v12.0.0

v12.0.0 (2025-07-22)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Removed Node.js 18 support

Features

• Removed Node.js 18 support (#287) (401be22)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v11.1.0

v11.1.0 (2025-05-15)

Features

• Added Node.js 24 support (#285) (e465db5)

Miscellaneous chores

• Added documentation for musl libc systems (#277) (869e524)

Tests

• Updated unit tests to use node:test (#282) (7a53a19)
• Updated integration tests to node:test (#283) (a28342c)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v11.0.0

v11.0.0 (2024-07-31)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Removed support for Node.js 16 (#273)

Features

• Removed support for Node.js 16 (#273) (#274) (9f2d5c3)

Miscellaneous chores

• Updated CI to use native arm64 runner (#264) (de17116)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v10.2.0

Features

• Added support for Node 22.

Miscellaneous chores

• Added Node 22 to CI (#250) (523426f)
• deps-dev: bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 (#257) (38b36a6)
• Made pre-commit hook require dep updates before running update third party deps (#251) (bfab44d)
• Removed copying package-lock.json to linux arm docker container (#261) (da2d7c1)
• Removed outdated Slack reference (#253) (d76afb4)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v10.1.1

Miscellaneous chores

• Skipped macOS integration tests in CI (#245) (20b096f)

Continuous integration

• Removed use_new_release input from prepare release workflow (#247) (6cadc52)
• Updated CI process for releases (#246) (aa63ee8)

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v10.1.0

v10.1.0 (2024-03-05)

• Migrated to using prebuildify and node-gyp-install.
  • Prebuilt binaries are now shipped in the npm package.
  • Prebuilt binaries are included for Node.js 16, 18, and 20 across Windows x86/x64, Linux amd64/arm64, and macOS arm64.
  • The environment variables NR_NATIVE_METRICS_NO_DOWNLOAD, NR_NATIVE_METRICS_NO_BUILD, NR_NATIVE_METRICS_DOWNLOAD_HOST, and NR_NATIVE_METRICS_REMOTE_PATH have been removed.
• Bumped @babel/traverse from 7.22.5 to 7.23.2.

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v10.0.1

v10.0.1 (2023-09-11)

• Fixed issue where this package could not download prebuilts.

• Fixed issue in Node 20 with using a proxy server to download prebuilts.

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v10.0.0

• BREAKING: Removed support for Node 14.

• Added support for Node 20.

• Updated install stage to attempt download first, and fall back to build if download fails

• Refactored code to make it easier to test

• Added full suite of unit tests

• Updated word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4.

Support statement:

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping agents up to date. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/new-relic-solutions/new-relic-one/install-configure/update-new-relic-agent/)

See the New Relic Node.js agent EOL policy for information about agent releases and support dates. (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/nodejs-agent-eol-policy/)

v9.0.1

• Updated the slack invite link
• Updated semver to 7.5.2.
• Updated README links to point to new forum link due to repolinter ruleset change
• Updated xml2js to 0.5.0.
• Updated json5 from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2.
• Added lockfile checks to CI workflow to prevent malicious changes
• Updated qs to 6.5.3.

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.

v9.0.0

• BREAKING Removed support for Node 12.

  The minimum supported version is now Node v14. For further information on our support policy, see: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agents/nodejs-agent/getting-started/compatibility-requirements-nodejs-agent.

• Added support for Node 18.

• Fixed GC binder to properly record Garbage Collection metrics in Node 18.

• Resolved several dev-dependency audit warnings.

• Bumped minimum nan version to ^2.16.0.

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.