8.11.0 - January 30, 2025

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New features and improvements

• Conform to new error reporting requirement in SolarWinds Observability.

• Support PHP 8.4 (PHP 8.4 support starts from debian:10, excluding amazonlinux:2 and centos:8).

• Changed QueryTag attribute to sw.query_tag.

• Set sw.span_kind of each span.

Fixes

• Fixed SpanRef and ContextOpId attributes.

Common APM library updates: liboboe 16.0.0

• Continue support for glibc version 2.26+ systems such as amazonlinux:2 and centos:8.

• Added defer_init support for Ruby resque instrumentation.

• Fixed wrong codes return from oboe_is_ready function.

• Internal fixes and improvements for boost logging, threading deadlock on Windows, shutdown delay, and memory leakage.

8.10.0 - August 21, 2024

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New features and improvements

• Removed the local sample rate and token bucket configuration.

• Added support for Laravel 11 instrumentation.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with custom instrumentation API solarwinds_apm_metric_summary and solarwinds_apm_metrics_increment.

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 15.0.1

• Internal improvement

8.9.0 - June 7, 2024

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New features and improvements

• The telemetry.sdk.language attribute has been added to traces and metrics.

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 15.0.0

• Breaking change:

  • Added the following function in oboe.h to append attributes to metrics:

    void oboe_metrics_attributes_upsert(const char* key, const char* value)
bool oboe_metrics_attributes_remove(const char* key)
    

• Fix:

  • Fixed file logging append functionality.

8.8.1 - April 29, 2024

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Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 14.1.1

• Removed base64 header.
• Fixed CodeQL alert.

8.8.0 - April 2, 2024

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Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 14.1.0

• Added exception handling in HttpAsyncClient class.

Fixes

• The upgrade to liboboe 14.1.0 fixed an exception handling issue when the PHP APM library didn't have permission to access network resource.

8.7.0 - February 22, 2024

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New features and improvements

• Added logging about the PHP runtime during start up.

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 14.0.3

• Support of layer setting resolution has been removed.

Fixes

• Fixed an empty header issue in curl instrumentation.

Support changes

• Added PHP 8.3 support.

8.6.0 - August 23, 2023

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Support changes

• Added Laravel 7 support

8.5.0 - August 17, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Custom transaction name API works when the request is not sampled.
• The solarwinds-apm.enable_wrap_* configuration options are available. These options can be used to temporarily disable instrumentation for troubleshooting purposes.

Common APM library updates: Update to liboboe 13.0.0

• Sampling roll dice logic no longer results in a bug for edge cases.
• k8s.pod.name is sent only when the library is running in Kubernetes.

8.4.0 - July 17, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Sends metrics formats based on whether the library is sending data to the AppOptics collector endpoint or the SolarWinds Observability SaaS collector endpoint.

Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.4.0

• Gather k8s metadata to correlate the service with Kubernetes entities.
• Extraneous _V key value pairs are no longer created and sent to SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

Fixes

• Deprecated Message key is removed, ErrorType is no longer sent, and fake error events for HTTP 5XX errors are no longer included in error log instrumentation.
• Obsolete key value pair (PreDownload time) is removed for curl instrumentation.

8.3.1 - June 15, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Removed obsolete key-value pair (cURL_URL and ResponseCode) for curl instrumentation.

Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.3.1

• The error log message now has the correct severity level.

Fixes

• The RemoteHost attribute is no longer missing in the php_mysqli span.

8.3.0 - May 24, 2023

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Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.3.0

• Installed SolarWinds Observability Agents are identified more reliably by retrieving the client ID with the REST API.

Fixes

• Service names use the correct overrides when the service key is defined separately in both the INI file and the directory or virtual host (vhost) level.

Support changes

• Laravel 10 is supported.

8.2.0 - May 2, 2023

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New features and improvements

• api.php is updated to support the new trace context in logs format.

Common APM library updates: update to liboboe 12.2.0

• AWS and Azure VM metadata is reported for Service and Host correlation.

8.1.0 - March 22, 2023

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Improvements:

• liboboe is upgraded to version 12.1.0. liboboe 12.1.0 adds the ability to retrieve AWS EC2 and Azure VM metadata, fixes a threading locking issue, and allows messages to be ingested without an HTTP status code tag applied.
• RemoteHost / RemoteURL / connection string credentials are removed.
• Verifies libstdc++ exists for Alpine Linux and adds it upon installation if necessary.

8.0.1 - February 14, 2023

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Improvements:

• Updates to __Init message.

Fixes:

• solarwinds-apm.enable_sanitize_sql configuration correctly sanitizes queries.

Supported changes:

• PHP 8.2

8.0.0 - January 18, 2023

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Changes:

• Fixed duplicated value for agent metrics for phpinfo()
• Upgraded to liboboe version 12.0.0. liboboe 12.0.0 restores support of alpine 3.12, upgrades gRPC to v1.51.1, upgrades boost to 1.80.0, and removes support for CentOS, Redhat 7, and ubuntu 16.04.

7.2.0 - November 17, 2022

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Changes:

• Updated to liboboe 11.0.0 to support using the AppOptics endpoint with default certificates.
• Fixed curl instrumentation compatibility issues with PHP 8.x.

7.1.2 - September 28, 2022

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New features:

• Support for a new unified metrics format with an update to liboboe 10.6.1. See SolarWinds Observability SaaS October 2022 release notes for details of the unified metrics, why you should upgrade your library, and follow up actions that may be necessary after upgrading your library.

Breaking changes:

• Updated start trace SDK to use a traceparent and tracestate parameter instead of the previous xtrace edge parameter. See PHP SDK reference.

Fixes:

• Updated oboe API.
• Updated api.php. See PHP SDK reference.

7.1.1 - August 4, 2022

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Fixes:

• Span ID of trace context in queries

7.1.0 - July 18, 2022

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New features:

• The installer script now includes an option to specify a collector endpoint.
• The library now reports the SolarWinds Observability Agent's client ID so the relationship between the host entity and the services entity is detected and shown in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

Fixes:

• Updated service key masking logic.

7.0.0 - July 16, 2022

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New features:

• Added masking for service key in phpinfo().
• Added collector configuration.

Fixes:

• Fix installer script.

Supported systems:

• Removed support for alpine 3.9, 3.10. 3.11, 3.12 and added support for alpine 3.13+
• Removed support for Laravel instrumentation for version 5.5 and 5.8 and added support for Laravel 9 instrumentation

6.0.0 - April 29, 2022

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• Initial SolarWinds Observability PHP Library release.