Version 1.55.0

This release targets the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation 2.26.1.

Disk buffering

• Add configuration option for explicit removal in the disk buffering iterator (#2560)
• Replace CompletableFuture with CompletableResultCode (#2670)
• Replace IllegalStateException with EOFException in readRawVarint32 (#2687)
• Apply upstream fixes to the disk buffering implementation (#2694)

Dynamic control

• Add trace sampling-rate implementer (#2634)
• Add json and keyvalue parsing and mapping (#2655)
• Move away from JSON requirement (#2652)
• Refactor trace sampling into specific subpackage (#2698)
• Add jsonkeyvalue source (#2702)
• Step 1 in transition to simpler validation (#2703)
• Move to using SourceWrapper, simplifying parsing (#2708)
• Complete the jsonkeyvalue and simpler validation migration (#2715)
• Refactor TYPE to POLICY_TYPE for clarity (#2720)
• Add SourceKind as sources are a known list (#2722)
• Add policy store (#2721)

Build

• Replace NVD with Sonatype OSS Index (#2689)
• Fix OSS Index Audit again (#2706)
• Fix release workflow (#2639)

JMX scraper

• Document ActiveMQ metrics from instrumentation (#2666)
• Document Kafka Connect support (#2688)

🙇 Thank you

This release was possible thanks to the following contributors who shared their brilliant ideas and awesome pull requests:

@atoulme
@bencehornak
@bidetofevil
@breedx-splk
@cyrille-leclerc
@DmytroBorysovSpotOn
@jackshirazi
@jaydeluca
@laurit
@LikeTheSalad
@OxxxyAction
@SylvainJuge
@trask
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