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Ruby Library Release Notes

These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in the SolarWinds Observability Ruby Library.

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2023 updates

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.

2022 updates

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 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.

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