Release v1.68.0 / v2.5.0

Backend Changes

⛔ Breaking Changes

• Remove sampling.strategies.bugfix-5270 flag and mark feature stable (@yurishkuro in #6872)

🐞 Bug fixes, Minor Improvements

• Minor fixes to release checklist generator (@albertteoh in #6976)
• Support configuring prometheus.extra_query_parameters via cli (@andreasgerstmayr in #6931)
• Cleanup legacy models (@yurishkuro in #6875)
• 🪦 remove agent code (@yurishkuro in #6868)
• [es] refactor findtraces and gettrace of spanreader to make them reusable for v2 apis (@Manik2708 in #6845)
• [es] add feature to stop legacy trace ids handling in spanreader (@Manik2708 in #6848)
• Feat: move pkg/testutils to internal/testutils (@jinjiaKarl in #6840)
• [fix] allow es-index-cleaner to delete indices based on current time (@Asatyam in #6790)
• [chore] remove gogoproto annotations from trace_storage.proto and dependency_storage.proto (@mahadzaryab1 in #6819)

🚧 Experimental Features

• [es][v2] add snapshot tests for spans conversion (@Manik2708 in #6970)
• [grpc][v2] implement grpc v2 factory (@mahadzaryab1 in #6968)
• [grpc][v2] implement findtraces call in grpc reader for remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6962)
• [grpc][v2] implement gettraces call in grpc reader for remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6857)
• [es][v2] refactor from_dbmodel and to_dbmodel to accept and return db spans (@Manik2708 in #6934)
• [grpc][v2] implement v2 grpc dependency reader (@mahadzaryab1 in #6933)
• [es][v2] copy jaeger<->otlp translator from otel contrib (@Manik2708 in #6923)
• [grpc][v2] implement v2 grpc trace writer (@mahadzaryab1 in #6919)
• [grpc][v2] implement findtraceids call in grpc reader for remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6858)
• [grpc][v2] implement getoperations call in grpc reader for remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6843)
• [grpc][v2] implement getservices call in grpc reader for remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6829)
• [refactor] return chunk of traces from remote storage api v2 (@mahadzaryab1 in #6830)

👷 CI Improvements

• [all-in-one] avoid multi-arch builds in merge queue (#6880) (@sAchin-680 in #6882)
• Instruct renovate to pin github action hashes (@yurishkuro in #6860)

⚙️ Refactoring

• Move model/json/model.go to internal/uimodel/converter/v1 (@pipiland2612 in #6973)
• Add usetesting linter and fix lint issues (#6892) (@anurag-rajawat in #6972)
• Delete empty pkg package (@pipiland2612 in #6967)
• Move pkg/otelsemconv to internal/telemetry/otelsemconv (@pipiland2612 in #6961)
• Move pkg/cassandra to internal/storage/cassandra (@pipiland2612 in #6960)
• Move pkg/adjuster to cmd/query/app/querysvc/internal/adjuster (@pipiland2612 in #6956)
• Remove package pkg/netutils (@pipiland2612 in #6955)
• [refactor] remove traceschunk type and stream otlp traces directly (@mahadzaryab1 in #6954)
• [es] remove pointer signatures from fromdbmodel and todbmodel (@Manik2708 in #6942)
• Move proto-gen to internal (@yurishkuro in #6941)
• Move pkg/es to internal/storage/elasticsearch (@danish9039 in #6937)
• Move pkg/distributedlock to internal/distributedlock (@danish9039 in #6903)
• Move pkg/httpmetrics to internal/httpmetrics (@danish9039 in #6905)
• Move pkg/{gogocodec,httpfs,bearertoken,boundqueue} to internal (@sAchin-680 in #6896)
• Move pkg/metrics to internal/metrics (@danish9039 in #6901)
• Move pkg/kafka to internal/kafka (@danish9039 in #6908)
• Move pkg/prometheus to internal/config/promcfg (@danish9039 in #6911)
• Move model/proto to internal/proto (@danish9039 in #6918)
• [es] move db model out of v1/elasticsearch/internal/spanstore/internal (@Manik2708 in #6894)
• Move pkg/version to internal/version (@danish9039 in #6913)
• Move model/converter to internal/converter (@danish9039 in #6917)
• Move pkg/gzipfs to internal/gzipfs (@sAchin-680 in #6897)
• Move pkg/jtracer to internal/jtracer (@danish9039 in #6907)
• Move pkg/telemetry to internal/telemetry (@danish9039 in #6912)
• Move pkg/fswatcher to internal/fswatcher (@sAchin-680 in #6895)
• [es] separate the corespanwriter from spanwriter (@Manik2708 in #6883)
• Move pkg/config to internal/config (@gentcod in #6884)
• Move pkg/healthcheck to internal/healthcheck (@danish9039 in #6888)
• Moved pkg/hostname to internal/hostname (@danish9039 in #6886)
• Move pkg/recoveryhandler to internal/recoveryhandler (@danish9039 in #6887)
• Move pkg/tenancy to internal/tenancy (@danish9039 in #6889)
• Move pkg/normalizer to collector (@danish9039 in #6877)
• Replace the use of model/converter/thrift/zipkin (@shuraih775 in #6879)
• [es] remove pointer signatures from corespanreader (@Manik2708 in #6874)
• [refactor] move interface to remove cmd/agent dependency (@yurishkuro in #6863)
• [agent] refactor udp server (@yurishkuro in #6852)
• [agent] remove unnecessary server interface (@yurishkuro in #6851)
• [es] refactor the findtraceids of spanreader to make them reusable for v2 apis (@Manik2708 in #6831)
• [es] refactor the getoperations and getservices of spanreader to make them reusable for v2 apis (@Manik2708 in #6828)

📊 UI Changes

✨ New Features

• Feat: change dag styling and add search functionality (@hari45678 in #2710)

🐞 Bug fixes, Minor Improvements

• Add sample graph data when in dev mode (@hari45678 in #2698)
• Add depth and layout controls and sfdp layout to dag view (@hari45678 in #2691)
• Add sfdp engine in @jaegertracing/plexus (@hari45678 in #2690)
• Add handling or error for invalid json formats and tests (@rohitlohar45 in #2689)