Windows Agent Release Notes

November 30, 2021

Windows Agent v4.33.11
Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the environment name could be incorrect in the app dashboard

Enhancement

• Updated Java Profiler to v1.33.9

.NET Profiler 1.6.x
Fixes

• Fixed an issue where .NET Core and .NET full framework applications running in the same process could cause crashes
• Improved how "Reporting URL" APM data shows up for MVC applications

November 03, 2021

Windows Agent v4.33.7
Fixes

• Fixed an issue that would cause APM to stop reporting when Custom Instrumentation was implemented in a specific way
• Fixed an issue where SQL method calls were not appearing properly in a trace breakdown view
• Fixed an issue where the application name would not match what was reported in APM data in certain cases

October 19, 2021

Windows Agent v4.32.14
Fixes

• Fixed an issue where APM data was not being processed correctly by the .NET profiler when instrumenting certain functions
• Fixed an issue in the .NET profiler that was leading to incorrect naming of Request URLs in specific scenarios

September 14, 2021

Windows Agent v4.32.13
Fixes

• Fixed an issue introduced in version 4.32.12 causing process/service monitors to not work correctly

September 07, 2021

Windows Agent v4.32.12
Enhancements

• Removed RUM cookie support and replaced with the RUM V2 implementation (See more information in the RUM Docs.
• Made some enhancements around how IIS logs are uploaded

Fixes

• Fixed an app naming issue when no Stackify.json config file existed
• Fixed an issue where the Request URL had no reporting_url property causing APM to report or "null" as the request name.
• Fixed an issue where unhandled exceptions were not properly being uploaded to the platform.
• Fixed an issue where Azure App Services profiler dlls could fail to update
• Fixed an issue where PSQL calls were not being captured in trace output

.NET Profiler 1.4.x
Enhancements

• Added support for Microsoft's ConfigurationBuilder in the profiler
• Added support for relative URLs
• Updated StackifyLib to 2.2.2 to include support for manual RUM injection

Fixes

• Fixed some issues in the profiler where unhandled exceptions were not being collected
• Fixed an issue where the HTTP Trace module would not be properly loaded by the profiler
• Fixed a bug in the profiler where traces would not be generated in certain cases leading to missing APM data.

June 01, 2021

Windows Agent v4.31.7
Enhancements

• Additional debugging logging to help diagnose discovery issues
• Do not upload APM data until application discovery is complete

Fixes

• Replace profiler files in WebJob during update, even if the files are locked by an active application being profiled
• Fix possible loss of APM on Agent restart

.Net Profiler 1.3.x

• Add support for runtime configuration builders in .Net Framework 4.7 and later
• Add support for OWin standalone apps
• Fix capture of MySQL being double counted
• Fix timing of Postgres calls
• Hangfire support
• Azure EventHub client support
• Prevent errors logging or writing trace files from impacting application

March 19, 2021

Windows Agent v4.30.63

• Fix application matching when using the legacy profiler with no configuration set
• Fix an issue where the local cache was not getting updated causing application/environment name changes to not take affect until the agent was restarted.
• Restore logic to use the Azure Role name instead of the deployed folder name of the application when running in Azure.
• Fix an issue matching environment names due to case sensitivity
• Fix an issue where MyApplication was the assigned name for an app if no names were configured through the web.config or Stackify.json file.

March 17, 2021

Windows Agent v4.30.61

• New Installer:
  • Remove need to install SQL CE prerequisite
  • C++ runtime detection is fixed and C++ runtimes are required now
  • Added support for selecting New, Legacy or account default profiler in silent install
  • Interactive install will always force either the new or legacy profiler based on checkbox
  • Installing over an existing install reads the API Key and Environment name from the existing Stackify.ini
  • Installer should not force a reboot on Windows Server 2019 when the C++ 2017 Runtime is not already installed before the agent installer runs.
• Fix some missing Postgres calls in trace if Async requests are used
• Support profiling without the IIS module installed:
  • Removes the need to reference the module in Shared IIS configuration setups.
• Prevent crashing application if debug folder is not writable
• Support for WCF not in ASP compatibility mode
• The profiler version is written to the trace file
• Fix issue with crashing applications that load a resource only assembly (e.g. Language translation assemblies)
• Stronger matches are required (Including app path, physical path and environment)
• Improved how the agent discovers applications
• Minor tweaks to the SQL parser in the profiler
• Added Status and Took fields to ProfilerRequest and upload for all requests
• Fixed some memory cache settings

December 02, 2020

Windows Agent v4.29.29

• Create RUM cookie by default for .NET Framework
• Add Path=/ to RUM cookie for Java and .NET profilers
• Match IIS logs to application name

October 19, 2020

Windows Agent v4.29.25

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with EC2 instances which was causing the override name to sometimes be reverted
• Http Tracer module configuration will uninstall if the DLL cannot be found in the GAC
• Fixed issues discovering .NET Core applications running in IIS to the discovered IIS application
• In some cases exceptions were not uploaded to platform (Better support for CaptureAllExceptions setting)
• Changed calculation of Language specific time (DotNet, Ruby, PHP, etc. categories)
• App pool names longer than 50 characters could cause errors in the agent.

Improvements

• Changed installer to sign exe and embedded msi files which removes unknown publisher warnings in recent OS updates.
• Embedded all prereqs in the installer package to remove dependencies and allow a network disconnected install (though the agent will not do anything until the connections are open).

.Net Profiler v1.0.26

Fixes

• Fixed Custom Operation in Stackify.json to allow {{ClassName}} and {{MethodName}} substitutions
• Fixed Incorrect count of Postgres SQL statements and HTTP Web Requests
• Postgres table names were showing only the schema in the summary instead of the table name
• Ensured that trace files are explicitly written as UTF-8 for .Net Framework

Improvements

• Capture Postgres Bulk Copy operations
• Partial support for SignalR