diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ccc9d08de..1ff02fe3e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 - Enable ext-sodium for PHP 7.2 on stack heroku-16 [David Zuelke]
 - Composer/1.6.3 [David Zuelke]
+- Use Linux abstract socket for New Relic daemon communications [David Zuelke]
 
 ## v130 (2018-01-11)
 
diff --git a/support/build/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/newrelic b/support/build/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/newrelic
index 467fb1639..70c5df9b3 100755
--- a/support/build/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/newrelic
+++ b/support/build/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/newrelic
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ if [[ -n "$NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY" ]]; then
         tail -qF -n 0 /tmp/heroku.ext-newrelic.newrelic-daemon.${PORT}.log 1>&2 &
 
         # daemon start
-        /app/.heroku/php/bin/newrelic-daemon --foreground --logfile "/tmp/heroku.ext-newrelic.newrelic-daemon.${PORT}.log" --loglevel "${NEW_RELIC_LOG_LEVEL}" --pidfile "/tmp/newrelic-daemon.pid" &
+        /app/.heroku/php/bin/newrelic-daemon --foreground --port "@newrelic-daemon" --logfile "/tmp/heroku.ext-newrelic.newrelic-daemon.${PORT}.log" --loglevel "${NEW_RELIC_LOG_LEVEL}" --pidfile "/tmp/newrelic-daemon.pid" &
 
         # give it a moment to connect
         sleep 2
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ mkdir -p ${OUT_PREFIX}/etc/php/conf.d
 cat > ${OUT_PREFIX}/etc/php/conf.d/newrelic.ini-dist <<'EOF'
 extension = newrelic.so
 
-newrelic.daemon.location = /app/.heroku/php/bin/newrelic-daemon
+newrelic.daemon.location = /app/.heroku/php/bin/newrelic-
+newrelic.daemon.port = @newrelic-daemon
 
 newrelic.loglevel = ${NEW_RELIC_LOG_LEVEL}
 newrelic.daemon.loglevel = ${NEW_RELIC_LOG_LEVEL}