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September 14
Docs September 08 - September 12, 2025

New docs

  • Added comprehensive Observability Maturity Model documentation to provide guidance for measuring and improving observability practices across four key areas: Business Uptime, Digital Experience, Engineering Excellence, and Intelligent Observability.

Major changes

  • Updated PHP agent configuration with extensive new configuration options for sampling controls and framework exception handler instrumentation.

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

    • Browser agent v1.297.0:

      • Prevented early harvests when in retry period for better rate limiting handling.
      • Removed newrelic meta attribute from outgoing replay payloads to reduce billable bytes.
      • Fixed exceptions for null bodies arising from empty harvests.

    • PHP agent v12.1.0.26:

      • Added sampling controls based on upstream w3c trace sampling decision.
      • Added configuration option to skip instrumentation of framework exception handlers.
      • Fixed potential memory leak when calling newrelic_end_transaction(true).
      • Bumped golang version to 1.25.1 for security improvements.

    • Python agent v10.17.0:

      • Added support for custom tasks in Celery.
      • Added support for Graphene-Django monitoring.
      • Added support for middleware filtering in Django.
      • Added support for AWS Bedrock Converse API.
      • Added support for W3CTraceParent header sampled flag.

    • Java agent v8.24.0:

      • Added support for MongoDB Reactive Streams 5.2.0 and up.
      • Added Jedis 6 support.
      • Fixed CouchBase double instrumentation issue.
      • Fixed Spring WebClient 5.x header wrapping issue.

    • Node.js agent v13.3.0:

      • Added MCP StreamableHTTPClientTransport support.

    • Node.js agent v13.3.1:

      • Fixed crash by defaulting requestParameters to an object in transaction.addRequestParameters.

    • Node.js agent v13.3.2:

      • Added defensive code for obtaining protocol in outbound http calls.

    • Kubernetes integration v3.45.1:

      • Updated with latest improvements and bug fixes.

    • Job Manager v464:

      • Fixed issue where customers weren't able to pull images from a custom registry using podman.

    • Node browser runtime v3.0.43:

      • Fixed underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities.

    • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.12:

      • Fixed deep link issues for Dashboard and Alerts.
      • Fixed CCU Dashboard ID issue.

    • Mobile app for Android v5.30.7:

      • Added bug fixes and improvements.

    • Flutter agent v1.1.14:

      • Added additional stability improvements and bug fixes.

    • Pipeline Control Gateway v25.09.01:

      • Added new release with enhanced pipeline control capabilities.

September 5
Docs September 01 - September 05, 2025

New docs

  • Added SAP solutions monitoring documentation to provide comprehensive guidance for monitoring SAP applications with New Relic, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting procedures.

Major changes

Minor changes

Release notes

August 29
Docs August 22 - August 28, 2025

New docs

Minor changes

Release notes

August 22
Docs August 15 - August 21, 2025

Major changes

  • Updated Node.js agent compatibility report.
  • Updated .NET agent with the latest verified compatible library versions.

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Announced January 7, 2026, as the End of Life date for the drop rules through the AI Monitoring UI.
  • iOS agent v7.5.9
    • Fixed an issue that could cause distributed tracing to not have all required account information at the start of a session.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash on agent start.
  • Python agent v10.16.0
    • Added support for new Redis functions.
    • Converted all internal paths from os.path to pathlib.Path.
    • Fixed issue with JSON encoding PosixPath.
  • Kubernetes integration v3.44.1
  • .NET agent v10.44.1
    • Exception handling corrected in Service Bus instrumentation wrapper.
    • Excluded Azure Function webhost (Linux) process from instrumentation.
  • Node.js Agent v13.2.0
    • Added ability to register Supportability/Features/Instrumentation/OnRequire/<pkg> metrics for subscriber based instrumentation.
    • Added esm loader hook and commonjs patch to work with orchestrion-js.
    • Added instrumentation for @modelcontextprotocol/sdk client calls client.callTool, client.readResource, and client.getPrompt.
    • Fixed logic around detecting OTEL packages.
    • Updated shimmer.setupSubscribers to properly setup and skip subscribers that are disabled.
  • Node.js Agent v13.2.1
    • Updated agent to use @apm-js-collab/tracing-hooks for the CJS/ESM registration for tracing channel based instrumentation.

August 15
Docs August 08 - August 14, 2025

New docs

Major changes

  • Updated Usage plan with the latest pricing information.
  • Added Error inbox to The workloads UI.
  • Added selective agent disabling based on startup main class or executable jar via environment variables, along with enhanced security settings for Java agent configuration.
  • Added support for Private repository configuration in Agent Control, enabling deployment of managed agents with authentication via basic or TLS certificate methods.
  • Added support for Secret Management in Agent Control, for managing sensitive data, such as passwords and API keys, by retrieving them from dedicated secret provider.

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

    • Cordova agent v7.0.8:
      • Update Native Android agent to version 7.6.8
      • Update Native iOS agent to version 7.5.8
    • Cordova agent v7.0.9:
      • Update Native Android agent to version 7.6.6
      • Update Native iOS agent to version 7.5.5
    • Capacitor agent v1.5.8:
      • Update Native Android agent to version 7.6.6
      • Update Native iOS agent to version 7.5.5
    • Capacitor agent v1.5.9:
      • Fixed Abort Signal Crash
    • Capacitor agent v1.5.10:
      • Update Native Android agent to version 7.6.8
      • Update Native iOS agent to version 7.5.8
    • Diagnostics CLI (nrdiag) v3.5.0:
      • updated the Java/Appserver/JbossEapCheck version compatibility check
    • .NET agent v10.44.0:
      • Enabled performance metric samplers in Serverless mode
      • Excluded Azure Function webhost (Linux) process from instrumentation.
    • NRDOT v1.3.0:
      • Bumped otel component versions from v0.128.0 to v0.131.0
      • Introduced nrdot core distribution
    • Node.js agent v13.1.0:
      • Added support for OTEL logs API
      • Added supportability metrics when instrumentation has been disabled for a package
      • Disabled timers instrumentation by default in the sample configuration
      • Fixed transaction.url obfuscation
    • Job Manager v454:
      • Fixed the underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities in SJM.
    • Node API runtime v1.2.124:
      • Fixed the underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities in Node API runtimes.
    • Node browser runtime v3.0.41:
      • Fixed the tmp CVE-2025-54798 vulnerability and underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities in Node Browser runtimes.
    • Ping Runtime v1.54.0:
      • Fixed vulnerabilities related to Ubuntu to address security issues in the Ping runtime.
    • Java agent v8.23.0:
      • Updated to support v24 of graphql.
      • Added lettuce 6.5 instrumentation.
      • Bumped commons-lang version to 3.18.0
    • AWS Lambda Log Forwarder v1.1.1:
      • Enhanced security posture by upgrading Go version to 1.24.4 in systems.
    • PHP agent v12.0.0.25:
      • Improved drupal hook map error logging.
      • Fixed legacy package detection issues for Security RX.
    • Infrastructure agent v1.66.1:
      • Reverted support for AWS EFS mounts in storage samples.
    • Mobile app for Android v5.30.6:
      • Enhanced Passkey support for SAML and Social Logins.
    • Browser agent v1.295.0:
      • Added error cause detection.
      • Added monkey-patching warnings.

August 8
Docs August 01 - August 07, 2025

New docs

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Check out our What's New posts:

  • Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

    • Job Manager v452:
      • Added internal improvements for exception handling in processing queue messages.
    • Kubernetes integration v3.43.3:
      • Added a Helm chart to deploy the New Relic Kubernetes monitoring solution.
    • Pipeline Control Gateway v1.1.0:
      • Implemented a new functionality to selectively drop data and attributes from SqlTrace and TransactionTrace events using drop rules.
      • Addressed vulnerabilities in the golang.org/x/net package, including a cross-site scripting issue and an HTTP Proxy bypass related to IPv6 Zone IDs.
      • Upgraded to Go 1.24 and the following dependencies are updated to enhance security and incorporate recent fixes:
        • golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
        • golang.org/x/sys to v0.31.0
        • golang.org/x/text to v0.23.0
    • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.11:
      • Reduced the login flow by two steps by storing a user's authentication domain and redirecting them directly to their sign-in page.
    • Flutter agent v1.1.13:
      • Improved native Android agent updated to version 7.6.8
      • Improved native iOS agent updated to version 7.5.8
    • .NET MAUI agent v1.1.11
      • Improved native Android agent updated to version 7.6.8
      • Improved native iOS agent updated to version 7.5.8
    • Infrastructure agent v1.65.5:
      • Changed the support aws efs mounts in storage samples

August 1
Docs July 25 - August 01, 2025

New docs

Major changes

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Android agent v7.6.8:
    • Fixed an issue where stack traces for Unity errors were not displayed correctly.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented summary metrics from being recorded when the app returned to the foreground after its initial launch.
    • Fixed an issue where invalid JSON in log entries could cause errors.
  • Diagnostics CLI (nrdiag) v3.4.0:
    • Added K8s/AgentControl/agent-control-install-job-logs to collect logs generated by the agent-control installation.
  • Job Manager v451:
    • Fixed vulnerabilities related to common-lang3 Java and Ubuntu to address security issues in the SJM.
    • Implemented processor queue migration changes related to the migration of our internal service architecture.
    • Fixed an issue to include full exception details to provide better context for troubleshooting in SJM logs.
  • Mobile app for Android v5.30.1:
    • Enhanced the login experience.
  • Mobile app for iOS v7.5.8:
    • Built the agent using Xcode 16.4.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause distributed tracing to not have all required account information at start of a session.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash on agent start.
  • Node API runtime:
    • Fixed the form-data vulnerability and underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities in Node API runtimes.
  • Node browser runtime:
    • Fixed the form-data vulnerability and underlying Ubuntu vulnerabilities to address security vulnerabilities in Node Browser runtimes.
  • Ping Runtime:
    • Fixed vulnerabilities related to common-lang3 Java and Ubuntu to address security issues in the Ping runtime.
  • Python Agent v10.15.0:
    • Added support for oracledb
    • Fixed a bug in MessageBroker instrumentations where the serialize methods were looking for the destination_name attribute on the MessageTransaction and it did not exist.
    • Fixed the AWS utilization metadata issue when running AWS and K8s together.
  • Ruby Agent v9.20.0:
    • Added the support to record Docker ID when running in the AWS ECS Fargate environment.
    • Added a new helper method to simplify version comparison.
    • Added the code.stacktrace attribute to datastore spans when the duration exceeds the configured threshold.
    • Fixed Brewfile source links.
    • Fixed an error that occurs when using the HTTPX 1.5.0 to store response.
    • Improved the information logged at the debug level by the agent when the agent reads in a configuration source.
  • Unity Agent v1.4.8:
    • Updated the Native Android agent to v7.6.7.
    • Updated the Native iOS agent to v7.5.6.
  • Unity Agent v1.4.9:
    • Updated the Native Android agent to v7.6.8.
    • Updated the Native iOS agent to v7.5.8.
    • Fixed Unity Exception stack traces issue when namespaces are used.

July 25
Docs June 13 - July 24, 2025

New docs

  • Added new feature on How to debug New Relic Browser Agent issues, including detailed logging, network request monitoring, and inspection events for enhanced troubleshooting in agent versions 1.285.0 and higher.
  • Added Azure Functions support for python and .node.js functions monitoring.
  • Added Cost optimizer for actionable insights to enhance compute efficiency, with features for identifying inefficiencies, providing optimization recommendations, and estimating CCU savings in the New Relic platform.
  • Added Cloud Cost Intelligence, offering tools for visibility and management of cloud costs, including features such as comprehensive cost breakdowns, Kubernetes cost allocation, real-time cost estimation, and cross-account data collection, currently supporting only AWS cloud costs.
  • Added OpenTelemetry observability for Kubernetes with New Relic featuring provider-agnostic integration for seamless monitoring of clusters through the Helm chart, enhancing telemetry signals for metrics, events, and logs transmitted to New Relic's tools and dashboards.
  • Added Limitation and troubleshooting for Windows integration
  • Added AWS integration via CloudFormation and CloudWatch Metric Streams, supporting API Polling for unsupported services.
  • Added Enhanced tags for New Relic database entities for database entities monitored via on-host integrations for MySQL and MS SQL Server, enriching metadata insights and organization in New Relic without affecting billing or existing telemetry.

Major changes

Minor changes

  • Added Transaction as a retention period for Transaction traces.
  • Added Destination as a new category to Alerting rules and limits.
  • Added a callout in Introduction to the Azure Native New Relic Service document to ensure that diagnostic settings on Azure resources are configured correctly, or disable forwarding via the Azure Native New Relic Service to prevent data from being sent to the New Relic platform.
  • Updated the latest compatible libraries for .NET agent.
  • Added a callout in iOS agent release notes document to announce that, starting from iOS SDK version 7.5.4, a change now results in the reporting of previously suppressed Handled Exception events.
  • Updated requirements for service-container relationships to specifying resource attributes for Kubernetes environments and container.id for non-Kubernetes environments, ensuring proper telemetry configuration for OpenTelemetry resources in New Relic.
  • Added CLI support for specific infrastructure agent version installation, enabling consistent deployments and system compatibility; specify version using @X.XX.X in the recipe name.
  • Added a callout to emphasize role access requirements for using Manage Account Cardinality, Manage Metric Cardinality, and Create Pruning Rules features in the UI; ensure permissions are set in the Cardinality Management.
  • Updated the Compatibility and requirements for the Node.js agent to v12.23.0.
  • Added minimum required permissions for setting up an Elasticsearch.
  • Updated the FACET attribute maximum acceptable use of limits from 5000 to 20000 values for NRQL alert syntax.

Release notes

June 13
Docs May 16 - June 12, 2025

New docs

  • Added Change Tracking Events to track changes across your applications and infrastructure using New Relic's Change Tracking capability. Capture, visualize, and analyze changes to understand their impact on your systems.
  • Added the procedure to upgrade the Prometheus agent to version 2.
  • Added a document that explains what is nested variables and how to use them on dashboards.

Major changes

Minor changes

Release notes

  • Announced January 7, 2026, as the End of Life date for the Drop Filter Rules API.

  • Check out our What's New posts:

  • Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

    • Job Manager v443:

      • Fixed Vulnerability issues.

    • Lambda-Extension v2.3.18:

      • Added example for New Relic AI monitoring, along with instrumentation of Lambda functions with response streaming.
      • Updated SAM examples to include latest layers and packages.
      • Updated Ruby Lambda instrumentation example.
      • Updated Readme to include NEW_RELIC_COLLECT_TRACE_ID environment variable which can be used to add trace-id to the Lambda logs.
      • Resolved the issue where Extension inaccurately captured timeout durations for Lambda function timeout errors.

    • Node.js agent v12.19.0:

      • Added Azure Function HTTP streaming support.
      • Added check to only set a FakeSpan if transaction.agent.otelSpanKey exists.
      • Fixed redis legacy test suite.
      • Updated security agent.
      • Added cross agent otel bridge tests.

    • Node.js agent v12.20.0:

      • Added support for OTEL metrics API.
      • Fixed common.getKeys logic.
      • Fixed Google Cloud Run hostname issue.

    • Lambda-Extension v2.3.19:

      • Updated go version to resolve go/stdlib vulnerability.
      • Updated example for AI monitoring in response streaming.

    • Java agent v8.21.0:

      • Enhanced visibility into Reactor Mono.flatMap calls.
      • Added new instrumentation for Spring-Kafka and distributed tracing when using the core Kafka client library.

    • Browser agent v1.291.0:

      • Adds the measure API to the newrelic global object.
      • Fixed race between end of session and features aborting.
      • Implemented the behavior of harvesting first session trace payload immediately.

    • Mobile app for Android v5.29.6:

      • Fixed issues in NRAI and Inapp Feedback.

    • Fluent Bit v3.2.10:

    • AWS Firehose Log Forwarder v1.0.0:

      • Accelerated AWS logs forwarding with New Relic's One-Step Observability.
      • Simplified logs onboarding with the cloudFormation template.
      • Enhanced operational efficiency.
      • Included AWS Secrets Management for advanced security.

    • AWS Lambda Log Forwarder v1.0.0:

      • Accelerated AWS logs forwarding with New Relic's One-Step Observability.
      • Simplified logs onboarding with the cloudFormation template.
      • Enhanced operational efficiency.
      • Included AWS Secrets Management for advanced security.

    • AWS Lambda Log Forwarder v1.1.0:

      • Logs from AWS Lambda functions now have request IDs added to every message using the UUID found in the first and last log entries.

    • Kubernetes integration v3.41.0:

      • Now Kubelet pod fetch can be configured to use KUBE_SERVICE endpoint instead of local node.
      • Updated alpine to v3.22.0.
      • Fixed the environment variable issue in the FetchPodsFromKubeService config.

    • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.7:

      • Fixed the pesky socket connection issues.
      • Enabled remote configuration of the Survey sheet parameters.

    • iOS agent v7.5.6:

      • Built the agent using Xcode 16.3 to auto-correct errors related to Code Coverage.
      • Fixed an issue that could set the distributed tracing account incorrectly.
      • Fixed an issue that could cause the agent to crash when setting session attributes.

    • Node.js agent v12.21.0:

      • Added Gemini AI LLM instrumentation.
      • Refactored getHostnameSafe to accommodate GCP.
      • Updated openai instrumentation to work with 5.0.0+.
      • Updated rules to work with 1.17.0 and 1.24.0 for consumer and producer span kind.
      • Added preliminary otel configuration.

    • Lambda-Extension v2.3.20:

      • Added logic to check the shutdown of logserver and prevent handler from sending messages to log channel.
      • Removed Circle CI workflow.
      • Added WaitGroup to resolve log server panic.

    • Ping Runtime v1.51.0:

      • Fixed logback-core, jetty-server, and ubuntu vulnerabilities.

    • Browser agent v1.291.1:

      • Prevented ST from holding onto Event refs in memory when aborted.
      • Remove dash fragments from the entryName attribute in BrowserPerformance events so they no longer appear in reported URLs.
      • Added safeguards for the addToTrace calls.

    • Python agent v10.13.0:

      • Added support for Model Context Protocol (MCP).
      • Fixed import logic for importlib.metadata and pkg_resources.

    • Kubernetes integration v3.42.0:

      • Enhanced configuration option for GKE-Autopilot to auto-configure necessary settings.

May 16
Docs May 2-15, 2025

New docs

Major changes

Minor changes

Release notes

Check out our What's New posts to learn about new features and releases:

Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

  • .NET Agent v10.41.0:

    • Allow incoming W3C traceparent sampled flag to influence .NET agent sampling decision.
    • Fixed null reference exception in Asp.NET Core 6+ browser monitoring injection.

  • Ruby v9.19.0:

    • Added Thread ID as attribute to all spans.
    • Added support for W3C TraceContext Trace Flag.
    • Includeed request.uri in Transaction events by default.
    • Fix error in Active Job instrumentation when using perform_all_later.

  • Python agent v10.11.0:

    • Added support for Google Gemini via Google Generative AI SDK.
    • Instrumented new AWS Kinesis methods.

  • Python agent v10.12.0:

    • Added support for Redis v6.0.0.
    • Fixed conflicts with opentelemetry-proto package.

  • NRDOT v10.12.0:

    • Added routing connector to host and k8s distro.
    • Updated otel components to 0.125.0.
    • Add memory_limiter to all host pipelines.
    • synched config with nr-k8s-otel-collector 0.8.10.

  • Go agent v3.39.0:

    • Addeded nrfiber integration for go fiber framework.
    • Updated nrslog example with new API.
    • Added Optional Path Filtering Function to nrgin Middleware.
    • Added ConfigDatastoreKeysEnabled to nrreddis integration allowing for reporting the names of keys along with the datastore operations.
    • Added support for time objects for attribute values for nrslog.
    • Fixed linking metadata location in log messages.

  • Browser agent v1.290.0:

    • Addeded Bundler tools exports tool.
    • Set UserAction currentUrl before aggregation end.
    • Improved lazy-loading optimization.
    • Splitted API code.

  • Node browser runtime v3.0.30:

    • Upgraded internal axios to 1.8.2.

  • PHP v11.9.0.23:

    • Add auto-instrumentation of object oriented hook implementations introduced in Drupal 11.1.
    • Improve performance of user functions instrumentation for PHPs 8.0+.

  • Kubernetes integration v3.39.1:

    • Updated kubernetes packages to v0.33.0.

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