6.1.0 - September 18, 2024

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AWS Lambda layer ARN

arn:aws:lambda:<region>:851060098468:layer:solarwinds-apm-ruby-x86_64-6_1_0:1
arn:aws:lambda:<region>:851060098468:layer:solarwinds-apm-ruby-arm64-6_1_0:1

Upstream OpenTelemetry versions

• OpenTelemetry API/SDK >= 1.2.0

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation >= 0.31.0

New features and improvements

• AWS Lambda instrumentation support
• Support swomarginalia for Rails 7~7.1
• Addition of OBOE_DEBUG for building solarwinds_apm and liboboe with the RelWithDebug flag
• Streamline reduced lambda layer log format

Fixes

• Relax token validation
• Changed trace attribute from otel.status to otel.status_code
• Response time HTTP attributes are restricted to HTTP server entry spans

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 15.0.2

• Open Telemetry SDK updates (liboboe for .Net)

6.0.2 - June 27, 2024

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Upstream OpenTelemetry versions

• OpenTelemetry API/SDK >= 1.2.0

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation >= 0.31.0

Fixes

• Send init message for a non-Lambda environment

6.0.1 - June 20, 2024

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Upstream OpenTelemetry versions

• OpenTelemetry API/SDK >= 1.2.0

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation >= 0.31.0

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 15.0.1

• Internal improvement

6.0.0 - April 11, 2024

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Upstream OpenTelemetry versions

• OpenTelemetry API/SDK >= 1.2.0

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation >= 0.31.0

Breaking changes

• This is a completely new version of the instrumentation library built upon OpenTelemetry. Please see the 6.0.0 prerelease notes for a description of the changes.

New features and improvements

• Improved logging when a service key is invalid.
• Better no-op support when the library is disabled.

6.0.0 prerelease - January 31, 2024

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Upstream OTel dependencies

• OpenTelemetry API/SDK >= 1.2.0

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation >= 0.31.0

New features and improvements

• Initial SolarWinds Observability Ruby Library alpha release: This release introduces the alpha version of the SolarWinds Observability Ruby Library, leveraging OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for automatic instrumentation of common Ruby frameworks.

  • OpenTelemetry Ruby API/SDK integration: Integration with OpenTelemetry Ruby API/SDK for trace generation.

  • Supported Ruby version: OpenTelemetry Ruby supports only current versions of the runtime. The SolarWinds Observibility Ruby Library prerelease can still be installed on Ruby 2.7 which is EOL, but it will lack major features and this support will be removed soon. We highly encourage upgrading to a current version of Ruby.

  • Customizable configuration: Users can customize the standard opentelemetry-ruby configuration through the SolarWindsAPM configurator. For more information, see the Configuration documentation.

  • Enhanced trace/span metadata: Users can adjust trace/span metadata using the standard opentelemetry-ruby API. For more information, see the OpenTelemetry SDK documentation.

  • Environment variable configuration: Users can configure propagators, exporters, and instrumentation using OpenTelemetry Ruby environment variables. For more information, see Environmental Variables and OpenTelemetry Configuration documentation.

  • Unified metrics format support: Support for a new unified metrics format. For more information about the unified metrics, see the October 2022 Release Notes.

• SolarWindsAPM Ruby API updates:

  • Code adjustment for ugrade to 6.x: Updated the new SolarWindsAPM Ruby API. For more information, see the API documentation.
    • Custom transaction name setting: Set a custom transaction name using SolarWindsAPM::API.set_transaction_name('custom_name').
    • Readiness check: Check if SolarWindsAPM is ready using SolarWindsAPM::API.solarwinds_ready(wait_milliseconds=3000).
    • Trace context information retrieval: Get current trace context information using SolarWindsAPM::API.current_trace_info.
    • Convenience method for OpenTelemetry Ruby in_span: Use a convenience method for OpenTelemetry Ruby's in_span using SolarWindsAPM::API.in_span('custom_span') do |span| end.

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 14.0.1

• Dropped support of alpine 3.12.
• Fixed the default log sink (stdout) from Boost.log of liboboe
• Added dependency review Github action.

5.1.8 - May 23, 2023

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Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.2.0

• AWS and Azure VM metadata is reported for Service and Host correlation.

5.1.7 - April 3, 2023

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Improvements:

• liboboe is upgraded to version 12.1.0. liboboe 12.1.0 adds the ability to retrieve AWS EC2 and Azure VM metadata, fixes a threading locking issue, and allows messages to be ingested without an HTTP status code tag applied.

5.1.6 - March 17, 2023

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Improvements

• RemoteHost is sanitized in the library code.

Support changes

• Updated liboboe to version 12.0.0. liboboe 12.0.0 restores support of alpine 3.12, upgrades gRPC to v1.51.1, upgrades boost to 1.80.0, and removes support for CentOS, Redhat 7, and ubuntu 16.04.
• AmazonLinux is an alternative for the RHEL distro.

5.1.4 - January 23, 2023

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Support changes

• Updated to the latest redis-rb gem (> 5.x) .
• Updated liboboe to version 11.1.0. liboboe 11.1.0 re-enables the UUID field for better Init messages.
• Support added for arm64/aarch64 architectures.

5.1.3 - November 7, 2022

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• Updated to liboboe 11.0.0 to support using the AppOptics endpoint with default certificates.

5.1.2 - October 13, 2022

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• Support for a new unified metrics format with an update to liboboe 10.6.1. See SolarWinds Observability SaaS 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.
• Disabled profiling

5.0.0 - April 25, 2022

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• Initial SolarWinds Observability Ruby library release.