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Notes

This release of the Python agent adds support for Python 3.9 and includes bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug Fixes

• Duplicate warnings were logged repeatedly when using the agent with Python 3

  The agent internally suppressed any warnings generated when data was sent via HTTP to New Relic in a way that caused the warning filters to mutate. This caused the cache of already printed warnings to be cleared, resulting in duplicate warnings after every data harvest. The agent no longer mutates the process warning filters on a background thread, resulting in consistent warning behavior.

• AttributeError when passing an inactive transaction into ExternalTrace.generate_request_headers

  When passing an inactive transaction into ExternalTrace.generate_request_headers, an AttributeError was generated. This agent version contains additional validation for the transaction argument in ExternalTrace.generate_request_headers.

• The infinite tracing host configuration value did not have sufficient validation

  When passing a URL or other invalid host to the infinite tracing host configuration, the agent accepted this value unchecked to use in the host parameter for later connections via grpc. The agent now validates this configuration and attempts to correct for invalid hosts if it is able to detect the host. If a host is not detected, the agent automatically falls back to infinite tracing disabled and logs an error.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds instrumentation for uvicorn and asyncpg.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

New Features

• Adds uvicorn instrumentation

  ASGI applications are now automatically wrapped when using the uvicorn ASGI server.

• Adds asyncpg instrumentation

  Support has been added for recording database transactions when using asyncpg database client module for PostgresSQL.

Improved Features

• Adds db.operation attribute

  A new attribute, db.operation, was introduced for datastore traces. This value is recorded only when db.statement is not reported, and represents an operation triggered by methods other than running a DB statement.

Notes

This release of the Python agent adds new ASGI apis and upgrades wrapt.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

New Features

• Adds support for ASGI applications via built in APIs

  ASGI applications can now be timed via middleware-like API calls. Browser monitoring JS is automatically injected into HTML pages by the ASGI browser monitoring middleware for instrumented applications. See the asgi_application docs for details on API usage.

• Upgrades wrapt to 1.12.1

  This version of the agent ships with wrapt 1.12.1.

Notes

This release of the Python agent includes bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug fixes

• Fix invalid payloads generated when using serverless mode

  When using serverless mode on the Python Agent versions v5.16.0 and v5.16.1, invalid serverless/lambda payloads were generated. The agent now generates the proper payloads in serverless mode.

Notes

This release of the Python agent introduces manylinux wheels and includes bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug fixes

• Data was erroneously discarded when an HTTP protocol error occurred

  When an unexpected HTTP error occurred (such as a timeout), data was erroneously discarded. Data is now downsampled and retransmitted when an HTTP protocol error occurs.

• Error when installing with an incompatible setuptools_scm version

  The version requirements were not correctly set for the setuptools_scm build time requirement, which may have resulted in an error at installation. The version requirements for setuptools_scm are now set appropriately.

Notes

This release of the Python agent changes the internal http client from requests to urllib3, updates logging, and includes bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Improved Features

• The NewRelicContextFormatter now records extras

  When using the NewRelicContextFormatter log formatter, extras are now automatically captured and recorded in the New Relic agent logs product.

• The agent now internally uses urllib3

  The python agent previously used requests as its http client. The agent now uses urllib3 internally for HTTP communication with New Relic data ingest services.

Bug fixes

• Fix gRPC application crash when credentials are supplied

  When using the credentials argument, the agent's built in gRPC instrumentation caused an application crash. This crash has been fixed.

• Fix Tornado framework crashes when finish is called from a different task

  When finish is called from a different task, applications using the Tornado framework may crash. This crash has been fixed.

Notes

This release of the Python agent includes a bug fix.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug fixes

• When using newrelic-admin run-program on Python 2.7 applications failed to start

  Using the newrelic-admin run-program on Python 2.7 with the 5.14.0 agent resulted in an application crash. Applications now start as expected on Python 2.7.

Notes

This release of the Python agent includes improvements to distributed tracing, and bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

New Features

• Add new span attribute transaction.name

  A new attribute, transaction.name, has been added to the root span.

Improved features

• Transaction attributes are added to the root span

  Transaction attributes, including response attributes, are now added to the root span.

• Custom attributes are added to the root span

  The public API methods newrelic.agent.add_custom_param and newrelic.agent.add_custom_params now add the specified custom attribute to the root span in addition to the transaction. If the maximum number of custom attributes is reached, span-level custom attributes take precedence over transaction-level custom attributes.

• Error attributes added to each span/segment

  Error attributes error.class and error.message to all spans that exit without handling an exception.

Bug fixes

• asyncio: application crash when a transaction that started on a completed parent task exits

  When a transaction that started on a completed parent task exited, an exception was raised. This error has been fixed.

• Error attributes are no longer added if the error collector is disabled

  If the error collector is disabled via error_collector.enabled, error attributes error.class and error.message are not added to the currently executing span.

Security Updates

Note that changes were made that add attributes to the root span. Transaction-level attribute filtering via the transaction.attribute.exclude configuration setting will not filter the attribute(s) for the root span. Those attributes may unexpectedly start to appear on the root span.

Notes

This release of the Python agent includes bug fixes.

The agent can be installed using easy_install/pip/distribute via the Python Package Index or can be downloaded directly from the New Relic download site.

Bug fixes

• AIOHTTP http client urls displayed as unknown.url when using YARL URLs

  When passing a YARL url object to the aiohttp client, the agent did not properly parse this URL, resulting in unknown.url being displayed in the UI. The URL is now parsed correctly in both the YARL url case and the string url case.

• Data may not be recorded when tornado's RequestHandler.finish

  Using RequestHandler.finish in tornado caused the transaction to exit before all traces (inserted by automatic instrumentation) were complete, resulting in missing data. All traces now exit when RequestHandler.finish is called.

• asyncio.ensure_future / asyncio.create_task is unable to spawn new transactions

  Calling asyncio.create_task / asyncio.ensure_future was unable to spawn a new transaction if these methods were called from within an existing transaction. New transactions can now be created when ensure_future/create_task is called from within an existing transaction and no traces have been started on the spawned task.

• py3: A runtime instrumentation error may have occurred when transactions were finalized

  When transactions became garbage (if the reference to the transaction was lost as part of a circular reference for example), a runtime instrumentation error may have been logged. The error conditions have been relaxed to allow for certain states within the agent when a transaction becomes garbage.

• Application crash when starting a transaction when one is already active

  Starting a transaction via the context manager APIs when a transaction is already active no longer causes an application crash. An error is logged when this case is detected.

• Creating a message transaction with distributed tracing enabled may have resulted in a crash

  The agent crashed with an AttributeError when using message transactions with distributed tracing enabled when headers were not provided. This error has been fixed.