PHP Monitor 25.06 now available

PHP Monitor 25.06 is now available with a few fresh visual touches and some minor bug fixes. Read more below for details.

While I remain on sick leave for likely the rest of the summer, I am doing better than before (I’m finally starting to get better, after getting surgery to fix serious breathing issues) and recently decided to see if I could get a little update for PHP Monitor out.

I took a look at the latest announcements Apple made at WWDC, and I made a few changes to PHP Monitor to prepare it for this fall’s update to macOS 26. Apple seems to be doing a large visual refresh across their OSes with Liquid Glass, so it’s definitely going to be an interesting release.

The new icon of PHP Monitor can be seen in the Dock, and the menu menu with icons to make each action easier to identify.

With macOS using a simpler strategy for their version numbering, I figured I’d follow suit with this update in preparation for the fall.

As such, this new release is now version 25.06, because it released in the 6th month of 2025. This will be the new version numbering system, as it began to mean increasingly little to be on version 7.2 or something like that. (Ubuntu also uses this versioning system, so you’re perhaps maybe familiar with it there?)

What’s Changed

So, what’s new in this release? Here’s the highlights:

There’s a new versioning system in use. With this release, PHP Monitor now requires macOS 13.5, so please make sure you are on the latest version of macOS. If you are running an older version of macOS, you can continue to use PHP Monitor 7.x.
There’s a new app icon. When macOS Tahoe releases, the icon will be updated for the new look, too, but it will be very similar to the new icon with a touch of Liquid Glass.
PHP Monitor will now display plenty of icons next to the majority of the menu items in the main menu and the context menu. This makes it easier to see where you need to click, and this was a fairly trivial change to make. This, too, is more in line with macOS 26.
A few bugs were also squashed. The most noteworthy one in particular is related to the spinner which was no longer being displayed when you ran commands in the Domains List. This is now fixed.

Let’s be honest: this is no revolutionary new update, but it does contain some nice improvements, especially for app usability.

The new context menu for Domains also has new icons. I found myself sometimes making a mistake and mixing up “secure” and “favorite”, with the icons this is less likely to cause confusion.

This release will be followed later this year with an update to fully bring the app’s design consistent with macOS Tahoe and also brings support for the stable version of PHP 8.5 when it releases.

As always, you can get the new release on GitHub or update via the built-in updater if you already have PHP Monitor installed.

100.000+ downloads!

I also found out today that PHP Monitor has been downloaded over 100K, in fact, over 110K times. That’s incredible. Thank you all for your support, and I hope you continue to find the app very useful.

Fun fact: If you’re ever trying to figure out how many total downloads an app has received via GitHub, don’t forget that the API endpoint pagination caps the releases by default at 30. That’s why I thought we weren’t at 100K yet previously.

Turns out there’s been more than 30 releases of PHP Monitor, and pagination caps at 30 by default. This gives me a little bit more time to properly handle pagination in my command… next time.

After checking out downloads per release, it seems there’s a couple thousand of you out there still using the app in 2025. Keep on trucking! 🚚

As always, I encourage you to sponsor me to keep the updates and support going. PHP Monitor continues to be free and open-source, and this won’t change. If you are interested, you can sponsor me here.