2.X

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feature:

• [#8014] add P99.9 latency percentile to benchmark CLI
• [#7882] add metrics for NamingServer
• [#7760] unify Jackson/fastjson serialization
• [#7000] support multi-version codec & fix not returning client registration failure msg.
• [#7865] add Benchmark CLI tool
• [#7903] Support HTTP/2 stream push for the Watch API in Server Raft mode
• [#8002] add Grafana dashboard JSON for NamingServer metrics

bugfix:

• [#7929] fix KingbaseUndoLogManager INSERT_UNDO_LOG_SQL error
• [#7940] ensure the Jakarta-related package paths are correct
• [#7960] fix consoleApiService bean that could not be found
• [#7956] fix empty jacoco report on local when jdk above 17
• [#7965] fix the issue where different element order in two lists causes failure to set the index as the primary key
• [#7992] fix report branch transaction status without setting branch type

optimize:

• [#7930] pin the Spring version for namingserver and console
• [#7943] update jib-maven-plugin version and increase parallel test execution limits
• [#7934] add OkHttp and MockWebServer dependencies to resolve version conflicts
• [#7951] upgrade qs dependency version to 6.14.1
• [#7955] change the getProperty call to resolvePlaceholders
• [#7971] upgrade some dependencies
• [#7970] Remove unnecessary refreshLeader from ClusterController cluster endpoint
• [#8019] mark deprecated JSON parsers

security:

test:

• [#7962] add unit tests for NacosRegistryProvider and NacosRegistryServiceImpl
• [#8003] Enhance NacosRegistryServiceImplTest with additional mocks for service name group and cluster
• [#7915] add unit tests for saga-engine low coverage components

refactor:

• [#7957] replace Apache HttpClient with OkHttp in NamingServer

doc:

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