Xdebug 3 is installed by default? breaking builds

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Hello

I think that xdebug version 3 may be being installed by default now instead of version 2 is this correct?

We are finding it breaking our code coverage, we have reproduced it here.


Is there a way to downgrade xdebug? Is that even the issue?

Thanks

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Add XDEBUG_MODE=coverage to your environment.

As of 2020-12-03, this will be fixed on https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug/pull/699 but will be released in the future, in the mean time setting XDEBUG_MODE=coverage run the tests.

# on your .travis.yml
env:
    global:
        - XDEBUG_MODE=coverage
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This cost me a good day!
As @eclipxe13 suggested XDEBUG_MODE=coverage will solve the issue.
I would suggest (because this is a bug that will be fixed soon), to simply add it via Repository Settings in Travis as shown here, no need to modify config files in Git Repository.

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Have a nice day!

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Thanks both! That’s solved it for us. Very much appreciated.

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New archives do, indeed, come with Xdebug 3.0.

In addition to the workaround indicated, you want to try specifying older TINY versions to sidestep it, say php: 7.3.24 (I think?)

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I have also had good fortune in running tests with php 8.0 this morning.
However, I hit a problem with some tests failing because of xdebug 3 being now used.
In short: xdebug 3.0.0 has a bug that makes it fail tests when running tests based on phpunit-selenium or even some versions of plain phpunit - see https://bugs.xdebug.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=00001903.
The most simple and correct fix seems to me to make sure that xdebug 3.0.1 is installed on the php vms instead of 3.0.0

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The new 8.0 (and 8.0.0) archives we’ve just created and made available should have Xdebug 3.0.1. Please test it.

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Indeed, works now