In the first half of the month, I finished fixing the complicated issue with fibers and path coverage that I wrote about last month. This resulted in the release of Xdebug 3.4.5. This release also addresses an issue where Xdebug called the code backing a property, resulting in the hooked property's value to change.

In the remained of the month, I looked at how best to support PHP 8.5's new pipes. These allow you to chain method calls together. Due to this, there is no intermediate value that you can look at in the debugger.

I have created a patch for PHP which introduces intermediate steps which Xdebug can use with a patch to then visualise the values being send to the next pipe stage.

Right now, this only works for non-closure-wrapped pipeline stages, and more work is necessary to make this work all nicely. There is some time before PHP 8.5 comes out though.

I have started to implement that lines, files, and directories can be mapped as "skip" — i.e., consider there to be just no code at this location, and hence don't initiate a breakpoint then. I ran into trouble here, as the data-structures that I keep to remember mappings can not handle this. It was only possible to skip single lines with this, but not files (or directories) — which is what I was testing it with. Stay tuned!

I have created no new videos in the last months, but I did add some to the Xdebug documentation as related content for function tracing, to demo flamegraphs.

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