Xdebug Update: October 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.
You can become a patron or support me through GitHub Sponsors. I am currently 66% 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 October, I worked on Xdebug for about 75 hours, with funding being around 45 hours. I worked mostly on the following things:
Xdebug 3
Xdebug had its first beta release in October, 3.0.0beta1 so that uses can test out the new speed improvements, new functionality, new ways of configuring things, as well as support for PHP 8.
Some bugs were found, and I'm continuing to work together with JetBrains to make sure all the new configuration methods are also supported with/through PhpStorm.
There are also several anecdotal reports that Xdebug 3 is indeed a lot faster in many environments. I have asked the community for benchmarks, but I have not seen any write ups beyond a tweet (now deleted), and an article.
PHP 8
Although PHP 8 is now in the Release Candidate phase, some changes are still happening which requires remediation in Xdebug. I expect that to continue until 8.0.0 is released, which means that Xdebug 3.0.0 can also not be released until that happens, likely on November 26th. Xdebug 3.0.0 will however follow quickly after that.
Xdebug Cloud
I have been working on the web site for Xdebug Cloud, and have been testing the integration with PhpStorm. It all seems to work well, although I'm only the one user.
Once I've found somebody to design the site for me, I will open up Xdebug Cloud through a private alpha.
If you want to be kept up to date with Xdebug Cloud, please sign up to the mailinglist I'll let you know as soon as something can be tried-out.
Business Supporter Scheme and Funding
In October, no new supporters signed up, but a few existing supports renewed.
Thank you Dennis Lassiter!
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 Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
Updated a post_box, a beauty shop, and a restaurant; Confirmed 2 clothes shops, 2 pet shops, and a restaurant
I walked 5.9km in 1h40m39s
Updated a bicycle_parking
Updated 2 waste_baskets
I walked 7.9km in 1h37m12s
Created 3 waste_baskets; Updated 3 bus_stops, 2 benches, and 2 waste_baskets
I walked 8.1km in 1h25m53s
I walked 1.2km in 9m31s
I walked 9.4km in 1h39m05s
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 3 waste_baskets, 2 benches, and 2 other objects; Deleted a waste_basket
I walked 7.9km in 1h45m36s
RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1070
I walked 7.2km in 1h10m26s
Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
I walked 7.8km in 1h38m32s
RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
Created a waste_basket; Updated 5 crossings and a bicycle_parking
I walked 10.7km in 2h35m10s
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