New features and improvements
Support for Java 16
Auto-instrumentation support for java.net.http.HttpClient
Migrate the Agent’s caching library from Guava to Caffeine (Special thanks to community member Stephan Schroevers for this contribution)
- Caffeine provides an in-memory cache using a Google Guava inspired API. The improvements draw on the author’s experience designing Guava's cache and
ConcurrentLinkedHashMap. - We expect this change to provide improvement in cases where we saw thread contention and deadlocks attributable to the Guava library.
- Caffeine provides an in-memory cache using a Google Guava inspired API. The improvements draw on the author’s experience designing Guava's cache and
Fixes
- Removed support for the anorm-2.0 instrumentation module
- The artifacts that this module instrumented are no longer available.
Support statement
- New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly to ensure that you're getting the latest features and performance benefits. Additionally, older releases will no longer be supported when they reach end-of-life.