PHP sensor releases

PHP sensor 2.4.0 provides the following features:

• Supports PHP 8.5 runtime.
• Installs PHP Tracer when PHP 8.5 runtime is detected.

PHP sensor 2.4.0 provides the following fixes:

• PHP sensor does not override the owner and group permissions of the main php.ini file when updating PHP Tracer INI settings.
• Instana PHP Tracing extension version is correctly updated after installation in the PHP runtime entity for Apache with mpm_prefork configuration.

This release adds support for Apache/HTTPd runtimes that uses a custom configuration file that is specified with the -f option.

This release provides the following fixes:

• Disabling PHP tracing in the PHP sensor plugin configuration com.instana.plugin.php in the agent configuration file automatically uninstalls the PHP Tracing extension from PHP runtimes.
• Changing pinExtensionVersion in the PHP sensor plugin configuration com.instana.plugin.php automatically installs the new pinned extension version in PHP runtimes.

This release provides the following enhancements:

• Enables PHP Tracing extension 5.5.1 by default.
• Adds deprecation comment for the instana.disabled_instrumentation INI in the Instana INI settings.

PHP runtime entities in the Instana UI are updated with the correct installed PHP Tracing extension version after the extension is installed or updated.

The sensor now supports span disabling through the agent configuration YAML file.

The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 5.3.0.

This release provides the following fixes:

• The issue with the detection of custom ServerRoot directory configurations in the Apache web server when using the apache2handler SAPI on Windows is now resolved.

• Fixed a potential memory leak in the static map that tracks installed span filter configuration files per PHP runtime.

• Updated the configuration of the span_filter_config_file INI value to support special characters in absolute paths.

The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 5.1.0.

This release provides the following enhancements:

• The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 5.0.2.
• Compatibility with PHP extension ioncube is improved.
• Restricted functionality for PHP Tracer is now enabled when the ioncube extension is loaded in the PHP runtime.

This release disables PHP auto instrumentation when the following incompatible extensions are detected at PHP runtime:

• ionCube Loader
• SourceGuardian
• New Relic
• Dynatrace
• Datadog

You can now monitor PHP applications that run on Podman.

The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 5.0.1

You can now monitor PHP applications on AWS ECS.

The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 5.0.0.

The PHP Tracing extension now defaults to 4.9.1.

This release provides the followings enhancements:

• Maps the PHP services running in IIS to the IIS Runtime entity.
• Fixes the auto discovery of PHP-CGI SAPI processes in Linux.

PHP-CGI SAPI is now supported on Windows host.

This release fixes an issue where the PHP FPM sensor failed to display FPM metrics in Kubernetes environments that use the CRI-O runtime.

The sensor now includes a new PHP FPM plugin configuration that allows you to opt in or opt out of FPM worker pool monitoring for PHP-FPM.

The PHP-FPM sensor now uses the pm.status_listen endpoint to monitor FPM worker pools if the endpoint is configured. This improvement fixes an issue where FPM idle worker process gets stuck forever and fails to terminate when FPM sensor monitors worker pools with the pm FPM configuration set to ondemand.

The PHP Tracer now supports for FPM instrumentation for Podman containers.

Previously, PHP sensor was instantiated on AIX and Windows only after a successful installation of PHP Tracer. This issue is now fixed.

To fix security vulnerabilities CVE-2024-29131 and CVE-2024-29133, the org.apache.commons_commons-configuration2 library is updated to 2.10.1.

PHP profiling is now generally available when PHP profile sensor 3.0.0 is combined with PHP Tracer 4.0.0.