Improvements and enhancements
AGP 9.4 Support: Added support for Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 9.4.x to the New Relic Gradle plugin.
Distributed Tracing Header Optimization: Streamlined Distributed Tracing by removing the proprietary newrelic request header and relying solely on W3C standard traceparent and tracestate headers.
WebView Browser Agent Detection: Added supportability metrics to detect and track whether active WebViews are utilizing the New Relic Browser Agent.
SDK Size Optimization Guidance: Added documentation covering ProGuard/R8 tree-shaking rules to help developers strip unused agent code for disabled features.
Bug fixes
Session Replay Crash Fix: Fixed a multi-threading race condition when initializing Curtains in Session Replay that caused a NullPointerException on the main thread.
HTTP2 Payload Size Tracking: Resolved an issue where network request payload size (bytesReceived) incorrectly reported 0 bytes for headerless HTTP/2 and Ktor streams.
Resource Leak Resolution: Resolved a static-analysis observation (CWE-404) by properly closing BufferedWriter instances within SessionReplayFileManager.
Support statement
We recommend updating the agent at least every three months. Find specific policies and dates for Android agent support in the Mobile Monitoring Agents EOL Policy.