2025-12-08

November: More Testing, a Bug Fix, and a Release!

Last week I have released Xdebug 3.5, which contains the first version of Native Path Mapping. This means that it is now possible to checkout the feature, and put it through its paces. Now is the time to discover where it works well, and where we still want to make changes and/or improvements.

Since the last message, I tested it with some of my own projects — mainly with the the SKIP feature to skip the vendor/ directories.

I did find a bug (now fixed) and adding support for Windows ended up harder than I would have thought.

In the next few days I will be publishing a guide in the documentation on how to use the feature in great detail.

This isn't quite the end of the project though, as I will still need to add a function (xdebug_set_source_map() in the plan.

But for now, please check it out, and let me know what you think!