Docs May 16 - June 12, 2025

New docs

• Added Change Tracking Events to track changes across your applications and infrastructure using New Relic's Change Tracking capability. Capture, visualize, and analyze changes to understand their impact on your systems.
• Added the procedure to upgrade the Prometheus agent to version 2.
• Added a document that explains what is nested variables and how to use them on dashboards.

Major changes

• Added Application hangs on startup troubleshooting guide for .NET agent.
• Added examples of Run on-host integrations manually (dry-run) about Windows - Microsoft SQL Server (from an Administrator powershell).
• Added Measure API for Browser API.
• Added Java agent config file template for 8.21.0 Java agent release.
• Updated user types required for sharing dashboards and charts in the security and access document.
• New Relic AI agent integrations for Github Copilot and Gemini are now in general availability. Updated the documents as follows:
  • New Relic AI agent integration with GitHub Copilot
  • New Relic AI agent integration with Gemini
• Updated the View Session Replays in New Relic document to reflect server-side configuration changes for session replay settings in browser agent version 1.259.0+.
• Added information to Data Privacy with New Relic and Security policy documents about periodic audits and deactivation of accounts for terminated employees.
• Added the updated configuration to the document that explains how to install media video agent for browser application.

Minor changes

• Updated compatibility requirements for the Java agent.
• Added logging to the feature list under browser agent start() API.
• Updated Java agent configuration: Config file with NEW_RELIC_ATTRIBUTES_HTTP_ATTRIBUTE_MODE=both.
• Updated the Java agent licenses.
• Added a callout in the New Relic AI Knowledge Connector and RAG tool and document configuration documents ensuring that indexed document's visibility complies with organizational policies.
• Updated the versions of AWS dependencies for version 3.0.0 of the New Relic AWS Lamdba OpenTracing Java SDK library in the SDK based instrumentation documentation.
• Updated the title of the Predictive alerts document. Earlier the title was Predictive capability.
• Updated the Source map API document with the revised maximum source map upload limit.
• Updated the .Net agent compatibility and requirements document with the latest compatible versions.
• Updated the Azure Functions monitoring document with the information about unsuportablity of the Linux OS with the Consumption plan and In-Process function model.
• In the Compatibility and requirements document, updated installation method for instrumenting Azure functions, specifically adjusting the environment variable instructions for Windows using the Azure Site Extension.
• Updated the Custom tags for application logs document with the JAVA agent version that supports custom tags.
• Added unix timestamp requirement in the addToTrace API document.
• Updated the compatibility and requirements for the Node.js agent.

Release notes

• Announced January 7, 2026, as the End of Life date for the Drop Filter Rules API.

• Check out our What's New posts:

  • Capture and analyze all changes impacting your system
  • Enhanced Mobile Request Errors Grouping Logic
  • New Relic AI access and billing update
  • Logs details view in the query console

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

  • Job Manager v443:

    • Fixed Vulnerability issues.

  • Lambda-Extension v2.3.18:

    • Added example for New Relic AI monitoring, along with instrumentation of Lambda functions with response streaming.
    • Updated SAM examples to include latest layers and packages.
    • Updated Ruby Lambda instrumentation example.
    • Updated Readme to include NEW_RELIC_COLLECT_TRACE_ID environment variable which can be used to add trace-id to the Lambda logs.
    • Resolved the issue where Extension inaccurately captured timeout durations for Lambda function timeout errors.

  • Node.js agent v12.19.0:

    • Added Azure Function HTTP streaming support.
    • Added check to only set a FakeSpan if transaction.agent.otelSpanKey exists.
    • Fixed redis legacy test suite.
    • Updated security agent.
    • Added cross agent otel bridge tests.

  • Node.js agent v12.20.0:

    • Added support for OTEL metrics API.
    • Fixed common.getKeys logic.
    • Fixed Google Cloud Run hostname issue.

  • Lambda-Extension v2.3.19:

    • Updated go version to resolve go/stdlib vulnerability.
    • Updated example for AI monitoring in response streaming.

  • Java agent v8.21.0:

    • Enhanced visibility into Reactor Mono.flatMap calls.
    • Added new instrumentation for Spring-Kafka and distributed tracing when using the core Kafka client library.

  • Browser agent v1.291.0:

    • Adds the measure API to the newrelic global object.
    • Fixed race between end of session and features aborting.
    • Implemented the behavior of harvesting first session trace payload immediately.

  • Mobile app for Android v5.29.6:

    • Fixed issues in NRAI and Inapp Feedback.

  • Fluent Bit v3.2.10:

    • Infrastructure agent now supports Fluent Bit v3.2.10.
    • Fluent Bit Output Plugin Docker image now uses Fluent Bit 3.2.10.
    • New Relic Logging Helm chart now installs the new plugin image (newrelic-logging chart version 1.27.0).

  • AWS Firehose Log Forwarder v1.0.0:

    • Accelerated AWS logs forwarding with New Relic's One-Step Observability.
    • Simplified logs onboarding with the cloudFormation template.
    • Enhanced operational efficiency.
    • Included AWS Secrets Management for advanced security.

  • AWS Lambda Log Forwarder v1.0.0:

    • Accelerated AWS logs forwarding with New Relic's One-Step Observability.
    • Simplified logs onboarding with the cloudFormation template.
    • Enhanced operational efficiency.
    • Included AWS Secrets Management for advanced security.

  • AWS Lambda Log Forwarder v1.1.0:

    • Logs from AWS Lambda functions now have request IDs added to every message using the UUID found in the first and last log entries.

  • Kubernetes integration v3.41.0:

    • Now Kubelet pod fetch can be configured to use KUBE_SERVICE endpoint instead of local node.
    • Updated alpine to v3.22.0.
    • Fixed the environment variable issue in the FetchPodsFromKubeService config.

  • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.7:

    • Fixed the pesky socket connection issues.
    • Enabled remote configuration of the Survey sheet parameters.

  • iOS agent v7.5.6:

    • Built the agent using Xcode 16.3 to auto-correct errors related to Code Coverage.
    • Fixed an issue that could set the distributed tracing account incorrectly.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause the agent to crash when setting session attributes.

  • Node.js agent v12.21.0:

    • Added Gemini AI LLM instrumentation.
    • Refactored getHostnameSafe to accommodate GCP.
    • Updated openai instrumentation to work with 5.0.0+.
    • Updated rules to work with 1.17.0 and 1.24.0 for consumer and producer span kind.
    • Added preliminary otel configuration.

  • Lambda-Extension v2.3.20:

    • Added logic to check the shutdown of logserver and prevent handler from sending messages to log channel.
    • Removed Circle CI workflow.
    • Added WaitGroup to resolve log server panic.

  • Ping Runtime v1.51.0:

    • Fixed logback-core, jetty-server, and ubuntu vulnerabilities.

  • Browser agent v1.291.1:

    • Prevented ST from holding onto Event refs in memory when aborted.
    • Remove dash fragments from the entryName attribute in BrowserPerformance events so they no longer appear in reported URLs.
    • Added safeguards for the addToTrace calls.

  • Python agent v10.13.0:

    • Added support for Model Context Protocol (MCP).
    • Fixed import logic for importlib.metadata and pkg_resources.

  • Kubernetes integration v3.42.0:

    • Enhanced configuration option for GKE-Autopilot to auto-configure necessary settings.