newrelic/newrelic-java-agent v8.7.0

Version 8.7.0

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New features and improvements

• Adds support for Java 21 1546

• Add experimental config option to run the agent with unsupported java versions 1480

• Add intrinsic attribute thread.id to spans to allow for faceting queries by thread ID 1513

• Include stack traces in client spans 1507

• Adds support for getting the containerId from a docker container with Linux cgroup v2. 1529

• Add database and external span attributes to correlate to metric data in accordance with Open Telemetry specs. Certain old attributes are removed. 1525

  New attributes:

  • db.system
  • db.operation
  • db.collection
  • server.address
  • server.port

  Removed attributes:

  • component
  • peer.hostname

• Add slow transaction detection which can be configured. It is disabled by default. 1542
  E.g:

  slow_transactions:
    enabled: true
    threshold: 1000 # The threshold is measured in milliseconds

• Add instrumentation for r2dbc postgresql 0.9.2 to 0.9.x 1410

• Security Agent: Add new configuration to enable/disable low priority instrumentation security.low-priority-instrumentation.enabled for the CSEC agent. Default value is false. 1515

• Security Agent: Cassandra DB v3.0+ Support: The Security agent now supports Cassandra DB version 3.0 and above 122

• Security Agent: HttpClient v5.0+ Support: The Security agent now also supports HttpClient version 5.0 and above 122

• Security Agent: Support for std-out logging 122

• Security Agent: Added feature for Daily log rollover 122

• Security Agent: Support for logger config: log_file_count and log_limit_in_kbytes 122

• Security Agent: Relocating all our instrumentation packages under the package com.newrelic.agent.security.instrumentation.* 122

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a ClassCircularityError was thrown by Sonarqube9.9 1522

• Fix a bug where the Java agent fails to detect spring-security-oauth2-client.jar 1462

• Fix a bug where Spring 6/ Spring Boot3 does not report underlying exception/stacktrace when a @RestControllerAdvice class is used 1538

• Fix HttpUrlConnection instrumentation so segment timing is accurate 1537

• Fixes a bug in Spring 6 instrumentation where transactions are incorrectly named in certain scenarios. 1544
  Such include:

  • "built-in" controllers that don't have @RestController-like annotations, e.g. /actuator/health (see Actuator endpoints)
  • custom controllers that don't use @RestController directly (e.g. using custom annotations)
  • requests returning 401s / 404s

• Add a fix for JBoss EAP / Wildfly where if customers are using the J2EE/Jakarta Management API, the application fails to startup. 1549
  This is done by adding the system property com.newrelic.jboss.jsr77.fix and setting it to true.
  E.g.

  -Dcom.newrelic.jboss.jsr77.fix=true
  

  Customers using JBoss EAP 7.4+ or Wildfly 23+ will need to manually configure the io.undertow.servlet module and add
  java.management as a dependency.
  This translates to doing the following steps:

  1. Opening the file modules/system/layers/base/io/undertow/servlet/main/module.xml
  2. Adding the XML element <module name="java.management"/> inside the body of the <dependencies> tag

  Here is what the configured XML file may look like:

  <module name="io.undertow.servlet" xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.9">
      <resources>
          <resource-root path="undertow-servlet-2.2.5.Final-redhat-00001.jar"/>
      </resources>
  
      <dependencies>
          <module name="javax.annotation.api"/>
          <module name="sun.jdk"/>
          <module name="javax.servlet.api"/>
          <module name="javax.servlet.jsp.api"/>
          <module name="javax.servlet.jstl.api"/>
          <module name="org.jboss.logging"/>
          <module name="io.undertow.core"/>
          <module name="org.jboss.xnio"/>
          <module name="jdk.unsupported"/>
          <module name="java.management"/>
      </dependencies>
  </module>

• Resolve missing class exception on Scala instrumentation 1528

• Security Agent: Fixed ClassNotFoundException for IOStreamHelper class with Glassfish 122

Security

• Update agent dependency commons-codec to v1.13 1548
• Update JFR daemon to 1.11.1. This upgrade updates the underlying OkHttp dependency to version 4.12.0 1561

Deprecations

The following instrumentation modules will be removed in the next major release:

• aws-wrap-0.7.0
• java.completable-future-jdk8
• play-2.3
• spring-3.0.0
• netty-3.4
• Struts v1

Full Changelog: v8.6.0...v8.7.0