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This release of the Python agent adds support for Azure Function Apps and protobuf v6.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Adds support for Azure Function Apps

  • Adds support for Azure Function Apps for HTTPTrigger types.

Bug fixes

• Adds pb2 files to enable protobuf v6 support

  • Previously, several google packages were not compatible with New Relic due to the lack of protobuf v6 support. This has now been resolved.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and fixes import logic for importlib.metadata and pkg_resources.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • Adds support for MCP calls in mcp and fastmcp. The agent will now automatically instrument the following core MCP primitives:
    • Tools (via call_tool)
    • Resources (via read_resource)
    • Prompts (via get_prompt)

Bug fixes

• Fix import logic for importlib.metadata and pkg_resources

  • Updates logic around import of importlib.metadata to also attempt to use the importlib_metadata backport before falling back to pkg_resources.*. This also removes use of sys.version conditionals and fixes issues where Python 3.9 could only use pkg_resources despite having importlib.metadata available.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for Redis v6.0.0 and fixes conflicts with the opentelemetry-proto package.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add support for Redis v6.0.0

  • Adds support for all client methods introduced in Redis v6.0.0.

Bug fixes

• Fix conflicts with opentelemetry-proto package

  • Fixes an issue where the agent's internal copy of opentelemetry-proto would conflict with any other packages relying on opentelemetry-proto (such as ChromaDB). This should now be treated as a separate package by OpenTelemetry and prevent any conflicts.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for Google Gemini via the Google Generative AI SDK and instruments new Kinesis methods.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add support for Google Gemini via Google Generative AI SDK

  • Adds support for google-genai. The agent will automatically instrument embed_content calls for synchronous and asynchronous embeddings. The agent also now supports synchronous and asynchronous text generations for text inputs in non-streaming cases. This includes calls made to generate_content for single text-only inputs and calls to send_message for multi-turn conversations.

• Instrument new AWS Kinesis methods

  • Adds botocore instrumentation to support new AWS Kinesis methods including tag_resource, untag_resource, and list_tags_for_resource.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for async elasticsearch, fixes a graphql configuration parsing issue, fixes a bug in the Kombu instrumentation and re-enables the Kombu instrumentation.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add async support for elasticsearch

  • Adds support for async elasticsearch. Thanks fagnerzulin for the contribution!

Bug fixes

• Add parsing of graphql config setting

  • Previously, when the setting instrumentation.graphql.capture_introspection_queries was set in the config file, this setting did not take effect. This has been fixed.

• Fix crash in Kombu when running with Sentry

  • Fixes a crash in Kombu instrumentation where a TypeError was raised from the inspect module. This bug was due to a conflict in wrapping between New Relic and Sentry. The Kombu instrumentation has also been re-enabled.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds OpenTelemetry compatible datastore span attribute names, fixes a bug in LangChain instrumentation, and temporarily disables Kombu instrumentation.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add OpenTelemetry compatible datastore span attributes

  • The datastore span attributes are now more consistent with OpenTelemetry naming conventions

Bug fixes

• Fix LangChain instrumentation for string response types

  • Previously, when LangChain returned string-type responses, the agent only captured the first character of the string. This has been corrected.

• Disable Kombu instrumentation

  • Existing Kombu instrumentation in the agent is crashing with a TypeError being raised from the inspect module. This instrumentation has been temporarily disabled and will be re-enabled in a future release once the root cause of the crash is identified and patched.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent fixes a bug with the latest Kombu instrumentation.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug fixes

• Fix import error in Kombu instrumentation

  • A missing import in Kombu's instrumentation resulted in a crash for those using the instrumentation. This has now been fixed.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for Kombu, mysqlclient, PyMySQL, and adds a few safeguards to prevent exceptions.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add support for Kombu

  • Add support for producer and consumer message tracing in Kombu.
  • In the case where Celery and Kombu are used together, a transaction is produced for both Celery and Kombu message consumption and Kombu consumer tracing is turned off by default. It can be enabled via the instrumentation.kombu.consumer.enabled setting. A new setting instrumentation.kombu.ignored_exchanges to ignore certain exchanges was also added and by default it ignores the celeryev queue which is a monitoring queue.

• Add support for mysqlclient (a MySQLdb fork for Python 3)

  • Instrumentation for the Python 2 library MySQLdb has been adapted to support the Python 3 fork mysqlclient.

• Update instrumentation for PyMySQL for versions 1.0.3 and above

  • Instrumentation for PyMySQL has been updated for newer versions of the library, and versions below 1.0.3 are no longer supported.

Bug fixes

• Safeguard startup of agent healthchecks against exceptions

  • Previously, the agent healthchecks could raise exceptions during startup, potentially resulting in agent crashes. This has been fixed.

• Fix warning message around garbage collection runtime metrics sampler

  • Previously, a warning message was sometimes emitted which was related to the garbage collection runtime metrics sampler. This has been fixed.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for asynchronous AWS Bedrock LLM calls in aioboto3, a fix for a segfault with greenlets, a fixed a crash in aiomysql instrumentation, and reformatted the codebase with Ruff.

Install the agent using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or download it directly from the New Relic download site.

New features

• Add support for asynchronous AWS Bedrock LLM calls

  • Adds instrumentation to support calls to invoke_model and invoke_model_with_response_stream made on aioboto3 clients

Bug fixes

• Fix crash in aiomysql instrumentation

  • Previously, using aiomysql.sa (the included sqlalchemy engine) with the agent would result in a crash due to a missing __await__ method in the instrumentation. This has been corrected.

• Fix segfaults with greenlets

  • Previously, a segfault occured when the maximum number of worker processes were called. This was due to a combination of using a weak reference for the agent's trace ID caching and greenlet's greenlet.getcurrent() retrieval function being called after the last greenlet has already been garbage collected. This fix allows the worker process to restart without the segfault occurring.

Changes

• Reformatted entire codebase with Ruff

  • Switched to Ruff linter and reformatted the entire codebase.

Support statement

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date.

See the New Relic Python agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.