--- 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/3016/release-notes/apm/agents/python products: - APM Agent - APM Python Agent applies_to: - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available - Elastic Stack: Generally available - Application Performance Monitoring Agent for Python: Generally available --- # 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)