Elastic APM PHP Agent release notes
Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM PHP Agent.
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Release date: January 17, 2025
Release date: January 5, 2025
- Fixed calling post hook if instrumented functions throws #1223
Release date: August 28, 2024
- Experimental support for ARM64 architecture
- Fixed issue causing forked process to hang or crash #1213
Release date: August 20, 2024
- FSet various PHP engine hooks only when the relevant feature is enabled #1211
Release date: July 23, 2024
- Fixed memory leak in exception handling #1174
- Changed exprerimental part of WordPress instrumentation that is measuring latency impact by plugin to be disabled by default #1181
Release date: January 31, 2024
- Added support for PHP 8.3 #1127
- Fixed resetting state for forks #1125
Release date: January 15, 2024
- Removed limitation that required to reinstall the agent after PHP upgrade #1115
- Fixed "malformed UTF-8 characters" issue #1120
Release date: January 4, 2024
- Debug option to collect diagnostic information from PHP worker process #1065
- Enable background (non-blocking) communication with APM Server for any SAPI by default #1079
- Sending metadata.system.architecture and platform #1083
- Improved packaging script to support other architectures and fixed package naming for x86-64 architecture #1067
- Fixed exception handling by improving memory allocation and proper exception object copy #1076
- Fixed building of APM server connection string #1080
- Allow using environment variables passed via FastCGI for agent configuration #1113
Release date: September 12, 2023
- Preview of inferred spans feature. It needs to be enabled manually, please refer to documentation
profiling_inferred_spans_enabled#1038
- Detection and logging if agent source code doesn’t comply open_basedir limitation #1044
Release date: July 6, 2023
- Suppress errors and warnings when internally calling opcache_get_status #1013
Release date: June 22, 2023
- Added container ID detection #966
- Extended span compression support to spans without service target #944
- Added auto-instrumentation for capturing WordPress filters/actions callbacks and the active theme #948
- Added configuration option STACK_TRACE_LIMIT #995
- Added SPAN_STACK_TRACE_MIN_DURATION configuration option #996
- Implemented backoff on failure in communication to APM Server #999
- Fixed not cleaning up connection data in sync backend comm. mode #957
- Fixed crash when
opcache_reset()is used #1000
Release date: May 17, 2023
- Fixed deadlock caused by use of pthread_atfork #964
- Fixed verify_server_cert=false not disabling all the checks related to HTTPS certificate #965
- Fixed not joining background sender thread if there was fork after module init #959
Release date: April 21, 2023
- Fixed issue with missing transaction details on some setups #916
Release date: April 12, 2023
- Fixed agent issue causing PHP to crash when opcache preload feature was enabled #913
Release date: March 9, 2023
- Fix for the agent causing very high CPU usage because it’s creating frequent connections to Elastic APM Server #877
Release date: February 27, 2023
- Added support for PHP 8.2 #868
Release date: February 24, 2023
- Fixed: case when process fork happens during request processing #857
Release date: January 16, 2023
- Fixed: php apm segfaults on a zend error/php warning #834
Release date: October 13, 2022
- Added support for automatically capturing MySQLi: #688
Release date: November 17, 2022
- Backported support for automatically capturing MySQLi: #688
Release date: September 12, 2022
- Fixed: Current implementation for Improved Granularity for SQL Databases doesn’t account for SQL USE statement: #759
Release date: August 22, 2022
- Added inferred spans to automatically detect slow functions (as an experimental feature disabled by default): #731
- Improved granularity for SQL databases: #732
- Implemented default type for transactions and spans: #733
- Implemented support for Dependencies table: #748
- Improved transaction name for Laravel’s
artisancommand - now includes the first argument: #714
Release date: June 20, 2022
- Fixed bug: Agent destroys error code for curl calls: #707
Release date: May 30, 2022
- Fixed bug: Forked process runs indefinitely: #691
Release date: March 29, 2022
- Added support for PHP 8.1: #604
Release date: February 17, 2022
- Create error events only for PHP error types included in
error_reporting(): #625
Release date: February 14, 2022
- Fixed error events not being created for PHP errors: #619
Release date: January 10, 2022
- Background (non-blocking) communication with APM Server: #584
Release date: October 18, 2021
- DISABLE_SEND configuration option: #559
- DISABLE_INSTRUMENTATIONS configuration option: #565
- DEV_INTERNAL configuration option: #566
Release date: September 1, 2021
Release date: June 29, 2021
- Collecting data for
Error ratechart: #441 - HOSTNAME configuration option: #440
- Collecting data for
Time spent by span typechart: #436 ensureParentId()API: #431
- Fixed missing subtype and action for DB spans and DB not showing on
Service Map: #443
Release date: June 1, 2021
Release date: April 1, 2021
Release date: March 23, 2021
- Added support for distributed tracing: #283
- Added Error events: #282
- Add support for TRANSACTION_MAX_SPANS configuration option : #260
- Added SERVER_TIMEOUT configuration option: #245
- Automatically capture stack trace for spans: #232
- Added VERIFY_SERVER_CERT configuration option: #225
- Implemented sampling (TRANSACTION_SAMPLE_RATE): #216