Release 1.8.1

Dependencies upgrade:

• Bump okhttp to 4.9.3 (#834)
• Bump apache thrift version to 0.15.0
• Update gson from 2.8.6 -> 2.9.0

Release v1.8.0

• Restore support for setting null as a tag value (Resolves #823) (#824) -- amirhadadi

Release v1.7.0

• Optimize TextMapCodec::contextFromString (#799) -- amirhadadi
• jaeger-thrift: Shade kotlin runtime + other libraries (#801) -- ohadgur
• Drop support for Java 1.6 and 1.7 (#802) -- Yuri Shkuro
• Reduce locking in JaegerSpan (#795) -- amirhadadi
• Fix repeated error logging for HttpSender (#785) -- Radek Kraus

Release v1.6.0

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Release 1.5.0

• Upgrade okhttp to 4.9.0 (#749) -- Yuri Shkuro
• Do not strip leading zeros from trace IDs (#746) -- Yuri Shkuro
• Document how to encrypt travis secrets (#744) -- Pavol Loffay

Release 1.4.0

• Process sampling tag before handling other tags (fixes #738) -- Audrius Butkevicius>
• Add 'w3c' to valid JAEGER_PROPAGATION options -- by chgl
• Allow SystemClock to recognize non-GA OpenJDK versions -- Andriy Redko

Release 1.3.2

• Log SenderExceptions the first time they occur in a row (#729) -- Phillip Schichtel
• Make UdpSender lazy to be able to recover from early DNS issues (#726) -- Phillip Schichtel

Release 1.3.0

• Add MDCScopeManager for correlating logs with trace context (#718) -- Avi Maslati
• Fix publishing jaeger-thrift shadow artifact (#704) -- Zbigniew Halas
• Do not encode span context in HTTP_HEADERS format (#721) -- Clément MATHIEU
• Support microseconds timestamp accuracy for JDK 9 and above (#712) -- Idan Sheinberg
• Ignore case when extracting W3C TraceContext (#711) -- Yanming Zhou
• Support jaeger-debug-id in TraceContextCodec (#701) -- Yanming Zhou
• Avoid warning if traceparent not present (#698) -- Yanming Zhou

Relase 1.2.0

• Add W3C TraceContext codec/propagation (#694, @pavolloffay)
• Configuration do not cache sender instance (#685, @ehsavoie)
• Prevent a shutdown hook from being removed in JaegerTracer when a shutdown is in progress (#689, @TomasHofman)
• Fix ThriftSender max span size check (#670, @yhpark)
• Unregister shutdown hook when tracer is closed (#679, @TomasHofman)

Release 1.1.0

v1.1.0

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