PHP agent release notesRSS

New Features

• Unified view for SQL database and NoSQL data stores
  The agent will now provide a breakdown of SQL operations according to the database product being used. This is in addition to the existing breakdown of SQL statements and operations. For NoSQL data stores, the agent will now provide a similar breakdown of the operations performed.
• Memcached and Redis time reported separately
  Previously, the agent grouped Memcached and Redis operations into a single Memcached category. This is no longer the case. Time spent performing Memcached or Redis operations are separate.

Bug Fixes

• Laravel transaction naming improvements
  Prior to this version, Laravel applications that had replaced the default router service could find that, in some circumstances, their transactions would be named as "unknown" rather than being correctly named from the route. This has been improved: replacement router services will now get appropriate transaction naming provided that they either implement filtering or ensure that the same events are fired as the default Laravel router.

New Features

• Support for synthetic monitoring.

  The PHP agent now gives you additional information for requests from synthetic monitors when the newrelic.synthetics.enabled setting is enabled. The agent records more transaction traces and events for synthetic-originated requests to give you a clearer look into how your application is performing around the world.

  For more details, see https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/new-relic-synthetics/getting-s...

• Add a new newrelic_record_custom_event API function.

  This API function allows you to add custom events to New Relic's Insights product. For more information, please see: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/insights/new-relic-insights/adding-queryi...

• The daemon now uses openssl 1.0.1k, rather than 1.0.1j.

Bug Fixes

• The agent properly recognizes prepared statements constructed with mysqli_stmt::__construct().
• The newrelic-install script has been fixed to once again work for users with custom extension_dir settings.

Notes

• The ability to set the appname to a string like: %{FOO} and have FOO expand into the environment variable was removed.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a memory leak affecting newrelic_add_custom_parameter API function.

Bug Fixes

• The agent now uses the route pattern as the transaction name for unnamed, closure-based routes under Laravel. For example, the following route will now be named hello/{name} instead of GET/index.php.

Route::get('hello/{name}', function($name) { return "Hello ${name}!"; });

• Previously the agent could fail to detect the Laravel framework when artisan optimize was used. This has been fixed.
• When the agent cannot determine a transaction name for the Laravel framework, the name "unknown" will be used instead of "laravel-routing-error". The latter implied the cause of the failure may have originated within Laravel itself rather than solely within the agent's instrumentation.

New Features

• The daemon now uses openssl 1.0.1j, rather than 1.0.1h.

• Support for generating explain plans for SELECT queries issued using the PDO MySQL driver has been added.

  When the newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_enabled setting is enabled and a SELECT query is issued through a PDO connection to MySQL that takes longer than newrelic.transaction_tracer.explain_threshold, an explain plan will be generated and will appear within the query analysis section of the slow SQL trace.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue that could cause some background task metrics to be attributed to web transactions and some web transaction metrics to be attributed to background tasks. This could affect Drupal customers whose applications use drupal_cron_run.
• This release changes the handling of HTTP Referer headers to always strip query parameters before reporting to New Relic. Previously, any query parameters present in a Referer header would be reported to New Relic by the PHP agent.
• Fix an issue where urls using the file: protocol scheme with curl_exec() would cause the agent to record external metrics. This has been corrected and the agent will no longer treat file urls as external services.

New Features

• Support for agent-side configuration of application labels using the newrelic.labels INI setting has been added. New Relic enables you to label and organize your apps so they "roll up" into an unlimited number of meaningful categories. You can also easily sort, filter, and page through all the applications on your account's Applications list. See the New Relic APM documentation and the PHP agent (newrelic.ini) settings documentation for more details.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue that could prevent capturing database table name for prepared statements on PHP 5.6.

Bug Fixes

• Fix an edge case segfault that could occur in situations where the daemon failed to initialize.

New Features

• Added support for the PHP Agent on Heroku

  We now support running PHP Applications on Heroku using the New Relic for Web Apps add-on.

  For more information, see PHP agent and Heroku and the Heroku Dev Center documentation.

New Features

• Added two new attributes to transaction events: errorMessage and errorType. These attributes allow for the tracking of errors within the Insights product. As a result, error messages will no longer be recorded if the agent is in high-security mode.
• Background tasks will now create Transaction events which can be tracked in the Insights product.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed request queuing metrics support The PHP Agent will now allow the leading t= prefix to be optional when parsing HTTP_X_REQUEST_START and X-Request-Start headers. Previously, the header would be treated as absent if no leading t= was included.
• Fixed presentation of the newrelic.daemon.proxy setting in phpinfo() The phpinfo() function will now display a value of no value as the default for the newrelic.daemon.proxy setting. Previously, it would incorrectly display a value of ***INVALID FORMAT***.