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New Relic PHP agent v9.20.0

New features

• AWS instance metadata service (IMDS) feature now allows AWS IMDSv2 by @robertprast.

New Contributors

• @robertprast made their first contribution. Thanks!!

End of Life Notices

• Support for the Centos 6 / RHEL6 operating systems are deprecated and will be removed by June 2022.

Support statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. For more information on supported agent versions and EOL timelines please consult the following document.

New Relic PHP Agent v9.19.0

New Features

• Added support for 64-bit PHP 8.1! (#177). Compatibility note: Support for PHP 8.1 does not include Fibers.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Symfony 5 auto detect (#113, #256). Thank you @piotrantosik for your contribution!
• Fixed URL of New Relic for PHP docs website used in error messages (#334)
• Fixed URL of New Relic of PHP docs website in README (#254). Thank you @revilon1991 for your contribution!

End of Life Notices

• 32-bit support for PHP versions 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 is deprecated and will be removed by June 2022.
• Support for FreeBSD operating system is deprecated and will be removed by June 2022.
• This will be the last release in which ZTS builds are supported. In the future, ZTS builds may not be provided and support may be completely pulled from the codebase.

Support Statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 8.6.0.

New Relic PHP agent v9.18.1

New features

• Added a Docker development environment. It's now possible for contributors to both develop and test (unit tests and integration tests) without setting up a specific environment on their own system. Please see our documentation for more information.
• Route caching in Laravel 7.x is now supported!. Transaction naming now works with routes cached via php artisan route:cache. @stockalexander, thanks for your contribution!
• Redis::mget and Redis::mset functions are now supported. @b-viguier, thanks for your contribution!

Bug fixes

• Fixed instances where a memory leak was occurring with our curl multi instrumentation.
• Fixed an issue where a supportability metric used to track an edge case was causing a segfault.
• Fixed an issue where PHP versions with an unknown API version were incorrectly handled during Debian package install.
• Fixed instances where parent.transportDuration values are 0 for transactions between two PHP applications instrumented through distributed tracing. @b-viguier, thanks for your contribution!
• Fixed an issue where the newrelic.ini configuration file was incorrectly installed. @b-viguier, thanks for your contribution!

Support statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 8.6.0.

New Relic PHP Agent v9.17.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed instances where the agent's mysqli_commit instrumentation returned a NULL instead of a boolean.
• Fixed an issue where parameters were not passed by reference in the agent's pdo instrumentation. This caused a warning in PHP 8.
• Fixed instances where an Unknown PHP version: 8.0 error was occurring when installing on Debian and Ubuntu systems.

Support Statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 8.6.0.

End of life notices

• This will be the last release in which ZTS builds are supported. In the future, ZTS builds may not be provided, and support may be completely pulled from the codebase.
• New Relic no longer supports PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.4. New Relic highly encourages upgrading to a supported version of PHP. If you would like to continue running the New Relic PHP agent with PHP 5.3 or 5.4, we recommend using version 9.16 of the agent. However, please note that we can only offer limited support in this case.
• Ubuntu LTS versions earlier than 14.04, Ubuntu non-LTS versions earlier than 19.04, and Debian versions earlier than 7 "wheezy" are no longer supported.
• The following frameworks or framework versions are no longer supported and may be removed from future agent builds:
  • Cake PHP 1.x
  • Joomla 1.5, 1.6, and 2.x
  • Kohana
  • Silex 1.x and 2.x
  • Symfony 1.x and 2.x

New features

• The agent now supports 64-bit PHP 8.0! Compatibility note: When PHP 8.0 detects the New Relic agent, it disables JIT.
• mysqli_commit is now instrumented.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a memory leak that occurred when short lived segments throw exceptions.
• Fixed a build up of duplicate distributed tracing headers that sometimes occurred when using file_get_contents.
• Fixed an issue where Laravel Lumen transactions were not being properly named.

Support statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 8.6.0.

Bug fixes

• The Drupal instrumentation now guards against rare conditions that led to PHP processes exiting with an allocation error. Additionally, the allocation routines now log stack traces when they fail.
• When initially building the agent, a parallel build is no longer required to avoid an error about a missing header file (v1.pb-c.h).
• SOAP transactions when using Magento 2.3.2+ are now properly named instead of being attributed to Magento's internal SOAP interceptor. Thanks @steven-hoffman-jomashop for the issue report and fix suggestion!

Support statement

• New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months. As of this release, the oldest supported version is 8.5.0.

Avis de fin de vie

• La prise en charge de PHP 5.3 et PHP 5.4 dans l’agent PHP New Relic est obsolète et sera supprimée dans une future version. New Relic vous encourage vivement à mettre à niveau vers une version prise en charge de PHP - 7.3 ou supérieure à la date de cette sortie. Si vous souhaitez continuer à exécuter l’agent PHP New Relic avec PHP 5.3 et 5.4, nous vous recommandons d’utiliser la version 9.15 de l’agent pour une compatibilité maximale. Cependant, veuillez noter que nous ne pouvons offrir qu’une assistance limitée dans ce cas.
• Cette sortie marque le dernier agent PHP New Relic officiellement pris en charge pour CentOS 5.
• Les builds MacOS de l'agent PHP New Relic ne seront plus fournis, et nous n'assurerons plus la compatibilité sur les plateformes MacOS.
• Pour plus d’informations sur ces avis d’EOL, consultez notre publication sur l’Explorers Hub.

Nouvelles fonctionnalités

• La prise en charge a été ajoutée pour Laminas 3.x.
• La prise en charge a été ajoutée pour Laravel Lumen 6.x, 7.x, et 8.x
• Une prise en charge expérimentale a été ajoutée pour exclure des sous-chemins de l’instrumentation Wordpress. Cela réduit la surcharge globale de l’instrumentation Wordpress, car cela diminue le nombre de fichiers instrumentés, mais au prix d’une perte de visibilité sur le code dans les sous-chemins exclus. Cela peut être activé à l’aide du paramètre du fichier ini newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks_skip_filename.

Débogage

• Correction de la représentation sous forme de chaîne des noms de paramètres arginfo. Merci à @TysonAndre pour cette contribution.

Déclaration de soutien

• New Relic recommande de mettre à jour l'agent régulièrement et au minimum tous les 3 mois. À partir de cette sortie, la plus ancienne version prise en charge est la 8.4.0.

New Features

The PHP agent is now open source!

The agent source code is available and open to contributions. You can now report issues and make feature requests for the agent directly on GitHub. See our README for more information.

Bug Fixes

• Under some circumstances, the agent reported a total time higher than the response time when using Zend_Http_Client. This has been fixed.
• The agent leaked a small amount of memory for each fulfilled Guzzle promise. This has been fixed.
• Calls to newrelic_insert_distributed_trace_headers could cause crashes on PHP 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2. This has been fixed.
• In rare cases, using Guzzle with WordPress and PHP 7.4 caused crashes. This has been fixed.