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Notes

Security

• deps: Updated semver to v7.5.2, also in native-metrics and test utils (#1685) (e207a6b)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Added test for getRedisParams (#1670) (e9f8556)
• temporarily limit prisma tests to non-breaking version (#1680) (76d3ade)
• testing: convert query-test-aggregator tests to tap style (#1676) (d2e45ad)
• testing: Converted error-event-aggregator.test.js to tap (#1683) (9f1d66f)

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

Features

• Added Interactive Application Security Testing(IAST) mode of security agent when config.security.agent.enabled is true. (#1664) (3e926e5)

To learn about how to use IAST, check out our documentation.

• To enable the security agent set config.security.agent.enabled and config.security.enabled to true.

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

Features

• Added supportability metrics to indicate how agent was loaded and if source maps were enabled (#1657) (6f6f7e6)

  • Supportability/Features/CJS/Preload - recorded if -r newrelic was used to load agent
  • Supportability/Features/CJS/Require - recorded if require('newrelic') was used to load agent
  • Supportability/Features/EnableSourceMaps - recorded if node --enable-source-maps was present to start application

• Added logging of process.execArgs at the debug level (#1654) (c85c006)

Miscellaneous chores

• Updated c8 to merge v8 coverage reports asynchronously to avoid OOM issues (#1652) (34376d7)
• Updated explorer hub link in readme (#1656) (c1e81a7)

Tests

• Added unit tests for MySQL instrumentation (#1649) (b693ba0)

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

Bug Fixes

• Updated mysql instrumentation to properly wrap the connection pool.getConnection and poolCluster.of (#1647) (4caf1db)
  • Added instrumentation to PoolNamespace.prototype.query

Continuous Integration

• fix minor release note generation bugs (#1643) (dd6ab9a)

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

Bug Fixes

• updated prisma instrumentation to properly parse database connection strings that work across all versions of prisma (#1634) (b2101fd)

Code Refactoring

• run-versioned-tests.sh: added ability to run versioned tests and skip collecting coverage by passing in SKIP_C8 env var to the job. (#1621) (0ba9dcb)

Documentation

• update Contribution Guide with Conventional Commit info (#1635) (f1a00e5)

Miscellaneous Chores

• pin testdobule to 3.17.2 as 3.18.0 no longer works on node 14 (#1628) (d68bd9f)
• remove release-please workflow and scripts (#1624) (80f7eb8)

Tests

• pin prisma to 4.14.0 until we fix instrumentation (#1631) (a60659d)
• scripts: fix failing changelog unit test (#1626) (08f48b3)
• config: increase test coverage (#1625) (67f39d8)
• config: revert changes to lib/config/index.js (#1630) (fea1068)

Continuous Integration

• changed versioned tests script to use SKIP_C8 (#1621) (83e95e3)
• add --use-new-release functionality (#1633) (d97b421)
• add ability to generate release notes from conventional commits (#1623) (880a88b)
• create-docs-pr: Set username/email to machine user by default (#1627) (3870a1f)
• fix issue with missing type in the prep-release (#1638) (9a906e8)
• update prep-release to fetch entire history of caller repo (#1641) (428174a)
• update to conditionally add CLI flag to prep-release (#1640) (b167c93)

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

• Added batching and compression to infinite tracing.

  • These options are on by default.
  • To restore uncompressed spans set config.infinite_tracing.compression to false.
  • To send single spans vs batches set config.infinite_tracing.batching to false.
  • The environment variables for these new configurations are: NEW_RELIC_INFINITE_TRACING_BATCHING and NEW_RELIC_INFINITE_TRACING_COMPRESSION.

• Added support to record Nest.js error stack traces.

  • Nest.js is officially supported via underlying instrumentation of express or fastify.

• Added job to create a release notes PR in the post-release workflow.

• Removed request library and updated helper to use http/https to make requests in tests.

• Reduced cognitive complexity in lib/serverless/aws-lambda.js

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

• BREAKING - Updated the default of config.transaction_tracer.record_sql from off to obfuscated. This means that sql statements will be captured but obfuscated.

• BREAKING - Route (URL) parameters are now stored as request.parameters.route.* attributes on Transactions, root Segments and Spans.

  After this change, the following becomes true:

  • Query parameters will be available as attributes prefixed with request.parameters.* on Transactions and Spans.

  • Route parameters will be available as attributes prefixed with request.parameters.route.* on Transactions and Spans.

  • Route parameters (aka url parameters) are a common feature of various web frameworks, where you can create a placeholder as part of an API route definition.

    For example, given the following Express route definition and request url:

    app.get('/api/users/:id', myMiddleware, myController)

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    curl http://localhost:3000/api/users/abc123?id=true

    The route parameter is id, and has a value of abc123. This would become request.parameters.route.id: abc123 on the Transaction, root Segment, and Span attributes. This example also has a query parameter of id, which has a value of true. This would become request.parameters.id: true on the Transaction, root Segment, and Span attributes.

• BREAKING - Removed captureUrlParams from WebFrameworkShim class.

• DEPRECATION NOTICE: shim.unwrap and shim.unwrapOnce will no longer function if you attempt to unwrap an item that has been wrapped multiple times.

  • This is because since we now allow instrumenting the same module more than once, you cannot safely unwrap without breaking all registered instrumentation. We plan to remove shim.unwrap and shim.unwrapOnce in the next major release.

• Added the ability to register instrumentation multiple hooks (onRequire, onResolved) for the same resolved moduleName.

  • This has been a limitation of the agent from the beginning.
  • If you used the api to instrument api.instrument, api.instrumentDatastore, api.instrumentWebframework, api.instrumentMessages, or api.instrumentConglomerate, it would override existing instrumentation hooks. The effect was that the Node.js agent would not function as designed.

• Refactored lib/transaction/tracecontext.js to reduce cognitive complexity.

• Refactored lib/transaction/trace/index.js to reduce cognitive complexity.

• Upgraded devDependencies jsdoc, and lean-jsdoc-theme.

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Notes

• Added a new configuration option heroku.use_dyno_names to specify whether or not to use process.env.DYNO for naming the host name and display host. This option defaults to true. If you are on heroku and do not want this functionality set heroku.use_dyno_names to false. You can also control this configuration options with the environment variable of NEW_RELIC_HEROKU_USE_DYNO_NAMES. Thanks @benney-au-le for your contribution 🚀

Support statement:

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.