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New in this release

• Add support for reporting app launch time, including cold time and hot time.
  • Cold start time refers to an app’s starting from scratch. This means that the app’s process has not been created by the system until then.
  • Hot start time refers to when your app’s process is already running in the background.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an instrumentation race condition when build is run with multiple Gradle workers (--max-workers > 2)
• Fixed a crash when trying to report exceptions with missing stacktraces through supportability metrics.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.27.0.

New in this release

• Add support for handling JavaScript errors from React Native apps
• Add a new session attribute RootedDevice when native reporting is enabled to signify whether the hosting device is rooted

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an issue to address the format of distributed tracing header
• Fixed an issue in plugin to address a corner-case exception thrown during map processing

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for native crash reporting in legacy agent crash reporting.
• Add distributed tracing context support to New Relic SDK

Fixed in this release

• Fixed issue that kept the app's supportability metrics from being reported to New Relic
• Updated the agent to address Gradle deprecation warnings

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for DexGuard 9
• End of life for supporting android SDK 21 (Android 5) to 23 (Android 6)

Fixed in this release

• Fix a bug to capture response body using noticeHttpTransaction method

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.26.0.

New in this release

• Add support for passing Throwable types to NewRelic.recordHandledException()

Fixed in this release

• Resolved a sampler thread leak that occurred in long-lived apps.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.24.0.

Fixed in this release

• Resolved an error when transforming some libraries during build time. Detailed message: [ClassTransformer] transformArchive: java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
• Resolved a 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError' crash during runtime.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.24.0.

Fixed in this release

• Resolved D8/R8 warning messages: Expected stack map table for method with non-linear control flow.
• Fixed crash caused by NoSuchMethodError that occurred on Android 5 and 6.
• Reverted the fix for missing Retrofit2/OkHttp3 bytesReceived and error response body results to prevent memory leaking.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.24.0.

New in this release

• Deprecated SDK location support, and removed geolocation listener from agent.

Fixed in this release

• Resolved missing Retrofit2/OkHttp3 'bytesReceived' and error response body results
• Fixed single/orphan Distributed Tracing spans resulting from malformed trace parent HTTP header
• Resolved missing OkHttp3 response bodies that made the agent incompatible with Mapquest
• Resolved Gradle 7 execution optimization warnings due to the agent plugin's failure to declare an explicit or implicit dependency.
• Removed erroneous Kotlin UnknownTaskException log warning

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.23.0.

This release is invalid and should not be used. Please use Android agent version 6.3.1.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.23.0.