v5.1.1

Bugfixes

• fixed an issue with empty responses from APM Server's config endpoint (#562, #563)
• fixed Windows tests by avoiding time.sleep in breakdown metrics tests (#537, #550)
• fixed container ID matching to match CloudFoundry Garden container IDs (#523, #564)
• fixed an issue in the urllib instrumentation if no port is set (#567)

Other

• Added Python 3.8 RC to the test matrix (#565)

v5.1.0

Security issues

• This release fixes CVE-2019-7617 (only relevant if your deployment uses CGI)

New Features

• added support for global labels which will be applied to every transaction/error/metric (#549)
• added support for NO_PROXY environment variable (#458, #551)

Bugfixes

• fixed an issue with using callables in set_context with unsampled transactions (#541, #542)
• limited the length of error.culprit to 1024 characters (#491, #543)
• fixed an issue with the instrument config option (#546, #547)
• limited the amount of distinct metrics to 1000 (#540, #544)

v5.0.0

Breaking changes

• implemented type/subtype/action hierachy for spans. Ensure that you run at least APM Server 6.6 (#377)
• renamed tags to labels and changed API. The old API remains for backwards compatibility until 6.0 of the agent (#538)

Other changes

• Added support for recording breakdown metrics (#535)
• Added support for central config management (#511)
• Added instrumentation for urllib2 (Python 2) / urllib.request (Python 3) (#464)
• Added disable_metrics setting (#399)
• Updated elasticsearch instrumentation for 7.x (#482, #483)
• Fixed an issue with opentracing-python 2.1 (#471)
• Fixed an issue with certificate pinning (#497)
• Lowered log level of transport success messages (#527, #531)

v4.2.2

• fixed an issue with Celery and the prefork worker pool (#444)
• fixed an issue when running uwsgi without a master process (#446)
• fixed an issue with gevent/eventlet on Python 3.7 (#451, #454)
• introduced IntervalTimer and use it instead of threading.Timer (#452)
• added license header check as pre-commit hook (#456)

v4.2.1

• fixed an issue with the certificate pinning feature introduced in 4.2.0 (#433, #434)
• fixed incompatibility with eventlet introduced in 4.2.0 (#435, #436)

v4.2.0

• Implemented a new transport queue, which should avoid certain deadlock scenarios (#411)
• Implemented server certificate pinning (#405)
• Moved context.url to context.http.url for requests/urllib3 spans (#393, #394)
• Added support for using route as transaction name in Django 2.2+ (#86, #396)
• Added some randomness to time between requests to APM Server (#426)
• Fixed an issue with custom user models in Django using non-string usernames (#397, #398)
• Fixed an issue with sending kubernetes metadata to the API (#401, #402)
• Fixed an issue with parsing /proc/stat in RHEL/centos 6 (#406, #407)
• Added copyright header to all files, and a CI check (#429)

v4.1.0

• Added support for collecting system and process metrics (#361)
• Added an OpenTracing bridge (#388)
• Added transaction.sampled to errors (#371)
• Added transaction.type to errors (#391)
• Added parsing of /proc/self/cgroup to capture container meta data (#352)
• Added option to configure logging for Flask using a log level (#344)
• Added capture_headers config option (#392)

v4.0.3

• implemented de-dotting of tag names and context keys (#353)
• wrote a quickfix for the boto3/botocore instrumentation (#367)
• fixed an issue with psycopg2 and encoded strings (#366)

v3.0.5

bumped version to 3.0.5

v4.0.2

• fixed another issue in the new v2 transport (#351)