In the latest in his series covering some of the improvements in the latest Xdebug release, Derick Rethans has posted this new article detailing some of the performance enhancements related to remote debugging that come with this new version.

This is the fourth article in a series about new features in Xdebug 2.3, which was first released on February 22nd. In this article we are looking at the improvements towards "remote" debugging.

The updates include showing the values of user-defined constants, being able to set an exception breakpoint on all exceptions and additional features around debugging the exceptions themselves. The output now includes the exception's error code and which exception the flow was broken on (though in his example of PHPStorm, the IDE won't report that information back). The last change he mentions is a change that reverts the output to a log if it can't write to a socket (usually SELinux related).