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The New Relic Java agent

v7.9.0

1 year ago

New features and improvements

Fixes

Support statement

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v7.8.0...v7.9.0

v7.8.0

1 year ago

New features and improvements

  • Updated the agent to use caffeine 2.9.3 832
  • Refactored the log.level attribute name on LogEvents to instead be level 858
  • Kafka instrumentation - supports metrics for kafka-clients versions 3.x. 860 and 865
  • Update to jfr-daemon 1.8.0 869
  • Lettuce instrumentation - supports lettuce-core 4.3 up to 6.x. Please remove any other (experimental/incubating) lettuce extensions or else Redis database metrics could be doubled. 872

Fixes

  • Fixed CQLParser getOperationAndTableName exception handling. Exceptions are now handled within the CQLParser. 857
  • Removed akka-http-core bindAndHandle instrumentation to resolve scenarios where duplicated transactions could result 850 (see Scala Akka HTTP core instrumentation for more details)

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

v7.7.0

2 years ago

New features and improvements

  • Supports Java 18 813
  • APM logs in context. Automatic application log forwarding is now enabled by default. This version of the agent will automatically send enriched application logs to New Relic. To learn more about about this feature see here, and additional configuration options are available here. To learn about how to toggle log ingestion on or off by account see here. 817
  • Added instrumentation support for the Postgres, MySQL, Oracle & MSSQL R2DBC connectors 810 816 829 828

Fixes

  • Patches a security issue related to an older version of jszip that is included in the Java agent API Javadoc jar 820

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v7.6.0...v7.7.0

v7.6.0

2 years ago

New features and improvements

  • Added built-in agent support for Logs in Context (log4j 2.6+ and Logback 1.1+). Read more about this capability on our Logs in Context feature page 718
  • Added instrumentation support for the MariaDB & H2 R2DBC connectors 799 724
  • Updated agent support for Jedis 4.0.0+ 698
  • Updated agent support for Cassandra dataStax 4+ 690

Fixes

  • Guard against intermittent null pointer exceptions 707
  • Support CSP nonce parameter for RUM header and footer 591
  • Fixed an issue with auto app naming and distributed tracing transactions 566
  • Increased maximum TransactionError message size 581
  • The httpResponseCode, response.status and response.statusMessage transaction/span attributes are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. These have been replaced by http.statusCode and http.statusText 513:

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v7.5.0...v7.6.0

v6.5.4

2 years ago

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.4 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-44832. 766

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v6.5.3...v6.5.4

v7.5.0

2 years ago

New features and improvements

  • Update to jfr-daemon 1.7.0 - fixes a memory leak condition by cleaning up copies of JFR recordings. Also updated to use version 0.13.1 of the telemetry-sdk 638
  • Update HTTP response code attribute names. This will add http.statusCode and http.statusText to spans and transactions 513
  • Provide support for Datastax/Cassandra WrappedStatments. 525
  • Add instrumentation for gRPC 1.40.0+ (thanks to fcaylus for this contribution) 518
  • Add suppressed exceptions to ThrowableError.stackTrace (thanks to dkarlinsky for this contribution) 405
  • Add Scala instrumentation and Scala API for Monix Tasks 543
  • Add instrumentation for Mongo async/reactivestreams drivers versions 3.4.x to 4.1.x 609
  • Scala Cats Effect 3 - modified the API to support passing the transaction by implicit reference, rather than using ThreadLocal variables 578
  • Add Instrumentation for Play WS 2.6.0 under Scala 2.13 594
  • Agent optimization: change String.replaceAll in favor of Pattern.compile (thanks to brunolellis for this contribution) 592

Fixes

  • Upgrade log4j-core version to 2.17.1 to address security vulnerability CVE-2021-44832 625
  • Enhancements for Spring WebFlux and Reactor Netty instrumentation to address gaps in instrumentation. Also includes support for upgraded Spring Security configurations 538
  • Update Async-Http-Client library version to 2.0.35 to address security vulnerability CVE-2017-14063 577
  • Handle null pointer exceptions in hostname lookup 587
  • Properly expire tokens used in CompletableFuture instrumentation to reduce memory usage and prevent telemetry reporting delays 634
  • Add additional exception handling to catch ConnectionPoolTimeoutException errors, which may lead to an unrecoverable agent state 637
  • Resolve Solr FilterCache Memory Leak 613
  • Reintroduce MongoDB sync instrumentation (erroneously removed in a prior release while async support was added) 635
  • Fix Sql obfuscation so that it applies correctly to queries with certain formatting 632
  • Agent configuration expected_status_codes is not honored when a transaction exception is encountered 565
  • Scala Cats Effect - ensure Http4s transaction tracer is created on request run. This resolves some invalid tracer states that were causing null pointer exceptions 530
  • Fix Akka HTTP bindFlow 555
  • Address Caffeine cache causing memory leak and OOM condition 593

Support statement:

  • New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v7.4.0...v7.5.0

v6.5.3

2 years ago

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.3 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45105. 605

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-java-agent/compare/v6.5.2...v6.5.3

v7.4.3

2 years ago

Fixes

  • Upgraded log4j to 2.17.0 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45105. 605
  • This fix is recommended if you are running on Java 8 - 17.

v6.5.2

2 years ago

Fixes

  • Changed log4j version to 2.12.2 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45046. 605

Mitigation for Java 7

  • This release is compatible with Java 7.

v7.4.2

2 years ago

Fixes

  • Upgraded log4j to 2.16.0 to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2021-45046. 605
  • This fix is recommended if you are running on Java 8 - 17.