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Elastic APM Java Agent deprecations

Review the deprecated functionality for your Elastic APM Java Agent version. While deprecations have no immediate impact, we strongly encourage you update your implementation after you upgrade.

To learn how to upgrade, check out Upgrading.

1.33.0

Release date: July 8, 2022

  • Deprecated url_groups in favor of transaction_name_groups.

1.18.0

Release date: September 8, 2020

  • Deprecating ignore_urls config in favour of transaction_ignore_urls to align with other agents, while still allowing the old config name for backward compatibility - #1315
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