Node.js Library Release Notes
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in the SolarWinds Observability Node.js Library.
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- For release notes for all SolarWinds agents, libraries, and collectors, see SolarWinds Observability Summary Release Notes.
- For currently known issues, see Known Issues.
- For information about requirements, see SolarWinds Observability System Requirements.
2023 updates

13.1.0 - August 24, 2023
Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 13.0.0
- Sampling roll dice logic no longer results in a bug for edge cases.
k8s.pod.name
is only sent when the library is running in kubernetes.
Support changes
- Bumped
semver
dependency version.
13.0.0 - May 9, 2022
New features and improvements
- Node.js 20 support is added.
Breaking changes
- Node.js 14 is no longer supported.
Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.2.0
- AWS and Azure VM metadata is reported for Service and Host correlation.
Support changes
- Node.js 20 support is added.
- Node.js 14 is no longer supported.
12.0.0 - March 13, 2022
New features
- The init message is updated to latest specification.
- Native bindings is updated to the latest version.
Breaking changes
- Support for RHEL/CentOS 7, Debian Stretch, and Ubuntu 16.04 is removed. The minimum
glibc
is now 2.27. - Partial, undocumented support for non-LTS Node.js releases is removed.
Support changes
- Support for RHEL/CentOS 7, Debian Stretch, and Ubuntu 16.04 is removed. The minimum
glibc
is now 2.27. - Support for arm64 (also known as armv8 or aarch64) is added.
2022 updates

11.2.0 - November 16, 2022
Changes:
- Provided TypeScript definitions for most of the API surface
- Updated to liboboe 11.0.0 to support using the AppOptics endpoint with default certificates.
11.1.0 - October 13, 2022
New features:
- Support for a new unified metrics format with an update to liboboe 10.6.1. See SolarWinds Observability October 2022 release notes for details of the unified metrics, why you should upgrade your library, and follow up actions that may be necessary after upgrading your library.
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