From 53a12c23b1130264a1c0141972a558f67565ad1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbedell-newrelic <126519854+jbedell-newrelic@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 12:09:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 8.21.0 MemoryLeak changes
It was discovered that v8.21.0 could produce a memory leak in certain situations with Netty Reactor due to the changes included here.
---
.../java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx b/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
index 95ca964f3dc..deeae669134 100644
--- a/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
+++ b/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ features: [“Enhances visibility into Reactor flatMap calls”, ”Adds new ins
bugs: [“Fixes the distributed_tracing.sampler config”, “Fixes an Illegal Access Error that can occur when using Scala 2.12 and JDK 11”, “Fixes the netty.http2.frame_read_listener.start_transaction configuration”, “Adds a restriction on when to add distributed trace headers for SQS messages”, “Allows the org.crac JAR to be shadowed”, “Backports NullPointerException fix to older versions of vertx-core instrumentation”, “Prevents excessive transaction segments from being created by HttpUrlConnection method calls”]
security: [“Upgrades the com.newrelic.agent.java:infinite-tracing-protobuf for better security with infinite tracing”, “Replaces snakeyaml with com.konloch:safeyaml to address a security vulnerability”]
---
+
+**Known issues**: this release has a known issue with certain uses of Netty Reactor that can cause memory leaks.
+Please consider using another version.
+
+
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 19:49:21 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix formatting and wording in java-agent-8210 release
notes
---
.../agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx b/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
index deeae669134..69189281948 100644
--- a/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
+++ b/src/content/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/java-release-notes/java-agent-8210.mdx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ bugs: [“Fixes the distributed_tracing.sampler config”, “Fixes an Illegal A
security: [“Upgrades the com.newrelic.agent.java:infinite-tracing-protobuf for better security with infinite tracing”, “Replaces snakeyaml with com.konloch:safeyaml to address a security vulnerability”]
---
-**Known issues**: this release has a known issue with certain uses of Netty Reactor that can cause memory leaks.
+**Known issues**: This release has a known issue with certain uses of Netty Reactor that can cause memory leaks.
Please consider using another version.