Android agent release notesRSS

New

• Adds support for Gradle 8.0 and higher
• Adds support for the Android Gradle Plugin 8.0 and higher
• Adds support for Gradle configuration caching
• Adds support for JDK 17 when used with Gradle 8

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.1.0.

Fixed

• Fix an issue where the app crashes when it goes to background after agent shutdown

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.1.0.

New

• Add FedRAMP support

Fixed

• Fix an issue of NR_BUILD_ID not appending with default release variant
• Tighten the exception handling of TraceMachine to prevent NullPointerException

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.1.0.

Fixed

• Updated Kotlin library to a version that addressed a vulnerability.

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

Fixed

• Addressed a memory leak resulting from ANR detection

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

New

• Add a new feature to provide the ability to disable agent at runtime

Fixed

• Fix an issue of failing to report network failure
• Tighten the exception handling of HarvestTimer.tickNow() to prevent NullPointerException

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.0.0.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue of missing element in harvest payload, which has caused data loss during ingest in version 6.9.1
• Tightened metric data validations to prevent data loss during ingest
• Fixed a bug that allowed direct access to the agent plugin extension's configuration from Kotlin that could result in a failure to tag and upload obfuscation maps.

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 6.0.0.

Fixed

• Fixed a distributed tracing issue for httpURLConnection in Cordova/Ionic apps.

Support statement

We recommend you to upgrade the agent regularly, at least every 3 months.

As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.28.1.

New in this release

• Add support for reporting app launch time, including cold time and hot time.
  • Cold start time refers to an app’s starting from scratch. This means that the app’s process has not been created by the system until then.
  • Hot start time refers to when your app’s process is already running in the background.

Fixed in this release

• Fixed an instrumentation race condition when build is run with multiple Gradle workers (--max-workers > 2)
• Fixed a crash when trying to report exceptions with missing stacktraces through supportability metrics.

Support statement:

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 5.27.0.