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Notice

• Automatic browser agent injection for ASP.NET Core v6+ web applications has been enabled by default. If you experience any issues with this feature, please see item 2 on this page for a setting that can be set to false to disable the feature and contact us for support. (051ceab)

New features

• Enable ASP.NET Core browser auto-injection by default. (051ceab)
• Instrument In-Process Azure Function invocations, with distributed tracing support for Http and Service Bus triggers. (#3003) (47d22a1)

Fixes

• Look for ASPNETCORE_IIS_APP_POOL_ID if APP_POOL_ID isn't found. (#3036) (620064c)
• Remove diagnostics tracing output from agent API calls (#3029) (be7b7f4)
• Remove unnecessary dependency on System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation in .NET 4.6.2 builds. (#3033) (ab81d1c)
• Set Profiler logger to initialized when configuration load fails. (#3015) (7ab30d7)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add support for PackageReference with NewRelic.Azure.WebSites packages. (#3001) (8fb397f)
• Azure Function instrumentation is enabled by default (#3007) (8eba1bf)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add AI Monitoring instrumentation for AmazonBedrockRuntimeClient.ConverseAsync() (#2997) (cdc2f6c)
• Add AI Monitoring instrumentation for OpenAI and Azure.AI.OpenAI (#2987) (aa06d9d)
• Add support for .NET Framework Azure Function Apps (#2992) (5b077f3)
• Improve logging and validation for license keys. (#2982) (19e8387)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add .NET 8+ support for System.Data.Odbc (#2948) (7ee9825)
• Add support for instrumenting OpenSearchClient requests. (#2956) (4309938)

Fixes

• Add Azure Function app name prefix to faas.name attribute in Azure Function transactions. (#2973) (80d4c76)
• Custom attribute values of type float and decimal were not serialized correctly. (#2975) (8812fe1)
• Improve error handling in AWS account ID parsing logic (#2984) (9b66750)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Enable DynamoDB entity relationships (#2923) (f70b64a)
• Instrument Lambda invocations in AWS SDK (#2901) (3b655e4)
• Use SocketsHttpHandler to configure HttpClient in .NET 6+. (#2931) (eb3afda)

Fixes

• Console logging is inconsistent between Agent and Profiler (#2955) (7c42b33)
• Incorrect string comparison in the profiler caused constructor instrumentation to fail on Linux (#2912) (49a71c5)
• Refactoring to reduce the likelihood of a deadlock in HttpClient.SendAsync(). (#2931) (eb3afda)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

Fixes

• Remove .NET Standard libraries from .NET Framework target (#2896) (0873941)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notice

• The .NET agent now allows you to opt-in to adding your custom tags (labels) to agent-forwarded logs. With custom tags on logs, platform engineers can easily filter, search, and correlate log data for faster and more efficient troubleshooting, improved performance, and optimized resource utilization. To learn more about this feature see the documentation.(https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-dotnet-agent/pull/2831) (d1e29ea)

New features

• Add Distributed Tracing support for Azure Functions HTTPTrigger. (#2868) (0278836)
• The .NET agent now allows you to opt-in to adding your custom tags (labels) to agent-forwarded logs. With custom tags on logs, platform engineers can easily filter, search, and correlate log data for faster and more efficient troubleshooting, improved performance, and optimized resource utilization. To learn more about this feature see the documentation.(https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-dotnet-agent/pull/2831) (d1e29ea)

Fixes

• Don't instrument certain processes in Azure Linux App Service deployments. Resolves #2871. (7ed945b)
• Fix a bug in run.sh. Resolves #2887 (#2888) (df17cfd)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

Fixes

• Fix syntax error in setenv.sh (#2864) (a629138), closes #2863

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add AWSSDK.DynamoDBv2 instrumentation. Versions 3.5 through 4.0.0-preview.4 are supported. Note: previous agent versions would instrument DynamoDB calls as Externals; now DynamoDB calls will show up as Database operations in the New Relic UI. (2460527)
• Add config option for providing AWS account ID for linking (#2851) (936b6f6)
• New Garbage Collection Metrics Sampler for .NET 6+ (#2838) (f24a5da)

Fixes

• Fix potential race condition in AWS SDK, AWS Bedrock, and Elastisearch that could lead to an orphaned Transaction. (#2842) (3afa15f)
• Remove usage of non-thread safe HashSet in AwsSdk pipeline wrappers. Thanks, @gjunge! (#2855) (#2857) (ae1d422)
• Revert environment variable name change in installers and scripts (#2852) (e77683b)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.