- Introduces numerous new features: Docker memory soft limit metric, host tags for Docker Swarm node role, multi‑URL import command, read buffer size option for DogStatsD, histogram‑to‑distribution flags (beta), encrypted password fetching...
- Breaking changes include: proxy URLs with https:// will now be contacted via HTTPS (requiring http:// for compatibility), default configuration moved from Docker image env vars to datadog.yaml (affecting users relying on env‑var defaults...
- Extensive bug fixes across metrics, Docker handling, JMXFetch, Kubernetes events, Windows checks, log formatting, and source field duplication, along with deprecation of duplicated Python core‑agent check code in favor of the integration...
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Auto‑enable logon duration when infrastructure mode end‑user device is set, still overridable via config.
Fixed Windows Agent install/upgrade where DDAGENTUSER arguments were overridden by stale registry or service account values.
Enable automatic multi‑line log detection by default; can be disabled via logs.config.auto_multi_line_detection or the corresponding env var.