Xdebug Update: November 2022
In this monthly update I explain what happened with Xdebug development in this past month. These are normally published on the first Tuesday on or 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 45% towards my $2,500 per month goal. If you are leading a team or company, then it is also possible to support Xdebug through a subscription.
In the last month, I spend 30 hours on Xdebug, with 24 hours funded. Sponsorships are declining, which makes it harder for me to dedicate time for maintenance and development.
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:
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.
Life Line
Merged pull request #1029
Reflow some comments
Add comments, add end of file newlines, fix php 8.5 compilation
Benchmark Xdebug performance
Merged pull request #1051
PHP 8.6: printf() is now optimised out if it only uses %s and %d (and…
PHP 8.6: The object IDs of objects changed in tests
PHP 8.6: ZSTR_INIT_LITERAL() no longer takes non-literals, so use zen…
PHP 8.6: WRONG_PARAM_COUNT has been removed in favour of zend_wrong_p…
PHP 8.6: zval_dtor() has been deprecated in favour of zval_ptr_dtor_n…
Update test for version constraints, as well as the error messages
I walked 7.4km in 1h38m15s
I just watched an interesting and lovely documentary on BBC Four: The Magical World of Moss.
It's on the iPlayer for another month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hqthI walked 8.2km in 1h26m34s
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Document to use PIE instead of PECL in the README
I walked 9.2km in 1h45m44s
I walked 10.1km in 1h40m23s
In more info innocent times, the hat riots caused some spankings...
100 Years Ago Men and Boys Fought on the Streets of New York Over Wearing Straw Hats Past Summer | The New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/09/23/straw-hat-riots-nyc
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