Release v8.0.0

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Proposed Release Notes

• Added official parity support for Node 16.

• BREAKING: Dropped Node v10.x support. For further information on our support policy,
  see: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/compatibility-requirements-nodejs-agent.

  • Upgraded @newrelic/superagent @newrelic/aws-sdk @newrelic/koa @newrelic/native-metrics and @newrelic/test-utilities to the latest major versions.
  • Refactored creation of span event aggregator to prevent crash of gRPC when running on invalid Node.js version.
  • Added check for minimum node version >= 12.
  • Set package.json engines node field >= 12 and npm field to >=6.
  • Removed Node v10 from ci workflow and smoke-test version matrix.
  • Removed comments around replacing temporarilyOverrideTapUncaughtBehavior test helper function.
  • Removed non-applicable semver checks for versions the agents no longer supports.

• BREAKING: The agent no-longer includes the New Relic certificate bundle automatically when using the 'certificates' configuration (commonly with proxies). If you find this breaking your current environment, you may leverage a feature-flag to temporarily restore this functionality. Example configuration: feature_flag: { certificate_bundle: true }. In this case, we recommend getting a certificate bundle for your environment such as the one from Mozilla. The New Relic bundle and feature flag will be fully removed in next major release.

  • Defaulted config.feature_flags.certificate_bundle to false.

• BREAKING: Removed serverless_mode as a feature flag.

  The standard serverless_mode configuration still exists.

• Added hapi 19 and 20 to versioned tests for Node.js >=12 and <16

• Added hapi ^20.1.2 to versioned tests for for Node.js >=16

• Upgraded tap to v15.

• Upgraded https-proxy-agent to v5.0.0.

• Updated linting to always use latest LTS Node version.

• Updated CI and Smoke Test scripts to use setup-node@v2.

• Added no-const-assign to eslint ruleset.

• Pinned mongodb versioned tests to <4.0.0.

Links

• PR: Updates third party notices for recent tap and external module updates. #822
• PR: Removes comments around replacing uncaught tap override  #820
• PR: Add hapi 19 20 #819
• PR: updated engines stanzas in versioned tests #818
• PR: Adds Node 16 to CI #772
• PR: Bump tap version #779
• PR: refactored bad version smoke tests to verify stub api are loaded #816
• PR: Prevent grpc crash on bad version #814
• PR: Update Nodejs engines field to >=12 #815
• PR: Linting always uses latest LTS. Bumped to setup-node@v2. #813
• PR: Remove Node v10 from ci version matrix. #812
• PR: removed serverless_mode as a configurable feature flag and moved into… #809
• PR: flipped certifcate_bundle flag to default to false #808
• PR: removed non-applicable semver checks, updated tests accordingly, also… #807
• PR: Pin mongodb versioned tests <4 #805
• PR: Upgrade https-proxy-agent to v5.0.0 #778

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