Android agent release notesRSS

Fixed

• Fixed an issue of missing element in harvest payload, which has caused data loss during ingest in version 6.9.1
• Tightened metric data validations to prevent data loss during ingest
• Fixed a bug that allowed direct access to the agent plugin extension's configuration from Kotlin that could result in a failure to tag and upload obfuscation maps.

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.0.0.

Fixed

• Fixed a distributed tracing issue for httpURLConnection in Cordova/Ionic apps.

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.28.1.

New in this release

• Add support for reporting app launch time, including cold time and hot time.
  • Cold start time refers to an app’s starting from scratch. This means that the app’s process has not been created by the system until then.
  • Hot start time refers to when your app’s process is already running in the background.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an instrumentation race condition when build is run with multiple Gradle workers (--max-workers > 2)
• Fixed a crash when trying to report exceptions with missing stacktraces through supportability metrics.

Support statement:

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 5.27.0.

New in this release

• Add support for handling JavaScript errors from React Native apps
• Add a new session attribute RootedDevice when native reporting is enabled to signify whether the hosting device is rooted

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an issue to address the format of distributed tracing header
• Fixed an issue in plugin to address a corner-case exception thrown during map processing

Support statement:

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 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for native crash reporting in legacy agent crash reporting.
• Add distributed tracing context support to New Relic SDK

Fixed in this release

• Fixed issue that kept the app's supportability metrics from being reported to New Relic
• Updated the agent to address Gradle deprecation warnings

Support statement:

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 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for DexGuard 9
• End of life for supporting android SDK 21 (Android 5) to 23 (Android 6)

Fixed in this release

• Fix a bug to capture response body using noticeHttpTransaction method

Support statement:

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 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for passing Throwable types to NewRelic.recordHandledException()

Fixed in this release

• Resolved a sampler thread leak that occurred in long-lived apps.

Support statement:

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 5.24.0.

Fixed in this release

• Resolved an error when transforming some libraries during build time. Detailed message: [ClassTransformer] transformArchive: java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
• Resolved a 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError' crash during runtime.

Support statement:

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 5.24.0.

Fixed in this release

• Resolved D8/R8 warning messages: Expected stack map table for method with non-linear control flow.
• Fixed crash caused by NoSuchMethodError that occurred on Android 5 and 6.
• Reverted the fix for missing Retrofit2/OkHttp3 bytesReceived and error response body results to prevent memory leaking.

Support statement:

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 5.24.0.