v1.56.14646

Date: October 3, 2021

Visual Studio 2019: 16.10+ required.

Visual Studio 2022: Preview 4 required.

Editor

• (Visual Studio 2019, 2022) structure guidelines
• improvements to infered type analysis
• highlights case within switch
• highlights occurrences of global variables in @global PHPDoc tag
• stability fixes for project containing large chained expressions
• stability fixes for blade editor
• infered type analysis from @global tag above function
• navigable PHPDoc @see annotation
• code completion after @see keyword
• fixes false positive warning for [] operator
• improved type analysis
• type inference of array_pad(), array_fill(), array_flip()

Debug

• adding function breakpoint enhancements
  • filtering by subdirectory (use syntax subdir!typename::methodname)
  • navigates to function breakpoint
  • searches fuctions by partial class name
  • resolves trait methods
  • shows bound state
• updated bundled PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1

Remote Explorer

• faster switching profiles
• fixes publish after switching profiles
• fixes remote upload when target folder does not exist yet

Other Fixes

• stability fixes for project containing large chained expressions
• fixes opening 3rd party HTML non-PHP documents
• fixes clickable links in tooltips
• memory optimization
• optimizations

v1.56.14540

Date: September 14, 2021

Visual Studio 2019: 16.10+ required.

Visual Studio 2022: Preview 3 required.

• editor colorizes escaped characters in string literals
• new command-line project template (Common Project System)
• faster project run
• tooltips with more details
• tooltips provides description of the function return value
• updated PHP manual localization

Remote Explorer

• remote browser allows to delete remote file or folder
• remote profile UI fixes

Debug

• fixes remote debugging when mapping was needed
• fixes removing and adding breakpoints during debug session
• function breakpoints (Debug/Windows/Breakpoints - New Function Breakpoint)
• conditional breakpoints are checked for validity
• DBGpProxy timeout
• bug fixes

Fixes

• twig fixes
• publish on save fixes
• fixes use of readonly keyword in PHP <= 8.0
• fixes remote explorer' Open and Compare feature
• fixes VS crash when project folder contains restricted files
• fixes possible deadlock on solution unload

v1.56.14385

Date: August 20, 2021

Visual Studio 2019: 16.10+ required.

Editor

• updated PHP manual
• PHP 8.1 read-only properties, new closure syntax, new in init, and corresponding checks
• integrated PHP manual with fixed deprecations info and fixed nullable parameter types
• code formatting deals with rare constructs in switch-case-elseif blocks
• HTML format fixes

Debug

• more output logging during IIS Express start
• outputs more information in debug output (see docs)

Remote Explorer

• deleted items are slightly dimmed

Fixes

• internal optimizations
• fixes IntelliSense updates when folders are changed externally
• fixes rare UI freezes on project load
• fixes rare freeze on VS load
• fixes debug launch in case VS is not authorized to access php.ini
• updated networking libraries
• updated WebPI feed with fixes to PHP 5.4

v1.56.14305

Date: August 12, 2021

Remote Explorer Window

• preview of local changes
• remote host explorer
• opening and browsing files on remote host
• comparing local changes with server
• downloading subfolders/files into a local folder
• undoing local changes
• upload files with Drag&Drop from Windows Explorer to Remote Browser

Editor

• PHP - Variable themed color
• class name themed color
• PHP - Label new color (gets bold)
• Peek Window fix for files that are not yet opened
• improves code completion hinting

Debugger

• allows to disable exception breakpoints during a debugging session
• provides more exceptions information
• exception breakpoint filtering

Fixes

• icons in tooltips respect the Visual Studio theme
• fix of legacy Microsoft Publish process
• fixes Difference Viewer on VS 2022
• highlighting and refactoring of symbols within <?= ?> tags
• fixes occasional freeze/deadlock
• Activation Window UI fix for Windows 11
• fixes falsely reported missing composer packages
• fixes PHP Error Log Output
• fixes use of IIS and IIS Express
• fixes use of IIS Express on Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013