Node.js agent release notesRSS

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• Added an API for recording custom Insights events. Read more about this in our documentation

• Fixed a crash in express instrumentation in the handling of sub-routers.
• Fixed a crash in http outbound connections when CAT is enabled and another library has frozen the http request headers.
• Updated version checking to allow versions of the runtime >= 1.0.0. Thanks to Mark Stosberg for this patch!

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• The agent now logs the actual error when log file parsing fails. Thanks to knownasilya for this patch!
• Fixed a crash where config serialization would fail due to circular objects if domains were enabled.

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• Errors that occur in background transactions now have custom parameters copied onto them in the same manner as web transactions.
• Memcached instrumentation has been updated to account for additional arguments that might be passed to the command function that the agent wraps.

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• Custom web transactions can have their names changed by nr.setTransactionName(). Thanks to Matt Lavin for this patch!
• Fixed a bug where Express instrumentation could crash if transaction state was lost in a sub router.

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• Improved the Express instrumentation to be more defensive before doing property lookups, fixing a crash that could happen in an exceptional state.
• Improved logging when the New Relic agent cannot connect to New Relic servers.
• Make Cross Application Tracer header injection less aggressive fixing interaction with other libraries such as riak-js.

Notes

• Added support for Hapi v8.
• briandela contributed a fix for an crash that would occur when using hapi with vhosts.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused some outbound http requests to show up in the New Relic UI as requests to localhost rather than the specified domain.
• The agent no longer reports errors from outbound http requests if they were handled by the user's application

Notes

• The node agent now instruments connections to Oracle Databases using the oracle driver. This patch was contributed by ryanwilliamquinn
• Fixed an issue that would break kraken apps when the node agent was enabled. This patch was contributed by Lenny Markus