envoy V3 protocol
-* Test: fix flaky E2E test of Kafka.
+
#### Java Agent
-* The operation name of quartz-scheduler plugin, has been changed as the `quartz-scheduler/${className}` format.
-* Fix jdk-http and okhttp-3.x plugin did not overwrite the old trace header.
-* Add interceptors of method(analyze, searchScroll, clearScroll, searchTemplate and deleteByQuery) for elasticsearch-6.x-plugin.
-* Fix the unexpected RunningContext recreation in the Tomcat plugin.
-* Fix the potential NPE when trace_sql_parameters is enabled.
-* Update `byte-buddy` to 1.10.19.
-* Fix thrift plugin trace link broken when intermediate service does not mount agent
-* Fix thrift plugin collects wrong args when the method without parameter.
-* Fix DataCarrier's `org.apache.skywalking.apm.commons.datacarrier.buffer.Buffer` implementation isn't activated in `IF_POSSIBLE` mode.
-* Fix ArrayBlockingQueueBuffer's useless `IF_POSSIBLE` mode list
-* Support building gRPC TLS channel but CA file is not required.
-* Add witness method mechanism in the agent plugin core.
-* Add Dolphinscheduler plugin definition.
-* Make sampling still works when the trace ignores plug-in activation.
-* Fix mssql-plugin occur ClassCastException when call the method of return generate key.
-* The operation name of dubbo and dubbo-2.7.x-plugin, has been changed as the `groupValue/className.methodName` format
-* Fix bug that rocketmq-plugin set the wrong tag.
-* Fix duplicated `EnhancedInstance` interface added.
-* Fix thread leaks caused by the elasticsearch-6.x-plugin plugin.
-* Support reading segmentId and spanId with toolkit.
-* Fix RestTemplate plugin recording url tag with wrong port
-* Support collecting logs and forwarding through gRPC.
-* Support config `agent.sample_n_per_3_secs` can be changed in the runtime.
-* Support config `agent.ignore_suffix` can be changed in the runtime.
-* Support DNS periodic resolving mechanism to update backend service.
-* Support config `agent.trace.ignore_path` can be changed in the runtime.
-* Added support for transmitting logback 1.x and log4j 2.x formatted & un-formatted messages via gPRC
+
#### OAP-Backend
-* Make meter receiver support MAL.
-* Support influxDB connection response format option. Fix some error when use JSON as influxDB response format.
-* Support Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0 to replicate topics between Kafka clusters.
-* Add the rule name field to alarm record storage entity as a part of ID, to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity. The scope id has been removed from the ID.
-* Fix MAL concurrent execution issues.
-* Fix group name can't be queried in the GraphQL.
-* Fix potential gRPC connection leak(not closed) for the channels among OAP instances.
-* Filter OAP instances(unassigned in booting stage) of the empty IP in KubernetesCoordinator.
-* Add component ID for Python aiohttp plugin requester and server.
-* Fix H2 in-memory database table missing issues
-* Add component ID for Python pyramid plugin server.
-* Add component ID for NodeJS Axios plugin.
-* Fix searchService method error in storage-influxdb-plugin.
-* Add JavaScript component ID.
-* Fix CVE of UninstrumentedGateways in Dynamic Configuration activation.
-* Improve query performance in storage-influxdb-plugin.
-* Fix the uuid field in GRPCConfigWatcherRegister is not updated.
-* Support Envoy {AccessLog,Metrics}Service API V3.
-* Adopt the [MAL](docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md) in Envoy metrics service analyzer.
-* Fix the priority setting doesn't work of the ALS analyzers.
-* Fix bug that `endpoint-name-grouping.yml` is not customizable in Dockerized case.
-* Fix bug that istio version metric type on UI template mismatches the otel rule.
-* Improve ReadWriteSafeCache concurrency read-write performance
-* Fix bug that if use JSON as InfluxDB.ResponseFormat then NumberFormatException maybe occur.
-* Fix `timeBucket` not taking effect in EqualsAndHashCode annotation of some relationship metrics.
-* Fix `SharingServerConfig`'s propertie is not correct in the `application.yml`, contextPath -> restConnextPath.
-* Istio control plane: remove redundant metrics and polish panel layout.
-* Fix bug endpoint name grouping not work due to setting service name and endpoint name out of order.
-* Fix receiver analysis error count metrics.
-* Log collecting and query implementation.
-* Support Alarm to feishu.
-* Add the implementation of ConfigurationDiscovery on the OAP side.
-* Fix bug in `parseInternalErrorCode` where some error codes are never reached.
-* OAL supports multiple values when as numeric.
-* Add node information from the Openensus proto to the labels of the samples, to support the identification of the source of the Metric data.
-* Fix bug that the same sample name in one MAL expression caused `IllegalArgumentException` in `Analyzer.analyse`.
-* Add the text analyzer for querying log in the es storage.
-* Chore: Remove duplicate codes in Envoy ALS handler.
-* Remove the strict rule of OAL disable statement parameter.
-* Fix a legal metric query adoption bug. Don't support global level metric query.
-* Add VM MAL and ui-template configration, support Prometheus node-exporter VM metrics that pushed from OpenTelemetry-collector.
-* Remove unused log query parameters.
+
#### UI
-* Fix un-removed tags in trace query.
-* Fix unexpected metrics name on single value component.
-* Don't allow negative value as the refresh period.
-* Fix style issue in trace table view.
-* Separation Log and Dashboard selector data to avoid conflicts.
-* Fix trace instance selector bug.
-* Fix Unnecessary sidebar in tooltips for charts.
-* Refactor dashboard query in a common script.
-* Implement refreshing data for topology by updating date.
-* Implement group selector in the topology.
-* Fix all as default parameter for services selector.
-* Add icon for Python aiohttp plugin.
-* Add icon for Python pyramid plugin.
-* Fix topology render all services nodes when groups changed.
-* Fix rk-footer utc input's width.
-* Update rk-icon and rewrite rk-header svg tags with rk-icon.
-* Add icon for http type.
-* Fix rk-footer utc without local storage.
-* Sort group names in the topology.
-* Add logo for Dolphinscheduler.
-* Fix dashboard wrong instance.
-* Add a legend for the topology.
-* Update the condition of unhealthy cube.
-* Fix: use icons to replace buttons for task list in profile.
-* Fix: support `=` in the tag value in the trace query page.
-* Add envoy proxy component logo.
-* Chore: set up license-eye to check license headers and add missing license headers.
-* Fix prop for instances-survey and endpoints-survey.
-* Fix envoy icon in topology.
-* Implement the service logs on UI.
-* Change the flask icon to light version for a better view of topology dark theme.
-* Implement viewing logs on trace page.
-* Fix update props of date component.
-* Fix query conditions for logs.
-* Fix style of selectors to word wrap.
-* Fix logs time.
-* Fix search ui for logs.
+
#### Documentation
-* Update the documents of backend fetcher and self observability about the latest configurations.
-* Add documents about the group name of service.
-* Update docs about the latest UI.
-* Update the document of backend trace sampling with the latest configuration.
-* Update kafka plugin support version to 2.6.1.
-* Add FAQ about `Fix compiling on Mac M1 chip`.
-All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/68?closed=1)
+
+All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/76?closed=1)
------------------
Find change logs of all versions [here](changes).
diff --git a/changes/changes-8.3.0.md b/changes/changes-8.3.0.md
index 63dda16..66ff421 100644
--- a/changes/changes-8.3.0.md
+++ b/changes/changes-8.3.0.md
@@ -77,5 +77,3 @@
All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/62?closed=1)
-------------------
-Find change logs of all versions [here](changes).
diff --git a/changes/changes-8.4.0.md b/changes/changes-8.4.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab2da63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/changes-8.4.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+Changes by Version
+==================
+Release Notes.
+
+8.4.0
+------------------
+#### Project
+* Incompatible with previous releases when use H2/MySQL/TiDB storage options, due to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity.
+* Chore: adapt `create_source_release.sh` to make it runnable on Linux.
+* Add `package` to `.proto` files, prevent polluting top-level namespace in some languages; The OAP server supports previous agent releases, whereas the previous OAP server (<=8.3.0) won't recognize newer agents since this version (>= 8.4.0).
+* Add ElasticSearch 7.10 to test matrix and verify it works.
+* Replace Apache RAT with skywalking-eyes to check license headers.
+* Set up test of Envoy ALS / MetricsService under Istio 1.8.2 to verify Envoy V3 protocol
+* Test: fix flaky E2E test of Kafka.
+
+#### Java Agent
+* The operation name of quartz-scheduler plugin, has been changed as the `quartz-scheduler/${className}` format.
+* Fix jdk-http and okhttp-3.x plugin did not overwrite the old trace header.
+* Add interceptors of method(analyze, searchScroll, clearScroll, searchTemplate and deleteByQuery) for elasticsearch-6.x-plugin.
+* Fix the unexpected RunningContext recreation in the Tomcat plugin.
+* Fix the potential NPE when trace_sql_parameters is enabled.
+* Update `byte-buddy` to 1.10.19.
+* Fix thrift plugin trace link broken when intermediate service does not mount agent
+* Fix thrift plugin collects wrong args when the method without parameter.
+* Fix DataCarrier's `org.apache.skywalking.apm.commons.datacarrier.buffer.Buffer` implementation isn't activated in `IF_POSSIBLE` mode.
+* Fix ArrayBlockingQueueBuffer's useless `IF_POSSIBLE` mode list
+* Support building gRPC TLS channel but CA file is not required.
+* Add witness method mechanism in the agent plugin core.
+* Add Dolphinscheduler plugin definition.
+* Make sampling still works when the trace ignores plug-in activation.
+* Fix mssql-plugin occur ClassCastException when call the method of return generate key.
+* The operation name of dubbo and dubbo-2.7.x-plugin, has been changed as the `groupValue/className.methodName` format
+* Fix bug that rocketmq-plugin set the wrong tag.
+* Fix duplicated `EnhancedInstance` interface added.
+* Fix thread leaks caused by the elasticsearch-6.x-plugin plugin.
+* Support reading segmentId and spanId with toolkit.
+* Fix RestTemplate plugin recording url tag with wrong port
+* Support collecting logs and forwarding through gRPC.
+* Support config `agent.sample_n_per_3_secs` can be changed in the runtime.
+* Support config `agent.ignore_suffix` can be changed in the runtime.
+* Support DNS periodic resolving mechanism to update backend service.
+* Support config `agent.trace.ignore_path` can be changed in the runtime.
+* Added support for transmitting logback 1.x and log4j 2.x formatted & un-formatted messages via gPRC
+
+#### OAP-Backend
+* Make meter receiver support MAL.
+* Support influxDB connection response format option. Fix some error when use JSON as influxDB response format.
+* Support Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0 to replicate topics between Kafka clusters.
+* Add the rule name field to alarm record storage entity as a part of ID, to support multiple alarm rules triggered for one entity. The scope id has been removed from the ID.
+* Fix MAL concurrent execution issues.
+* Fix group name can't be queried in the GraphQL.
+* Fix potential gRPC connection leak(not closed) for the channels among OAP instances.
+* Filter OAP instances(unassigned in booting stage) of the empty IP in KubernetesCoordinator.
+* Add component ID for Python aiohttp plugin requester and server.
+* Fix H2 in-memory database table missing issues
+* Add component ID for Python pyramid plugin server.
+* Add component ID for NodeJS Axios plugin.
+* Fix searchService method error in storage-influxdb-plugin.
+* Add JavaScript component ID.
+* Fix CVE of UninstrumentedGateways in Dynamic Configuration activation.
+* Improve query performance in storage-influxdb-plugin.
+* Fix the uuid field in GRPCConfigWatcherRegister is not updated.
+* Support Envoy {AccessLog,Metrics}Service API V3.
+* Adopt the [MAL](docs/en/concepts-and-designs/mal.md) in Envoy metrics service analyzer.
+* Fix the priority setting doesn't work of the ALS analyzers.
+* Fix bug that `endpoint-name-grouping.yml` is not customizable in Dockerized case.
+* Fix bug that istio version metric type on UI template mismatches the otel rule.
+* Improve ReadWriteSafeCache concurrency read-write performance
+* Fix bug that if use JSON as InfluxDB.ResponseFormat then NumberFormatException maybe occur.
+* Fix `timeBucket` not taking effect in EqualsAndHashCode annotation of some relationship metrics.
+* Fix `SharingServerConfig`'s propertie is not correct in the `application.yml`, contextPath -> restConnextPath.
+* Istio control plane: remove redundant metrics and polish panel layout.
+* Fix bug endpoint name grouping not work due to setting service name and endpoint name out of order.
+* Fix receiver analysis error count metrics.
+* Log collecting and query implementation.
+* Support Alarm to feishu.
+* Add the implementation of ConfigurationDiscovery on the OAP side.
+* Fix bug in `parseInternalErrorCode` where some error codes are never reached.
+* OAL supports multiple values when as numeric.
+* Add node information from the Openensus proto to the labels of the samples, to support the identification of the source of the Metric data.
+* Fix bug that the same sample name in one MAL expression caused `IllegalArgumentException` in `Analyzer.analyse`.
+* Add the text analyzer for querying log in the es storage.
+* Chore: Remove duplicate codes in Envoy ALS handler.
+* Remove the strict rule of OAL disable statement parameter.
+* Fix a legal metric query adoption bug. Don't support global level metric query.
+* Add VM MAL and ui-template configration, support Prometheus node-exporter VM metrics that pushed from OpenTelemetry-collector.
+* Remove unused log query parameters.
+
+#### UI
+* Fix un-removed tags in trace query.
+* Fix unexpected metrics name on single value component.
+* Don't allow negative value as the refresh period.
+* Fix style issue in trace table view.
+* Separation Log and Dashboard selector data to avoid conflicts.
+* Fix trace instance selector bug.
+* Fix Unnecessary sidebar in tooltips for charts.
+* Refactor dashboard query in a common script.
+* Implement refreshing data for topology by updating date.
+* Implement group selector in the topology.
+* Fix all as default parameter for services selector.
+* Add icon for Python aiohttp plugin.
+* Add icon for Python pyramid plugin.
+* Fix topology render all services nodes when groups changed.
+* Fix rk-footer utc input's width.
+* Update rk-icon and rewrite rk-header svg tags with rk-icon.
+* Add icon for http type.
+* Fix rk-footer utc without local storage.
+* Sort group names in the topology.
+* Add logo for Dolphinscheduler.
+* Fix dashboard wrong instance.
+* Add a legend for the topology.
+* Update the condition of unhealthy cube.
+* Fix: use icons to replace buttons for task list in profile.
+* Fix: support `=` in the tag value in the trace query page.
+* Add envoy proxy component logo.
+* Chore: set up license-eye to check license headers and add missing license headers.
+* Fix prop for instances-survey and endpoints-survey.
+* Fix envoy icon in topology.
+* Implement the service logs on UI.
+* Change the flask icon to light version for a better view of topology dark theme.
+* Implement viewing logs on trace page.
+* Fix update props of date component.
+* Fix query conditions for logs.
+* Fix style of selectors to word wrap.
+* Fix logs time.
+* Fix search ui for logs.
+
+#### Documentation
+* Update the documents of backend fetcher and self observability about the latest configurations.
+* Add documents about the group name of service.
+* Update docs about the latest UI.
+* Update the document of backend trace sampling with the latest configuration.
+* Update kafka plugin support version to 2.6.1.
+* Add FAQ about `Fix compiling on Mac M1 chip`.
+
+All issues and pull requests are [here](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/milestone/68?closed=1)
