<p>I didn’t put up an update or made any releases for a while, but that doesn’t mean nothing was going on.
Here is the current release cycle cover <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/688">GitHub issue</a>. But the most important change was the migration of the extension.</p>
<p>This is a small writeup on the September 2021 release of VSCode PHP Debug adapter extension. A cover issue describing all work can be found on <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/648">GitHub issues</a>.
I intended to do a “release” every month, but I just do incremental releases and write up a monthly (or so) report… It was summer :)</p>
<p>After posting how I compiled <a href="/blog/2021-08-11-php-compiling-ext/">Xdebug PHP extension on Windows</a> I got an interesting comment how I can improve the process.</p>
<p>Derick was nice enough to <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/627">point</a> <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/628">out</a> that the soon-to-be-released PHP 8.1 and Xdebug 3.1.0 will need some protocol level adjustments. Since I develop on Windows, building PHP or Xdebug from source isn’t something I did recently. Lets see what we need to do.</p>
<p>This is a small writeup on the May 2021 release of VSCode PHP Debug adapter extension. A cover issue describing all work can be found on <a href="https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/issues/575">GitHub issues</a>.</p>