Xdebug 3.2

Xdebug 3.2.0 got released at the start of December, to coincide with the release of PHP 8.2 which it supports, after fixing a last crash with code coverage. Since then a few bugs were reported, which I have started to triage. A particularly complicated one seems to revolve on Windows with PHP loaded in Apache, where suddenly all modes are turned on without them having been activated through the xdebug.mode setting. This is a complicated issue that I hope to figure out and fix during January, resulting in the first patch release later this month.

Plans for the Year

Beyond that, I have spend some time away from the computer in the Dutch country side to recharge my battery. I hope to focus on redoing the profiler this year, as well as getting the "recorder" feature to a releasable state.

Smaller feature wise, I hope to implement file/path mappings on the Xdebug side to aide the debugging of generated files containing PHP code.

Xdebug Cloud

Xdebug Cloud is the Proxy As A Service platform to allow for debugging in more scenarios, where it is hard, or impossible, to have Xdebug make a connection to the IDE. It is continuing to operate as Beta release.

Packages start at £49/month, and I have recently introduced a package for larger companies. This has a larger initial set of tokens, and discounted extra tokens.

If you want to be kept up to date with Xdebug Cloud, please sign up to the mailinglist, which I will use to send out an update not more than once a month.

Xdebug Videos

I have published two new videos:

• Xdebug 3.2: Return Value Debugging with PhpStorm

• Xdebug 3: Skipping Files when Debugging

I have continued writing scripts for videos about Xdebug 3.2's features, and am also intending to make a video about "Running Xdebug in Production", as well as one on using the updated "xdebug.client_discovery_header" feature (from Xdebug 3.1).

You can find all previous videos on my YouTube channel.

Business Supporter Scheme and Funding

In December, no new business supporters signed up.

If you, or your company, would also like to support Xdebug, head over to the support page!

Besides business support, I also maintain a Patreon page, a profile on GitHub sponsors, as well as an OpenCollective organisation.

Xdebug 3.2

I spend most of November fixing outstanding bugs for Xdebug 3.2, so that it is ready to be released when PHP 8.2.0 comes out at the start of December.

I also a fair amount of time triaging a crash bug with a segfault when code coverage in use, which is likely related to generators, but I haven't managed to fully check out yet. I did also find a use-after-free error that I have now fixed.

As part of this, I have released Xdebug 3.1.6 to address a compressed file writing bug on Windows, and Xdebug 3.2.0RC2 so that you are able to test Xdebug 3.2 with PHP 8.2 with all the outstanding bugs addressed.

Once Xdebug 3.2 gets released next week, support for PHP 7 and Xdebug 3.1 (and lower) will no longer be available. This of course does not mean that older versions of Xdebug are no longer available for download to use with legacy PHP versions.

Xdebug Cloud

Xdebug Cloud is the Proxy As A Service platform to allow for debugging in more scenarios, where it is hard, or impossible, to have Xdebug make a connection to the IDE. It is continuing to operate as Beta release.

Previously Xdebug Cloud was only supported by PhpStorm, but the PHP Debug Adaptor for Visual Studio Code now also supports it.

Packages start at £49/month, and I have recently introduced a package for larger companies. This has a larger initial set of tokens, and discounted extra tokens.

If you want to be kept up to date with Xdebug Cloud, please sign up to the mailinglist, which I will use to send out an update not more than once a month.

Xdebug Videos

I have published one new videos:

• Xdebug 3: xdebug_connect_to_client()

I have continued writing scripts for videos about Xdebug 3.2's features, and am also intending to make a video about "Running Xdebug in Production".

You can find all previous videos on my YouTube channel.

Business Supporter Scheme and Funding

In November, no new business supporters signed up.

If you, or your company, would also like to support Xdebug, head over to the support page!

Besides business support, I also maintain a Patreon page, a profile on GitHub sponsors, as well as an OpenCollective organisation.

Xdebug 3.2

In the preceding months I worked on a few more specific PHP 8.2 issues, and generic bugs.

PHP 8.2 now presents __debugInfo() for closures, which means that Xdebug now no longer needs to emulate those itself. This does result in minor changes in the output that IDEs present for closures, but not with less information.

I also fixed nearly a dozen bugs. Some were related to the new return value debugging feature, or specific PHP 8.2 support.

A few more bugs are outstanding, and I intend to release Xdebug 3.2 when PHP 8.2.0 comes out at the end of November. I will also create one more Xdebug 3.1 release (3.1.6), to address a specific crash bug. Xdebug 3.2 will only support PHP 8.0 and later.

PhpStorm's latest 2022.3 EAP #5 release now has support for Xdebug 3.2's return value debugging, as well as a bunch of other new features to make it easier to set up Xdebug.

I have also decided to no longer actively test on 32-bit platforms on CI, which also means I will no longer be providing 32-bit DLLs of Xdebug on Windows.

Xdebug Cloud

Xdebug Cloud is the Proxy As A Service platform to allow for debugging in more scenarios, where it is hard, or impossible, to have Xdebug make a connection to the IDE. It is continuing to operate as Beta release.

Previously Xdebug Cloud was only supported by PhpStorm, but the PHP Debug Adaptor for Visual Studio Code now also supports it.

Packages start at £49/month, and I have recently introduced a package for larger companies. This has a larger initial set of tokens, and discounted extra tokens.

If you want to be kept up to date with Xdebug Cloud, please sign up to the mailinglist, which I will use to send out an update not more than once a month.

Xdebug Videos

I have published two new videos:

• Xdebug 3: Debugging with VIM and Vdebug

• Xdebug 3: Start Upon an Error

I have started writing scripts for videos about Xdebug 3.2's features, and am also intending to make videos about "Running Xdebug in Production" and "Debugging Worker Tasks with xdebug_connect_to_client()".

You can find all previous videos on my YouTube channel.

Business Supporter Scheme and Funding

In August, September, and October, no new business supporters signed up.

If you, or your company, would also like to support Xdebug, head over to the support page!

Besides business support, I also maintain a Patreon page, a profile on GitHub sponsors, as well as an OpenCollective organisation.