Jun 23, 2026
Host metrics collection zombie process fix
Ruby4.8.6
Fixed
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Fix host-metrics leaking zombie
[timeout]processes in Alpine linux containers.Before this release AppSignal agent relied on a proper init process that reaps child processes killed by system
timeout. Now the agent terminates and reaps unresponsive child processes in host-metrics collection and a subreaper is no longer required.
View the Ruby gem v4.8.6 changelog for more information.