---
title: Elastic APM Python Agent release notes
description: Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM Python Agent. To check for security updates, go to Security announcements for the Elastic...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2341/release-notes/apm/agents/python
---

# Elastic APM Python Agent release notes
Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM Python Agent.
To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31).

## 6.25.0

**Release date:** December 23, 2025

### Features and enhancements

- Introduce `ELASTIC_APM_SKIP_SERVER_INFO` to reduce overhead on serverless with APM server 8.7.1+ [#2516](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2516)
- List all exported symbols in elasticapm module  `__all__` [#2504](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2504)


### Fixes

- Handle Tornado 6.5.3 `HttpHeaders` `in` operator behavior change [#2512](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2512)


## 6.24.1

**Release date:** November 21, 2025

### Fixes

- Fix handling of psycopg ServerCursor and AsyncServerCursor instrumentation [#2489](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2489)
- Fix contrib/opentelemetry `set_status` to match base signature [#2457](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2457)


## 6.24.0

**Release date:** August 12, 2025

### Features and enhancements

- Add support for recent sanic versions [#2190](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2190), [#2194](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2194)
- Make server certificate verification mandatory in fips mode [#2227](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2227)
- Add support Python 3.13 [#2216](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2216)
- Add support for azure-data-tables package for azure instrumentation [#2187](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2187)
- Add span links from SNS messages [#2363](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2363)


### Fixes

- Fix psycopg2 cursor execute and executemany signatures [#2331](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2331)
- Fix psycopg cursor execute and executemany signatures [#2332](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2332)
- Fix asgi middleware distributed tracing [#2334](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2334)
- Fix typing of start in Span / capture_span to float [#2335](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2335)
- Fix azure instrumentation client_class and metrics sets invocation [#2337](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2337)
- Fix mysql_connector instrumentation connection retrieval [#2344](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2344)
- Remove spurious Django QuerySet evaluation in case of database errors [#2158](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2158)


## 6.23.0

**Release date:** July 30, 2024

### Features and enhancements

- Make published Docker images multi-platform with the addition of linux/arm64 [#2080](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2080)


### Fixes

- Fix handling consumer iteration if transaction not sampled in kafka instrumentation [#2075](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2075)
- Fix race condition with urllib3 at shutdown [#2085](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2085)
- Fix compatibility with setuptools>=72 that removed test command [#2090](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2090)


## 6.22.3

**Release date:** June 10, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix outcome in ASGI and Starlette apps on error status codes without an exception [#2060](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2060)


## 6.22.2

**Release date:** May 20, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix CI release workflow [#2046](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2046)


## 6.22.1

**Release date:** May 17, 2024

### Features and enhancements

- Relax wrapt dependency to only exclude 1.15.0 [#2005](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2005)


## 6.22.0

**Release date:** April 3, 2024

### Features and enhancements

- Add ability to override default JSON serialization [#2018](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2018)


## 6.21.4

**Release date:** March 19, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix urllib3 2.0.1+ crash with many args [#2002](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/2002)


## 6.21.3

**Release date:** March 8, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix artifacts download in CI workflows [#1996](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1996)


## 6.21.2

**Release date:** March 7, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix artifacts upload in CI build-distribution workflow [#1993](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1993)


## 6.21.1

**Release date:** March 7, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix CI release workflow [#1990](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1990)


## 6.21.0

**Release date:** March 6, 2024

### Fixes

- Fix starlette middleware setup without client argument [#1952](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1952)
- Fix blocking of gRPC stream-to-stream requests [#1967](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1967)
- Always take into account body reading time for starlette requests [#1970](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1970)
- Make urllib3 transport tests more robust against local env [#1969](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1969)
- Clarify starlette integration documentation [#1956](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1956)
- Make dbapi2 query scanning for dollar quotes a bit more correct [#1976](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1976)
- Normalize headers in AWS Lambda integration on API Gateway v1 requests [#1982](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1982)


## 6.20.0

**Release date:** January 10, 2024

### Features and enhancements

- Async support for dbapi2 (starting with psycopg) [#1944](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1944)
- Add object name to procedure call spans in dbapi2 [#1938](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1938)
- Add support for python 3.10 and 3.11 lambda runtimes


### Fixes

- Fix asyncpg support for 0.29+ [#1935](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1935)
- Fix dbapi2 signature extraction to handle square brackets in table name [#1947](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1947)


## 6.19.0

**Release date:** October 11, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- Add Python 3.12 support
- Collect the `configured_hostname` and `detected_hostname` separately, and switch to FQDN for the `detected_hostname`. [#1891](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1891)
- Improve postgres dollar-quote detection to be much faster [#1905](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1905)


### Fixes

- Fix url argument fetching in aiohttp_client instrumentation [#1890](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1890)
- Fix a bug in the AWS Lambda instrumentation when `event["headers"] is None` [#1907](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1907)
- Fix a bug in AWS Lambda where metadata could be incomplete, causing validation errors with the APM Server [#1914](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1914)
- Fix a bug in AWS Lambda where sending the partial transaction would be recorded as an extra span [#1914](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1914)


## 6.18.0

**Release date:** July 25, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- Add support for grpc aio server interceptor [#1870](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1870)


### Fixes

- Fix a bug in the Elasticsearch client instrumentation which was causing loss of database context (including statement) when interacting with Elastic Cloud [#1878](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1878)


## 6.17.0

**Release date:** July 3, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- Add `server_ca_cert_file` option to provide custom CA certificate [#1852](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1852)
- Add `include_process_args` option to allow users to opt-in to collecting process args [#1867](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1867)


### Fixes

- Fix a bug in the GRPC instrumentation when reaching the maximum amount of spans per transaction [#1861](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1861)


## 6.16.2

**Release date:** June 12, 2023

### Fixes

- Fix compatibility issue with older versions of OpenSSL in lambda runtimes [#1847](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1847)
- Add `latest` tag to docker images [#1848](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1848)
- Fix issue with redacting `user:pass` in URLs in Python 3.11.4 [#1850](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1850)


## 6.16.1

**Release date:** June 6, 2023

### Fixes

- Fix release process for docker and the lambda layer [#1845](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1845)


## 6.16.0

**Release date:** June 5, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- Add lambda layer for instrumenting AWS Lambda functions [#1826](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1826)
- Implement instrumentation of Azure Functions [#1766](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1766)
- Add support for Django to wrapper script [#1780](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1780)
- Add support for Starlette to wrapper script [#1830](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1830)
- Add `transport_json_serializer` configuration option [#1777](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1777)
- Add S3 bucket and key name to OTel attributes [#1790](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1790)
- Implement partial transaction support in AWS lambda [#1784](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1784)
- Add instrumentation for redis.asyncio [#1807](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1807)
- Add support for urllib3 v2.0.1+ [#1822](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1822)
- Add `service.environment` to log correlation [#1833](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1833)
- Add `ecs_logging` as a dependency [#1840](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1840)
- Add support for synchronous psycopg3 [#1841](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1841)


### Fixes

- Fix spans being dropped if they don’t have a name [#1770](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1770)
- Fix AWS Lambda support when `event` is not a dict [#1775](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1775)
- Fix deprecation warning with urllib3 2.0.0 pre-release versions [#1778](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1778)
- Fix `activation_method` to only send to APM server 8.7.1+ [#1787](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1787)
- Fix span.context.destination.service.resource for S3 spans to have an "s3/" prefix. [#1783](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1783)

**Note**: While this is considered a bugfix, it can potentially be a breaking change in the Kibana APM app: It can break the history of the S3-Spans / metrics for users relying on `context.destination.service.resource`. If users happen to run agents both with and without this fix (for same or different languages), the same S3-buckets can appear twice in the service map (with and without s3-prefix).
- Fix instrumentation to not bubble up exceptions during instrumentation [#1791](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1791)
- Fix HTTP transport to not print useless and confusing stack trace [#1809](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1809)


## 6.15.1

**Release date:** March 6, 2023

### Fixes

- Fix issue with botocore instrumentation creating spans with an incorrect `service.name` [#1765](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1765)
- Fix a bug in the GRPC instrumentation when the agent is disabled or not recording [#1761](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1761)


## 6.15.0

**Release date:** February 16, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- Add `service.agent.activation_method` to the metadata [#1743](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1743)


### Fixes

- Small fix to underlying Starlette logic to prevent duplicate Client objects [#1735](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1735)
- Change `server_url` default to `http://127.0.0.1:8200` to avoid ipv6 ambiguity [#1744](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1744)
- Fix an issue in GRPC instrumentation with unsampled transactions [#1740](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1740)
- Fix error in async Elasticsearch instrumentation when spans are dropped [#1758](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1758)


## 6.14.0

**Release date:** January 30, 2023

### Features and enhancements

- GRPC support [#1703](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1703)
- Wrapper script Flask support (experimental) [#1709](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1709)


### Fixes

- Fix an async issue with long elasticsearch queries [#1725](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1725)
- Fix a minor inconsistency with the W3C tracestate spec [#1728](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1728)
- Fix a cold start performance issue with our AWS Lambda integration [#1727](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1727)
- Mark `**kwargs` config usage in our AWS Lambda integration as deprecated [#1727](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1727)


## 6.13.2

**Release date:** November 17, 2022

### Fixes

- Fix error in Elasticsearch instrumentation when spans are dropped [#1690](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1690)
- Lower log level for errors in APM Server version fetching [#1692](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1692)
- Fix for missing parent.id when logging from a DroppedSpan under a leaf span [#1695](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1695)


## 6.13.1

**Release date:** November 3, 2022

### Fixes

- Fix elasticsearch instrumentation for track_total_hits=False [#1687](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1687)


## 6.13.0

**Release date:** October 26, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- Add support for Python 3.11
- Add backend granularity data to SQL backends as well as Cassandra and pymongo [#1585](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1585), [#1639](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1639)
- Add support for instrumenting the Elasticsearch 8 Python client [#1642](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1642)
- Add `*principal*` to default `sanitize_field_names` configuration [#1664](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1664)
- Add docs and better support for custom metrics, including in AWS Lambda [#1643](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1643)
- Add support for capturing span links from AWS SQS in AWS Lambda [#1662](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1662)


### Fixes

- Fix Django’s `manage.py check` when agent is disabled [#1632](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1632)
- Fix an issue with long body truncation for Starlette [#1635](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1635)
- Fix an issue with transaction outcomes in Flask for uncaught exceptions [#1637](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1637)
- Fix Starlette instrumentation to make sure transaction information is still present during exception handling [#1674](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1674)


## 6.12.0

**Release date:** September 7, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- Add redis query to context data for redis instrumentation [#1406](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1406)
- Add AWS request ID to all botocore spans (at `span.context.http.request.id`) [#1625](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1625)


### Fixes

- Differentiate Lambda URLs from API Gateway in AWS Lambda integration [#1609](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1609)
- Restrict the size of Django request bodies to prevent APM Server rejection [#1610](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1610)
- Restrict length of `exception.message` for exceptions captured by the agent [#1619](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1619)
- Restrict length of Starlette request bodies [#1549](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1549)
- Fix error when using elasticsearch(sniff_on_start=True) [#1618](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1618)
- Improve handling of ignored URLs and capture_body=off for Starlette [#1549](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1549)
- Fix possible error in the transport flush for Lambda functions [#1628](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1628)


## 6.11.0

**Release date:** August 9, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- Added lambda support for ELB triggers [#1605](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1605)


## 6.10.2

**Release date:** August 9, 2022

### Fixes

- Fixed an issue with non-integer ports in Django [#1590](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1590)
- Fixed an issue with non-integer ports in Redis [#1591](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1591)
- Fixed a performance issue for local variable shortening via `varmap()` [#1593](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1593)
- Fixed `elasticapm.label()` when a Client object is not available [#1596](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1596)


## 6.10.1

**Release date:** June 30, 2022

### Fixes

- Fix an issue with Kafka instrumentation and unsampled transactions [#1579](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1579)


## 6.10.0

**Release date:** June 22, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- Add instrumentation for [`aiobotocore`](https://github.com/aio-libs/aiobotocore) [#1520](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1520)
- Add instrumentation for [`kafka-python`](https://kafka-python.readthedocs.io/en/master/) [#1555](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1555)
- Add API for span links, and implement span link support for OpenTelemetry bridge [#1562](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1562)
- Add span links to SQS ReceiveMessage call [#1575](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1575)
- Add specific instrumentation for SQS delete/batch-delete [#1567](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1567)
- Add `trace_continuation_strategy` setting [#1564](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1564)


### Fixes

- Fix return for `opentelemetry.Span.is_recording()` [#1530](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1530)
- Fix error logging for bad SERVICE_NAME config [#1546](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1546)
- Do not instrument old versions of Tornado > 6.0 due to incompatibility [#1566](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1566)
- Fix transaction names for class based views in Django 4.0+ [#1571](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1571)
- Fix a problem with our logging handler failing to report internal errors in its emitter [#1568](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1568)


## 6.9.1

**Release date:** March 30, 2022

### Fixes

- Fix `otel_attributes`-related regression with older versions of APM Server (<7.16) [#1510](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1510)


## 6.9.0

**Release date:** March 29, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- Add OpenTelemetry API bridge [#1411](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1411)
- Change default for `sanitize_field_names` to sanitize `*auth*` instead of `authorization` [#1494](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1494)
- Add `span_stack_trace_min_duration` to replace deprecated `span_frames_min_duration` [#1498](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1498)
- Enable exact_match span compression by default [#1504](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1504)
- Allow parent celery tasks to specify the downstream `parent_span_id` in celery headers [#1500](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1500)


### Fixes

- Fix Sanic integration to properly respect the `capture_body` config [#1485](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1485)
- Lambda fixes to align with the cross-agent spec [#1489](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1489)
- Lambda fix for custom `service_name` [#1493](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1493)
- Change default for `stack_trace_limit` from 500 to 50 [#1492](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1492)
- Switch all duration handling to use `datetime.timedelta` objects [#1488](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1488)


## 6.8.1

**Release date:** March 9, 2022

### Fixes

- Fix `exit_span_min_duration` and disable by default [#1483](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1483)


## 6.8.0

**Release date:** February 22, 2022

### Features and enhancements

- use "unknown-python-service" as default service name if no service name is configured [#1438](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1438)
- add transaction name to error objects [#1441](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1441)
- don’t send unsampled transactions to APM Server 8.0+ [#1442](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1442)
- implement snapshotting of certain configuration during transaction lifetime [#1431](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1431)
- propagate traceparent IDs via Celery [#1371](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1371)
- removed Python 2 compatibility shims [#1463](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1463)

**Note:** Python 2 support was already removed with version 6.0 of the agent, this now removes unused compatibilit shims.

### Fixes

- fix span compression for redis, mongodb, cassandra and memcached [#1444](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1444)
- fix recording of status_code for starlette [#1466](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1466)
- fix aioredis span context handling [#1462](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1462)


## 6.7.2

**Release date:** December 7, 2021

### Fixes

- fix AttributeError in sync instrumentation of httpx [#1423](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1423)
- add setting to disable span compression, default to disabled [#1429](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1429)


## 6.7.1

**Release date:** November 29, 2021

### Fixes

- fix an issue with Sanic exception tracking [#1414](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1414)
- asyncpg: Limit SQL queries in context data to 10000 characters [#1416](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1416)


## 6.7.0

**Release date:** November 17, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Add support for Sanic framework [#1390](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1390)


### Fixes

- fix compatibility issues with httpx 0.21 [#1403](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1403)
- fix `span_compression_exact_match_max_duration` default value [#1407](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1407)


## 6.6.3

**Release date:** November 15, 2021

### Fixes

- fix an issue with `metrics_sets` configuration referencing the `TransactionMetricSet` removed in 6.6.2 [#1397](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1397)


## 6.6.2

**Release date:** November 10, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix an issue where compressed spans would count against `transaction_max_spans` [#1377](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1377)
- Make sure HTTP connections are not re-used after a process fork [#1374](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1374)
- Fix an issue with psycopg2 instrumentation when multiple hosts are defined [#1386](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1386)
- Update the `User-Agent` header to the new [spec](https://github.com/elastic/apm/pull/514) [#1378](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1378)
- Improve status_code handling in AWS Lambda integration [#1382](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1382)
- Fix `aiohttp` exception handling to allow for non-500 responses including `HTTPOk` [#1384](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1384)
- Force transaction names to strings [#1389](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1389)
- Remove unused `http.request.socket.encrypted` context field [#1332](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1332)
- Remove unused transaction metrics (APM Server handles these metrics instead) [#1388](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1388)


## 6.6.1

**Release date:** November 2, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix some context fields and metadata handling in AWS Lambda support [#1368](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1368)


## 6.6.0

**Release date:** October 18, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Add experimental support for AWS lambda instrumentation [#1193](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1193)
- Add support for span compression [#1321](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1321)
- Auto-infer destination resources for easier instrumentation of new resources [#1359](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1359)
- Add support for dropped span statistics [#1327](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1327)


### Fixes

- Ensure that Prometheus histograms are encoded correctly for APM Server [#1354](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1354)
- Remove problematic (and duplicate) `event.dataset` from logging integrations [#1365](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1365)
- Fix for memcache instrumentation when configured with a unix socket [#1357](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1357)


## 6.5.0

**Release date:** October 4, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Add instrumentation for Azure Storage (blob/table/fileshare) and Azure Queue [#1316](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1316)


### Fixes

- Improve span coverage for `asyncpg` [#1328](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1328)
- aiohttp: Correctly pass custom client to tracing middleware [#1345](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1345)
- Fixed an issue with httpx instrumentation [#1337](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1337)
- Fixed an issue with Django 4.0 removing a private method [#1347](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1347)


## 6.4.0

**Release date:** August 31, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Rename the experimental `log_ecs_formatting` config to `log_ecs_reformatting` [#1300](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1300)
- Add support for Prometheus histograms [#1165](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1165)


### Fixes

- Fixed cookie sanitization when Cookie is capitalized [#1301](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1301)
- Fix a bug with exception capturing for bad UUIDs [#1304](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1304)
- Fix potential errors in json serialization [#1203](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1203)
- Fix an issue with certain aioredis commands [#1308](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1308)


## 6.3.3

**Release date:** July 14, 2021

### Fixes

- ensure that the elasticsearch instrumentation handles DroppedSpans correctly [#1190](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1190)


## 6.3.2

**Release date:** July 7, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix handling of non-http scopes in Starlette/FastAPI middleware [#1187](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1187)


## 6.3.1

**Release date:** July 7, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix issue with Starlette/FastAPI hanging on startup [#1185](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1185)


## 6.3.0

**Release date:** July 6, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Add additional context information about elasticsearch client requests [#1108](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1108)
- Add `use_certifi` config option to allow users to disable `certifi` [#1163](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1163)


### Fixes

- Fix for Starlette 0.15.0 error collection [#1174](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1174)
- Fix for Starlette static files [#1137](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1137)


## 6.2.3

**Release date:** June 28, 2021

### Fixes

- suppress the default_app_config attribute in Django 3.2+ [#1155](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1155)
- bump log level for multiple set_client calls to WARNING [#1164](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1164)
- fix issue with adding disttracing to SQS messages when dropping spans [#1170](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1170)


## 6.2.2

**Release date:** June 7, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix an attribute access bug introduced in 6.2.0 [#1149](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1149)


## 6.2.1

**Release date:** June 3, 2021

### Fixes

- catch and log exceptions in interval timer threads [#1145](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1145)


## 6.2.0

**Release date:** May 31, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Added support for aioredis 1.x [#2526](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1082)
- Added support for aiomysql [#1107](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1107)
- Added Redis pub/sub instrumentation [#1129](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1129)
- Added specific instrumentation for AWS SQS [#1123](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1123)


### Fixes

- ensure metrics are flushed before agent shutdown [#1139](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1139)
- added safeguard for exceptions in processors [#1138](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1138)
- ensure sockets are closed which were opened for cloud environment detection [#1134](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1134)


## 6.1.3

**Release date:** April 28, 2021

### Fixes

- added destination information to asyncpg instrumentation [#1115](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1115)
- fixed issue with collecting request meta data with Django REST Framework [#1117](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1117)
- fixed httpx instrumentation for newly released httpx 0.18.0 [#1118](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1118)


## 6.1.2

**Release date:** April 14, 2021

### Fixes

- fixed issue with empty transaction name for the root route with Django [#1095](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1095)
- fixed on-the-fly initialisation of Flask apps [#1099](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1099)


## 6.1.1

**Release date:** April 8, 2021

### Fixes

- fixed a validation issue with the newly introduced instrumentation for S3, SNS and DynamoDB [#1090](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1090)


## 6.1.0

**Release date:** March 31, 2021

### Features and enhancements

- Add global access to Client singleton object at `elasticapm.get_client()` [#1043](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1043)
- Add `log_ecs_formatting` config option [#1058](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1058) [#1063](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1063)
- Add instrumentation for httplib2 [#1031](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1031)
- Add better instrumentation for some AWS services (S3, SNS, DynamoDB) [#1054](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1054)
- Added beta support for collecting metrics from prometheus_client [#1083](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1083)


### Fixes

- Fix for potential `capture_body: error` hang in Starlette/FastAPI [#1038](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1038)
- Fix a rare error around processing stack frames [#1012](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1012)
- Fix for Starlette/FastAPI to correctly capture request bodies as strings [#1041](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1042)
- Fix transaction names for Starlette Mount routes [#1037](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1037)
- Fix for elastic excepthook arguments [#1050](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1050)
- Fix issue with remote configuration when resetting config values [#1068](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1068)
- Use a label for the elasticapm Django app that is compatible with Django 3.2 validation [#1064](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1064)
- Fix an issue with undefined routes in Starlette [#1076](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1076)


## 6.0.0

**Release date:** February 1, 2021

### Fixes

- Fix for GraphQL span spamming from scalar fields with required flag [#1015](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-python/pull/1015)