I made the first beta release of Xdebug 3.4 that is compatible with PHP 8.4, which is due to be released on November 21st. I hope to have a GA release of Xdebug 3.4.0 out around that date too.

Beyond making that beta release, I have also looked into many bug reports, and fixed a few bugs.

As side-project to the new PIE installer, which is expected to replace PECL in the near future, a new Windows extension build action for GitHub actions has been created. I have been evaluating that, and provided some feedback. This is not quite ready for prime time, and I am not sure yet whether I will be able to use that for the 3.4 releases.

I also continued with the Native Xdebug Path Mapping project.

This is a separately funded project, I don't classify the hours that I worked on this in "Xdebug Hours". I also publish a separate report on the project page.

In short, I have finished the parser, and also made some performance improvements in the way I store data internally. I dive into the depths of that in its dedicated report.

I am now working on integrating it into Xdebug, and realised that there is one thing that I had forgotten to add, and that is a reverse mapping. The algorithms can only map remote a file/line to a local file/line, but in order to be able for an IDE to set a breakpoint on a local file line (which is how you would edit it), it also needs to have a reverse map.

By the end of this month I hope to have a working version to try out, but it will likely not be in the Xdebug 3.4 release, as that has to be released near when PHP 8.4 is released.

I have created no new videos since last month, but you can see all the previous ones on my channel.

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