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Notes

🛡️ Security notices

• Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability caused by path traversal in #2292
• Added explicit permissions to GitHub Actions workflows to reduce token scope in #2232
• Bumped google.golang.org/grpc from 1.79.3 to 1.82.1 in go.mod in #2296
• Bumped embedded OHI versions (nri-docker, nri-flex) to fix known CVEs in #2302
• bump vulnerable dependencies flagged by Trivy scan in #2301

🚀 Enhancements

• Added support for ignoring default integration locations via disable_plugin_default_dir_scan in #2290
• Made environment variables used by Agent Control public in #2293
• Added OCI tag support to match AWS tags (Phase 1 + Phase 2) in #2295
• Enabled NRIA_DISABLE_PLUGIN_DEFAULT_DIR_SCAN by default for Agent-Control-managed agents in #2300
• Removed nri-flex from agent-control artifacts in #2291

🐞 Bug fixes

• Restored missing job permissions for release and canary workflows in #2303

Support statement:

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent.

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 Infrastructure agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates.

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.65.3.

Changed

• Updated the embedded newrelic-fluent-bit-output plugin to v3.7.0 (Windows) to resolve security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-39820, CVE-2026-42499, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-42501, CVE-2026-33811, and CVE-2026-42504. #2283
• Added unit tests for the custom health check port. #2286

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.65.3.

Changed

• Fixed a panic condition caused by a double close operation. 2270
• Fixed the local server binding behavior to default strictly to localhost. 2271
• Dependency updates:
  • Updated newrelic/nri-flex to v1.18.8. #2278
  • Updated newrelic/nri-winservices to v1.5.3. #2279
  • Updated newrelic/nri-prometheus to v2.29.4. #2276
  • Updated newrelic/nri-docker to v2.8.1. #2277
  • Updated the core agent dependency to v1.26.5. #2275
  • Updated newrelic-fluent-bit-output to v3.7.0 (Linux) to resolve security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-39820, CVE-2026-42499, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-42501, CVE-2026-33811, and CVE-2026-42504. #2280

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.65.1.

Changed

• updated golang.org/x/net v0.55.0 in #2265
• updated alpine docker tag to v3.24 in #2263
• updated containerd version to v1.7.33 in #2269

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.65.1.

Changed

• Updated dependency newrelic/nri-prometheus to v2.29.3 in #2264
• Added support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) in #2224
• Updated the newrelic/nri-flex dependency to v1.18.6 in #2266

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.65.0.

Changed

• Updated Go version from 1.26.3 to 1.26.4 in#2259
• Updated net module - golang.org/x/net - Go Packages to v0.54.0 in #2257
• Updated New Relic Fluent Bit output version to 3.6.0 and Fluent Bit to 5.0.6 in #2258
• Added configurable log endpoint in #2255
• Updated integration versions in #2261

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.58.1.

What's Changed

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where set-service-account failed for local users in #2247.

Security

• Bumped containerd to version 1.7.32 to address the CVE-2026-46680 vulnerability in #2250.
• Bumped nri-flex to version 1.18.4 to address the CVE-2026-45570 vulnerability in #2252.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/compare/1.76.0...1.76.1

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.58.1.

Changed

• feat: support Unicode.Encoding option for tail input plugin for fluent-bit in #2231

Full Changelog: 1.75.0...1.76.0

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is Infrastructure agent 1.58.1.

Added

• Add OCI IMDS v2 endpoint support (Note: no fall-back from v2 to v1) in #2238

Changed

• chore(deps): update dependency newrelic/nri-docker to v2.7.2 in #2229
• chore(deps): update dependency newrelic/nri-winservices to v1.5.1 in #2241
• chore(deps): update dependency newrelic/nri-prometheus to v2.29.1 in #2240
• chore(deps): update dependency newrelic/nri-flex to v1.18.3 in #2239
• chore: bump Go version to 1.26.3 in #2243