--- title: Elastic APM Go Agent release notes description: Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM Go Agent. To check for security updates, go to Security announcements for the Elastic... url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/release-notes/apm/agents/go products: - APM Agent - APM Go Agent applies_to: - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available - Elastic Stack: Generally available - Application Performance Monitoring Agent for Go: Generally available --- # Elastic APM Go Agent release notes Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM Go Agent. To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31). ## 2.7.6 **Release date:** March 31, 2026 ### Fixes - Upgrade msgpack to 5.4.1 to fix CVE-2026-2454 ## 2.7.5 **Release date:** March 19, 2026 ### Fixes - Upgrade gogrpc to 1.79.3.12 to fix CVE-2026-33186 ## 2.7.4 **Release date:** March 2, 2026 ### Fixes - Upgrade gofiber to 2.52.12 to fix CVE-2026-25882 ## 2.7.3 **Release date:** February 5, 2026 ### Fixes - Upgrade the OpenTelemetry Go SDK in apmotel to fix CVE-2026-24051 ## 2.7.2 **Release date:** November 28, 2025 ### Fixes - Always enforce a body limit in apmelasticsearch ## 2.7.1 **Release date:** May 26, 2025 ### Fixes - Avoid sending invalid float values (NaN, Inf) ## 2.7.0 **Release date:** March 13, 2025 ## 2.6.3 **Release date:** January 13, 2025 ### Fixes - Avoid panic when unwrapping errors ## 2.6.2 **Release date:** August 29, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - Update version string ## 2.6.1 **Release date:** August 29, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Support all upstream GOOS [#1646](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1646) ### Fixes - apm.DefaultTracer misbehaves when transport configuration is invalid by [#1618](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1618) - gin web framework does not properly sanitize filename parameter of Context.FileAttachment function [#1620](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1620) ## 2.6.0 **Release date:** April 11, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Bump minimum Go version to 1.21 [#1602](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1602) ### Fixes - module/apmotel: fix compatibility issue with newer version of otel libs. [#1605](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1605) ## 2.5.0 **Release date:** March 12, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - module/apmgorm: Switch from `github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb` package to `github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb`. [#1569](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1569) - module/apmrestful: Upgrade `github.com/emicklei/go-restful` package to `gituhub.co/emicklei/go-restful/v3`. [#1580](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1580) ## 2.4.8 **Release date:** March 12, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - module/apmotel: Add nil and recording check to span.RecordError [#1566](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1566) ## 2.4.7 **Release date:** November 23, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Bump submodule dependency version [#1546](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1546) ## 2.4.6 **Release date:** November 22, 2023 ### Fixes - module/apmotel: Fix compatibility issue with newer version of otel [#1544](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1544) ## 2.4.5 **Release date:** October 11, 2023 ### Fixes - module/apmotel: Fix panic on multiple span close calls [#1512](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1512) ## 2.4.4 **Release date:** August 29, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - module/apmotel: Bumped minimum OpenTelemetry version [#1501](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1501) - module/apmotel: Return usable spans when retrieving them from otel.SpanFromContext [#1478](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1478) ### Fixes - Fixed concurrent map write condition where some child spans couldn’t acquire the transaction lock [#1487](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1487) ## 2.4.3 **Release date:** June 22, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Bumped minimum Go version to 1.19 [#1453](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1453) - Updated to stable OTel metrics API [#1448](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1448) ### Fixes - Fixed a data race in HTTP client instrumentation [#1472](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1472) - Fixed mixing of OTel and Elastic APM instrumentation [#1450](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1450) ## 2.4.2 **Release date:** May 22, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - module/apmotel: handle resources [#1424](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1424) - Drop x/net dependency [#1434](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1434) - module/apmotel: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric [#1435](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1435) - module/apmotel: follow APM OTel spec and prefer delta temporality [#1437](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1437) - module/apmotel: set the proper trace ID and span ID in trace context [#1438](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1438) - module/apmotel: handle context flags when creating remote transactions and spans [#1441](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1441) ## 2.4.1 **Release date:** April 27, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Downgrade OpenTelemetry metrics from v1.15.0-rc.2 to 0.37.0 [#1420](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1420) - Mark OpenTelemetry metrics as technical preview [#1419](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1419) ## 2.4.0 **Release date:** April 26, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Add bridge to support OpenTelemetry metrics [#1407](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1407) - Add custom SDK support OpenTelemetry traces [#1410](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1410) ## 2.3.0 **Release date:** March 30, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Ensure minimum retry interval of 5 seconds for fetching central configuration [#1337](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1337) - Update span compression logic to handle `service.target.*` fields [#1339](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1339) - module/apmchiv5: Add panic propogation option [#1359](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1359) - module/apmgormv2: Add sqlserver support [#1356](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1356) - module/apmsql: Add sqlserver support [#1356](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1356) - Update compressed spans to use `service.target.*` fields to derive its name [#1336](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1336) - module/apmpgxv5: new instrumentation module for jackc/pgx v5 with enhanced support e.g. detailed `BATCH` and `CONNECT` traces [#1364](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1364) - Add support for `Unwrap []error` [#1400](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1400) ## 2.2.0 **Release date:** October 31, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Global labels are now parsed when the tracer is constructed, instead of parsing only once on package initialization [#1290](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1290) - Rename span_frames_min_duration to span_stack_trace_min_duration [#1285](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1285) - Ignore `\*principal\*` headers by default [#1332](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1332) - Add `apmpgx` module for postgres tracing with jackc/pgx driver enhanced support e.g. Copy and Batch statements [#1301](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1301) - Disable same-kind and enable exact-match compression by default [#1256](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1256) - module/apmechov4: add `WithRequestName` option [#1268](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1268) - Added support for adding span links when starting transactions and spans [#1269](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1269) - Added support for the `trace_continuation_strategy` [#1270](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1270) - `transaction.type` and `span.type` are now set to "custom" if an empty string is specified [#1272](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1272) - We now capture the database instance name in `service.target.*`, for improved backend granularity [#1279](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1279) - Improved Kubernetes pod UID and container ID discovery coverage [#1288](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1288) - module/apmgin: add `WithPanicPropagation` option [#1314](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1314) - Exit spans may now have non-exit child spans if they have the same type and subtype [#1320](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1320) - Updated instrumentation modules to mark spans as exit spans where possible [#1317](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1317) ### Fixes - module/apmawssdkgo: fixed a panic related to drop spans [#1273](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1273) - Fixed `span.name` for AWS SNS spans to match the spec [#1286](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1286) ## 2.1.0 **Release date:** May 20, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Replace `authorization` with `*auth*` pattern for sanitizing field names [#1230](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1230) - Fetch initial server version async to prevent blocking NewTracer for 10 seconds [#1239](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1239) ### Fixes - Fix race in `apm.DefaultTracer` which could lead to multiple tracers being created [#1248](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1248) ## 2.0.0 **Release date:** March 17, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Record `transaction.name` on errors [#1177](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1177) - Stop recording unused `transaction.duration.*` and `transaction.breakdown.count` metrics [#1167](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1167) - Make tracestate parsing more lenient, according to W3c spec, allowing duplicate vendor keys [#1183](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1183) - Introduced `transport.NewHTTPTransportOptions` [#1168](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1168) - Change `ELASTIC_APM_SPAN_FRAMES_MIN_DURATION` special cases to match agent spec [#1188](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1188) - Remove stacktrace.ContextSetter [#1187](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1187) - Drop support for versions of Go prior to 1.15.0 [#1190](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1190) - Replace apm.DefaultTracer with an initialization function [#1189](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1189) - Remove transport.Default, construct a new Transport in each new tracer [#1195](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1195) - Add service name and version to User-Agent header [#1196](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1196) - Remove WarningLogger, add Warningf methe to Logger [#1205](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1205) - Replace Sampler with ExtendedSampler [#1206](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1206) - Drop unsampled txs when connected to an APM Server >= 8.0 [#1208](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1208) - Removed SetTag [#1218](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1218) - Unexport Tracer’s fields—TracerOptions must be used instead [#1219](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1219) ### Fixes - Fix panic in apmgocql [#1180](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-go/pull/1180)