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v2.12.1
* fix bug in profile mode
* fix race condition in Delayed::Job instrumentation loading
* fix glassfish detection in latest glassfish gem
v2.12.0
* support basic instrumentation for ActsAsSolr and Sunspot
v2.11.3
* fix bug in startup when running JRuby
v2.11.2
* fix for unicorn not reporting when the proc line had 'master' in it
* fix regression for passenger 2.0 and earlier
* fix after_fork in the shim
v2.11.1
* republished gem without generated rdocs
v2.11.0
* rails3 instrumentation (no developer mode support yet)
* removed the ensure_worker_thread started and instead defined an after_fork
handler that will set up the agent properly in forked processes.
* change at_exit handler so the shutdown always goes after other shutdown
handlers
* add visibility to active record db transactions in the rpm transaction
traces (thanks to jeremy kemper)
* fix regression in merb support which caused merb apps not to start
* added NewRelic::Agent.logger to the public api to write to the agent
log file.
* optimizations to background thread, controller instrumentation, memory
usage
* add logger method to public_api
* support list notation for ignored exceptions in the newrelic.yml
v2.10.8
* fix bug in delayed_job instrumentation that caused the job queue sampler
to run in the wrong place
* change startup sequence and code that restarts the worker loop
thread
* detect the unicorn master and dont start the agent; hook in after_fork
* fix problem with the Authlogic metric names which caused errors in
developer mode. Authlogic metrics now adhere to the convention of
prefixing the name with 'Custom'
* allow more correct overriding of transaction trace settings in the
call to #manual_start
* simplify WorkerLoop and add better protection for concurrency
* preliminary support for rails3
v2.10.6
* fix missing URL and referer on some traced errors and transactions
* gather traced errors *after* executing the rescue chain in ActionController
* always load controller instrumentation
* pick up token validation from newrelic.yml
v2.10.5
* fix bug in delayed_job instrumentation occurring when there was no DJ log
v2.10.4
* fix incompatibility with Capistrano 2.5.16
* strip down URLs reported in transactions and errors to path only
v2.10.3
* optimization to reduce overhead: move background samplers into foreground thread
* change default config file to ignore RoutingErrors
* moved the background task instrumentation into a separate tab in the RPM UI
* allow override of the RPM application name via NEWRELIC_APP_NAME environment variable
* revised Delayed::Job instrumentation so no manual_start is required
* send buffered data on shutdown
* expanded support for queue length and queue time
* remove calls to starts_with to fix Sinatra and non-rails deployments
* fix problem with apdex scores recording too low in some circumstances
* switch to jeweler for gem building
* minor fixes, test improvements, doc and rakefile improvements
* fix incompatibility with Hoptoad where Hoptoad was not getting errors handled by New Relic
* many other optimizations, bug fixes and documentation improvements
v2.10.2.
* beta release of 2.10
* fix bugs with Sinatra app instrumentation
* minor doc updates
v2.10.1.
* alpha release of 2.10
* rack support, including metal; ignores 404s; requires a module inclusion (see docs)
* sinatra support, displays actions named by the URI pattern matched
* add API method to abort transaction recording for in-flight transactions
* remove account management calls from newrelic_api.rb
* truncating extremely large transaction traces for efficiency
* fix error reporting in recipes; add newrelic_rails_env option to recipes to
override the rails env used to pull the app_name out of newrelic.yml
* added TorqueBox recognition (thanks Bob McWhirter)
* renamed config settings: enabled => monitor_mode; developer => developer_mode;
old names will still work in newrelic.yml
* instrumentation for DelayedJob (thanks Travis Tilley)
* added config switches to turn off certain instrumentation when you aren't
interested in the metrics, to save on overhead--see newrelic.yml for details.
* add profiling support to dev mode; very experimental!
* add 'multi_threaded' config option to indicate when the app is running
multi-threaded, so we can disable some instrumentation
* fix test failures in JRuby, REE
* improve Net::HTTP instrumentation so its more efficient and distinguishes calls
between web and non-web transactions.
* database instrumentation notices all database commands in addition to the core commands
* add support for textmate to dev mode
* added add_transaction_tracer method to support instrumenting methods as
if they were web transactions; this will facilitate better visibility of background
tasks and eventually things like rack, metal and Sinatra
* adjusted apdex scores to reflect time spent in the mongrel queue
* fixed incompatibility with JRuby on startup
* implmented CPU measure for JRuby which reflects the cpu burn for
all controller actions (does not include background tasks)
* fixed scope issue with GC instrumentation, subtracting time from caller
* added # of GC calls to GC instrumentation
* renamed the dispatcher metric
* refactored stats_engine code for readability
* optimization: reduce wakeup times for harvest thread
v2.10.0.
* alpha release of 2.10
* support unicorn
* instrumentation of GC for REE and MRE with GC patch
* support agent restarting when changes are made to the account
* removed #newrelic_notice_error from Object class, replaced by NewRelic::Agent#notic_error
* collect histogram statistics
* add custom parameters to newrelic_notice_error call to display
extra info for errors
* add method disable_all_tracing(&block) to execute a block without
capturing metrics
* newrelic_ignore now blocks all instrumentation collection for
the specified actions
* added doc to method_tracer API and removed second arg
requirement for add_method_tracer call
* instrumentation for Net::HTTP
* remove method_tracer shim to avoid timing problems in monitoring daemons
* for non-rails daemons, look at APP_ROOT and NRCONFIG env vars for custom locations
v2.9.9.
* Disable at_exit handler for Unicorn which sometimes caused the
agent to stop reporting immediately.
v2.9.8.
* add instrumentation for Net::HTTP calls, to show up as "External"
* added support for validating agents in the cloud.
* recognize Unicorn dispatcher
* add NewRelic module definitions to ActiveRecord instrumentation
v2.9.5.
* Snow Leopard memory fix
v2.9.4.
* clamp size of data sent to server
* reset statistics for passenger when forking to avoid erroneous data
* fix problem deserializing errors from the server
* fix incompatibility with postgres introduced in 2.9.
v2.9.3.
* fix startup failure in Windows due to memory sampler
* add JRuby environment information
v2.9.2.
* change default apdex_t to 0.5 seconds
* fix bug in deployments introduced by multi_homed setting
* support overriding the log in the agent api
* fix JRuby problem using objectspace
* display custom parameters when looking at transactions in dev mode
* display count of sql statements on the list of transactions in dev mode
* fixes for merb--thanks to Carl Lerche
v2.9.1.
* add newrelic_ignore_apdex method to controller classes to allow
you to omit some actions from apdex statistics
* Add hook for Passenger shutdown events to get more timely shutdown
notices; this will help in more accurate memory readings in
Passenger
* add newrelic_notice_error to Object class
* optional ability to verify SSL certificates, note that this has some
performance and reliability implications
* support multi-homed host with multiple apps running on duplicate
ports
v2.9.0.
Noteworthy Enhancements
* give visibility to templates and partials in Rails 2.1 and later, in
dev mode and production
* change active record metrics to capture statistics in adapter log()
call, resulting in lower overhead and improved visibility into
different DB operations; only AR operations that are not hitting the
query cache will be measured to avoid overhead
* added mongrel_rpm to the gem, a standalone daemon listening for custom
metric values sent from local processes (experimental); do mongrel_rpm
--help
* add API for system monitoring daemons (refer to KB articles); changed
API for manual starting of the agent; refer to
NewRelic::Agent.manual_start for details
* do certificate verification on ssl connections to
collector.newrelic.com
* support instances appearing in more than one application by allowing a
semicolon separated list of names for the newrelic.yml app_name
setting.
* combined agent logfiles into a single logfile
* use rpm server time for transaction traces rather than agent time
Developer Mode (only) Enhancements
* show partial rendering in traces
* improved formatting of metric names in traces
* added number of queries to transactions in the transaction list
* added some sorting options for the transaction list
* added a page showing the list of active threads
Compatibility Enhancements
* ruby 1.9.1 compatibility
* support concurrency when determining busy times, for 2.2 compatibility
* in jruby, use Java used heap for memory sampling if the system memory
is not accessible from an unsupported platform
* jruby will no longer start the agent now when running the console or
rake tasks
* API support for RPM as a footnote add-in
* webrick support restored
Noteworthy bugfixes
* sample memory on linux by reading /proc/#{$$}/status file
* fixed ambiguous 'View' metrics showing up in controller breakdown
* removed Numeric extensions, including round_to, and to_ms
* using a different timeout mechanism when we post data to RPM
* remove usage of Rails::Info which had a side effect of enabling
ActiveRecord even when it wasn't an active framework
* moved CPU sampler off background thread and onto the harvest thread
* tests now run cleanly in any rails app using test:newrelic or
test:plugins
Agent improvements to support future RPM enhancements
* add instrumentation to capture metrics on response codes; not yet
working in rails 2.3.*
* added http referer to traced errors
* capture gem requirements from rails
* capture cpu utilization adjusted for processor count
* transaction sampling
v2.8.10.
* fix thin support with rails 2.3.2 when using script/server
* fix incompatibility with rails 2.3.2 and script/server options
processing
* minor tweak to environment gathering for gem mode
v2.8.9.
* fix problem finding the newrelic controller in dev mode
* fix incompatibility with older versions of optparse
* fix potential jvm problem with jruby
* remove test:all task definition to avoid conflicts
* change error message about window sampler in windows not supported to a
warning message
v2.8.8.
* fix error with jruby on windows
* fix problem where webrick was being incorrectly detected causing some
problems with mongrel application assignments--had to disable webrick
for now
v2.8.7.
* fix for ssl connection hanging problems
* fix problem recognizing mongrel in rails 2.3.2
* fastcgi support in rails 2.3.2
* put back webrick support
v2.8.6.
* fix for capture_params when using file uploads in controller actions
* use pure ruby NS lookup for collector host to eliminate possibly
blocking applications
v2.8.5.
* fix reference to CommandError which was breaking some cap scripts
* fix incompatibility with Rails 2.0 in the server API
* fix problem with litespeed with Lite accounts
* fix problem when ActiveRecord is disabled
* moved merb instrumentation to Merb::Controller instead of
AbstractController to address incompatibility with MailController
* fix problem in devmode displaying sql with embedded urls
v2.8.4.
* fix bug in capistrano recipe causing cap commands to fail with error
about not finding Version class
v2.8.3.
* refactor unit tests so they will run in a generic rails environment
* require classes in advance to avoid autoloading. this is to address
incompatibilities with desert as well as more flexibility in gem
initialization
* fixed newrelic_helper.rb 1.9 incompatibility
v2.8.2.
* fix Ruby 1.9 syntax compatibility errors
* update the class loading sanity check, will notify server of errors
* fix agent output on script and rake task execution
v2.8.1.
* Convert the deployment information upload script to an executable and
put in the bin directory. When installed as a gem this command is
symlinked to /usr/bin. Usage: newrelic_cmd deployments --help
* Fix issue invoking api when host is not set in newrelic.yml
* Fix deployments api so it will work from a gem
* Fix thin incompatibility in developer mode
v2.8.0.
* add beta of api in new_relic_api.rb
* instrumented dynamic finders in ActiveRecord
* preliminary support for capturing deployment information via capistrano
* change memory sampler for solaris to use /usr/bin/ps
* allow ERB in newrelic.yml file
* merged support for merb into this version
* fix incompatibility in the developer mode with the safe_erb plugin
* fix module namespace issue causing an error accessing
NewRelic::Instrumentation modules
* fix issue where the agent sometimes failed to start up if there was a
transient network problem
* fix IgnoreSilentlyException message
v2.7.4.
* fix error when trying to serialize some kinds of Enumerable objects
* added extra debug logging
* added app_name to app mapping
v2.7.3.
* fix compatibility issue with 1.8.5 causing error with Dir.glob
v2.7.2.
* fix problem with passenger edge not being a detected environment
v2.7.1.
* fix problem with skipped dispatcher instrumentation
v2.7.0.
* Repackage to support both plugin and Gem installation
* Support passenger/litespeed/jruby application naming
* Update method for calculating dispatcher queue time
* Show stack traces in RPM Transaction Traces
* Capture error source for TemplateErrors
* Clean up error stack traces.
* Support query plans from postgres
* Performance tuning
* bugfixes
v2.5.3.
* fix error in transaction tracing causing traces not to show up
v2.5.2.
* fixes for postgres explain plan support
v2.5.1.
* bugfixes
v2.5.0.
* add agent support for rpm 1.1 features
* Fix regression error with thin support
v2.4.3.
* added 'newrelic_ignore' controller class method with :except and :only options for finer grained control
over the blocking of instrumentation in controllers.
* bugfixes
v2.4.2.
* error reporting in early access
v2.4.1.
* bugfix: initializing developer mode
v2.4.0.
* Beta support for LiteSpeed and Passenger
v2.3.7.
* bugfixes
v2.3.6.
* bugfixes
v2.3.5.
* bugfixes: pie chart data, rails 1.1 compability
v2.3.4.
* bugfix
v2.3.3.
* bugfix for non-mysql databases
v2.3.2.
* bugfixes
* Add enhancement for Transaction Traces early access feature
v2.3.1.
* bugfixes
v2.3.0.
+ Add support for Transaction Traces early access feature
v2.2.2.
* bugfixes
v2.2.1.
+ Add rails 2.1 support for Developer Mode
+ Changes to memory sampler: Add support for JRuby and fix Solaris support.
* Stop catching exceptions and start catching StandardError; other exception cleanup
* Add protective exception catching to the stats engine
* Improved support for thin domain sockets
* Support JRuby environments
v2.1.6.
* bugfixes
v2.1.5.
* bugfixes
v2.1.4.
* bugfixes
v2.1.3.
* bugfixes
v2.1.2.
* bugfixes
v2.1.1.
* bugfixes
v2.1.0.
* release for private beta