--- title: docs-7-24-2026 source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/docs-release-notes/docs-7-24-2026 --- ## New docs - Added [Intelligent Exemplar](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/distributed-tracing/ui-data/intelligent-exemplar) documentation for the public preview feature to surface anomalous traces from latency or error spikes without manual filter rebuilding. - Added [Attribute Correlation Analysis](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/distributed-tracing/ui-data/attribute-correlation-analysis) documentation for the public preview feature to automatically identify attribute-value pairs driving latency or error spikes. - Added [Service maturity](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/service-architecture-intelligence/scorecards/service-maturity) documentation for Scorecards maturity levels and weighted scoring to track service progression toward operational excellence. - Added [Configure multi-account routing for the New Relic eBPF agent](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/ebpf/multi-account-routing) documentation to route eBPF telemetry to different New Relic accounts per Kubernetes namespace. - Added [Autopilot Slack integration](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/autopilot/connect-to-slack) documentation to connect Autopilot to Slack for in-thread incident investigation. - Added [Introduction to smart alerts](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/alerts/smart-alerts) documentation for the public preview feature to monitor entity alert coverage against recommended standards and create conditions in bulk. - Added [Variables in notebooks](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/notebooks/notebook-variables) documentation to parameterize notebooks with dynamic variables for repeatable investigation runbooks. - Added [Puma instrumentation](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/instrumented-gems/puma-instrumentation) documentation for Ruby agent sampling of Puma server statistics reported as timeslice metrics. - Added [Windows RDS MSSQL monitoring with NRDOT](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/database/mssql/windows-rds) documentation to monitor SQL Server on AWS RDS using the NRDOT collector on Windows. ### Major changes - Updated Autopilot documentation across [overview](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/autopilot/overview), [setup](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/autopilot/setup), [use Autopilot](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/autopilot/use-autopilot), and [memories](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/autopilot/memories) with the GA release, renaming from SRE Agent to Autopilot, updating compliance information to reflect HIPAA availability. - Updated [eBPF agent documentation](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/ebpf/k8s-installation) for the 1.5.0 release with expanded kernel version support (`v5.8` to `v7.1`), new supported Linux distributions (AlmaLinux 9.7+, Oracle Linux 8+, openSUSE Leap 15.5+, SLES 15.7+), and updated Kubernetes and Linux installation procedures. - Updated [eBPF best practices](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/ebpf/best-practices) with a new data sampling and fine-tuning section explaining how each telemetry type is sampled for data volume and cost control. - Updated [Prometheus high availability (HA)](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/prometheus-integrations/install-configure/prometheus-high-availability-ha) with a new quick reference table consolidating the three deduplication values and an updated introduction callout. - Updated [AWS integration for metrics manual setup](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/amazon-integrations/aws-integration-for-metrics/manual) by restoring the Firehose configuration section for the manual AWS CloudWatch metric stream setup. - Updated [Manage teams](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/service-architecture-intelligence/teams/manage-teams) with a new Team Hub productivity widgets section documenting data requirements for deployment frequency, change lead time, MTTR, PR cycle time, and open pull requests widgets. ### Minor changes - Updated [Kubernetes integration compatibility and requirements](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/kubernetes-pixie/kubernetes-integration/get-started/kubernetes-integration-compatibility-requirements) to add Kubernetes 1.35 to the supported version range. - Fixed [Events reported by mobile monitoring](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/event-data/events-reported-mobile-monitoring) to correct the `Mobile` and `MobileSession` event session timeout from 10 minutes to 1 minute. - Updated [Monitor workflow execution](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/workflow-automation/manage-workflows/monitor-workflow-execution) to clarify that `TRACE` log level is now available and document its behavior for action output attributes. - Updated [Next.js instrumentation with the Hybrid Agent](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/nodejs-agent/extend-your-instrumentation/nextjs-instrumentation) to add that the Hybrid Agent approach currently only supports Next.js version 16 and above. - Updated [Ruby agent EOL policy](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/ruby-agent/getting-started/ruby-agent-eol-policy) to add Ruby 10.x and its minimum supported version (Ruby 2.6.0). - Updated [Multiple user records](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/account-setup/multiple-user-records) to clarify that removal from an organization's authentication domains is permanent and cannot be undone. - Updated [Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) data locations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/security/security-privacy/compliance/certificates-standards-regulations/dora/dora-data-locations) with revised processing location information. - Fixed [PHP agent troubleshooting for Fargate](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/troubleshooting/fargate-nitro-clock-performance-impact) to correct a broken link. - Updated [Teams](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/service-architecture-intelligence/teams/teams) to clarify permission descriptions for the automations and hierarchies settings page. - Updated [Windows Hosted MSSQL monitoring with NRDOT](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/opentelemetry/database/mssql/windows-hosted) with revised default values for top query collection configuration parameters. ### What's new posts - [Contextual Dashboards now in Catalogs](/whats-new/2026/07/what-new-07-21-contextual) - Custom dashboards can now be linked directly to entities in Catalogs for single-click access to curated metrics. - [Accelerate incident investigation with New Relic Autopilot](/whats-new/2026/07/whats-new-07-21-autopilot) - Autopilot is now generally available as New Relic AI's operations assistant for incident investigation, root cause identification, and remediation recommendations. ### Release notes - Stay up-to-date with our latest releases: - [Node.js agent v14.3.1](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/nodejs-release-notes/node-agent-14-3-1): - Fixed handling of `$0` as a replacement in metric normalization rules to return the matched string in its entirety. - [Node.js agent v14.3.2](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/nodejs-release-notes/node-agent-14-3-2): - Fixed MongoDB host details resolution at operation time to support `mongodb+srv://` clients. - [Node.js agent v14.3.3](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/nodejs-release-notes/node-agent-14-3-3): - Added internal OpenTelemetry API to the agent. - Added on-CPU time collection alongside wall time in `CpuProfiler`. - Fixed unconditional `@opentelemetry/core` require on agent startup. - [Kubernetes integration v4.4.1](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/infrastructure-release-notes/kubernetes-integration-release-notes/kubernetes-integration-4-4-1): - See the [GitHub release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/nri-kubernetes/releases/tag/v4.4.1) for details. Included in `newrelic-infrastructure-4.4.1` and `nri-bundle-8.0.8`. - [Infrastructure agent v1.78.1](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/infrastructure-release-notes/infrastructure-agent-release-notes/new-relic-infrastructure-agent-1781): - Updated the embedded `newrelic-fluent-bit-output` plugin to `v3.7.0` (Windows) to resolve security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-39820, CVE-2026-42499, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-42501, CVE-2026-33811, and CVE-2026-42504. - [NRDOT v1.21.0](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/nrdot-release-notes/nrdot-1-21-0): - Bumped OpenTelemetry component versions from `v0.154.0` to `v0.156.0`. - Bumped `nroracledbreceiver` and `nrsqlserverreceiver` to `v0.156.1`. - [NRDOT Host Monitoring v1.21.0](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/nrdot-release-notes/nrdot-host-1-21-0): - Verified compatibility with `nrdot-collector:1.21.0` for host monitoring use cases. - [NRDOT v1.21.1](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/nrdot-release-notes/nrdot-1-21-1): - Fixed security vulnerability GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf.