iOS agent release notesRSS

Fixed in this release

• Agent is built using Xcode 16.3. This should correct any errors related to Code Coverage when using the New Relic iOS agent with Xcode 16.3.
• Fixed in an issue that could cause distributed tracing account to be set incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the agent to crash when setting session attributes.

Fixed in this release

• Addressed customer-reported crashes and bugs.
• Fixed a SPM version warning.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed crash that could occur when recording handled exceptions.
• Fixed various crashes that could occur when using the New Relic iOS agent.
• The New Relic iOS agent now includes Session Attributes in Mobile Logs.
• Fixed an issue that could occur when sending multiple handled exceptions to New Relic. The New Relic iOS agent will now will prevent data loss when sending multiple handled exceptions.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• The tracked headers set in addHTTPHeaderTrackingFor are now correctly added to network request events manually captured using noticeNetworkRequestForURL.
• Fixed a bug in the new event system that prevented adding an attribute with a key that contain a reserved key string as a prefix.
• Made changes to address the NRMA__deallocInteractionHistoryList crash reported by users.

Other notes

• The iOS agent now supports automatic log collection for remote logging. This feature is limited to NSLog(), Swift print(), and other print-family functions. To enable it, use the NRFeatureFlag_AutoCollectLogs feature flag. For more information on how to enable and configure remote logging, visit our documentation.
• Changed the agent to agent to consistently send the sampled flag as '01' (true) in the W3C Traceparent header to maintain trace continuity with OpenTelemetry agents, which expect '00' (false) for dropped spans and '01' (true) for sampled spans.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an issue that could cause app hangs.
• Fixed an issue that caused events created in applicationDidFinishLaunchingWithOptions to not be reported.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the NRFeatureFlag_NewEventSystem and forming the attribute json in a harvest.
• Fixed a crash that could occur from a NRMAPayload object while using the NRFeatureFlag_NewEventSystem.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Added watchOS as a compatible environment for the iOS agent. Fixed to work with SPM and Cocoapods. For more information on using the agent in a watchOS project visit our documentation.
• Starting the New Relic agent to your watchOS project

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Additional fixes for an issue that could cause CryptoKit or NSCoding warnings in some environments.
• Fixed a bug when using setUserId that could cause some events to not align with the correct userId during a session.
• Fixed a bug when using NRFeatureFlag_BackgroundReporting that caused some events created in the background to not get reported.
• New Relic iOS agent now supports remote logging. Enable this feature within your mobile entity applications setting page to turn on logging for the agent. For more information on how to enable and configure remote logging visit our documentation.
• Fixed a bug that caused crash reports to be uploaded without session attributes when NRFeatureFlag_HandledExceptionEvents is disabled.

Other notes

• Added watchOS as a compatible environment for the iOS agent. For more information on using the agent in a watchOS project visit our documentation.
• Starting the New Relic agent to your watchOS project

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an issue that could cause the distributed tracing header to be missing on some requests.
• Fixed issues that could cause CryptoKit or NSCoding warnings in some environments.
• A feature flag has been added to enable background reporting. Background reporting is disabled by default. Enable the NRFeatureFlag_BackgroundReporting feature flag to turn on background reporting.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an issue with the NewEventSystem flag that could cause crash data to upload incorrectly.

Support statement

• As of iOS agent version 7.4.1, the iOS agent will consolidate previously separate XCFramework and tvOS agents into a singular iOS agent.
• As of this release, the oldest supported version of the XCFramework is 7.3.6.