Docs September 28 - October 2, 2026

New docs

• Added Kerberos (SPNEGO) authentication support for private locations, covering KDC and SPNEGO web server setup and synthetics job manager configuration.
• Added Manage Fleet Control access, covering role-based access patterns for per-fleet scoping, lifecycle separation, delegated group management, and business unit isolation.
• Added Instrument your systems with Agent Control, which replaces the former Reinstrumentation page and covers setting up instrumentation from scratch or migrating existing agents on Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows.
• Added Pathpoint (updated) documentation for the public preview, covering flows, health indicators, KPIs, and NerdGraph management.
• Added the Google Distributed Cloud Edge monitoring integration, covering the data it reports, activation, polling frequency, and Workload Identity Federation.
• Added Alert RCA with Autopilot and Email to show how to run an Autopilot root cause analysis on an alert and send an HTML report by email, along with an Autopilot RCA workflow templates overview.
• Added the Query Azure Monitor logs action to the Workflow Automation actions catalog.
• Added Azure Cosmos DB actions to the Workflow Automation actions catalog.
• Added AWS Resource Groups Tagging API actions to the Workflow Automation actions catalog.
• Added New Relic Tagging actions to the Workflow Automation actions catalog for adding, replacing, and removing tags on New Relic entities.

Major changes

• Rewrote Understand the trace details UI page for the updated entity map experience.
• Expanded Agent types with the protocol_version field, a reference for each variable field, and separate deployment sections for Kubernetes and on-host.
• Added per-agent configuration examples for New Relic APM agents, the OpenTelemetry Collector, the eBPF auto-attach agent, and the infrastructure agent to Modify agent configuration, along with a compatibility matrix of supported agents and versions.
• Updated the Pipeline Control gateway overview, UI guide, and YAML configuration reference to document adding and deleting Sample rate, Filter, and Transform processors at any stage of a pipeline.

Minor changes

• Added New Relic Control as an install option to Choose your infrastructure agent install method.
• Added VPC Service Controls ingress requirements to Connect with a New Relic service account and the Workload Identity Federation setup for GCP integrations.
• Updated PHP agent compatibility and requirements to add Drupal 11.3 and 11.4 support and remove Slim 2.x.
• Updated the Kubernetes summary page to describe workloads instead of deployments, including the multi-workload table and clusters that belong to other accounts.
• Updated Compatibility and requirements for the Java agent for Java 27 and newly supported frameworks, including Quarkus RESTEasy, SmallRye Mutiny, Redisson, AWS Converse, and Apache Sling.
• Added the minimum size value of 64 to Set max event pool size.
• Added guidance for setting a specific license key with NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY and corrected the Windows support note in Guided install overview.
• Added continuous profiling settings (profiling.*) to Ruby agent configuration.
• Added JRuby 10.x support to Ruby agent requirements and supported frameworks.
• Added the Browser and Mobile session replay billing categories to Understand and manage data ingest.
• Removed the account ID from the endpoint URL examples in Send custom events with our Event API.
• Added a comparison of website performance monitoring and browser monitoring to Increase user engagement.
• Added Workflow Automation to the pricing table in How New Relic pricing works.
• Removed PM2 references from Monitor your Node.js application and Configure the infrastructure agent using Ansible.
• Added guidance for selecting custom tag attributes using the tags. prefix to Muting rules: Suppress notifications.
• Clarified when to use an auto-selected or explicit ingest key with the Lambda CLI and Serverless Framework in Layered instrumentation.
• Corrected the uniqueCount() and concat() syntax in NRQL reference and fixed inconsistent query examples across the NRQL tutorials.

What's new

• Session replay now has its own billing category: Browser and Mobile Session Replay data is reported under new billing categories, separate from browser and mobile events.
• A new trace map experience with intelligent clustering: Trace maps now keep high-importance services visible and collapse the long tail into clusters, so bottlenecks and failing services stand out.
• New Relic Control host-based fleets are now generally available: Linux and Windows host-based fleets for Agent Control and Fleet Control are now generally available, with support for config approval governance, remote agent upgrades, audit logging, and on-host integrations.
• Reference the current dashboard from anywhere with {{selfEntity}}: A new template variable resolves to the current dashboard's entity GUID, so queries, widget names, and facet links stay accurate after you duplicate a dashboard.
• The updated version of Pathpoint is now available in Public Preview: Map your most critical business journeys to the telemetry that powers them, now with programmatic management and richer KPIs.
• Place pipeline processors anywhere you need them with Pipeline Control: Add, reorder, and delete Sample Rate, Filter, and Transform processors at any point in a pipeline.

Release notes

• Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

  • Java agent v9.5.0:
    • Added Java 27 support.
    • Added AI monitoring support for AWS Converse APIs.
    • Added support for Quarkus REST 3.0.0, Quarkus RESTEasy 2.14, Spring Boot Actuator v4, Ktor, and Redisson 3.28.0 and higher.
    • Added Oracle explain plan support and Adobe AEM (Sling) browser script injection.
    • Fixed Micronaut duplicate transactions and lost custom attributes.
  • PHP agent v12.11.0.40:
    • Added support for Drupal 11.3 and 11.4.
    • Fixed Monolog postprocessor context and extra data capture, and graceful stream close handling for Trace Observer.
    • Bumped google.golang.org/grpc from 1.83.0 to 1.83.2.
  • Ruby agent v10.9.0:
    • Added continuous profiling (preview), configured with profiling.enabled and related profiling.* settings.
    • Added support for Dalli 5.1.1.
  • Browser agent v1.323.0:
    • Updated the agent to trigger a session replay harvest when replay switches from error to full mode.
    • Fixed distributed tracing headers for AJAX requests to use the server-corrected timestamp.
  • Android agent v7.8.3:
    • Added support for Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 9.4.x.
    • Removed the proprietary newrelic request header in favor of W3C traceparent and tracestate headers.
    • Fixed a Session Replay race condition that caused a NullPointerException on the main thread.
  • Flutter agent v1.2.11:
    • Fixed the iOS bridge dropping custom httpParams and tracked-header values from MobileRequest and MobileRequestError events.
    • Updated the native Android agent to v7.8.1 and the native iOS agent to v7.7.6.
  • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.37:
    • Fixed Autopilot access denied handling.
  • Infrastructure agent v1.80.5:
    • Fixed a privilege escalation bug that allowed sandboxed integrations to spawn root children.
    • Bumped nrjmx to v2.15.0, crypto to v0.57.0, and embedded on-host integration versions.
  • Kubernetes integration v4.8.0:
    • Included in newrelic-infrastructure-4.7.0 and nri-bundle-8.0.30.
  • Agent Control v1.25.1:
    • Disabled OpAMP compression for the on-host verify client so the server can read the execution.mode attribute.
  • Agent Control v1.25.0:
    • Added Debian 13 (trixie) as a supported Linux platform.
    • Removed variants support and regex-based remote config validation in favor of the server-side governance flow.
    • Fixed self-update deleting the downloaded package binary, which broke rollback and same-version reinstall.
  • Agent Control v1.24.0:
    • Renamed the secrets_providers config key to value_providers. The old key still works.
    • Added Red Hat 10 support and an nr-kubecm value provider for Kubernetes ConfigMaps.
    • Added a bundled uninstall.sh script for Linux.
  • Agent Control v1.23.0:
    • Added variable overrides through variable.agentConfig syntax in remote configuration keys.
    • Enabled on-host self-update by default. Self-updates run only when commanded by Fleet Control.
  • Agent Control v1.22.0:
    • Enforced a 2400 MiB hard memory limit on the on-host Agent Control process tree through systemd MemoryMax on Linux.
    • Fixed the systemd service being disabled after an RPM package update.
  • Agent Control v1.21.0:
    • Added the nri-flex on-host agent type.
    • Fixed Windows file permissions under Agent Control's managed directories.
  • Agent Control v1.20.0:
    • Added on-host agent types for nri-apache, nri-nginx, nri-postgresql, nri-mysql, and nri-memcached.
    • Added the agent-type validate subcommand to the Agent Control CLIs.
  • Agent Control v1.19.1:
    • Fixed the on-host infrastructure agent type by removing the nri-flex binary copy.
  • Agent Control v1.19.0:
    • Added shared_filesystem and copy_from_file support for on-host agent types.
    • Added the nri-redis agent type for Linux and Windows.
    • Replaced the on-host health.http and health.file fields with an explicit checks: list.
  • Autopilot 2.3:
    • Applied tailored size limits and budget tracking to every major tool, and cut average run time by about 20%.
    • Replaced generic error messages with specific details about what happened and what to try next.
  • Media agent for Android v5.0.1:
    • Breaking change: NRTrackerTHEOPlayer now accepts a THEOplayer Player instance instead of a THEOplayerView.
  • Media agent for HLS JS v2.0.1:
    • Fixed getSrc() returning a temporary blob: URL instead of the actual manifest URL during playback.
  • Node browser runtime v3.0.244:
    • Fixed 12–30 second click delays on Angular and Zone.js applications.
  • Node API runtime v1.2.286:
    • Fixed multiple OS-level security vulnerabilities.
  • Ping runtime v1.85.0:
    • Fixed multiple OS-level security vulnerabilities.
  • Job Manager v633:
    • Fixed multiple OS-level security vulnerabilities.