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🥳 Xdebug 3.5.3 Released!
🐛 This release addresses several crash bugs in peculiar situations with step debugging and the control socket; it also improves native path mapping a little.
📜 I'll have a story/article about the crash bugs, how they were found, and fixed, in an upcoming blog post.
📄 The full announcement is at https://xdebug.org/announcements/2026-06-08
🥧 You can install and upgrade @Xdebug@phpc.social through PIE
🥳 Xdebug 3.5.0 Released!
🔥This is the first release to officially support PHP 8.5.
👣 It contains the first public release of Native Path Mapping, which allows you to map directories, files, and lines when PHP executes a file, to a location where you would edit it.
🔌 Support for communication through a control socket allows you to start debugging, or a pause a request, when a script is running.
📄 The full announcement is at https://xdebug.org/announcements/2025-12-04
🥧 You can install @Xdebug@phpc.social through PIE
🥳 Xdebug 3.5.0 Alpha 2 Released!
🔮 This is a preview release, which adds support for PHP 8.5.
🗺️ The biggest feature is Native Path Mapping, which allows you to map directories, files, and lines when PHP executes a file, to a location where you would edit it.
⏭️ It can also be used to skip files and lines. More info at https://xdebug.org/funding/001-native-path-mapping
📼 You can see it in action at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tHKq_5-cXo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYmCjrBwNNg
📄 The full change list is at https://xdebug.org/updates#x_3_5_0alpha2
🥳 Xdebug 3.4.5 Released!
🐛 This is a bug fix release.
🧬 One fix addresses crashes when using Xdebug's debugger with (nested) Fibers.
↪️ A second bug addresses an issue where, while debugging, Xdebug sometimes calls get property hooks which can then update and change the object's state.
📄 The full list of changes can be found on the updates page: https://xdebug.org/announcements/2025-07-14
🎉 Xdebug 3.4.0 is out!
It mainly adds support for PHP 8.4.
📶 A new feature makes it possible to tell Xdebug to ignore PHP requests for debugging, if the XDEBUG_IGNORE parameter is set.
🐛 If you find any bugs, please head to the issue tracker: https://bugs.xdebug.org
💰 If you want to support my work on Xdebug, head over to https://github.com/sponsors/derickr as an individual, or https://xdebug.org/support as a company.
🎃 Xdebug 3.4.7 Released!
👻 This is a Halloween themed bug fix release, as it fixes problems while debugging Lazy Ghost objects that are commonly used in Doctrine and Symfony.
📄 The full list of changes can be found on the updates page: https://xdebug.org/updates#x_3_4_7
🥳 Xdebug 3.5.0 Alpha 3 Released!
🔮 This is a preview release, which adds support for PHP 8.5 on Windows. It also fixes a bug with Native Path Mapping, which allows you to map directories, files, and lines when PHP executes a file, to a location where you would edit it.
📄 The full change list is at https://xdebug.org/updates#x_3_5_0alpha3
I expect this to be the last alpha release, before the general release to accompany PHP 8.5!
🥳 Xdebug 3.5.1 Released!
🐢 :windows: This release addresses a severe performance degradation on Windows only.
There are no changes in this release compared to Xdebug 3.5.0.
📄 The full announcement is at https://xdebug.org/announcements/2026-02-03
🥧 You can install and upgrade @Xdebug@phpc.social through PIE
🥳 Xdebug 3.4.4 Released!
🐞 This is a bug fix release that fixes a few crashes with regard to exceptions. This was a regression from Xdebug 3.4.3.
📄 The full list of changes can be found on the updates page: https://xdebug.org/announcements/2025-06-12
🥳 Xdebug 3.4.6 Released!
🐛 This is a bug fix release.
⏬ One where resources such as open file pointers were double freed.
📅 A second one where inspecting specific internal objects, such as DateInterval, would crash.
📄 The full list of changes can be found on the updates page: https://xdebug.org/updates#x_3_4_6
🎉 Xdebug 3.4.1 is out!
🔗 https://xdebug.org/announcements/2025-01-06
🐛 It fixes a crash bug when Xdebug is trying to access superglobals to see whether it needs to activate.
🥧 It should now also be installable with PIE on Windows, due to the adjusted DLL file names.
🐞 If you find any bugs, please head to the issue tracker: https://bugs.xdebug.org
💰 If you want to support my work on Xdebug, head over to https://github.com/sponsors/derickr as an individual, or https://xdebug.org/support as a company.
🥳 Xdebug 3.4.3 Released!
🐞 This is a bug fix release that fixes a few crashes.
↪️ It improves debugging with PHP 8.4's property hooks by recognising that they have code attached, and no longer throwing fatal errors or exceptions in some situations.
📄 The full list of changes can be found on the updates page: https://xdebug.org/announcements/2025-05-14