Xdebug Update: November 2024
In this monthly update I explain what happened with Xdebug development
GitHub and Pro/Business supporters will get it earlier, around the first of each month.
On GitHub sponsors, I am currently 43% towards my $2,500 per month goal, which is set to allow continued maintenance of Xdebug.
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 around 10 hours on Xdebug, with 22 hours funded.
Xdebug 3.4
PHP 8.4 was released at the end of November, and with that it was also necessary to release Xdebug 3.4 with support for it. Before I did that, I had another good look at many issues to try to find out what the problem was.
I fixed a few issues, and another set of issues disappeared due to fixes in PHP itself.
If you find any issues with Xdebug 3.4, then please send me a bug report through the issue tracker.
Xdebug Videos
I have created no new Xdebug videos in the last month, but there is a new video in my "Writing Extensions" series.
All Xdebug videos can be watched on my channel.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out to me on Mastodon or via email.
Business Supporter Scheme and Funding
In the last month, no new business supporters signed up.
Besides business support, I also maintain a Patreon page, a profile on GitHub sponsors, as well as an OpenCollective organisation.
If you want to contribute to specific projects, you can find those on the Projects page.
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.
Life Line
Created a bench and a crossing
Created 2 benches and a crossing; Updated 5 cushions, a post_box, and a crossing
Created a crossing; Updated a cushion
If you were wondering whether the www.php.net & downloads.php.net services weren't responding very well in the last 6 hours — thousands of requests/sec to https://www.php.net/ 's root.
The server's load was 720, didn't die, but CDN connections to it timed out.
Now there is a caching strategy in place for a selected set of resources.
Updated a bench
Created 3 benches; Updated 10 benches
Updated a bench
Updated a bus_stop
Created a bench and a waste_basket; Updated 6 bus_stops and a crossing
Created 2 waste_baskets and a recycling; Updated 2 bicycle_parkings and a recycling
Updated a fast_food, a funeral_directors shop, and 2 other objects; Confirmed a fast_food and a hairdresser shop
Created an information; Updated 3 benches and 2 waste_baskets
Updated 2 benches and a waste_basket
Updated a bench
Created a waste_basket and an information
Created a waste_basket
I hiked 18.0km in 4h1m52s
I walked 1.4km in 17m19s
I walked 4.5km in 1h21m49s
I just made and ate, a bowl full of bacon fried Brussels Sprouts. Not under duress, and out of my own free will.
Added new residential building
Created a hairdresser shop; Confirmed a convenience shop and a dry_cleaning shop
Created a building_materials shop, a vacant shop, and 4 other objects; Confirmed a hairdresser shop, a cafe, and 2 other objects
I walked 8.3km in 1h33m44s



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