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Workspace Instana
Categories Java
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2024

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-instrumented-frameworks-libraries#http-libraries


However, Play 2.8 is now past end-of-life and there are vulnerabilities involved with 2.9 that mean we must use Play 3.0.


Our Rationale:

Play Framework 2.8 was end of life on May 31st 2024

Play Framework 2.9 uses a version of Akka 2.6 that contains a vulnerability that is only fixed in Akka 2.8. However, Akka 2.7 and higher now require a Business Source Licence.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31442

https://www.playframework.com/documentation/3.0.x/General

Play Framework 3.0 has switched to the Apache Pekko fork of Akka.

Idea priority Medium