In the last installment I wrote about a problem with Lazy Objects. Since then, a user managed to provide a short reproducible case which illustrates the problem. With that, I managed to fix this specific bug and a related one.

These bug fixes also made it into a new release, Xdebug 3.4.7.

After this was released, a user reported two more bugs (#2376, #2377) with regards to Lazy Objects, so I will have to do more work here for a next bug fix release.

Most of the time this month I spent on making Xdebug PHP 8.5 ready, and finalising Native Path Mapping.

I have added PHP 8.5 to the Windows CI test runners, but I am still running into some issue where some tests don't seem to work. I haven't quite figured out why these suddenly fail with PHP 8.5, but not with 8.4.

I did fix a bug with regards to changes in PHP 8.5's glob feature. With PHP 8.5 being released soon, I hope to have this sorted before that release happens.

The Xdebug 3.5.0alpha2 release, that came out at the beginning of October, has the first preview for PHP 8.5, with Native Path Mapping support. Documentation is still missing, as well as a minor issue with mapping on Windows, due to its different path separator (/ vs \\).

Beyond that issue, the native path mapping's basic functionality seems to work.

There are a few minor things to do when looking at the project plan, but these might have to wait for Xdebug 3.5.1 (or later).

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