New features

• We are now creating more spans to give you better insights into the performance of your application
  • Add a http.client span. This span indicates the time that is spent when using the Laravel HTTP client (#585)
  • Add a http.route span. This span indicates the time that is spent inside a controller method or route closure (#593)
  • Add a db.transaction span. This span indicates the time that is spent inside a database transaction (#594)
• Add support for Dynamic Sampling
  • Add support for Dynamic Sampling (#572)

Breaking changes

• Laravel Lumen is no longer supported
  • Drop support for Laravel Lumen (#579)
• Laravel versions 5.0 - 5.8 are no longer supported
  • Drop support for Laravel 5.x (#581)
• Remove Sentry\Integration::extractNameForRoute(), it's alternative Sentry\Integration::extractNameAndSourceForRoute() is marked as @internal (#580)
• Remove internal Sentry\Integration::currentTracingSpan(), use SentrySdk::getCurrentHub()->getSpan() if you were using this internal method (#592)

Other changes

• Set the tracing transaction name on the Illuminate\Routing\Events\RouteMatched instead of at the end of the request (#580)
• Remove extracting route name or controller for transaction names (#583). This unifies the transaction names to a more concise format.
• Simplify Sentry meta tag retrieval, by adding Sentry\Laravel\Integration::sentryMeta() (#586)
• Fix tracing with nested queue jobs (mostly when running jobs in the sync driver) (#592)