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April 4, 2022
Java agent v7.6.0

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New features and improvements

Fixes

  • Guard against intermittent null pointer exceptions 707
  • Support CSP nonce parameter for RUM header and footer 591
  • Fixed an issue with auto app naming and distributed tracing transactions 566
  • Increased maximum TransactionError message size 581
  • The httpResponseCode, response.status and response.statusMessage transaction/span attributes are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. These have been replaced by http.statusCode and http.statusText 513:

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

March 3, 2022
Java agent v6.5.4

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.4 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-44832. 766

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

    Update to latest version

To identify which version of the Java agent you're currently using, run java -jar newrelic.jar -v. Your Java agent version will be printed to your console.

Then, to update to the latest Java agent version:

  1. Back up the entire Java agent root directory to another location. Rename that directory to NewRelic_Agent#.#.#, where #.#.# is the agent version number.
  2. Download the agent.
  3. Unzip the new agent download file, then copy newrelic-api.jar and newrelic.jar into the original Java agent root directory.
  4. Compare your old newrelic.yml with the newly downloaded newrelic.yml from the zip, and update the file if needed.
  5. Restart your Java dispatcher.

If you experience issues after the Java agent update, restore from the backed-up New Relic agent directory.

Update agent config differences

We add new settings to newrelic.yml as we release new versions of the agent. You can use diff or another diffing utility to see what's changed, and add the new config settings to your old file. Make sure not to overwrite any customizations you've made to the file, such as your license key, app name, or changes to default settings.

For example, if you diff the default newrelic.yml files for Java agent versions 7.7.0 and 7.8.0, the results printed to the console will be:

➜ diff newrelic_7.7.0.yml newrelic_7.8.0.yml
98c98
< #forwarding:
---
> forwarding:
100,101c100,101
< # When true, application logs will be forwarded to New Relic. The default is false.
< #enabled: false
---
> # When true, application logs will be forwarded to New Relic. The default is true.
> enabled: true

In this example, these lines were added to the default newrelic.yml in Java agent version 7.8.0. If you are moving to 7.8.0 or higher, you should add these new lines to your original newrelic.yml.

January 12, 2022
Java agent v7.5.0

New features and improvements

  • Update to jfr-daemon 1.7.0 - fixes a memory leak condition by cleaning up copies of JFR recordings. Also updated to use version 0.13.1 of the telemetry-sdk 638
  • Update HTTP response code attribute names. This will add http.statusCode and http.statusText to spans and transactions 513
  • Provide support for Datastax/Cassandra WrappedStatments. 525
  • Add instrumentation for gRPC 1.40.0+ 518
  • Add suppressed exceptions to ThrowableError.stackTrace 405
  • Add Scala instrumentation and Scala API for Monix Tasks 543
  • Add instrumentation for Mongo async/reactivestreams drivers versions 3.4.x to 4.1.x 609
  • Scala Cats Effect 3 - modified the API to support passing the transaction by implicit reference, rather than using ThreadLocal variables 578
  • Add Instrumentation for Play WS 2.6.0 under Scala 2.13 594
  • Agent optimization: change String.replaceAll in favor of Pattern.compile 592

Fixes

  • Upgrade log4j-core version to 2.17.1 to address security vulnerability CVE-2021-44832 625
  • Enhancements for Spring WebFlux and Reactor Netty instrumentation to address gaps in instrumentation. Also includes support for upgraded Spring Security configurations 538
  • Update Async-Http-Client library version to 2.0.35 to address security vulnerability CVE-2017-14063 577
  • Handle null pointer exceptions in hostname lookup 587
  • Properly expire tokens used in CompletableFuture instrumentation to reduce memory usage and prevent telemetry reporting delays 634
  • Add additional exception handling to catch ConnectionPoolTimeoutException errors, which may lead to an unrecoverable agent state 637
  • Resolve Solr FilterCache Memory Leak 613
  • Reintroduce MongoDB sync instrumentation (erroneously removed in a prior release while async support was added) 635
  • Fix Sql obfuscation so that it applies correctly to queries with certain formatting 632
  • Agent configuration expected_status_codes is not honored when a transaction exception is encountered 565
  • Scala Cats Effect - ensure Http4s transaction tracer is created on request run. This resolves some invalid tracer states that were causing null pointer exceptions 530
  • Fix Akka HTTP bindFlow 555
  • Address Caffeine cache causing memory leak and OOM condition 593

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

December 21, 2021
Java agent v6.5.3

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.3 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45105. 605

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

December 20, 2021
Java agent v7.4.3

Fixes

  • This fix is recommended if you are running on Java 8 - 17.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

December 15, 2021
Java agent v6.5.2

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.2 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45046. 605

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

December 14, 2021
Java agent v7.4.2

Fixes

  • This fix is recommended if you are running on Java 8 - 17.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

December 10, 2021
Java agent v7.4.1

Fixes

  • This fix is recommended if you are running on Java 8 - 17.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Java agent v6.5.1

Fixes

  • Log4j 2.15.0, which fixes the security vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, is only compatible with Java 8+. Therefore, this version of the agent is not compatible with Java 7 and is only recommended if you are using Java 8+ and are otherwise unable to upgrade to Java agent 7.4.1.

Mitigation for Java 7

Java agent versions 4.12.0 through 6.5.0 (which support Java 7) use Log4j 2.11.2 which falls into the affected range. For Java 7 users the recommended mitigation from Apache Log4j Security Vulnerabilities is to set the system property -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true.

Mitigation: In releases >=2.10, this behavior can be mitigated by setting the system property log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups. For releases >=2.7 and <=2.14.1, all PatternLayout patterns can be modified to specify the message converter as %m{nolookups} instead of just %m. For releases >=2.0-beta9 and <=2.10.0, the mitigation is to remove the JndiLookup class from the classpath:

zip -q -d log4j-core-*.jar org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup.class

Note: The alternate approach of defining the LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true environment variable will not work with the NR Java Agent.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

October 28, 2021
Java agent v7.4.0

New features and improvements

  • Support for Java 17 #433

  • Distributed tracing is on by default and deprecates cross-application tracing #486

    • Increases the default maximum number of samples stored for span events from 1000 to 2000.
    • The maximum number of samples stored for span events can be configured via the max_samples_stored configuration in the newrelic.yml.
    span_events:
    max_samples_stored: 2000

    重要

    This feature causes an increase in the consumption of data. The amount of increase will depend on the application. This feature can be disabled by adding the following to the agent yaml config nested under the common section:

    distributed_tracing:
    enabled: false
  • Auto-instrumentation support for GraphQL-Java 17.0+ #487

  • This version tested agent support for the ARM64/Graviton2 platform

Fixes

The existing MongoDB sync client instrumentation was incorrectly applying when MongoDB reactive or async client was being used, which could lead to segment timeouts and long transaction response times. #476

Deprecations and removed features

Cross application tracing is now deprecated, and disabled by default. To continue using it, enable it with cross_application_tracer.enabled = true and distributed_tracing.enabled = false.

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

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