Xdebug Update: November 2020
Another monthly update where 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, on the first of each month.
I am currently looking for more funding, especially now some companies have dropped out, and that GitHub sponsors is no longer matching supporters.
You can become a patron or support me through GitHub Sponsors. I am currently 73% towards my $1,000 per month goal.
If you are leading a team or company, then it is also possible to support Xdebug through a subscription.
In November, I worked on Xdebug for about 72 hours, with funding being around 30 hours. I worked mostly on the following things:
Xdebug 3
The biggest thing this month is the release of Xdebug 3!
After about a year and a half after starting with this massive undertaking, it is finally ready. I released it the day before PHP 8 came out. Of course Xdebug 3 also supports PHP 8. It however drops support for PHP 7.1 as per the support policy.
As is custom with a x.0.0 release, a few bugs did occur. I am currently working at addressing then. I plan to release bug release versions weekly throughout December, as long as it makes sense to do so.
Xdebug 3 should be a lot faster, as it is a lot more clever on when it hooks into things it needs to do. That does come with changes as to how Xdebug needs to be configured. Xdebug 3's upgrade guide lists all the changes.
The https://xdebug.org web site now only contains Xdebug 3 documentation, with the old site archived at https://2.xdebug.org until the end of 2021.
I will be recording some videos about the ideas behind the changes, and how to use Xdebug 3. I am also playing with the idea of hosting "Office Hours" for an hour a week where users can drop-in with questions and problems. If that is something that you're interested in, please let me know.
Xdebug Cloud
I have been continuing to test Xdebug Cloud, and I am working with a few private alpha testers. They're putting the hosted Cloud service to its paces with the latest PhpStorm 2020.3 release candidate. As I suspected, the alpha testers found some minor issues which I will be addressing during December.
The web site for Xdebug Cloud does not have a design yet, but this is coming this month as well.
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.
Business Supporter Scheme and Funding
In November, two new supporters signed up.
Thank you Find My Electric and Edmonds Commerce!
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
I've finished reading This Way Up. It's about maps, that went wrong.
It's a good read, but htyerr were several chapters that were written in a novel way (as a video transcript, a series of letters), and I found distracting from the a tail content. It'll have worked better in a produced video.
No mention of @openstreetmap though :-(
Updated a bench
Created a tree; Updated 3 humps and a waste_basket
The Early Cormorant Catches the Eel
Sorry, not the best photo! But I caught this Cormorant catching this large eel when looking for Bank Swallows, right next to Eel Pie Island in the Thames.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Photography #London
Updated an estate_agent office
I went to my nieces' birthday party yesterday.
The theme was pink, and that included all the food, mostly died with beet root.
Shock and horror this morning when doing number two. Not only was my turd dark red, it was also glittering at me. Apparently the carrot cake had edible glitter...
So now I know what's worse than glitter.
😂 ✨ 💩 🟣Long-Tailed Tit on a Branch with Lichen
I've been spending some time in random London local nature reserves.
Sitting and listening, and in fifteen minutes you spot countless species.
This one was in Ham Lands Local Nature Reserve near Teddington.
#london #BirdPhotogaphy #BirdsOfMastodon #Birds #LichenSubscribe
A Colourful Mandarin
In The Long Water in Kensington Palace Gardens, London.
#photography #Birds #BirdPhotogaphy #BirdsOfMastodon
Created 7 benches
Created 2 benches
Created a bench
I walked 7.3km in 2h28m39s
Added a note about a duplicate Papersmiths
I walked 4.1km in 49m02s
Fixed website
fix typo
Updated a bench
I walked 1.6km in 20m26s
I walked 1.1km in 11m49s
The Yellow Eye
A blue heron's head, with its very yellow stare-y eye.
#BirdPhotography #Photography #BirdsOfFediverse #BirdsOfMastodon #London
My little Lego box is telling me it really is quite warm outside.
Created a bicycle_parking and a crossing
I walked 3.3km in 41m56s
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