NRDOT release notes

NRDOT v1.0.0

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Release Summary

We're releasing version to represent the distribution now being generally available. It should be noted that the distribution is still in preview and should be used with caution for the time being.

Changelog

Features

feat: Update otel components to 0.121.0 (#265)
feat: syncing latest version of the k8s helm configs (#269)

Docs

docs: flagging k8s distro as preview (#268)

NRDOT v1.0.1

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: remove debugexporter from default host config (#271)

Bug Fixes

fix: add missing default configs to archive artifacts (.tar.gz, .zip) (#274)

Docs

docs: add installation docs (#275)
docs: add troubleshooting guide (#272)

NRDOT v1.0.2

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: update otel components to 0.122.1 and enables enableCPUUsageMetrics gate in k8s distro (#283)

Bug Fixes

fix: force expr-lang 1.17.0 to fix CVE-2025-29786 (#284)

Docs

docs: add governance section (#277)

NRDOT v1.0.3

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: bumping upstream components to 0.123.0, includes fix to CVE-2025-30204 (#294)

Docs

docs: add missing documentation (#292)

NRDOT v1.1.0

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: Add routing connector to host and k8s distro (#305)
feat: Updating otel components to 0.125.0 (#303)
feat: add memory_limiter to all host pipelines (#301)
feat: sync config with nr-k8s-otel-collector 0.8.10 (#300)

NRDOT v1.2.0

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

This release marks the nrdot-collector-k8s distribution reaching Stability: public. Please refer to its README for further details.

Features

feat: bump OTEL beta core to v0.128.0 (#321)

NRDOT v1.3.0

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

This release introduces the nrdot-collector distribution. This distro is currently in alpha but will eventually serve as a replacement for the nrdort-collector-host distribution. Future distributions will use nrdot-collector as a base manifest and expand on it as needed.

Features

feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.128.0 to v0.131.0 (#357)
feat: Introducting nrdot core distribution (#359)

NRDOT v1.5.0

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: add metricsgenerationprocessor to nrdot-collector-k8s (#386)

NRDOT v1.4.0

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: Add spanprocessor to nrdot-collector (#371)
feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.131.0 to v0.132.0 (#368)
feat: Add newrelic.service.type to internal telemetry config (#380)
feat: Enable host.name detection for ec2 (#382)

NRDOT v1.6.0

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat(internal-o11y): disable internal traces by default in example config (#422)
feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.135.0 to v0.141.0 (#440)

Bug Fixes

fix(CVE-2025-61729): bump to golang 1.24.11 (#454) (#456)
fix: address transformprocessor config deprecation of 0.119.0 (#421)

Docs

docs: add fips readme (#407)

NRDOT v1.7.0

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

This version marks the first publication of the distribution nrdot-collector-experimental which is intended to act as a staging area for components / features for nrdot-collector. The distribution is and will never be considered stable.

Features

feat: add ohi components to nrdot-collector-experimental (#461)

NRDOT v1.8.0

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: Bump otel component versions from v0.141.0 to v0.142.0 (#464)

Bug Fixes

fix: force expr-lang/expr:1.17.7 to fix CVE-2025-68156 (#468)

NRDOT v1.9.0

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: add ohi components to core (#475) enabling OHI use case with stability alpha

Docs

docs: add security best practices (#483)
docs: clarify fips still in preview (#481)
docs: document core stability by use case (#469)

NRDOT v1.10.0

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: add adaptivetelemetryprocessor (ATP) to experimental (#494)

NRDOT v1.11.0

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: add adaptivetelemetryprocessor to core (#500)

NRDOT v1.11.1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Bug Fixes

fix: refresh GPG public key and fix CVE-2026-24051

NRDOT v1.14.0

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: update components to 0.150.0 #567
- filelogreceiver: configuration node renamed from filelog to file_log due to upstream change #46750

NRDOT v1.12.0

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat: Bump OTEL beta core to v0.148.0 (#548)
feat: add spanmetricsconnector to experimental (#531)

Bug Fixes

fix: add grpc v1.79.2 replace to fix CVE-2026-33186 (#551)
fix: rotate public GPG signing key (#552)
fix: suppress CVE-2026-34040 in trivy scan (#554)

NRDOT v1.13.0

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

This release marks the removal of the nrdot-collector-k8s and nrdot-collector-host distribution. The last published version of those distros is 1.12.0. Please migrate to using nrdot-collector instead which is a superset in terms of functionality and acts as a drop-in replacement with the two removed distros being implemented as use cases.

Features

feat: add StateDirectory for ATP storage in systemd service (#545)

Bug Fixes

fix: CVE-2026-39883 (#560)

Docs

docs: update FIPS documentation (#565)

NRDOT v1.15.0

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

Added k8sobjectsreceiver as a experimental feature. (#573)

NRDOT v1.15.1

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Bug Fixes

fix: CVE-2026-42151 and CVE-2026-42154 (#578)

NRDOT v1.16.0

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

This release marks the initial publication of the msi installer for the nrdot-collector distribution. For additional information, please refer to the general distribution README.

Features

feat: publish msi and update readme (#588)

Bug Fixes

Using golang 1.26.4 to build artifacts fixes CVE-2026-42504

NRDOT v1.17.0

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

Added additional OHI components (#599)
Bump OTel component versions from v0.150.0 to v0.154.0 (#601)
- Host config nodes renamed due to upstream changes:
  - hostmetrics to host_metrics
  - resourcedetection to resource_detection
  - metricstransform to metrics_transform

NRDOT v1.19.0

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

feat(db-monitoring): added new components (nroracledbreceiver, nrsqlserverreceiver, secretsmanagerprovider, aesprovider) to nrdot-collector (#612)

NRDOT v1.18.0

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

Features

Added forked db components (nroracledbreceiver, nrsqlserverreceiver) and additional providers (secretsmanagerprovider, aesprovider) for db use case (#606)
Added OHI components (awsecscontainermetricsreceiver, haproxyreceiver, kafkareceiver, redisreceiver) to nrdot-collector (#609)

NRDOT v0.8.5

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Changes

For a detailed description of changes, see full release notes

Fixes

force docker@27.3.1 to fix CVE-2024-41110

NRDOT v1.12.0

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changelog

First dedicated release notes for the 'Host Monitoring' use case which are scoped to relevant changes in the configuration or nrdot-collector. The nrdot-collector will continue to bundle the config necessary to power this use case. However, with nrdot-collector supporting more and more use cases, we want to provide additional release notes that are more easily conusamble for someone using NRDOT for a specific purpose like Host Monitoring.

Features

Host use case verified to work with nrdot-collector:1.12.0

NRDOT v1.14.0

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Features

Host use case verified to work with nrdot-collector:1.14.0
Replaced filelog with file_log in config due to deprecation.
The filelogreceiver has changed its metadata.yaml::type from filelog to file_log which defines how it gets referenced in the config.

NRDOT v1.15.1

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Features

Host use case verified to work with nrdot-collector:1.15.1

NRDOT v1.17.0

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Features

Validates that the host use case works correctly with nrdot-collector:1.17.0.
Replaced hostmetrics with host_metrics, resourcedetection with resource_detection, and metricstransform with metrics_transform due to deprecations. The hostmetricsreceiver, resourcedetectionprocessor, and metricstransformprocessor changed their metadata.yaml :: type identifiers to use snake_case, which changed how they are referenced in the configuration.

NRDOT v1.19.0

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Features

Host use case verified to work with nrdot-collector:1.19.0