Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Percentiles and Histograms
The Java Agent now captures data that provides percentile and histogram views in the New Relic UI.
JAX-RS annotation instrumentation
The Java Agent now instruments and names web transactions based on javax.ws.rs annotations.
JAX-WS instrumentation
The Java Agent now instruments methods on classes that are marked with the javax.jws.WebService annotation.
Fix: In some cases, agent had excessive overhead on Spring AOP apps
The agent should now perform well for any Spring AOP application.
Fix: Play Framework instrumentation was ignoring the ignoreTransaction call
The Play Framework 2.x instrumentation now honors the New Relic API ignoreTransaction call.
Fix: Potential memory leak when app continually creates ClassLoaders
The Java Agent now handles applications where ClassLoaders are continuously created.
Fix: Agent zip distribution did not include the API source jar
The newrelic-api-sources.jar is now included in the zip file.