Xdebug Update: August 2021
In this monthly update I explain what happened with Xdebug development in this past month. These will be published on the first Tuesday after the 5th of each month.
Patreon and GitHub supporters will get it earlier, around the first of each month.
You can become a patron or support me through GitHub Sponsors. I am currently 58% towards my $2,000 per month goal. If you are leading a team or company, then it is also possible to support Xdebug through a subscription.
In August, I worked on Xdebug for about 50 hours, with funding being around 25 hours, which is only half.
Xdebug 3.1
I have continued to work on the task list for Xdebug 3.1, with now just one issue outstanding. This means it's nearing a first beta release, which I am hoping to release close to when PHP 8.1 RC1 gets released.
The main thing that I worked on is compression support for profiling and trace files. Previously, I already had added preliminary support for compressed profiling files, but it turned out that QCacheGrind could not read them. Because Xdebug would always use compressed files, if the zlib compression library was available, it would generate non-consumable files.
With the improved feature it is now possible to disable the compression with the xdebug.use_compression=0 setting. And additionally I have also support to compressed trace files. The zlib/gz drastically reduces the size of files. It is currently not yet available for Windows users.
Xdebug Cloud
To help with funding my work on Xdebug, I have a paid-for-service, called 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.
I have been improving the admin side and I will soon release a new beta that show cases that work.
Packages start at £49/month, and revenue will be used to further the development of Xdebug.
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 more videos on how to use Xdebug on my YouTube channel.
These are part of a series to explain how to use Xdebug:
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Xdebug 3 Profiling: 3. Analysing Data, where I show how to use KCacheGrind to read and analyse profiling files to find bottlenecks in code.
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Xdebug 3: Activation and Triggers, where I explain how to activate Xdebug's myriad of features with different methods, including cookies, GET/POST parameters, environment variables, and with a browser extension.
I will create more videos in the upcoming month, and if you would like to suggest a topic for a 5 to 10 minute long video, feel free to request them through this Google Form.
Business Supporter Scheme and Funding
In August, no new 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 and a profile on GitHub sponsors.
Life Line
TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
I hiked 9.8km in 3h40m47s
Updated a restaurant
Updated a vacant business
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I walked 3.9km in 45m56s
I walked 1.1km in 10m47s
I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #London #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography
No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
#london #eclipse2026 #eclipse #photography
I walked 0.9km in 9m28s
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
I walked 5.5km in 55m06s
@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
Updated a crossing
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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Updated a gate
Updated a bakery shop
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