Derick was nice enough to point out 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.

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 GitHub issues.

I am passionate about debugging and debuggers since, well, forever. When I started working with PHP many many years ago this was the one thing that truly bothered me - there was no “native” way to debug the code interactively. Then I discovered Xdebug.