1.61.0

Components

Application Security Management (IAST)

• 🐛 Skip XSS check for freemarker built-in escaping expressions in 2.3.24 instrumentation (#10865 - @jandro996)

Application Security Management (WAF)

• ✨ Add server.request.body.filenames support for Tomcat and Netty 4.1 (#10973 - @jandro996)
• ✨ Add server.request.body.filenames AppSec address for commons-fileupload (#10949 - @jandro996)
• ✨🧪 Return AI Guard SDS findings into SDK Response (#10821 - @obordeau)
• 🐛 Fix ObjectIntrospection exposing JDK internal toString() to the WAF (#10820 - @jandro996)
• ✨ Honor in-app blocking settings by default in AI Guard evaluate (#10818 - @smola)
• 🐛 Fix HttpEndpointPostProcessor incorrectly overwriting span resource name (#10754 - @jandro996)
• ✨ Add http.status_code, error, and http.useragent to inferred proxy spans (#10749 - @jandro996)
• 🐛 Fix content-type extraction for akka-http (#10742 - @jandro996)
• ✨🧪 Attach SDS findings to ai_guard spans (#10721 - @obordeau)
• 🐛 Fix missing http.response.headers.content-type span tag on blocking responses (#10711 - @jandro996)
• 🐛 Fix AWS API Gateway endpoints correlation HTTP span tags - Inferred Proxy Spans (#10561 - @jandro996)

Configuration

• ✨ Guarantee OTel Configs to run through ConfigHelper (#11057 - @mhlidd)
• ✨ Update supported-configurations.json w/ Missing Configs (#11046 - @mhlidd)
• ✨ Update JUnit Tests to run with STRICT_TEST mode by default (#11045 - @mhlidd)
• ✨ Update ConfigHelper to throw error in STRICT_TEST mode and capture undocumented Configs (#11031 - @mhlidd)

Continuous Integration Visibility

• 🐛 Include all candidate paths for duplicate keys in coverage reports (#10997 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨ Implement configuration error tagging for all backend requests (#10963 - @daniel-mohedano)
• 🐛 Fix Test Management telemetry (#10962 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨ Add support for Weaver 0.12 release (#10903 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨ Consider empty parameters as null in TestIdentifier creation (#10902 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨ Add error tag for library configuration request (#10856 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨ Add Java 26 support to CI Visibility (#10839 - @daniel-mohedano)
• ✨⚡ Use HashingUtils hash in CI Visibility (#10784 - @dougqh)

Crash Tracking

• ✨ Feature flag crashtracking extended info, and improve runtime args filtering (#11048 - @bric3)
• 🐛 Unset ld_preload and dyld_insert_libraries for crashtracker child JVM (#11041 - @gyuheon0h)
• ✨ Report JVM argument flags for crash tracking (#11013 - @bric3)
• ✨ Reports loaded libraries in crashtracking reports (#11000 - @bric3)
• 🐛✨ Add crashtracking addresses and error thread name (#10984 - @bric3)
• ✨ Properly handle OpenJ9 crash report (#10976 - @bric3)
• 🐛 Fix crashtracking siginfo missed some information (#10907 - @bric3)
• 🐛 Change error tracking crashtracker source (#10848 - @amarziali)
• 🐛 Unset inherited JVM env vars in crashtracking scripts (#10819 - @jbachorik)

Database Monitoring

• 🐛 Fix Oracle DBM trace correlation (#10829 - @azhou-datadog)

Dynamic Instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix NullPointerException in ExceptionProbe (#11051 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix NullPointerException in Fingerprinter (#11049 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix capture limit for capture expressions (#11042 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix CodeOrigin for interface endpoints (#11017 - @jpbempel)
• ✨ Optimize Lambda proxy class matching on filtering (#10905 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix Kotlin fake source mapping (#10880 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix NullPointerException in SymbolExtractor (#10858 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Handle exception from retrieving git info (#10853 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Change MethodParameters detection reporting (#10849 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Prevent retransforming record with type annotation (#10824 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Prevent instrumenting debugger agent classes (#10803 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Catch exception from detecting MethodParameters (#10779 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Prevent instrumenting first line of a constructor (#10772 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Catch exceptions in registerSourceFile (#10752 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Use SpringVersion to detect MethodParameters usage (#10750 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Fix Spring detection (#10740 - @jpbempel)
• 🐛 Add an error sampler for Log probes (#10638 - @jpbempel)

Logs Product

• 🐛 Fix check raw file injection smoke test (#10920 - @bm1549)

ML Observability (LLMObs)

• ✨ Propagate global dd_tags to LLMObs span tags (#10978 - @ygree)
• 🐛 Fix openai-java payload mapping for responses, tool metadata, and prompt tracking (#10644 - @ygree)

Metrics

• ✨ Add GitCommitSha to the client stats (#10833 - @amarziali)
• 🐛 Report gRPC status code in client-computed stats (#10805 - @bric3)
• ✨⚡ Reduce memory allocation from client-side stats (#10705 - @dougqh)
• ✨ Reduce verbosity of StatsD connection errors (#10618 - @PerfectSlayer)

OpenFeature

• 🐛 Allow null targeting key for static and rule-only flags (#10990 - @leoromanovsky)

Platform

• ✨ Add HTTP component API module (#10770 - @PerfectSlayer)

Profiling

• ✨ Enable live heap profiling by default on safe JVM versions (#11039 - @jbachorik)
• ✨ Update Java profiler library to 1.40.1 (#10995 - @jbachorik)
• ✨ Remove experimental jvmti wallclock profiler (#10872 - @zhengyu123)

Telemetry

• ✨ Update Environment Variable Normalization to not add DD prefix for OTel Configs (#11044 - @mhlidd)
• 🐛 Report dd-java-agent itself as a Maven dependency in SCA telemetry (#10975 - @jandro996)
• ✨ Add stable session ID headers to telemetry requests (#10914 - @khanayan123)
• ✨ Update Telemetry Key Normalization to Use Environment Variables (#10823 - @mhlidd)
• ✨⚡ Replace Objects.hash with HashingUtils.hash in telemetry (#10813 - @dougqh)
• ✨⚡ Reduce allocation overhead of ExceptionLogger / LogCollector (#10684 - @dougqh)

Testing

• ✨ Update JUnit Tests to run with STRICT_TEST mode by default (#11045 - @mhlidd)
• 🐛 Fix final_status workaround (#10852 - @cbeauchesne)
• 🧹 Refactor tests following Java migration (#10733 - @jpbempel)

Trace context propagation

• 🐛 Improve VirtualThread context tracking instrumentation (#11009 - @PerfectSlayer)
• 🐛 Fix VirtualThread support on multiple unmount/remount cycles (#10931 - @PerfectSlayer)

Tracer core

• ✨ Use TagMap.set in CoreTracer tracer tags (#11004 - @dougqh)
• ✨⚡ Replace interceptors ConcurrentSkipListSet with priority ordered copy on write "list" (#11002 - @dougqh)
• ✨⚡ Cache Tracer Host Entry to reduce allocation in RemoteHostnameAdder (#10968 - @dougqh)
• ✨ Add ObjectInputStream.readObject to forbidden apis (#10952 - @dougqh)
• ✨ Add ParentBasedAlwaysOnSampler as default sampler for OTLP trace export mode (#10915 - @mtoffl01)
• 🐛 Handle the case the info response does not contain endpoints / empty (#10838 - @amarziali)
• ✨⚡ Use forEach to avoid Iterator allocation (#10830 - @dougqh)
• ✨⚡ Avoid ArrayList copying from TraceInterceptors (#10828 - @dougqh)
• ✨⚡ Avoid creation of empty CopyOnWriteArrayList for span links (#10822 - @dougqh)
• ✨ Update BaseHash when process tags are updated (#10809 - @amarziali)
• ✨ Add _dd.p.ksr propagated tag for Knuth sampling rate (#10802 - @bm1549)
• ✨ Add capped sampling rate increases (#10715 - @raphaelgavache)
• ✨⚡ Avoid boxing by using TagMap.set in PayloadTagsProcessor (#10964 - @dougqh)
• ✨🧪 Add tracing support for native method calls via Java FFM API (#10718 - @amarziali)

Tracer internal logging

• ✨ Add app log collection config value in toString (#10725 - @jpbempel)

Instrumentations

Apache Spark instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix EMR Spark support by using Seq instead of ArrayBuffer for externalAccums (#10987 - @aboitreaud)
• 🐛 Fix spark application spans status on sql analysis failure (#10981 - @aboitreaud)
• 🐛 Fix sql plan nodes order causing test flakiness (#10911 - @aboitreaud)
• 🐛 Fix flaky test assertion by normalizing column ref and plan_id num (#10757 - @aboitreaud)
• ✨ Capture time app-related metrics for launchers (#10708 - @aboitreaud)
• 🐛 Remove Wrong Spark Spans for Inactive Databricks Clusters (#10651 - @larakulkarni1)
• ✨ Store accumulator-stage lookups directly (#10645 - @charlesmyu)
• ✨ Track external accumulators in tracer instead of using SparkInfo values (#10553 - @charlesmyu)

Armeria Instrumentation

• 🐛 Report gRPC status code in client-computed stats (#10805 - @bric3)

AWS SDK instrumentation

• 🐛 Inject APM trace headers into SQS _datadog message attribute on send (#10843 - @ygree)

Core Java language instrumentation

• 🐛 Improve VirtualThread context tracking instrumentation (#11009 - @PerfectSlayer)
• 🐛 Fix VirtualThread support on multiple unmount/remount cycles (#10931 - @PerfectSlayer)
• 🧹 Disable outdated RMI instrumentation (#10897 - @PerfectSlayer)
• 🐛🔐 Use primitive types for RMI context payload serialization (#10935 - @PerfectSlayer)
• ✨ Mute tracing for agent http calls (#10690 - @PerfectSlayer)

gRPC instrumentation

• 🐛 Report gRPC status code in client-computed stats (#10805 - @bric3)

JDBC instrumentation

• 🐛 Avoid IndexOutOfBound when parsing dbInfo without host (#10835 - @amarziali)
• ✨⚡ Replace Objects.hash with HashingUtils in DBInfo (#10783 - @dougqh)

Kafka instrumentation

• 💡 Capture kafka producer and consumer configs (#10697 - @piochelepiotr)

OpenTelemetry instrumentation

• 💡 Support sending OpenTelemetry metrics over OTLP (http/protobuf) (#11055 - @mcculls)

Spring instrumentation

• 🐛 Fix Spring messaging Kotlin async aware instrumentation (#11047 - @ygree)
• ✨ Support CompletableFuture on Spring Messaging Spans (#10979 - @mhlidd)

All other instrumentations

• 🧹 Separate context tracking from tracing on http client instrumentations (#10782 - @amarziali)
• 🧹 Split tracing and context tracking in server and messaging integrations (#10767 - @amarziali)