🚀 Features

• (Tag and Watch) Tag a particular element in your web app (e.g. popup) and search for sessions where it’s been displayed for users
• (DevTools) Ability to capture and troubleshoot websocket messages
• (Offline Mode) Record sessions even when your web app is offline
• (Conditional Recording)(EE) Limit the number of recorded sessions by capturing only those that meet certain conditions

💪 Improvements

• (React-Native)(iOS) Support of network payloads in DevTools
• (Assist) Improved search and reviewed the way we manage WebSockets
• (Backend) Reworked the canvas processing pipeline and reduced resource consumption
• (Tracker) Better handling of pages with multiple canvas elements
• (Plugins)(Assist) Changed the WebSocket reconnection policy by adding exponential waits
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Fixed a bug preventing dead clicks and errors from appearing in X-Ray
• Added method to restart canvas capture in case of context recreation
• Fixed an issue preventing iOS sessions from being returned to frontend
• Fixed an issue in sessions list not properly resetting its pagination
• Fixed a display issue with multiple canvases in session replay
• Fixed a bug in frontend related to enabling the Elastic integration
• Fixed the display of events for mobile recordings
• Fixed a bug in CLI when installing k9s
• Console.log shows as coming from console.js in devtools (#1842)
• Receiving emails with blank body (#1829)
• Error during clean install - command not found (#1818)
• Error Occurs in Tracker when Aborting XHR Calls (#1813)
• Remove console.log Statements from Tracker (#1810)
• Fix invitation password set (#1795)
• Cannot reset password or accept invitation (#1794)

🚀 Features

• (Replayer) Support of <canvas> elements in session replay as well as in co-browsing
• (Usability Testing)(Beta) Conduct usability tests efficiently and gain valuable insights into user behavior to improve UX

💪 Improvements

• (Replayer) Made the DevTools panel resizeable
• (Backend) Use of the Zstandard compression algorithm for storing recordings (via the COMPRESSION_ALGO: zstd env variable)
• (Assist) Reworked the service from the ground up for improved performance
• (Integrations) Refactored the code to make contributions easier
• (Community) Add nodeSelector or affinity for the migrationJob config in helm chart (#1687)
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Fixed an issue that prevented source maps from being processed
• Fixed an issue with cards not being deleted
• Fixed an issue in search resulting from a key conflict between metadata and events
• Fixed an issue when searching using the not_contains operator
• Fixed a bug in search with performance related events not taken into account
• Fixed an issue that caused the Redux tab to crash in DevTools
• Fixed an issue in the display of clickmaps
• MS Teams integration subtitle contains placeholder text (#1724)
• Empty message box on MS Teams error alert (#1719)
• Unable to create new alert targeting MS Teams integration (#1677)
• Sharing session to MS Teams displays empty box (#1681)
• Cannot Reset Password (#1665)
• Error Deleting User (#1664)
• Opening a session causes 'Exception in ASGI application' (#1554)
• Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' (#1511)
• Sourcemap-uploader logs all of the files in the console (#1694)

🚀 Features

• (iOS)(Beta) Support for — iOS native and React Native — apps for replaying mobile sessions with full-fledged DevTools (crashlytics/network payloads/performance metrics) and heuristics (crash detection/click rage)
• (Analytics) Introducing Path Analysis to help visualize how users navigate through your website
• (Assist)(EE) Keep an eye on key metrics, audit team sessions and create reports
• (Deployment) Support of Docker Compose

💪 Improvements

• (Replayer) Show closed tabs as users browse your app in multi-tab sessions
• (Replayer) Display the user's timezone in playback and sessions page
• (Replayer) Added a contextual menu to the player for quickly launching DevTools
• (DevTools) Capture of TransferBodySize in network activity
• (UI/UX) Reviewed the navigation workflow and implemented a new menu
• (UI/UX) Added modules to allow enabling or disabling specific sections in frontend
• (UI/UX) Redesigned the integrations section in Preferences
• (Tracker) Ability to catch browser rendering delays and reflect them in replays
• (Tracker) Added a safe wrapper for Angular apps
• (API) Simplified the OmniSearch logic to make it easy to add new analytics capabilities
• (Backend) Implemented a reconnection mechanism to Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis and Kafka clients
• (Backend) Refactored assist and reviewed the socket handling mechanism
• (Backend) Improved session end logic and partition management in ender
• (Connectors)(EE) Full rewriting of Redshift and ClickHouse connectors in Golang
• (Assist)(EE) Added prometheus metrics for better monitoring
• (Deployment) Improved the support of external proxies
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Fixed an issue with missing "js_exception" in sessions table
• Updated the "getSessionURL" function in tracker
• Fixed iFrame observer timeout in tracker
• Added a safe guard for HTML tag names in replayer
• Disabled mouse movement on inactive tabs during replays
• Fixed an issue with height resizer in clickmaps
• Resolved the cursor position in cobrowsing sessions
• Fixed a reconnection issue when initiating a cobrowsing session
• Fixed multiple issues related to multi-tab feature with tab state duplication
• Fixed a bug causing CPU surge in assist service
• Fixed a bug affecting referrer not being inserted in db
• Unable to Access /signup after OpenReplay installation (#1502)
• Browser doesn't support required api, or doNotTrack is active (#1463)
• Session Token header not allowed on all urls (#1449)
• Ky http requests not getting session token header (#1446)
• Chalice health check failing with self signed cert (#1421)
• Unhandled Exception Error ReferenceError: fetch is not defined (#1420)
• ReferenceError: XMLHttpRequest is not defined (#1414)
• Add a "finalizeBatch" method that could send all current events over on demand (#1395)
• Multi-Step funnel with metadata filter not applying metadata filter (#1599)

🚀 Features

• (Feature Flags) Enable or disable a feature, make gradual releases and A/B test all without redeploying your app

💪 Improvements

• (Replayer) Improved the rendering performance with less re-renders from the control bar
• (Tracker) Console and Network modules were rewritten to use Proxy objects instead of directly patching the window object (useProxy: true | false to network config)
• (Tracker) Added a forceFlushBatch method to send over current events on demand (#1395)
• (UI/UX) Moved session settings to preferences page
• (Backend)(EE) Added a Redis based cache layer
• (Connectors)(EE) Reviewed message processing pipeline in Redshift
• (API)(EE) Support of multi-workers and better async handling
• (API)(EE) Introduced the notion of a service account
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Re-added the handler of custom events in db service after being mistakenly deleted
• Added a check in tracker to ensure browser has the required API for multi-tabs (broadcast channel)
• Fixed the closed pool error in db service
• Fixed a crash in replayer caused by recordings having way too many tabs
• Fixed a panic occurring in heuristics service
• Fixed input durations recorded on programmable autofill in tracker
• Fixed a bug in Redshift connector preventing userId from being exported
• Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'axiosResponseObj.config') (#1392)
• OpenReplay session getting freeze on popup modals (#1335)

Release Notes

🚀 Features

• (Replayer) Support of tabbed browsing by grouping multi-tab sessions into a single recording (you can now see your users move across tabs as they browse your app)
• (Replayer) Made geolocation a bit more accurate by determining the state and city associated with a session

💪 Improvements

• (Replayer) Better splitting of recording files (based on duration) for faster time-to-replay
• (OmniSearch) Ability to search for sessions by state and/or city
• (Plugins) Improved MobX actions and state display
• (Analytics)(EE) Reviewed the displayed text and number formats for insights
• (API) Enhanced SMTP integration for issue detection
• (EE) Native support of Azure Blob Storage
• (EE) Support of custom port in SSO
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Fixed an issue causing caching of projects to fail in backend services
• Ignore lowercase HTTP methods when saving network requests to Clickhouse
• Fixed a bug leading to XHR headers not being captured with network requests
• Fixed broken replays due to random resets in string dictionary
• Prevent the stop() method from causing auto restarts in tracker
• Fixed a regression preventing strong password from being enforced when signing up
• Frontend crashes when all projects have been removed
• Fixed a crash in frontend when clicking on DevTools > Performance
• Long URLs are shrunk to an invalid value (#1253)
• Upgrade from 1.8.1 "failed to query with labels: unauthorized" (#1255)
• VueX tracker does not capture all store states (#328)

🚀 Features

• (Replayer) Detection of new frustrations like crashes and text selection
• (Replayer) Show a trail with each mouse movement

💪 Improvements

• (Replayer) Made jumps almost instant (up to 5x faster on heavy recordings) by rethinking the DOM node creation logic
• (Replayer) Files are up to 3x smaller (brotli compression) for faster time-to-replay
• (Replayer) Choose your preferred playback display time (relative vs absolute)
• (Tracker) Support of compression on big messages to reduce bandwidth usage
• (Analytics) Improved the way we capture selectors and display clickmaps
• (Backend) Reduced the size of recordings (by 30% on average) by improving our messaging protocol
• (Backend) Implemented a memory control manager for ender and heuristics services
• (Backend) Deprecated input values insertion in databases
• (Backend) Added support for mutual TLS to cache assets behind authentication walls (#1034)
• (API) Ability to configure an expiration date for the deleted jobs
• (API) Better handling of failed Postgres queries
• (UI/UX) Redesigned the onboarding and getting started pages
• (UI/UX) Enforced strong password usage
• (UI/UX) Show the number of recorded sessions and events in the health status widget
• (DevOps) Ability in CLI to fetch latest patches for the current release
• (EE)(Assist) Support of compression in WebSockets to speed up connection times (2x faster)
• (EE) Allow windows integrated authentication for SAML (#1072)
• (EE) Support of project filtering in all data warehouse connectors
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

🐞 Bugs

• Fixed a deadlock issue in audit trail
• Fixed an issue affecting the login time when using multiple projects
• Fixed a broken replay issue due to dictionary not being initialized properly
• Fixed the unmount logic after leaving the replay page
• Fixed a regression affecting console logs in live sessions
• Fixed a performance issue affecting tracker caused by crash detection
• Improved the email sanitizer regexp performance in tracker
• Fixed a bug affecting the configuration of the Elasticsearch integration
• Fixed search and scrolling in assist’s multi-view slideout
• Delete user job is not executed (#1150)
• Custom filters in sessions URL get dropped via a redirect (#1171)
• Time and issues are not displayed in red in custom events (#1029)

:rocket: Features

• (Replayer) Detection of new frustrations like mouse thrashing, click hesitation, and input hesitation
• (UI/UX) Introducing a health status widget to ease troubleshooting
• (DevOps) Automated the data cleanup process via the CLI

:muscle: Improvements

• (Replayer) Implemented lazy-loading for faster time-to-replay
• (Replayer) Ability to see the current time as absolute (#1023)
• (DevTools) Show when a resource is served from browser cache
• (Tracker) Record network requests from same-origin iFrames (#1016**)**
• (Plugins) Added OnCallDeny, OnControlRemoteDeny and OnRecordingDeny callbacks
• (Backend) Moved page and input events from db to heuristics
• (UI/UX) Redesigned the login and signup pages
• (DevOps) Check previous schema version before migrating Postgres
• (DevOps) OpenReplay can now be installed using the CLI
• (DevOps) Updating the deployment parameters can now be done via the CLI
• (DevOps) Serve/proxy the tracker from the OpenReplay instance (#402)
• (DevOps) Updated the helm charts to support patch releases (#1044)
• (EE) New metrics for heuristics and storage services
• (API) Allow option to set SSL verification to false (#1057)
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

:bug: Bugs

• Fixed a memory leak in heuristics that occurred in rare situations
• Ensure content-type is text/css when caching stylesheets
• Fixed a crash in live sessions when a turn-server is used
• Unable to search for sessions and scroll in Assist’s multi-view slideout
• Fixed long notifications batch in alerts
• Handled failed transaction block in API
• Fixed authorized version hopping when an upgrade fails
• Chrome may crash with recordings having large states (#1009)
• Time and issues are not displayed in red in DevTools for custom events (#1029)
• Redux logs not showing up in DevTools on self-hosted instance (#1040)
• Tracker is not compatible with the latest tracker-zustand package (#1032)
• Fixed an issue in CLI causing components to infinitely wait during restart

TL;DR: Check the new features and improvements in the v1.10.0 blog post.

:rocket: Features

• (Analytics) Added click maps for tracking user clicks and frustrations
• (Integrations) Support of MS Teams for sharing replays and notes
• (Analytics)(EE) Introducing insights for surfacing key issues
• (Assist)(EE) Ability to record co-browsing sessions for training purposes
• (Assist)(EE) Enabled multi-view mode for watching up to 4 live sessions at once
• (DevOps) Introducing a CLI to ease the setup/update/troubleshooting operations

:muscle: Improvements

• (Analytics) Revamped dashboards and replaced metrics with cards for a better experience
• (Replayer) Added more timezones in settings
• (Replayer) Absolute time is now displayed in timeline and network payloads
• (Replayer) Removed the limit on X-Ray categories
• (Replayer) Ability to replay recordings at a lower speed (#991)
• (Replayer) Include timespan in the /sessions URL alongside other filters (#965)
• (Plugins) Merged Fetch and Axios plugins with tracker
• (Tracker) Added support for XHR requests
• (Tracker) Introduced a dictionary based logic for improving the size of big recordings
• (Backend) Implemented a pre-decoding mechanism for skipping broken batches
• (Backend) Improved sink with batch and file buffers
• (Backend) Improved db by removing Postgres transactions and rethinking batches and bulks
• (Backend) Added worker pool and tasks queue for storage
• (Backend) Enhanced storage for faster file processing and upload
• (DevOps) Added support for global env variables
• (DevOps) Added shared PVC name as global variable
• (EE) Kafka compression and batching are now enabled by default
• (EE) Added handlers for Kafka rebalance signal to avoid data loss and duplication
• (EE) Support of supply chain signing
• (EE) Enabled mTLS support
• (EE) Implemented secret rotation using Hashicorp Vault
• (EE) Ability to enforce SSO for logins
• Minor UI/UX improvements
• Security enhancements

:bug: Bugs

• Missing assets due to rolling deployment (#883)
• Replayer crashes when dragging timeline (#971)
• Assets not loading in Shopify websites (#963)
• Filters on sessions page are not automatically applied from direct URL visit (#961)
• Import without ".js" suffix in breaks vitest (#981)
• Potential performance issue on get nodeName (#927)
• Fixed an issue with resetting token in tracker's web worker on mobile browsers (#944)
• Fixed a crash in Chrome with rare recordings (#1009)
• Removed mouse cursor for mobile recordings in replayer
• Fixed caching for the .ashx file extension
• Fixed wrong urls for unprocessed session files
• Fixed an OutOfMemory issue when handling big replay files in storage
• Fixed an issue related to skipping sessions cache layer in ClickHouse connector (EE)
• Fixed incorrect message timestamps in recordings
• Fixed wrong message order in some recordings
• Fixed the image URL resolver
• Fixed the display of console logs and errors in Assist
• Minor fixes everywhere

TL;DR: Check the new features and improvements in the v1.9.0 blog post.

:rocket: Features

• (Notes) Introducing Notes for annotating session recordings and sharing feedback
• (Bug Report) Make a bug report based on session replay insights and share it with your team

:muscle: Improvements

• (Replayer) Support of FontFace() and focus events
• (DevTools) Fetch and Axios requests are now displayed under the Network > Fetch/XHR tab
• (DevTools) Merged Exceptions with the Console > Errors tab
• (DevTools) Redesigned some tabs and simplified common interactions
• (DevTools) Reviewed the synchronization logic with the replayer
• (DevTools) Data is now stored in a separate file and fetched async for faster time-to-replay
• (DevTools) Added a diff view in state management tab (Redux, VueX, Pinia, Zustand and MobX)
• (Assist) Added serverURL option for supporting custom ports in websockets
• (Backend) Improved the way we merge and count captured JS errors
• (Backend) Added a cache layer for sink to help with rewriting assets
• (Backend) Support of graceful shutdown in all services
• (Backend) Fully reviewed the message processing layer
• (Backend) Support for Redis credentials and TLS connections (#670)
• (Tracker) Implemented server time synchronization on start
• (Tracker) Ability to attach tags to a reported error when calling the handleError method
• (Plugins) Added agent’s details to the onAgentConnect, onCallStart and onRemoteControlStart callbacks of tracker-assist
• (DevOps) Refactored and extracted sourcemapreader code into a new backend service
• (DevOps) Run containers with a non-root user
• (DevOps) Ability to customize installation namespaces
• (DevOps) Allow storing credentials in secrets rather than env config (#669)
• (UI/UX) Redesigned the navigation menu
• (EE) Implemented encryption (AES-CBC) for session replay files
• (EE) Enhanced session replay and devtools permissions
• (EE) Enable Kerberos auth for Kafka (#807)
• Security enhancements

:bug: Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in Assist where jumping from past to live activity might not work
• Fixed an issue where assets couldn’t be downloaded and cached (403)
• Better handling of broken messages to avoid memory leaks
• Handle wrongly formatted credentials in GitHub connector
• Fixed the black screen bug when disabling the camera in a webRTC call
• Fixed camera size issues in a webRTC call
• Fixed a regression happening with iFrames and localStorage (#637)
• Fixed remoteControl end function not being called on agent disconnect
• Fixed random websocket connection crash in live sessions
• Fixed a frontend crash due to large number of console events
• Fixed a scroll issue in replay when app is using ShadowDOM
• Fixed an issue with performance.now() in tracker leading to very long sessions
• Fixed verbose CLI option in sourcmaps uploader (#808)
• Fixed a bug where favourite sessions wouldn’t show up (EE)
• Assist plugin failing to use the specified port (#745)
• Missing styles from FluentUI (#750)
• Fixed a timeout issue with querying funnels
• Some Windows/Chrome users couldn’t scroll the list of filters in OmniSearch
• Fixed and issue with auto-play with support of sessions pagination
• Minor bug fixes here and there

:rocket: Features

• (Plugins) Added Pinia and Zustand state managers support
• (Replayer) Support of Dynamic CSS

:muscle: Improvements

• (Tracker) Simplified the existing sanitization options down to 2 attributes: data-openreplay-obscured and data-openreplay-hidden
• (Tracker) Added domSanitizer function for sanitizing nodes in replays based on custom rules (#697)
• (Assist) Show agent cursor during a remote control session
• (Assist) Ability for end user to stop remote control
• (Assist) Redesigned timeline for playing back past activity
• Security enhancements

:bug: Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in tracker resulting in blank replays
• Fixed some overlapping in DevTools
• X-Ray wasn't showing missing images in network
• Slightly improved the performance graph in X-Ray
• Frontend would crash when clicking on an custom event
• Cannot add a new Role in Preferences
• Fixed a regression when replaying iFrames and its events
• sessionHash wasn't properly processed in tracker.start()
• Skip corrupt and unknown batches in backend services
• Better handling of RangeError in peers service
• Context may be missing when requesting sourcemaps
• Changed periodicity of cleanup cron
• Show nodes count in DevTools when performance is not tracked
• Fixed
• Set seek pointer at the end of message batch for avoiding memory leaks
• Fixed PoolError in report-crons (EE)
• Network activity couldn't be retrieved in DevTools (EE)
• Minor bug fixes here and there