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- A review of Apache SkyWalking community work in 2025, with a focus on BanyanDB becoming the production-grade native storage for SkyWalking. Happy New Year!
- We announced a new feature for incoming 10.2 and Java agent 9.4 in 2025 <Profiling Java application with SkyWalking bundled async-profiler> Java agent provides tracing based profiling and popular async-profiler tooling bundled. Run them on demand!
- #SkyWalking released its 0.8.0 #PHP auto-instrument agent. It will be GA for the next release. Check the latest release note here. #OpenSource #apm
- From next version(10.2), #SkyWalking is going to provide service sort for each layer. With additional sort mechanism added into metrics system, people could customize this and sort by group name as well.

