fix: remove unused

Author: ablaszkiewicz

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 7.4.0 - 2025-12-06
+
+fix: remove unused $exception_message
+
 # 7.3.0 - 2025-12-05
 
 feat: improve code variables capture masking

posthog/client.py

@@ -1002,9 +1002,6 @@ def capture_exception(
 
             properties = {
                 "$exception_type": all_exceptions_with_trace_and_in_app[0].get("type"),
-                "$exception_message": all_exceptions_with_trace_and_in_app[0].get(
-                    "value"
-                ),
                 "$exception_list": all_exceptions_with_trace_and_in_app,
                 **properties,
             }

posthog/test/test_client.py

@@ -201,9 +201,6 @@ def test_basic_capture_exception_with_no_exception_given(self):
             self.assertEqual(
                 capture_call[1]["properties"]["$exception_type"], "Exception"
             )
-            self.assertEqual(
-                capture_call[1]["properties"]["$exception_message"], "test exception"
-            )
             self.assertEqual(
                 capture_call[1]["properties"]["$exception_list"][0]["mechanism"][
                     "type"

posthog/version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = "7.3.0"
+VERSION = "7.3.1"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(VERSION, end="")  # noqa: T201