Agent Enhancements

This release:

• supports opt-in shell-free Java proxy startup for Debian/glibc distroless containers through APPDYNAMICS_SHELL_FREE_PROXY_STARTUP=true or [proxy] shell-free-startup = true; the default remains false
• modifies controller communication to use TLS by default and port 443 when no port is configured
• bundles the approved remediated Azul Zulu Java 11.0.32 runtime; without-JRE packages are unchanged

This release:

• adds support for Kafka 4.1.1.
• adds support for Play 3.0.11 with Netty and Pekko HTTP backends.
• upgrades Log4j to 2.25.5
• updates Jackson Databind to 2.22.1
• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.

• Introduces the general availability of OpenTelemetry combined mode for the Python agent, supporting both Splunk-Only and Dual-Signal modes. You can install the Splunk AppDynamics package with the

  otel extra.
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  pip install "appdynamics[otel]"

  pip install "appdynamics[otel]"

  Enable the deployment mode to dual or otel by setting the APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_DEPLOYMENT_MODE environment variable.
• Dropped support for Python 3.9

• Updated protobuf handling to use the C/upb implementation by default. The --use-google-protobuf-msg option is deprecated and has no effect; set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python to use the pure-Python implementation if required

• Fixed a startup issue when launching Gunicorn with gevent through pyagent run.

• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.
• upgrades following third-party components:
  • libcurl to version 8.21
  • npcap to version 1.88
  • libpcap to version 1.10.6
  • CiscoSSL to 8.5.17 (3.5.6)
  • request to 2.33.0

This release:

• Upgrades to CiscoSSL (OpenSSL) : 8.5.63 (3.5.7)
• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.

This release:

• Added self-telemetry for OpenTelemetry Collector
• Added logs pipeline as configuration option

This release:

• adds support for MongoDB Atlas private endpoint discovery in the Database Agent. You can enable private endpoint discovery with a feature flag, and then configure the MongoDB collector to use either the Atlas hostname or a private endpoint IP address and port based on your network access configuration. For configuration details, see Connection Details.
• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.

• Upgrades Splunk OTel agent to 4.9.0
• Removes dependency on protobufjs
• Upgrades tar to ^7.4.3
• Upgrades uuid to 11.1.1

• Upgrades openssl to 3.5.6

• Adds new metadata docker image labels

• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.

• introduces node alerting and monitoring. When you click Nodes in the Entity Map pane, it lists all the associated nodes. Clicking a node from the list opens a dashboard that displays all events associated with that node, including those generated by its underlying pods. You can also view node health, storage, CPU, and memory metrics. See Enhanced UI and Kubernetes Alerting.
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• add support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.20 and 4.21. See Cluster Agent Requirements and Supported Environments.
• removes the requirement to configure enableV2Metrics and enableAdditionalMetrics flags. See Application to Node Correlation with Kubernetes AlertingNo Content found for /db/organizations/splunk/repositories/appdonprem-26_7_0/content/documents/AppDynamics/enable_apm_node_correlation_.dita .
• masks sensitive data in pod logs.
• upgrades golang-go from version 1.26.2 to 1.26.4.
• fixes bugs. See Agent Resolved Issues.