Java agent v7.8.0

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.