PHP 8 support

• Added support for PHP 8.0
• Dropped support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0

Distribution Metrics

• Adds support for Distribution Metrics (thanks @rares-mollie 🙏)

Support Default ENV Vars

Supports the default DataDog Environment Variables:

• DD_AGENT_HOST used to provide the Agent hostname.
• DD_DOGSTATSD_PORT used to provide the DogStatsD port.
• DD_ENTITY_ID used to provide an identifier to the Client.

Tags

• Adds TagProcessors so you can dynamically inject tags based on external data
• Adds Client::deleteInstance method to remove instances.
• Correctly closes sockets on destruction of the client.

less strict configuration

• Accepts the port being an integer string '1234'. So you can pass environment variables directly in if required.

Refactor message sending

• Caches the connection to speed up sends
• Better error handling
• Support for larger messages (>8k)

Adding support for histogram

Does what it says on the tin.

Minor Formatting

Rename Release

Renamed the package to dog-statsd

Initial Release

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