# APM Insight Python Agent - Release Notes

## Python Version 1.8.1

**Release Date:** 25-05-2026

#### **Enhancements**

- Support for Falcon Framework (WSGI).
- Support for improved Celery background transaction monitoring.
- Support for Gunicorn Gevent worker process.
- Support for Async RabbitMQ (aio_pika module).
- Added support in the Auto Profiler to read the process user identifier (UID), process monitoring rule, and server monitor key and include them in the ARH/connect request.
- Updated the Auto Profiler Python Docker image with architecture-specific agent builds and improved agent source paths.
- Added support for capturing HTTP status codes, request headers, and response headers for the following libraries: http, httplib, httpx, urllib, and urllib3.
- Added connection failure detection for pymysql, memcache, and redis components.
- Implemented a single-threaded scheduler to handle tasks and application parameter aggregation.
- Added support for async Redis calls and capturing connection details in the redis module.
- Added support for async HTTP calls in the httpx module.
- Added context-based capturing of MySQL calls in the PyMySQL module.
- Added background transaction support for RabbitMQ Pika consumer callbacks.
- Implemented context switching from thread local to greenlet at module load time.

#### **Issues Fixed**

- Resolved an agent initialization failure in macOS environments caused by the logger object returning a NoneType value.
- Fixed issue with FastAPI tracker returning None when closing transactions.
- Fixed bug in capturing synchronous Redis calls.

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## Python Version 1.6.3

**Release Date:** 16-06-2025

#### **Enhancements**

- Support for RabbitMQ as a message broker.
- AWS ECS environments are now automatically identified as Docker environments.
- PyMySQL module implementation has been moved to objectproxy.

#### **Issues Fixed**

- The issue in mysqlclient where host details could not be fetched has been fixed.

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## Python Version 1.6.1

**Release Date:** 21-04-2025

#### **Enhancements**

- Supported WSGI servers: Waitress, Cheroot, WSGIRef, and Werkzeug.

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## Python Version 1.5.3

**Release Date:** 06-01-2025

#### **Issues Fixed**

- Traces are not getting captured in the Flask framework if the transaction returned a custom response code has been fixed.
- High CPU utilization by Python agent, if the Data exporter is not reachable has been fixed.

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## Python Version 1.5

**Release Date:** 28-10-2024

#### **Enhancements**

- Support for distributed tracing.
- Support for stack trace queries.
- Support for capturing IPv4 addresses.
- Support for asynchronous call capture in Django ASGI applications.
- Support for async component modules: AIOREDIS, AREDIS, AIOMYSQL, ASYNCPG, and Redis async client.
- Support for PyMongo module.
- Support for Psycopg2 parameterized query object extraction.
- Support for FastAPI and Starlette frameworks.
- Support for PyMssql, PyODBC, OracleDB, and cx_Oracle modules.
- Support for Docker environment detection and ID retrieval from the mountinfo file.
- Support for Tornado and Streamlit frameworks.
- Support for custom Instrumentation.
- Support for Tracker and TransactionContext class APIs.
- Support for async_cron module.
- Support for capturing celery background task.
- The license key has been added to every request made by the Data Exporter.
- NoSQL regex modifications implemented for the data exporter.

#### **Issues fixed**

- Memory issues caused by **txn** object references remaining after metric processing have been resolved.
- The issue with the transaction name in the Traces tab being appended with an incorrect HTTP hostname has been resolved.
- The issue related to a Flask bug in the view wrapper has been resolved.

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## Python Version 1.1

**Release Date:** 25-09-2023

#### **Enhancements**

- Supported Frameworks: Django, Flask, CherryPy, Pyramid, and Bottle.
- Supported databases and components: PyMySQL, Psycopg2, Pymemcache, Redis, SQLite, Cassandra, Jinja2, Genshi, and Mako.
- Supported HTTP libraries: http.client, httplib2, httpx, urllib, urllib3.
- Introduced data exporter for Python agent which help us to reduce the load on Python agent.
- Support for custom log directory has been added.