# What changed in newrelic

> 11 changes in newrelic 13 to 14 from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories: 1 breaking, 1 security, 5 new APIs and options. Each one cited. Sources checked 2026-10-25. HTML: https://unstale.sh/pypi/newrelic/

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## newrelic 14

### Breaking changes

- The agent no longer supports Python 3.9; upgrade to a supported Python version to continue receiving updates. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)

### Security

- Updates the internal urllib3 package to resolve all current urllib3 CVEs. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)

### New APIs and options

- Instrumentation was added for the OpenAI SDK's Responses API methods, alongside existing Chat Completions instrumentation. (14.1.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.1.0)
- The agent now supports the Valkey `hsetex` command. (14.1.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.1.0)
- Adds instrumentation for Microsoft Azure Service Bus. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)
- Adds Kinesis instrumentation support for this method. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)
- Adds a setting for Azure App Service utilization, enabling entity relationship mapping. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)

### Behavior and default changes

- Updates instrumentation to support Google ADK v2.10.0 and above. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)

### Fixes and other changes

- Fixes duplicate distributed tracing headers that could produce a malformed traceparent value. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)
- Fixes direct setup.py installation on Python 3.12 and above, where removal of distutils caused an ImportError. (14.0.0) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v14.0.0)

## newrelic 13

### Fixes and other changes

- Fixes botocore instrumentation issues with signed distributed tracing headers by reverting a header change to avoid duplicates and disabling signing for these headers. (13.6.1) — [release notes](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-python-agent/releases/tag/v13.6.1)