December 2015 Summaries

Sentry has released version 2.0.0 of its client JavaScript integration library, Raven.js, with several major changes from the previous version. The new version now transmits error reports to the Sentry server using HTTP POST, which removes limitations on browser URI character length limits and allows for additional data fields to be transmitted without worry. Additionally, Raven.js 2.0.0 extends browser built-ins like setTimeout and addEventListener to automatically wrap and capture errors from functions, providing better stack trace results in certain browsers. The jQuery, Native, and Backbone plugins have been removed as they are no longer necessary, and a new plugin API has been introduced with improved CommonJS support. The project is now following Semver, ensuring that future incompatible API changes will constitute a new major version. Users can get started with the latest version by serving it directly from the Sentry CDN or installing it using npm.

We've added a feature to set organization-wide project maximums, allowing users to limit the quota usage of individual projects to prevent data loss for lower-volume projects. This new setting can be found on the organization's dashboard under Rate Limits, and is intended to resolve issues caused by majority-project data sending. The default setting is around 90%, which should suffice for most organizations.

The text discusses the introduction of "notification digests," an error monitoring feature aimed at reducing notification fatigue for users. This feature, which is a balance between prompt issue notifications and overall reduction in project notifications, sends an initial notification followed by periodic summary notifications during periods of high error rates. Users can adjust the frequency of these summary notifications through a panel in project settings.