v5.6.0

New features

• Added SERVICE_NODE_NAME config [#592]
• Added instrumentation support for pymemcache [#812]
• Added new configuration options enabled and recording [#790]

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with metrics collection raising RuntimeErrors [#802]
• Fixed an issue with getting extended destination data from pymongo [#797]
• Fixed an issue with Tornado instrumentation when Tornado isn't the "main" framework [#813]
• Fixed an issue with streaming requests being consumed by the agent even if capture_body is disabled [#817]

Pending Deprecations

• Python 2.7 support will be dropped in version 6.0 of the agent.

v5.5.2

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with Redis using unix domain sockets and destination information (#766)

v5.5.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed Starlette middleware when capturing request body while the content-type header is absent (#763)

v5.5.0

Features

• Added destination information to database/HTTP spans, used for service maps (#618)

Deprecations

• Python 3.4 is no longer supported.

v5.4.3

Bug fixes

• fixed a bug in our aiohttp.client support if used with a yarl URL (#733)

v5.4.2

Bug fixes

• fixed a bug in our celery implementation related to the threading refactor in 5.4.0 (#724)

v5.4.1

Bug fixes

• fixed an issue with a DEBUG log message raising an error in some cases (#722)

v5.4.0

Deprecations

This will be the last minor release to support the following versions:

• Python 3.4
• Django 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10
• Flask < 1.0

In addition, as of this release we only supported capturing extended
information on Elasticsearch queries when using keyword arguments with the
elasticsearch-py API. This is in keeping with the
upstream policy (https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/api.html#api-documentation)
of positional arguments being unsupported. (#697)

New Features

• Refactored spawning of background threads (#636)
• Added support for aiohttp client and server (#659)
• Added support for tornado web framework (#661)
• Added support for starlette/fastapi (#694)
• Added support for W3C traceparent and tracestate headers (#660)
• Added Django 3.0 and Flask 1.1 to the support matrix (#667)
• Added support for aiopg (#668)
• Use Span ID as parent ID in errors if an error happens inside a span (#669)
• Added experimental support for API Key authentication (#679)

Bug fixes

• introduced workaround to avoid instrumenting twice in rare cases (#708)

v5.3.3

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with OpenTracing bridge and dropped spans (#687)
• Fixed bug that would make the agent ignore the hostname configuration setting (#689)

v5.3.2

Bug fixes

• Added support for IPv6 address format when parsing urls (#649)