Node.js agent release notesRSS

Notes

Features

• Added health check support for upcoming feature (#2841) (4c8bf13)
• Added OpenTelemetry bridge instrumentation, which includes a context manager and processor to handle synthesizing segments and time-slice metrics (#2906) (d2e8a9e)

Bug fixes

• Updated default config to accept undefined as default value (#2917) (e049442)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2914) (acd0c90)

Miscellaneous chores

• Added regex note to SQL obfuscator (#2911) (1533111)
• deps: Updated @newrelic/security-agent to v2.3.0 (#2918) (ed89f38)

Continuous integration

• Optimized the Lambda layers and Kubernetes init containers post-release workflow (#2915) (4be1099)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with bluebird and when instrumentation where checking active context crashed when transaction prematurely ends (#2909) (4a30d5c)
• Fixed transaction-shim to properly create new transactions when the existing transaction is not active (#2912) (3ad8c59)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2902) (cb16516)

Miscellaneous chores

• Updated lint rule suppression comment (#2895) (559dc98)

Continuous integration

• Move init container release from lambda to GHA (#2848) (8d8608d)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added support for Claude 3+ Chat API in Bedrock (#2870) (6a83abf)

Bug fixes

• Added defensive code in shim to prevent crashing when checking parent segment (#2898) (751eb96)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2888) (dce9deb)

Miscellaneous chores

• Replaced backtracking regex with new algorithm (#2887) (46462d0)

Tests

• Improved test coverage of normalizing claude 3 messages (#2893) (cc65763)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Updated undici instrumentation to fix crash with trying to calculate exclusive duration on a segment that no longer exists (#2884) (3b7e4bf)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2878) (e784f84)

Miscellaneous chores

• Fixed dns integration tests (#2883) (dd30ad7)

Tests

• Restored the branch to test apollo-server-plugin to main (#2879) (978faab)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Removed transaction from segment. Introduced a new enterSegment and enterTransaction to make context propagation more clear (#2646) (d84531a)
• Removed children from segments. (#2689) (66f140f)
• Added segment tree to transaction trace (#2717) (8fcc239)
• Added segment synthesizer and provided ability to convert http client otel spans to external http trace segments (#2745) (c42f8e6)
• Added otel consumer span processing (#2854) (82fe9d5)
• Added segment and transaction synthesis for http server spans (#2833) (8fa4d05)
• Added segment synthesis for db client otel spans to db trace (#2820) (1ad1858)
• Added segment synthesis for internal spans (#2840) (436c63d)
• Added segment synthesis for otel producer spans (#2839) (30f4995)

Bug fixes

• Updated shim.createSegment and shim.handleMqTracingHeaders to be backwards compatible with the changes to context manager (#2844) (554b4bf)

Code refactoring

• Removed class construction on the segment synthesis and instrumentation (#2837) (4b7ec0f)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2869) (4bde427)

Miscellaneous chores

• Added rules engine to match OTEL spans (#2694) (2c93c68)
• Updated rules engine to account for fallbacks (#2831) (19fbdfb)
• Updated versioned tests docs (#2874) (73a84d7)

Tests

• Updated a langchain test to be less rigid on asserting the tracking metric by @langchain/core version (#2876) (73985ea)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added instrumentation for @opensearch-projects/opensearch v2.1.0+ (#2850) (763c0e6)

Bug fixes

• Fixed event matcher to use properties specific to web requests (v1/ALB and v2) (#2863) (a93fe6e)

Miscellaneous chores

• Fixed mysql2 tests for new mysql2 version (#2853) (30a6de0)
• Updated eslint configuration (#2851) (d2fba9d)
• Utilize updated @newrelic/eslint-config (#2865) (f53d4fc)

Tests

• Removed t.diagnostic from tests (#2858) (23ca237)

Continuous integration

• Updated codecov-action to latest released version sha (#2866) (75f8902)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added entity linking attributes to aws-sdk v3 Lambda segments (#2845) (8820265)
• Provided ability to define newrelic config as newrelic.mjs (#2836) (972b59d)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2828) (d5fe8e3)

Miscellaneous chores

• deps: Updated @newrelic/security-agent to v2.2.0 (#2842) (170941e)
• Updated borp configs to target tests correctly (#2835) (66ae59d)

Tests

• Removed tap and cleaned up left over tap helpers (#2804) (37407b6)
• Updated match to fail if you pass in an object that lacks the expected keys (#2843) (a3db8bd)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed mysql2 promise instrumentation to properly handle createPool and createPoolCluster (#2823) (a679872)
• Fixed matching for Lambda events containing resource but which aren't API Gateway (#2825) (64d2042)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2814) (580a27f)

Miscellaneous chores

• Improved documentation for assertSegments (#2819) (298473c)

Tests

• Added test/custom-assertions.js to the apollo-server external versioned tests config (#2817) (568525a)
• Fixed flakey when versioned test (#2821) (54f034b)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed matching for ALB and API Gateway (v1 & v2) events for Lambda (#2780) (2f1a6c6)
• Updated mysql2 instrumentation to work with 3.11.5+ (#2811) (3ec4fee)

Documentation

• Fixed changelog to group the labels in logs work (#2776) (04271da)
• Fixed links to next.js apps (#2812) (834440c)
• Updated compatibility report (#2809) (fc1fbda)

Tests

• Migrated test/integration/api tests to node:test (#2787) (03b01a3)
• Migrated test/integration/core tests to node:test (#2781) (36bc0e7)
• Migrated test/integration/instrumentation tests to node:test (#2784) (963fb30)
• Migrated test/integration/transaction tests to node:test (#2783) (68e1a0c)
• Migrated test/integration/utilization tests to node node:test (#2794) (db237e9)
• Migrated test/smoke/api tests to node:test (#2772) (af3bbcd)
• Migrated CAT integration tests to node:test (#2778) (bd9df5f)
• Migrated integration tests at root to node:test (#2803) (a7ef080)
• Migrated root smoke tests to node:test (#2771) (78f2709)
• Migrated smoke tests in test/smoke/agent, test/smoke/e2e, and test/smoke/index to node:test (#2774) (440a0af)
• Removed t.diagnostic as they're better suited as code comments (#2786) (ee24027)
• Fixed flaky test on macOS (#2790) (eebf06b)
• Removed reference to pino internals (#2805) (0382ee2)
• Restricted mysql2 version to get CI working (#2808) (ad60ed4)
• Updated agent integration tests to node:test (#2782) (d556512)
• Updated config integration tests to node:test (#2777) (fe8d2df)
• Updated distributed-tracing integration tests to node:test (#2798) (83ad1f3)
• Updated grpc integration tests to node:test (#2789) (ea8f743)
• Updated index, issue-2155, and metric integration tests to node:test (#2801) (80b55c2)
• Updated q, superagent, and when tests to node:test (#2773) (ff2d8d0)
• Updated shimmer, uninstrumented, environment, flatten, and logger integration tests to node:test (#2802) (83fd7ee)
• Added per test file timing to test reporter (#2785) (00d9940)

Support statement:

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 agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)