Node.js agent v14.9.0

Features

• Added --dump to validate-config to emit the effective configuration (#4390) (fe3e684)
• Added a validate-config CLI command (#4341) (821848d)
• Flagged a missing OpenTelemetry bridge as a validate-config startup blocker (#4396) (75397be)
• Reduced instances of the schema file to be just one instance in schema.json (#4379) (a870c3b)
• Shared startup-blocker checks between the agent and validate-config CLI (#4378) (06e6596)

Bug fixes

• Bounded module version resolution at filesystem root (#4393) (71c90b6)
• Fixed http2 client handling of missing headers, default ports, IPv6 hosts, and unparseable URLs (#4362) (0eef6a6)
• Loaded the code-level metrics function inspector once instead of on every call (#4391) (01d2797)

Performance improvements

• Reduced CPU per SQL query by skipping slow query processing below explain_threshold (#4376) (047e2cd)

Code refactoring

• Migrated http2 client instrumentation to subscriber-based (#4360) (8f5b504)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#4388) (cbb6970) (#4363) (3cc962d)

Miscellaneous chores

• Fixed MAXIMUM_TIMEOUT_TIME in lib/otel/metrics/index.js to be the correct expected value (#4365) (39b037c)
• Updated linter to latest version (#4351) (a1a30f5)
• Added CLI tool help note about derived settings (#4398) (7c8b36d)

Tests

• Attempted to fix flaky tests (#4383) (01ddfd8)
• Pinned version of @opentelemetry/api to 1.9.0 (#4387) (525b81c)
• Updated got to latest to ensure it is up to date (#4364) (b586275)

Support statement

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