New docs
- Added comprehensive Elasticsearch OpenTelemetry integration docs covering installation for standalone and Kubernetes environments using the New Relic OTel Collector and Prometheus.
- Added new OTel Kafka integration docs for Kubernetes self-managed environments alongside expanded docs for self-hosted Kafka monitoring with Prometheus.
Major changes
- Updated Service Architecture Intelligence (SAI) permissions docs to reflect that Catalogs and Maps no longer require extra roles:
- Applications catalog — clarified that no additional roles are needed to access the applications catalog.
- Repository catalog — clarified that no additional roles are needed to access the repository catalog.
- Advanced maps — updated permissions guidance and expanded configuration details.
- Updated AWS Lambda compatibility and permission requirements with expanded IAM permission details required for Lambda monitoring, including additional permissions needed for instrumentation and data collection.
- Updated .NET agent Lambda and SQS instrumentation docs to correct distributed tracing limitations and .NET Lambda instrumentation behavior.
- Added a tutorial video to the NerdGraph change tracking docs explaining how to set up change tracking events.
- Added Ruby 3.4 as a supported runtime to the AWS Lambda layered instrumentation docs.
- Updated New Relic Lens AWS connector docs to document the required
nrlens-prefix for connector naming. - Updated user management UI and tasks to replace example domain names with compliant placeholder values.
Minor changes
- Updated .NET agent compatibility requirements with the latest verified compatible versions for several instrumented packages, including Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos, EnyimMemcachedCore, and AWSSDK.DynamoDBv2.
- Updated the AI monitoring compatibility requirements page to point readers to the Node.js agent compatibility page for the full list of supported AI monitoring libraries.
- Updated GCP Cloud Cost Intelligence docs to add a navigation link to the General settings and Integrations pages for easier access after setup.
- Updated the FedRAMP compliance page to remove New Relic eAPM from the list of non-FedRAMP-authorized services.
- Minor enhancement to migrate from API polling to CWMS doc.
Release notes
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- Added support for native Next.js OTEL instrumentation via the Hybrid Agent.
- Fixed label parser to handle empty values in an object key.
- Refactored
@hapi/hapi,@hapi/vision, andkoainstrumentation to use subscriber-based events. - Deprecated
instrumentLoadedModuleAPI.
- Added instrumentation for new Redis v8.8.0 commands.
- Fixed crash in LangGraph instrumentation due to context propagation issue.
- Improved handling and logging of harvest limit settings.
- Added
request.modelandresponse.modelattributes to LangChain Chain LLM events. - Fixed TypeError crash in LangGraph streaming instrumentation.
- Added
- Fixed
RecordDatastoreSegment()API to correctly use caller-supplied vendor name (note: metric names will change fromDatastore/*/Other/*toDatastore/*/<VendorName>/*). - Fixed StackExchange.Redis segments not being added to transactions before harvest.
- Updated MySql.Data instrumentation to support v9.7.0 signature changes.
- Fixed
- Session info is now namespaced per browser app using
licenseKeyandapplicationID, preventing session sharing across apps on the same origin.
- Session info is now namespaced per browser app using
- Fixed
set-service-accountfailure for local users. - Security: bumped containerd to v1.7.32 (CVE-2026-46680) and nri-flex to v1.18.4 (CVE-2026-45570).
- Fixed
Kubernetes integration v4.2.0:
- Included in
newrelic-infrastructure-4.2.0andnri-bundle-7.0.14chart versions.
- Included in
- Fixed crash in
newrelicTransformClasseswithIllegalAccessErrorafter upgrading to AGP 9.1.0. - Fixed NullPointerException in session replay textview section.
- Fixed
onTrimMemory()call in hybrid applications.
- Fixed crash in
- Fixed ANRMonitor blocking the main thread on its own lock.
- iOS dependencies can now be resolved via Swift Package Manager.
- Bundled External Dependency Manager for Unity (EDM4U) upgraded.
- Native Android agent updated to v7.7.5.
- Native iOS agent updated to v7.7.2.
- Updated Native iOS agent to v7.7.2.
Synthetics Ping Runtime v1.70.0:
- Security: fixed CVE-2026-41989 and CVE-2026-34743.
Synthetics Node API Runtime rc1.23:
- Security: fixed multiple CVEs including CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500, CVE-2026-46300, and others.
Synthetics Node Browser Runtime rc1.23:
- Security: updated Chrome to v149.0.7827.53-1; fixed multiple CVEs.
Pipeline Control Gateway v2.4.1:
- Added configuration-only mode (without Flux) with namespace-scoped permissions and built-in config-watcher sidecar.
- Added DaemonSet deployment mode for node-level telemetry processing.