NodeJS/browser Agent Release Notes

New Feature:Enhanced instrumentation to use the browser directly, reducing code complexity.

New Feature: Added --ctxPropagationOnly flag for minimal instrumentation to support context propagation (OTEL).

New Feature: Added an option for suite-level reporting in Mocha.

New Feature: Made --instrumentOnly a standalone operation for easier front-end artifact management (`dist` folders).

Issue Fix: Resolved regression when mocking HTTP client in tests.

Issue Fix: Fixed TSC error affecting CI.

Issue Fix: Fixed handling of time sync offset for future time calculations.

New Feature: excludeNestedMethods prevents nested methods from being treated as standalone methods. Initial activation may cause false positive code changes.

New Feature: hashIncludeNestedMethods incorporates nested anonymous methods into parent method hash calculations. Initial activation may cause false positive code changes.

New Feature: Introduced an inspector to detect mocked Node modules or global objects that could affect coverage and agent functionality

Issue Fix: Resolved NYC execution issues caused by missing projectRoot in NODE_OPTIONS

Issue fix: Enhanced error handling and logging for the source-map module to improve stability under mocked library conditions.

Issue fix: Bundled @types/form-data@2.5.2 internally and updated documentation to address related issues.

Issue Fix: Corrected parsing of --awsConfigKeysToIgnore value.

New FeatureIntroduced --compressSlMapping to enable SL-mapping compression for better performance.

New Feature: Added omitFootprintsLeadingSlash (and environment variable prefixed by SL_) to remove leading slashes from mapped footprints

New Feature: Add an option to instrument a browser application without the needed for a token (--excludeTokenFromBrowserConfig)

New Feature: Introduced --libraries scan parameter to include specified node_modules in coverage data.

New Feature: Added an error level log in case environment variables affecting Node proxy configuration are found (HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and their lower-case variants)

New Feature: Added --overrideServer option to allow customers define a forward proxy between the agent and the BE.

New Feature: Support sending files in chunks for normal build scanner like in the Java agent

New Feature: cancel default tokenfile and buildsessionidfile for the start/end commands added in 6.1.810

New Feature: Add option to ignore aws config keys

New Feature: Count test failure when an exception occurs in the before/after hooks (mocha test runner)

New Feature: Add support to scan folders starting with dot (.). Can be set with env-var SL_scanDotFolders remote-var scanDotFolders or with cli flag --scanDotFolders true

Issue Fix: fix arrow function naming when it assigned to class property

New Feature: Add support for projectRoot

New Feature: Allow passing projectRoot as env-var when using NODE_OPTIONS with preload

New Feature: Light-weight agent: Run NodeV8Coverage mode via setting env var via executeSync arguments

New Feature:Updated agent to use spawnSync for compatibility with Node.js 20.6.0 and above.

New feature: Give tokenfile and buildsessionidfile default values to find them locally if they exist

New feature: Automatically open execution when using the nycReport command

New feature: Improve awsConfigure settings for lambda layers

New feature: Improved instrumentation using –newInstrumenter

Issue fix: Updated micromatch library due to vulnerabilities

Issue fix: Fixed a minify issue

Issue fix: Fixed the usage of projectRoot for awsConfigure

New feature: Added support for excludedpaths

New feature: Deprecated useslnode2 cli option

New feature: Replaced the usage of Module.runMain() with execSync

New feature: Handle support for .nyc_output folder not having permissions

Issue fix: Improved warning logic for nyc configuration