1.42.1

Potentially Breaking Changes

Warning

There is a known issue with Kafka instrumentation that causes double tracing. As a result, Kafka 3.8+ is disabled by default until the double tracing issue is resolved.

Components

Dynamic Instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix memory leak in Exception Replay (#7892 - @jpbempel)

Profiling

• 🐛 Bump ddprof to 1.17.0 (#7917 - @jbachorik)
  • Crash handler registration does not work correctly by @jbachorik in DataDog/java-profiler#150

Instrumentations

AWS SDK instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix AWS Payload Tagging prefix generation related to SdkPojo (#7901 - @ygree)

Kafka instrumentation

• Disable Kafka 3.8+ instrumentation by default (#7909 - @ygree)

Reactor instrumentation

• 🐛 Protect currentContext access for reactor inner operators (#7895 - @amarziali)