Release Version 8.9.0 · newrelic/newrelic-java-agent

New features and improvements

Instrumentation for Spring Webclient 5/6 now captures http status code and http status message 1658
Add status code to grpc-1.40.0 client instrumentation 1673
Add config to set the size limit of attributes on custom events (i.e. newrelic.config.custom_insights_events.max_attribute_value). Default size is 255 characters and the max is 4095. 1683
Add Spring instrumentation modules to support proper transaction naming (route + HTTP method) of traditional annotated spring controllers as well as controllers that inherit annotations from interfaces, super classes or custom annotations. Note that because the new instrumentation can change transaction names, enabling this "enhanced transaction naming" is gated by the newrelic.config.class_transformer.enhanced_spring_transaction_naming agent configuration option, which is false by default. Thanks to @mgr32 for their help with validating the naming changes. 1675
Add instrumentation for Vert.x 4.5.x web client and futures 1704

Remove erroneous printing of stack trace in SlowTransactionManager 1684
Convert the ProcessPointCut over to a weaver instrumentation module to better handle cases where it is used in a multi-threaded environment. 1685

Remove support for setting agent config with rarely used lower-case, dotted environment variable names (e.g. newrelic.config.labels). Customers relying on lower-case, dotted environment variables should switch to the standard upper-case, underscore names (e.g. NEW_RELIC_CONFIG_LABELS). There are no changes to documented system property behavior (via newrelic.config., server-side config, YAML, or standard environment variable (via NEW_RELIC_). 1598

The browser footer injection APIs have been deprecated and will be removed in a future agent release. The header injection API now adds both the header and footer scripts. 1679

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

Full Changelog: v8.8.0...v8.9.0