Node.js agent release notesRSS

Notes

Features

• Added support for region-prefixed Bedrock models (#2947) (6acf535)
• Added attribute reconciliation for message producer spans (#2942) (a9ba396)
• Added timeslice metrics for synthesized consumer segments (#2938) (acfe953)

Bug fixes

• Fixed queueing of logs from child loggers (#2945) (888cfe8)
• Fixed undici/fetch instrumentation to properly assign the parent-id portion of the traceparent header on outgoing requests to the active http external span id (#2951) (bc714cf)
• Updated api.recordLogEvent to no longer truncate the message key in log event (#2949) (8dd557b)
  • Thanks for your contribution @rChaoz 🎉

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2948) (8e32ed7)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added timeslice metrics for synthesized server segments (#2924) (f404585)
• Added timeslice metrics for synthesized producer segments (#2939) (6832637)
• Added timeslice metrics for synthesized database segments (#2922) (8606f78)
• Propagate agent root context when opentelemetry ROOT_CONTEXT is passed in to trace propagator.(#2940) (b85111c)
  • Added logic to handle properly naming and ending transactions for server spans.
• Provided ability to disable instrumentation for core Node.js libraries (#2927) (2d232f1)

Bug fixes

• Fixed api.getTraceMetadata to handle when there is an active transaction but not active segment (#2944) (6db3b4d)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2920) (c7ae8be)

Miscellaneous chores

• Localized OTEL attribute constants (#2928) (965c41b)
• Updated import-in-the-middle version (#2923) (aa2781f)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added health check support for upcoming feature (#2841) (4c8bf13)
• Added OpenTelemetry bridge instrumentation, which includes a context manager and processor to handle synthesizing segments and time-slice metrics (#2906) (d2e8a9e)

Bug fixes

• Updated default config to accept undefined as default value (#2917) (e049442)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2914) (acd0c90)

Miscellaneous chores

• Added regex note to SQL obfuscator (#2911) (1533111)
• deps: Updated @newrelic/security-agent to v2.3.0 (#2918) (ed89f38)

Continuous integration

• Optimized the Lambda layers and Kubernetes init containers post-release workflow (#2915) (4be1099)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with bluebird and when instrumentation where checking active context crashed when transaction prematurely ends (#2909) (4a30d5c)
• Fixed transaction-shim to properly create new transactions when the existing transaction is not active (#2912) (3ad8c59)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2902) (cb16516)

Miscellaneous chores

• Updated lint rule suppression comment (#2895) (559dc98)

Continuous integration

• Move init container release from lambda to GHA (#2848) (8d8608d)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added support for Claude 3+ Chat API in Bedrock (#2870) (6a83abf)

Bug fixes

• Added defensive code in shim to prevent crashing when checking parent segment (#2898) (751eb96)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2888) (dce9deb)

Miscellaneous chores

• Replaced backtracking regex with new algorithm (#2887) (46462d0)

Tests

• Improved test coverage of normalizing claude 3 messages (#2893) (cc65763)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Bug fixes

• Updated undici instrumentation to fix crash with trying to calculate exclusive duration on a segment that no longer exists (#2884) (3b7e4bf)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2878) (e784f84)

Miscellaneous chores

• Fixed dns integration tests (#2883) (dd30ad7)

Tests

• Restored the branch to test apollo-server-plugin to main (#2879) (978faab)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Removed transaction from segment. Introduced a new enterSegment and enterTransaction to make context propagation more clear (#2646) (d84531a)
• Removed children from segments. (#2689) (66f140f)
• Added segment tree to transaction trace (#2717) (8fcc239)
• Added segment synthesizer and provided ability to convert http client otel spans to external http trace segments (#2745) (c42f8e6)
• Added otel consumer span processing (#2854) (82fe9d5)
• Added segment and transaction synthesis for http server spans (#2833) (8fa4d05)
• Added segment synthesis for db client otel spans to db trace (#2820) (1ad1858)
• Added segment synthesis for internal spans (#2840) (436c63d)
• Added segment synthesis for otel producer spans (#2839) (30f4995)

Bug fixes

• Updated shim.createSegment and shim.handleMqTracingHeaders to be backwards compatible with the changes to context manager (#2844) (554b4bf)

Code refactoring

• Removed class construction on the segment synthesis and instrumentation (#2837) (4b7ec0f)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2869) (4bde427)

Miscellaneous chores

• Added rules engine to match OTEL spans (#2694) (2c93c68)
• Updated rules engine to account for fallbacks (#2831) (19fbdfb)
• Updated versioned tests docs (#2874) (73a84d7)

Tests

• Updated a langchain test to be less rigid on asserting the tracking metric by @langchain/core version (#2876) (73985ea)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added instrumentation for @opensearch-projects/opensearch v2.1.0+ (#2850) (763c0e6)

Bug fixes

• Fixed event matcher to use properties specific to web requests (v1/ALB and v2) (#2863) (a93fe6e)

Miscellaneous chores

• Fixed mysql2 tests for new mysql2 version (#2853) (30a6de0)
• Updated eslint configuration (#2851) (d2fba9d)
• Utilize updated @newrelic/eslint-config (#2865) (f53d4fc)

Tests

• Removed t.diagnostic from tests (#2858) (23ca237)

Continuous integration

• Updated codecov-action to latest released version sha (#2866) (75f8902)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

Notes

Features

• Added entity linking attributes to aws-sdk v3 Lambda segments (#2845) (8820265)
• Provided ability to define newrelic config as newrelic.mjs (#2836) (972b59d)

Documentation

• Updated compatibility report (#2828) (d5fe8e3)

Miscellaneous chores

• deps: Updated @newrelic/security-agent to v2.2.0 (#2842) (170941e)
• Updated borp configs to target tests correctly (#2835) (66ae59d)

Tests

• Removed tap and cleaned up left over tap helpers (#2804) (37407b6)
• Updated match to fail if you pass in an object that lacks the expected keys (#2843) (a3db8bd)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)