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sharmilashree
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3 days ago

EOL Status of OpenCensus Jars and Request for Migration

During a recent review, we noticed that some of the Android Enterprise dependencies we use — specifically opencensus-api and opencensus-contrib-http-util — have not been updated for several years. --> Last release: 0.31.1 (April 29, 2022)

These libraries are currently required as dependencies for google-http-client.jar, which we use to initialize HTTP clients for API calls.
If we exclude the OpenCensus jars, the application fails at runtime with missing class errors. Therefore, these jars are currently mandatory for successful execution.

However, from a security perspective, our central security team does not allow bundling outdated or unsupported dependencies.

We would appreciate your guidance on the following points:

  • Are there any plans to update or refactor google-http-client.jar to remove or upgrade its dependency on the legacy OpenCensus libraries?
  • Is there an alternative approach or supported path to use OpenTelemetry (or any other supported telemetry library) in place of OpenCensus for tracing and metrics?

We already raised in following portals and no update received, so posting it here

  1. AE Partner Escalations
  2. Git hub discussions
  3. Expert Forum

Any roadmap updates or migration guidance would be extremely helpful.

1 Reply

  • Lizzie's avatar
    Lizzie
    Google Community Manager
    3 days ago

    Hey sharmilashree​,

     

    Nice to see you back in the community. I hope you are good. 

     

    Thanks for your post - I have had a quick look into the tickets your raised via the Partner Portal, it does look like that team is still speaking with our engineering teams to get more information on this. 

     

    I've also responded on the ticket to flag your questions mentioned above, so hopefully we can get a bit more followup. 

     

    I'm sure the Partner Portal team will followup with you directly when there is more info, but I'll also keep an eye on it as well.

     

    Thanks and speak soon.

     

    Lizzie