--- title: Elastic APM PHP Agent release notes description: Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM PHP Agent. To check for security updates, go to Security announcements for the Elastic... url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/release-notes/apm/agents/php products: - APM Agent - APM PHP Agent applies_to: - Serverless Observability projects: Generally available - Elastic Stack: Generally available - Application Performance Monitoring Agent for PHP: Generally available --- # Elastic APM PHP Agent release notes Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic APM PHP Agent. To check for security updates, go to [Security announcements for the Elastic stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31). ## 1.16.0 **Release date:** March 11, 2026 ### Features and enhancements - Added configuration option to switch error capture from native to PHP [#1415](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1415) ## 1.15.1 **Release date:** June 27, 2025 ### Fixes - Cleaned up background sending cURL handle after forking [#1328](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1328) ## 1.15.0 **Release date:** January 17, 2025 ### Features and enhancements - Add php 8.4 compatibility #1255 - Added warning log for Xdebug incompatibility [#1256](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1256) and [#1257](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1257) ## 1.14.1 **Release date:** January 5, 2025 ### Fixes - Fixed calling post hook if instrumented functions throws [#1223](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1223) ## 1.14.0 **Release date:** August 28, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Experimental support for ARM64 architecture ### Fixes - Fixed issue causing forked process to hang or crash [#1213](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1213) ## 1.13.2 **Release date:** August 20, 2024 ### Fixes - FSet various PHP engine hooks only when the relevant feature is enabled [#1211](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1211) ## 1.13.1 **Release date:** July 23, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Fixed memory leak in exception handling [#1174](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1174) - Changed exprerimental part of WordPress instrumentation that is measuring latency impact by plugin to be disabled by default [#1181](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1181) ## 1.13.0 **Release date:** January 31, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Added support for PHP 8.3 [#1127](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1127) ### Fixes - Fixed resetting state for forks [#1125](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1125) ## 1.12.0 **Release date:** January 15, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Removed limitation that required to reinstall the agent after PHP upgrade [#1115](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1115) - Fixed "malformed UTF-8 characters" issue [#1120](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1120) ## 1.11.0 **Release date:** January 4, 2024 ### Features and enhancements - Debug option to collect diagnostic information from PHP worker process [#1065](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1065) - Enable background (non-blocking) communication with APM Server for any SAPI by default [#1079](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1079) - Sending metadata.system.architecture and platform [#1083](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1083) ### Fixes - Improved packaging script to support other architectures and fixed package naming for x86-64 architecture [#1067](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1067) - Fixed exception handling by improving memory allocation and proper exception object copy [#1076](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1076) - Fixed building of APM server connection string [#1080](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1080) - Allow using environment variables passed via FastCGI for agent configuration [#1113](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1113) ## 1.10.0 **Release date:** September 12, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Preview of inferred spans feature. It needs to be enabled manually, please refer to documentation [`profiling_inferred_spans_enabled`](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/apm/agents/php/configuration-reference#config-profiling-inferred-spans-enabled) [#1038](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1038) ### Fixes - Detection and logging if agent source code doesn’t comply open_basedir limitation [#1044](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1044) ## 1.9.1 **Release date:** July 6, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Added configuration option: GLOBAL_LABELS [#1007](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1007) - Introduced new C++ build environment [#985](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#985) ### Fixes - Suppress errors and warnings when internally calling opcache_get_status [#1013](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/#1013) ## 1.9.0 **Release date:** June 22, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Added container ID detection [#966](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/966) - Extended span compression support to spans without service target [#944](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/944) - Added auto-instrumentation for capturing WordPress filters/actions callbacks and the active theme [#948](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/948) - Added configuration option STACK_TRACE_LIMIT [#995](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/995) - Added SPAN_STACK_TRACE_MIN_DURATION configuration option [#996](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/996) - Implemented backoff on failure in communication to APM Server [#999](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/999) ### Fixes - Fixed not cleaning up connection data in sync backend comm. mode [#957](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/957) - Fixed crash when [`opcache_reset()`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.opcache-reset.php) is used [#1000](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/1000) ## 1.8.4 **Release date:** May 17, 2023 ### Fixes - Fixed deadlock caused by use of pthread_atfork [#964](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/964) - Fixed verify_server_cert=false not disabling all the checks related to HTTPS certificate [#965](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/965) - Fixed not joining background sender thread if there was fork after module init [#959](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/959) ## 1.8.3 **Release date:** April 21, 2023 ### Fixes - Fixed issue with missing transaction details on some setups [#916](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/916) ## 1.8.2 **Release date:** April 12, 2023 ### Fixes - Fixed agent issue causing PHP to crash when opcache preload feature was enabled [#913](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/913) ## 1.8.1 **Release date:** March 9, 2023 ### Fixes - Fix for the agent causing very high CPU usage because it’s creating frequent connections to Elastic APM Server [#877](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/877) ## 1.8.0 **Release date:** February 27, 2023 ### Features and enhancements - Added support for PHP 8.2 [#868](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/868) ## 1.7.2 **Release date:** February 24, 2023 ### Fixes - Fixed: case when process fork happens during request processing [#857](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/857) ## 1.7.1 **Release date:** January 16, 2023 ### Fixes - Fixed: php apm segfaults on a zend error/php warning [#834](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/834) ## 1.7.0 **Release date:** October 13, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Added support for automatically capturing MySQLi: [#688](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/688) ### Fixes - Fixed: Inferred spans when used with Laravel: [#796](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/796) - Fixed: CustomErrorData not found issue: [#797](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/797) ## 1.6.2 **Release date:** November 17, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Backported support for automatically capturing MySQLi: [#688](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/688) ## 1.6.1 **Release date:** September 12, 2022 ### Fixes - Fixed: Current implementation for Improved Granularity for SQL Databases doesn’t account for SQL USE statement: [#759](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/759) ## 1.6.0 **Release date:** August 22, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Added inferred spans to automatically detect slow functions (as an experimental feature disabled by default): [#731](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/731) - Improved granularity for SQL databases: [#732](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/732) - Implemented default type for transactions and spans: [#733](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/733) - Implemented support for Dependencies table: [#748](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/748) - Improved transaction name for Laravel’s `artisan` command - now includes the first argument: [#714](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/714) ## 1.5.2 **Release date:** June 20, 2022 ### Fixes - Fixed bug: Agent destroys error code for curl calls: [#707](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/707) ## 1.5.1 **Release date:** May 30, 2022 ### Fixes - Fixed bug: Forked process runs indefinitely: [#691](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/691) ## 1.5.0 **Release date:** March 29, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Added support for PHP 8.1: [#604](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/604) ## 1.4.2 **Release date:** February 17, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Create error events only for PHP error types included in [`error_reporting()`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php): [#625](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/625) ## 1.4.1 **Release date:** February 14, 2022 ### Fixes - Fixed error events not being created for PHP errors: [#619](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/619) ## 1.4.0 **Release date:** January 10, 2022 ### Features and enhancements - Background (non-blocking) communication with APM Server: [#584](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/584) ## 1.3.1 **Release date:** October 18, 2021 ### Features and enhancements - DISABLE_SEND configuration option: [#559](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/559) - DISABLE_INSTRUMENTATIONS configuration option: [#565](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/565) - DEV_INTERNAL configuration option: [#566](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/566) ## 1.3.0 **Release date:** September 1, 2021 ### Features and enhancements - SERVICE_NODE_NAME configuration option: [#458](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/458) - URL_GROUPS configuration option: [#537](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/537) ## 1.2.0 **Release date:** June 29, 2021 ### Features and enhancements - Collecting data for `Error rate` chart: [#441](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/441) - HOSTNAME configuration option: [#440](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/440) - Collecting data for `Time spent by span type` chart: [#436](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/436) - `ensureParentId()` API: [#431](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/431) ### Fixes - Fixed missing subtype and action for DB spans and DB not showing on `Service Map`: [#443](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/443) ## 1.1.0 **Release date:** June 1, 2021 ### Features and enhancements - Support for PHP 8.0: [#365](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/365) - Support for Central (AKA Remote) Agents Configuration [#134](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/134) ## 1.0.1 **Release date:** April 1, 2021 ### Fixes - Fixed missing query string: [#390](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/390) - Fixed $_SERVER not set when auto_globals_jit = On: [#392](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/392) ## 1.0.0 **Release date:** March 23, 2021 ### Features and enhancements - Added support for distributed tracing: [#283](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/283) - Added Error events: [#282](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/282) - Add support for TRANSACTION_MAX_SPANS configuration option : [#260](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/260) - Added SERVER_TIMEOUT configuration option: [#245](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/245) - Automatically capture stack trace for spans: [#232](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/232) - Added VERIFY_SERVER_CERT configuration option: [#225](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/225) - Implemented sampling (TRANSACTION_SAMPLE_RATE): [#216](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/216) ### Fixes - Small fixes to examples in docs: [#355](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/355) - Exclude query string from a transaction name: [#285](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/285) - Added check that the corresponding extension is loaded before instrumenting it: [#228](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-php/pull/228)