newrelic/newrelic-java-agent v7.5.0 on GitHub

New features and improvements

Update to jfr-daemon 1.7.0 - fixes a memory leak condition by cleaning up copies of JFR recordings. Also updated to use version 0.13.1 of the telemetry-sdk 638
Update HTTP response code attribute names. This will add http.statusCode and http.statusText to spans and transactions 513
Provide support for Datastax/Cassandra WrappedStatments. 525
Add instrumentation for gRPC 1.40.0+ (thanks to fcaylus for this contribution) 518
Add suppressed exceptions to ThrowableError.stackTrace (thanks to dkarlinsky for this contribution) 405
Add Scala instrumentation and Scala API for Monix Tasks 543
Add instrumentation for Mongo async/reactivestreams drivers versions 3.4.x to 4.1.x 609
Scala Cats Effect 3 - modified the API to support passing the transaction by implicit reference, rather than using ThreadLocal variables 578
Add Instrumentation for Play WS 2.6.0 under Scala 2.13 594
Agent optimization: change String.replaceAll in favor of Pattern.compile (thanks to brunolellis for this contribution) 592

Upgrade log4j-core version to 2.17.1 to address security vulnerability CVE-2021-44832 625
Enhancements for Spring WebFlux and Reactor Netty instrumentation to address gaps in instrumentation. Also includes support for upgraded Spring Security configurations 538
Update Async-Http-Client library version to 2.0.35 to address security vulnerability CVE-2017-14063 577
Handle null pointer exceptions in hostname lookup 587
Properly expire tokens used in CompletableFuture instrumentation to reduce memory usage and prevent telemetry reporting delays 634
Add additional exception handling to catch ConnectionPoolTimeoutException errors, which may lead to an unrecoverable agent state 637
Resolve Solr FilterCache Memory Leak 613
Reintroduce MongoDB sync instrumentation (erroneously removed in a prior release while async support was added) 635
Fix Sql obfuscation so that it applies correctly to queries with certain formatting 632
Agent configuration expected_status_codes is not honored when a transaction exception is encountered 565
Scala Cats Effect - ensure Http4s transaction tracer is created on request run. This resolves some invalid tracer states that were causing null pointer exceptions 530
Fix Akka HTTP bindFlow 555
Address Caffeine cache causing memory leak and OOM condition 593

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.

Full Changelog: v7.4.0...v7.5.0