New docs
- Added Service Level Management docs for two new GA features: Maintenance Windows for scheduling planned downtime that excludes bad events from SLI calculations, and Facet Compliance for breaking down SLO compliance and error budgets by attribute.
Major changes
- Added v14 migration guidance to Update the Node.js agent, including breaking changes, removed instrumentation, and updated minimum supported versions.
- Restructured Apollo Server plugin for Node.js to reflect the migration of
@apollo/serverinstrumentation from a standalone plugin to traditional instrumentation in v14. - Updated Install New Relic eBPF agent for Kubernetes and Install New Relic eBPF agent for Linux hosts with v1.4.1 release content including new configuration options and installation steps.
Minor changes
- Restructured the dashboard and chart sharing docs to have dedicated pages for the public sharing of dashboards and charts.
- Added
list_entity_performance_risk_groupstool to MCP tool reference for fetching performance risk groups from the Performance Risks Inbox. - Updated setMaxEventPoolSize Mobile SDK reference with an important callout for additional context.
- Updated .NET agent compatibility requirements with the latest supported framework versions.
- Fixed nginx dashboard names in NGINX integration and NGINX Plus integration docs to reflect current dashboard names.
- Updated New Relic One pricing and billing and Service Architecture Intelligence getting started to clarify that SAI capabilities are included at no additional cost for all full platform users.
- Updated New runtime, Manage monitor runtimes, and Runtime upgrade troubleshooting to centralize Chrome version references to "Latest."
- Updated Synthetic monitoring runtime transition guide with specific EOL dates for runtime transitions.
- Fixed a formatting issue in NRQL syntax, clauses, and functions by removing an internal app name reference.
- Fixed code block indentation in Update the Node.js agent.
What's new posts
- Added SLM update: Maintenance Windows and Facet Compliance are now Generally Available to announce GA availability of scheduled maintenance windows and facet-based SLO compliance tracking in Service Level Management.
Release notes
Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:
- Dropped support for Node.js 20 and
fastify3.x (breaking change). - Removed Cross Application Tracing (CAT) and License, Application, and Security Policies (LASP) support.
- Migrated
@apollo/serverinstrumentation from the@newrelic/apollo-server-pluginpackage to traditional instrumentation. - Removed instrumentation for
koa-routeandkoa-router. - Updated minimum supported versions for
@nestjs/cli,@nestjs/core,next,bluebird,mysql2, andcassandra-driver. - Updated
config.distributed_tracing.exclude_newrelic_headerdefault totrue.
- Dropped support for Node.js 20 and
- Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities including CVE-2024-50004, CVE-2024-58096, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-38201, and others.
- Upgraded Chrome from 148.0.7778.167-1 to 148.0.7778.178-1.
- Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-3832, CVE-2026-3833, CVE-2026-5260, and others.
Kubernetes integration v4.1.1:
- Released as part of
newrelic-infrastructure-4.1.1chart andnri-bundle-7.0.12.
- Released as part of
- Added OCI IMDS v2 endpoint support.
- Updated
nri-docker,nri-winservices,nri-prometheus, andnri-flexdependencies. - Bumped Go version to 1.26.3.
Logstash Output Plugin v2.0.0:
- Switched to Manticore HTTP client with connection reuse for improved performance.
- Fixed gzip compression to resolve payload unmarshalling issues.
- Added user-configurable connection and socket timeout parameters.
- Updated integration tests to validate log delivery to New Relic.