Java agent v8.23.0

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New features and improvements

Update to support v24 of graphql by @jtduffy in 2425
Add lettuce 6.5 instrumentation by @kanderson250 in 2430
Bump commons-lang version to 3.18.0 by @jtduffy in 2421
Add lettuce dbName to datastore params where available by @kanderson250 in 2423
Add an environment variable to skip implementing certain applications. The environment variable name is NEW_RELIC_STARTUP_JAVA_ARTIFACT_SKIPS. The value of it is a comma separated list of main classes, executable jar files or Java based tools/apps that the agent should NOT instrument (e.g. NEW_RELIC_STARTUP_JAVA_ARTIFACT_SKIPS=keytool,myapp.jar,IgnoreThisClass) by @jtduffy in 2433

Fixes

Fix a bug where SQS messages with 8 attributes are not sent to AWS. SQS messages need less then 8 attributes to pass distributed trace headers by @obenkenobi in 2422
Trim the "Subscriptions" bit off the end of the topic name in azure service bus client by @jbedell-newrelic in 2440
Fix AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk config by @jasonjkeller in 2451

Deprecations

The following instrumentation modules are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release:

aws-wrap-0.7.0
java.completable-future-jdk8
play-2.3
netty-3.4
Struts v1

Update to latest version

To identify which version of the Java agent you're currently using, run java -jar newrelic.jar -v. Your Java agent version will be printed to your console.

Then, to update to the latest Java agent version:

Back up the entire Java agent root directory to another location. Rename that directory to NewRelic_Agent#.#.#, where #.#.# is the agent version number.
Download the agent..
Unzip the new agent download file, then copy newrelic-api.jar and newrelic.jar into the original Java agent root directory.
Compare your old newrelic.yml with the newly downloaded newrelic.yml from the zip, and update the file if needed.
Restart your Java dispatcher.

If you experience issues after the Java agent update, restore from the backed-up New Relic agent directory.

Update agent config differences

We add new settings to newrelic.yml as we release new versions of the agent. You can use diff or another diffing utility to see what's changed, and add the new config settings to your old file. Make sure not to overwrite any customizations you've made to the file, such as your license key, app name, or changes to default settings.

For example, if you diff the default newrelic.yml files for Java agent versions 7.10.0 and 7.11.0, the results printed to the console will be like:

➜ diff newrelic_7.10.0.yml newrelic_7.11.0.yml
...
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>       # Whether the log events should include context from loggers with support for that.
>       include_context_data:
>
>         # When true, application logs will contain context data.
>         enabled: false
>
>         # A comma separated list of attribute keys whose values should be sent to New Relic.
>         #include:
>
>         # A comma separated list of attribute keys whose values should not be sent to New Relic.
>         #exclude:
>
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>
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<     enabled: false
---
>     enabled: true
...

In this example, these lines were added to the default newrelic.yml in Java agent version 7.11.0. If you're moving to 7.11.0 or higher, you should add these new lines to your original newrelic.yml.

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