At the start of the month I released Xdebug 3.4.1, which fixes a few crash bugs when deciding whether to activate a specific feature.

During the rest of the month, I fixed an issue where PHP 8.4's new property hooks would not show their content in the debugger.

Besides the Xdebug 3.4 general bug fixes, I have also been looking at addressing a long-standing issue where using foreach produces some unexpected results when doing path and branch coverage. I wrote an article called Figuring Out Foreach to explain the problem.

The fix however is trickier, and I am inclined to roll that up into a big patch that refactors Code Coverage into an analysis pass, and a collection pass. The patch sits in a branch and addresses some other long outstanding inaccuracies.

I recently have rebranched this patch on Xdebug's master again, so it is fully functional (minus the foreach changes), but unfortunately it is a little slower than what currently is available in Xdebug. I might decide to release it with this slight performance degradation in Xdebug 3.5 or 3.6 regardless.

I have created one new video in the last two months:

• Xdebug 3.4: Control Socket

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