Use a latest tag on agent file (https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/)

[gael-donat]

Some of us are using CI/CD to build & install PHP + NewRelic extensions.

Each time you release a new version, you delete the previous file, breaking all CI/CD.

For exemple my CI/CD was using :
https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/newrelic-php5-9.20.0.309-linux.tar.gz

and now this file is gone, replace by :
https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/newrelic-php5-9.20.0.310-linux.tar.gz

Best practice would be to make a https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/newrelic-php5-latest-linux.tar.gz a symlink of the last file, and keep previous files as well for compatibility.

[zsistla]

Hi @gael-donat ,

Please use https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/archive to maintain references to older versions of the agent. This directory contains all previous versions that can be directly referenced for your ci/cd purposes.

https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release is strictly for the latest release only.

For your example, you would use:
https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/archive/9.20.0.310/newrelic-php5-9.20.0.309-linux.tar.gz

[gael-donat]

Ok great ! could you maintain a latest link too ?

[zsistla]

Adding to backlog, thank you for the suggestion.

Create symlinks in the releases directory to the latest release. For example:
newrelic-php5-freebsd.tar.gz
newrelic-php5-linux-musl.tar.gz
newrelic-php5-linux.tar.gz

to always point to latest release files in that directory like the following currently in https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release :

newrelic-php5-9.20.0.310-freebsd.tar.gz
newrelic-php5-9.20.0.310-linux-musl.tar.gz
newrelic-php5-9.20.0.310-linux.tar.gz

[gael-donat]

Yes exactly. That would be awsome. Thank you :)

[eduarguz]

In case you are interested

We use that script to get the latest release

RUN NEWRELIC_FILE=`curl -s "https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/" | grep -o 'newrelic-php5-\(\d\+.\)\+-linux-musl.tar.gz' | head -n 1` || exit; \
  curl -L "https://download.newrelic.com/php_agent/release/${NEWRELIC_FILE}" | tar -C /tmp -zx \
  && export NR_INSTALL_USE_CP_NOT_LN=1 \
  && export NR_INSTALL_SILENT=1 \
  && /tmp/newrelic-php5-*/newrelic-install install