1.55.14026

• new WordPress project template
• new Project Fixes Wizard
• automatic project fix asks for elevated rights just once
• fixes occasional missing project properties content
• fixes crash when opening certain UNC paths
• fixes crash when there is no PHP and it's a fresh new installation

Visual Studio 2022 PREVIEW 2 support

• Requires Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2
• Requires ASPNET Web Development Workload

Editor

• editor brace matching color respects user settings
• context aware keywords in code completion

1.55.13902

New Features

• new New Web Project Wizard
• new From Existing Code Wizard
• new integration into File / New / Project From Existing Code
• Project From Existing Code allows to create project from remote source
• added context menu command Add / New / New PHP Script
• since Visual Studio 2019: Common Project System (CPS) used by default
• Publish functionality added to the new CPS project type

Improvements

• the new project wizard verifies and updates configurations
• code completion sorts the variables by its name, so they are next to other items with the same name
• code completion preselection prefers variables and local symbols
• publish/download tries to reconnect automatically when connection is lost
• debugger fixes and improvements
• integrated composer updates
• enabled a few more features without activation
• performance improvements

Fixes

• improved extension startup
• removed forgotten and unused PHPUnit menu commands
• fixed menu icons on VS 2019
• debugger stability fixes
• stability fixes

1.52.13623

• new auto-import on code completion
  • configurable in Tools / Options - Text Editor / PHP / IntelliSense
  • automatically adds use alias or inserts fully qualified name
• completion filtering with letters
• completion inserts fully qualified name if there would be a conflict with existing alias
• completion tooltip does not show URLs information (they can't be clicked anyways)
• (VS 2019) completion shows full namespace for symbols that will be imported
• fixes slow startup time and notification by Visual Studio
• fixes incorrectly underlined errors in PHP Editor
• more undocumented .phpstorm.meta notation supported (e.g. & as a type separator)
• notification InfoBar about expired license
• optimizations
• freeze fixes

1.52.13483

• Common Project System provides Ctrl+F5 functionality
• PHP installed as a part of XAMPP can be used by projects
• integrated composer gets updated to version 2
• Tools/Options/PHP Tools UI layout cleanups
• fixes editor highlighting occurences
• updated PHP 5.4 installer

PHP diagnostics

• restrict $GLOBALS use in PHP 8.1
• use of [] in read expression

Legacy VS Support

• fixed smart tags and corresponding VS crashes in VS 2010 - 2015
• fixed VS2010 - VS2015 support (some configurations have a missing DLL)
• re-enabled smart tag actions in VS2015

1.52.13439

• short-open-tag directive read from php.ini when using built-in PHP
• added project property <ShortOpenTag>true</ShortOpenTag> to force enable short open tags
• optimizes background tasks
• Debug fixes for globals in Watch window
• Updated PHP builds
• Updated networking protocols

Visual Studio 2019 fixes

• reflects VS 16.10 API updates
• fixes PHP Editor with custom file extension
• Common Project System (CPS) option enabled in New|Project|PHP Web Project
• fixes cursor color in Regex Tool Window in Dark Theme
• Regex editor fixes for double-quoted strings

1.52.13403

• fixes invalid path in Test Explorer
• fixes errors in case of invalid paths in project system
• fixes debug being terminated in exception handling
• eval() has tooltip

1.52.13380

• PHP 8.1
  • new enum syntax, icons in navigation, IntelliSense, tooltips
  • octal number notation
  • never return type, highlighting, analysis and checks
• completion: static functions listed after $this-> as well
• fixes

1.52.13357

Regex Editor (VS 2019)

• Regular expression inside preg_*** function or HEREDOC is colorized and highlighted
• Regular expression provides brace matching
• Quick action Regex Designer on regex opens Regex Tool Window
• Regex Tool Window panel with regex analysis, sync with code
• Regex Tool Window shows defined groups
• Regex Tool Window allows to test agains a test subject, shows detailed matches
• More information at the documentation

PHP 8.1 (dev)

• development version of PHP 8.1 can be installed automatically

Other

• (VS 2017) Test Explorer support Open Folder projects
• Updated Xdebug and PHP releases.
• updated publish protocols to the latest

Fixes and Improvements

• code action for getter/setter annotates type hints correctly
• correct project name in Text Explorer
• Composer dependencies tree fixes and improvements
• (VS 2017, VS 2019) fixes Folder Project handling
• general optimizations and fixes
• HEREDOC parsing fixes
• named parameters fixes for built-in functions with unusual parameter names

1.51.13247

• Test Explorer works with Open Folder feature (VS 2019)
• code action Sort Uses (PSR-12)
• code action Remove and Sort Uses
• improved remote debug mapping UI (in Project Properties)
  • local path suggestions
  • path validation
• improved DBGpProxy UI (in Project Properties)
  • validation and connection verification
• updated PHP 8 validation, checks the extension php_gd.dll instead of php_gd2.dll
• reports use of curly braces as error in PHP >= 8.0
• fixes crashing the app on rare cases with legacy project types

1.51.13160

• updated Pico CMS project template (2.1.4)
• outputs more information during debug in output window
• reports use of deprecated or not available methods as warnings
• CPS project template updated
• updated PHP parser

x64

• 64-bit PHP 8.0, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 available to be selected in project properties
• 64-bit PHPs get installed automatically
• corresponding Xdebug extension for 64-bit PHP gets installed automatically
• if there is no PHP yet, the 64-bit version gets installed by default

Editor

• code action for generating property setter, or getter, or both
• code action for generating __construct method
• code action for generating __construct from defined properties
• correct URL in tooltip over PHPDoc tag

Debugger

• shows stack frames of fatal errors
• navigates to failed line in case of fatal error

Test Explorer

• lists all the phpunit configurations
• test projects are correctly named
• improved performance
• fixes tests debugging when Xdebug port number is not 9000

1.50.13071

• Fixes lag when opening code completion.
• Shows PHP log in Output's Debug pane.
• Improves code analysis in try/catch.
• Improves tooltip perf. for variables.
• Memory optimizations.
• Fixes phpunit integration when phpunit is required in composer.json.

1.50.13029

• (VS 2019) Option to choose whether to analyse user code and/or vendor folder(s). "User code" only by default.
• Smart indenting of finally block.
• Clickable URLs in tool tips.
• Improves editor responsiveness.
• Fixes not disapearing signature help in anonymous functions.
• Fixes error underlining when .editorconfig is applied.
• Fixes debugger when using Xdebug 3.0.
• Stability fixes (fixes crash on malformed .editorconfig).
• Composer integration fixes.
• Composer window fixes.

1.50.12929

• (VS 2019) Fixes of Publish functionality.
• Reverted asynchronous code completion.
• Fixes NullReferenceException dialog when renaming files.
• Fixes crash on opening a project.
• Fixes crash when working with Drupal projects.
• (VS 2019) Shows details about indexing PHP files in VS progress status (lower left corner).
• Improves performance when having composer packages.
• Improves project load times.
• Overall performance improvements.
• Logs details from WebPlatformInstaller process.

1.50.12866

• fixes possible stuck on project load
• fixes tests run
• fixes invalid composer failure reported to user
• allows new project even if PHP cannot be installed
• updated pcre check
• updates PHP0423 warning for ambigous functions
• updates PHP 8.0 installation from WebPI
• (VS 2019) speedups project open

1.50.12845

• updated PHP manual with more PHP 8 declarations
• avoided a few falsely reported problems
• fixes type analysis for reserved keywords within PHPDoc @return tag
• more details in tool-tips for built-in type keywords
• DBGp Proxy support fixes for the server downloaded from the Xdebug home page
• fixes missing declarations in IntelliSense
• speedups project load
• Twig editor fixes.
• PHPDoc generated above local and global variables.

Composer

• Fixes list of required composer packages.
• fixes falsely reported composer missing packages warning
• fixes duplicate composer warning bar
• fixes composer tree (performance and too many packages listed)

1.50.12791

• Fixes new project creation.
• Asynchronous code completion popup.
• (VS2019) Improves editor responsiveness.
• Fixes exception during project analysis.
• Less warnings about suspicious type conversions between string and number.
• Improves analysis of WordPress code base.
• Stability fixes.

1.50.12752

• Colorizing and analysing code in rename refactoring preview.
• Colorizing code in peek window.
• Code analysis respects subtypes, trait implementors, and mixins.
• Improves type analysis of standard functions.
• Improves type analysis and code analysis of user's code.
• Avoids some falsely reported warnings.
• Updated PCRE checks.
• Improves rename refactoring for fuctions as strings.
• Validating and automatically enabling PHP extensions in Laravel.
• Updates Xdebug to 3.0.2. (3.0.0 has issues when unsetting breakpoints)
• Better tooltip in case it can be either a class or function.
• Improves phpstorm metadata processing.
• Optimizations.
• Stability fixes.
• Test executor uses correct arguments.

Debug

• Fixes remote debugging with path mapping with spaces.

1.50.12628

Code Analysis

• optimizations
• respects @template annotation in PHPDoc
• handles inline @var annotation
• signature help for ambiguous constructors (new \ReflectionMethod)
• PHPDoc array type with union elements annotation (array<A\B\C>)
• PHPDoc allows for nullable type annotation (e.g. ?int)
• improves code analysis, avoids some false positives
• improves code flow analysis, isset(), is_resource(), and type inference
• improves analysis for lambda function use variables
• CLI specific constants and variables are allowed and code completed
• updates .phpstorm.meta.php parser for type inference
• does not respect PHP4-style ctor when using PHP 7.1+
• fixes return check of generator functions
• fixes check for __clone() magic method, can be private
• fixes check for array access on \SplObjectStorage
• fixes case and array key duplicity check for non-printable characters

Editor

• (VS2017, VS2019) Progress UI in lower left corner of VS.
• (VS2019) Improves type names shown in tool tips.
• performance optimizations
• "Go to Implementation" for traits
• fixes "Go to Implementation" in case of an anonymous class

1.40.12554

• IntelliSense improvements
• Warnings consolidations
• Memory optimizations
• IIS/Express more HTTP requests methods added to php handlers
• allows to debug multiple PHP projects
• fixes Simple CMS template in New Project wizard

1.40.12483

• support for @mixin annotations
• fixes IntelliSense of type names in PHPDoc
• fixes @method tag with $this return type
• implements Find All References of methods specified in @method tag
• fixes debugging of PHPUnit Tests (VS 2019 16.8+)
• fixes crash during processing of composer.json
• fixes editor exception when getting a tooltip right after opening a file
• updates PCRE checks

1.40.12460

• fixes type names in generated code and tool tips
• fixes error during navigating into a PHAR file
• fixes code analysis of class/interface declaration and overrides
• fixes test explorer - running selected tests
• fixes error when processing composer.json

1.40.12447

• smart indent within match expression
• updated PHP manual
• fixes missing die in IntelliSense
• More code actions for invalid union types
• More diagnostics for union types
• Updated PCRE check
• Updated displayed type names in tool-tips
• stability fixes
• test explorer discovery and execution fixes
• IIS setup improvements

1.40.12409

IntelliSense

• named arguments code completion (PHP 8)
• named arguments hover information
• functions annotated with #[Deprecated] attribute reported in diagnostics
• diagnostics for matching or unknown named arguments (PHP 8)
• diagnostics for iterable type hint
• diagnostics for nullable types
• diagnostics for union types (PHP 8)
• null type name within unions (PHP 8)
• improved .phpstorm.metadata.php annotations
• shorter type names in tool tips

Debug

• support for Xdebug 3.0 and PHP 8.0 debugging

Project

• PHP 8.0 can be selected as the project language version
• PHP 8.0 + Xdebug 3.0 automatic installation
• Laravel project ide helpers restored automatically
• IIS support improvements and fixes

1.40.12331

IntelliSense

• Updates Error List when .editorconfig changes.
• PHP 8 mixed type correctly handled in type analysis
• PHP0418 for use of an undefined method
• PHP0415 for use of an undefined constant
• Doctrine @Annotation, and annotation classes in PHPDoc IntelliSense
• Updated PHP constants information
• Updated PHP manual translations
• Performance improvements

Project

• IIS Express configuration is kept in the local applicationHost.config is possible
• Internet Information Services (IIS) server support
• Automatic installation of PHP w/ Xdebug on IIS

VS 2019

• Performance improved for larger projects with a lot of warnings

1.40.12223

General

• New Project wizard improvements.
• Stability fixes

IntelliSense

• Supports more PHPDoc array syntax conventions
• Improved analysis of functions returning static
• Improved analysis of isset()
• Supports @suppress and @SuppressWarnings PHPDoc tags to ignore specified warnings

VS 2019

• Fixes possible VS freezing when there is a lot of errors in Error List
• Project publish fix
• Colorize @method tag

VS 2012

• Stability fixes

1.40.12103

• PHP 8 new attribute syntax '#[ ... ]'
• PHP 8 new named arguments syntax (not in IntelliSense yet)
• Diagnostic for names that can be simplified (PHP6601).
• Diagnostic for unused parameters in constructors and private functions.
• Stability fixes

1.40.12083

• Stability improvements.

Editor

• PHP 8.0 "match" syntax support (you need to have PHP 8.0 installed)
• PHP 8.0 "null-safe" operator syntax support
• Improved type analysis, and bug fixes
• Improved override resolution analysis
• "@dataProvider" PHPDoc keyword IntelliSense
• Updated PCRE syntax and error checking
• "PHP0437" error respects PHPDoc with "@var $this"

VS 2019

• Diagnostic suppressions with ".editorconfig"
• Laravel project template
• Test Explorer (test discovery) fixes
• (preview) New project system initial support

1.40.12022

• (VS 2019) Go To Implementation
• Code completion after "namespace" keyword
• Analysis respects "void" in PHPDoc's @return
• More PHPDoc type error suggestions
• Analysis of parenthesis expressions fixes
• Tooltips show correct namespace in some cases

1.40.12000

• Expandable phar archives in Solution Explorer (fixes for latest formats)

Debug

• Remote PHAR debugging support

Publish

• Improvements and fixes of TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3

Editor

• Analysis enhancements
• Fixes stability issues
• Lambda type analysis improvements
• "iterable" phpdoc type hint
• "smart action" to add "use" for unknown type in phpdoc
• Format respects EditorConfig file

1.40.11953

• Fixed Composer package search.
• Performance improvements.

Editor

• Fixed PHP Editor initializing IntelliSense forever upon solution open.
• PHP 8.0 throw expression.
• Deprecations in deprecated functions not reported.
• Type analysis improvements for type juggling.
• Type analysis improvements for PHPDoc @var hinted properties.
• Type analysis for instanceof.
• Type analysis when returning static.
• Fixes occasional nullref exception.
• Analysis of PHPDoc improvements.
• Twig editor exception fix.
• Implement abstract methods for traits respects type hints.

Test Explorer

• Test discovery fix.

1.40.11890

• fixed activation on VS 2010-2013
• Enhancements in TLS,SSH protocols
• Composer engine was refactored, and ready for new project system

Editor

• PHP 8.0 syntax support
• PHP 8.0 attributes IntelliSense
• PHP 8.0 constructor property type analysis
• PHP 8.0 analysis for unsupported syntax
• newline PCRE options handled

Testing

• Support for PHPUnit 9.0

Debug

• More exceptions in exception list to break on

1.40.11855

Debug

• Support for debugging PHAR files
• More robust CLI debugging issues handling

Testing

• Support for PHPUnit 9.0

1.40.11823

• New SSH, FTPS, SFTP protocols and encryptions.
• Updated certificates of installer and binaries
• Stability fixes
• Improved High-DPI support (VS 2019)

Editor

• 'use' marked as used if used in PHPDoc
• Outlining of multi-lined arrays
• PHPDoc type hints respect current namespace
• Locals in arrow functions get annotated correctly

1.32.11768

• Improved High-DPI support (VS 2019)
• Fix: No composer packages shown in Solution Explorer (VS2019)

1.32.11732

• PCRE syntax check (Visual Studio 2015 and newer)
• Composer statibility updates
• WebPI progress is shown in Visual Studio Output pane
• Support for Visual Studio Code Map during Debug

1.32.11706

• Twig editor stability updates
• Internally complies with Twig 3.x
• VS stability updates
• Debugger checks for the port availability
• WebPI update to Xdebug and PHP 7.4 release

1.32.11656

• Improved "finally" control flow analysis
• PHP 7.4 (final) can be installed automatically
• Smart indent of lambda functions
• Generated PHPDoc with possible "@throws"
• Updates to twig & freezing issues for publish-on-save

1.32.11632

• Updated PHP manual
• Improved IntelliSense in traits, after use, in PHPDoc
• Improved publish-on-save
• Update to issues with publish-on-save

1.32.11595

• Publish can run automatically on changed files.
• Check for not implemented abstract functions
• Check for trait instantiations
• Debug watch and watch tooltips allow to edit value of private properties
• Fixed composer packages integration (VS 2019)
• Improved tooltips with links to definitions (VS 2019)
• Improved check for missing composer packages (VS 2019)
• Stability fixes

1.32.11522

• PHP Editor fixes on Visual Studio 2019
• Editing JS fixes on Visual Studio 2017 and earlier
• New project from existing code does not force PHP 7.1
• Circular dependency in traits crash fix
• Overall performance improvements
• Overall rare crashes fixes
• Diagnostic when instantiating a trait.
• New internal composer integration (VS 2019)
• Missing composer packages shows infobar instead of dialog (VS 2019)
• Blade syntax for @section and @yield
• Substitution of {@inheritdoc} within tooltips
• {@link} gets displayed in tooltips as hyperlink (VS 2019)

1.32.11482

• Expanding files in solution explorer - added support for user-mapped PHP file types.
• Installer updated to PHP 7.4 Beta 4, Xdebug updates.
• Stability fixes.
• Twig Editor fixes.
• FTP publish does not stop on response 550.
• Performance improvements.

1.32.11427

• Files in Solution Explorer can be expanded.
• Class aliasing handled by type analysis and IntelliSense
• Updated IntelliSense glyphs (icons) for traits and aliased class name
• Improved type analysis of function arguments passed by reference
• Twig file templates stability fixes
• More statibility fixes
• Completion after "use" gets full type names and namespaces.
• Outlining does not get lost when typing.
• Files in vendor folder are editable
• Default location for PublishProfiles changed to .vs subfolder
• Installer updated to PHP 7.4 Beta 2

1.32.11358

• performance improvements
• unpack operator type check
• phpstorm meta container improvements (array access and type hierarchy)
• Web Platform Installer provides log with failure details

PHP 7.4

• PHP 7.4 support
• arrow functions, typed properties, spread array, ??= operator, underscores in numbers
• PHP 7.4 features reported when using an older PHP
• PHP 7.4 features analysis, type analysis, problems analysis
• Built-in PHP 7.4 alpha 3, automatic online installation

1.31.11311

• VS 2019: New project dialog lists "PHP" language.
• offline activation dialog fix for long codes
• twig editor fixes

IntelliSense

• improved code analysis of numbers and conditions
• support for metadata from .phpstorm.meta.php file/folder
• less strict analysis of use of uninitialized variables
• analysis of duplicit function parameters
• analysis of magic methods
• completion after use gets fully qualified names

1.31.11274

• update explode() signature
• update microtime() signature
• Oxid framework support
• Catch variable analysis

1.30.11262

• new diagnostics: unused variables, array constants (PHP5), unset cast
• improved analysis of lambda functions
• more details IntelliSense for lambda functions and its params
• support for PHPDoc above lambda functions
• updated IntelliSense tool tip texts
• project load and general performance optimizations
• Composer self update fixes
• VS2019: Mouse click to go to definition.

1.30.11233

• Updated PHP manual and translations.
• Validation of value passed to define()
• Validation of define() for PHP >= 7.3
• VS2019: highlighting inside Watch and Conditional Breakpoints.

1.30.11217

• Updated PHP manual for PHP 7.3, PHP 7.4.
• Updated PHP functions signature.

1.30.11199

• Performance fixes for projects with composer packages

IntelliSense

• Disabled warning PHP0424 when passing an object in foreach
• IntelliSense of use params within lambda function
• Minor IntelliSense fixes

Twig

• Twig editor fixes

Debug

• Automatic installation of PHP 7.3 with Xdebug
• Xdebug auto update to 2.7.2 for PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2
• Xdebug auto update to 2.6.1 for PHP 7.0

VS2019

• Reimplemented PHP Editor using new API
• Browser selector enabled
• Script debugging toggle enabled

1.30.11154

• PHPDoc improvements and fixes
• Updated PHP manual
• Debugger logs when proxy/VPN or other software interupts debug session
• Other fixes

1.30.11131

VS2019

• Experimental release for VS2019
• Using new error list API - providing solution wide list of errors and issues
• Asynchronous loading of packages
• QuickInfo and code actions are asynchronous now

1.30.11095

• PHPDoc for local variables and globals.
• Unknown function code suggestion to add $this-> (will be more in future).
• Editor exceptions fixes.
• PHPUnit 7 support
• Fix: Changes outside of VS causes IntelliSense to forget some types

Debug

• Chrome JS Debugger supported (VS2017 and VS2019)

1.29.11015

• PHP up to 7.3 warnings: trailing commas, list ref assignment, instanceof with literal.
• Code analysis improvements
• Renaming of a name within 'use' statement
• Renaming of a class within a namespace
• Renaming of a file with a class asks for automatic refactoring

1.29.10958

Editor

• Implement Interface/overrides respects base's return type.
• Options for implement Interface/overrides to not generate PHPDoc.
• Options for implement Interface/overrides to not generate TODO comment.

Code Validation

• is_callable() analysis.
• More PHPDoc suggestions.

Fixes

• Formatting code with syntax errors is not allowed.
• Smarty syntax and colorization.

PHAR Inspector

• PHAR inspector supports gz compressed entries.
• PHAR inspector reads files not included in the project.
• PHAR inspector optimizations.

1.29.10925

Code Validation

• __tostring() return type diagnostic.
• Unified diagnostic codes.

Editor

• Option to disable collapsing of comments by default.
• Drag&drop does not corrupt code indentation.
• Twig editor fixes.

Debug

• The condition expression in conditional breakpoint is casted to bool implicitly.
• Inspecting expression avoids "cannot get property" error.

1.29.10893

• Blade templating integration fixes and improvements.
• Twig templating handles extensions from referenced projects.
• More UI localizations.
• Possible deadlock fix, hanging during project load.

IntelliSense

• IntelliSense respects "include_path" option in project properties.
• Description of properties from @var tag.

Code Validation

• Code validation warning for array to string conversion.
• Code validation improvements for 'setlocale'.
• Validation of using '$this' outside a valid context.
• Validation of throw argument which must be Exception or Throwable.
• Validation of type after implements keyword.
• tostring, construct, __destruct return types check.

Debug

• Editing long string values in debug.

1.28.10848

• PHP 7.2 automatic installation.
• Xdebug updates for older PHP frameworks.
• Custom server form respects properties window size.
• Fix of freezing when opening certain SMB mapped projects.

Code Validation

• password_hash not deprecated, just its parameter.

IntelliSense

• STDIN,STDOUT,STDERR in IntelliSense of CLI projects.

Blade (VS2015+)

• Reimplemented Blade Template Engine support.

Twig (VS2015+)

• Custom filter quick info enhanced.
• Twig parent() function enabled in design split view.
• Fix: extends keyword help.
• Twig extensions analyzed even in references.

VS2017

• Fix: When pasting formating gets messed up.
• Fix: Browser selector works in VS 15.7.0 and later.

1.27.10773

• New project wizard when creating PHP Web Project.
• New project template for Simple CMS (based on PicoCMS).
• Code Analysis CPU improvements.
• @method with "static" supported.

Debug

• Checking expressions validity before sending them to Xdebug

Editor

• New snippets (#region, #todo, @phpdoc_tag).
• F1 supported for phpdoc tags.
• Custom snippets showed in completion lists.
• "echo" keyword occurances (F1, F12, semantic highlighting, do not allow refactoring).

Localization

• Partial localization to major languages (de, es, fr, ja, pt-br, ro, ru, tr, zh).
• PHP manual localized to major languages.

Smarty

• Editor optimizations.
• Fix of multiline comments.

Twig

• Editor optimizations.
• Fix: Completion list showed twice when Ctrl+Space pressed.
• Fix: Code preview did not show some generated code.

Code Validation

• Report warnings for duplicate array key in array initializer.
• void reported as invalid in @param, @var, @property.
• Type name "\" is ignored by CFG, but reported.

1.26.10606

• Fix of Test Explorer when runing tests without phpunit.config.
• Warn a user when he saves a file about data loss if he's saving in the encoding which doesn't include needed characters
• Fix of Legacy Import from Existing Code option
• When copy/paste we do not display error message of malformated html document.
• Reading php.ini short_open_tag option and parse the code accordingly when PHP build-in server is used.
• vararg @param type hint treated as array type as well

Twig

• Twig support optimizations and improvements.
• Minor fix when non existing filter is used.

1.26.10589

• Reporting of PHP4 style constructs deprecation.
• IntelliSense handles files changed outside IDE.
• Refactoring of indirectly used constants.
• Refactoring improvements and fixes.
• Fix of VS startup freezing.
• Fix for Visual Studio 2017 15.6.0 Preview 1.0 (and newer).
• Fix of Test Explorer with custom non-standard phpunit config.
• Fix of possible deadlock when used with Resharper.

Twig

• Twig split view UI improvements.
• Twig split view can be disabled in options.
• Twig design view (experimental).
• Twig design view macros and imports (experimental).

Twig (VS2017)

• Twig blocks work inside CSS blocks.

Debug

• Fix: Hovering on function arguments or initializers could alter execution of the program.
• Fix: Debugger didn't step after hiting a breakpoint set in the first statement of the program.
• Minor remote debugging improvements.

Editor

• Fix: HTML formatting eats whitespace when triming text elements.
• Support for structure guide lines in VS2017.

Composer

• Fixes Install New package dialog when number of results is greater than 750.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

• Optimizations and other enhancements.
• Smarty blocks work inside CSS blocks.

1.25.10474

• PHP parser fixes.
• Improved deprecations analysis.
• Find references improvements.
• Various stability enhancements.

Testing

• Fix of Test Explorer for custom phpunit config.

1.25.10447

• Underlining deprecated PHP constructs.
• Updated IntelliSense database to latest PHP manual.
• "object" type hint fix.

1.25.10441

• IntelliSense improvements for F1 and GoToDef, not showing duplicities.
• Memory usage optimizations.
• Experimental .phar file navigation and debug features.
• Various UI enhancements on high DPI displays.
• Refactoring fixes.
• Crash fixes of PHP parser.
• Crash fixes when running composer with IIS Express.

Twig

• Implemented Twig Editor for .twig files.
• Twig code colorization, mixture of HTML/JS/CSS/Twig supported.
• Highlighting of identifier under cursor and its occurances.
• Contextual IntelliSense, Code Completion, F1 Help and Go To Definition.
• Tool Tip Text for Twig constructs, variables and keywords.
• Code Outlining for Twig blocks, constructs and macros.
• Syntax checking with error underlining.
• Detection of Twig framework and eventual automatic installation into the project.
• Twig Split View, providing view on generated PHP code and mapping between generated PHP and Twig.

1.24.10137

• UTF detection improvements.

Debug

• Breakpoints displays hit counts.
• Hit Count breakpoints (equal | greater than or equal | is multiple of) supported.
• Conditional breakpoints support 'when changed' conditions.
• Supported break on first statement (F10, F11).
• "When Hit" breakpoints supported (Tracepoints).

DBGp

• Added support for DGBp proxy.

Testing

• PHPUnit 6.x supported.
• PHPUnit version detected from composer.json.
• Custom PHPUnit can be used.
• PHPUnit is bundled in case.
• Compatible PHPUnit engine choosen according to selected PHP runtime.

VS2017

• Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017
• Fix: Unable to discover tests.
• Fix: Smarty files didn't work in Update 3.

1.23.9750

• PHP 7.1 automatic installation.
• Xdebug updated.
• Startup speed improvements.
• Updated PHP parser
• Minor fixes
• Respecting primitive types in PHP < 7.0
• Parsing files from disk respects system encoding and detects UTF

Editor

• Inserting snippet indenting fix when there are tabs.
• Nodes outside the current namespace are listed in the completition set as well together with warning icon.

Refactoring

• Autogenerate the use statement for selected class.
• Suggestions added for unknown types in PHPDoc.
• Short name suggestions for types.
• Unknown type handling added for trait uses, return types and catch variable types.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

• Smarty has its dedicated editor.
• Smarty delimiters can be modified in project properties.
• Javascript and CSS integration.
• Fixes of some edge cases.
• Fixes a syntax error exception.
• Installation suggestion for smarty composer package.
• Include snippet added.
• Break and continue keywords added.

VS2017

• Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017
• Fix: failed to open PHP project
• Removed Nuget support for PHP projects

1.22.9523

• Fix of Class View not being loaded.
• Fix of toolbars and menus displayed when a Smarty file is opened.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

• More tolerant syntax checker.
• New Keyword.
• Fix of Smarty editor exception messages.

VS2017

• Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017 RC

1.22.9478

Editor

• PHP interfaces in integrated PHP manual updated.
• Light bulbs in VS 2015 and newer instead of legacy smart tags.
• Fix of Visual Studio freezes.

Project

• Crash fix for VS2017RC.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

• Smarty code colorization.
• Smarty autocompetion of pair keywords (pressing Tab).
• Smarty IntelliSense for keywords, multiword keywords, functions, modifiers and variables.
• IntelliSense analyses PHP source code for user defined variables.
• Basic Smarty syntactic error checking.
• Smarty tooltips for functions and modifiers.
• Support for Go To Definition (pressing F12) for smarty variables, functions and modifiers.
• Smarty syntax verification and errors underlining.

Composer

• Improved new Composer package dialog (displays more relevant information).
• Dialog shows amount of package downloads and stars.
• Abandoned packages have warning note.
• License and publish date is shown.
• Faster packagist repository loading.

VS2017

• Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017 RC

1.21.9350

• PHP 7.1 syntax support.
• Improved PHP 7.0 syntax support.
• Parsing and tokenization fixes.
• Rare OutOfMemoryException fix, less memory needed for value analysis.
• Composer UI fixes.

Editor

• If possible, value of expression is displayed in tooltip.
• Code colorization of keywords fixes.
• Smart indent after a function fixes.

IntelliSense

• PHP 7 anonymous classes support improvements.

Code Validation

• PHP compatibility code validation.
• Duplicit switch cases validation.
• Unnecessary 'use' is dimmed in source code.

Debug

• Manual mapping fixes.

VS2017

• Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017 RC

1.20.9101

• PHP 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 syntax support.
• PHP 7 return type hints.
• High DPI support improved.
• Editing in compare window supported.
• Warnings about unsupported functions, classes, constants and constructs.
• Warnings about duplicit case labels within switch.
• Compatibility warnings for PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0

Editor

• Signature help is colorized.
• Tooltip shows return type to the right of function header.
• IntelliSense localization in Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Formatting and editor fixes.

Debug

• Manual path mapping supported.

Project

• Updates to project system, stability and features fixes.
• Open Command Prompt, Copy Full Path command added.
• Added many web development relevant file templates (JSON, bower, grunt, gulp, angularjs, jsx).
• Fix: Renaming file extension of php item template wasn't possible in the New File dialog.
• Fix: Issues when making changes to the projects outside of VS.

1.19.8876

• Fix of an exception message during project load.

1.19.8851

• Updated integrated manual to latest.
• Complete descriptions of builtin PHP symbols.
• IntelliSense provides help for DOTNET, COM, mysqli* symbols.
• Support for Project Home different than Project Directory.
• Formatting of lambda functions.
• Smart indent of lambda functions.
• Fixes of internal exceptions.
• Fixed "Bad Length" within the activation process.
• Automatic update of Xdebug and PHP 5 if possible.
• Automatic installation of PHP 7 if selected (syntax not fully supported yet).

1.19.8776

• Fixed Import Dialog crash when Project path is invalid.
• (VS2013) Update in VS2013 notification fix.
• (VS2015) EXPERIMENTAL - Mixed HTML/CSS/JS/PHP formatting.
• (VS2015) Fixes for code formatting.
• Improved smart indent when cursor is between { and }.
• Improved IntelliSense when there are both @property PHPDoc and field declaration.
• Error List shows syntax errors from files not included in a project as well.
• Smart Tag for Implement Abstract Members implements interfaces and base types as well.
• Fix of VS crash in Interpreters dialog.

1.19.8736

• Fixed VS crashes when using IIS without having IIS installed.
• HTML formatting on paste fix.
• Wordwrap can be enabled/disabled using Ctrl+E,W.
• (VS2015) Laravel @foreach @endforeach.
• IIS Express project uses configuration from existing binding if any.
• Fix of interpreters dialog crashing VS in case of an unexpected php.exe version string.

1.19.8685

• Running tests within a project in a solution folder fix.
• Composer handles plugin API correctly.
• Find All References looks into whole project.
• "switch" snippet updated.
• Workaround for crash issue with SassyStudio.

1.19.8647

• General improvements and fixes.
• HighDPI UI improvements.
• Code Definition Window.
• Web Platform Installer utilization improvements.
• Memory usage optimization.

Server

• Per-project PHP version setting.
• IIS Express server improvements and fixes
• IIS Express with support for SSL site.
• IIS Express works even if there isn't IIS.
• Improved server configuration validation.
• Option to automatically download and install selected PHP version.
• PHPRC environment variable set correctly.
• Option to set Web Root other than project directory.

Composer

• Performance optimizations.

Editor

• Split Window fixes.
• HTML+PHP selection format fixes.
• (VS2010 - VS1013) Fix of code formatting when there is CSS or JS.
• Class item template with a namespace.

Phalanger

• Switching between PHP and Phalanger seamlessly (requires Phalanger Tools).

1.18.8503

Publish

• TLS 1.2 enhancements.
• Enhanced interactive authentication support.
• Support X509 certificate host key algorithm in SFTP

1.18.8473

Editor

• Fix of crash when smart tag action resulted in exception.

Activation

• Fix of activation issue when firewall doesn't allow us to reach license server.

1.18.8451

Editor

• comment/uncomment fixes.
• comment/uncomment at begining of line works.
• comment/uncomment of selection with HTML/PHP handled properly.
• (VS2015) Split window fixes.
• (VS2015) Fix of corrupted HTML when pasting code or formatting selection.
• formatting selection (e.g. on paste) fix.

PHP

• Fix of Visual Studio crash when php.exe version is in an unexpected format.

Activation

• Fix of activation issue when current user account was not configured to allow delegation.

1.18.8331

Editor

• (VS2015) fix of crash when Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (Beta8) is installed.
• Automatic format after semicolon closing a colon block (endif; endswitch; endfor; endforeach; endwhile;).
• Outlining of colon blocks.
• Outlining of try/catch/finally blocks.
• Colorization of true/false/null as keywords (blue).
• Fix of IntelliSense not containing symbols from composer packages.

Publish

• Update of file transfer protocol library.

1.18.8281

Setup

• Fix of loading the extension into Visual Studio.

Editor

• Major editor performance improvement for large files.
• (VS2015) Overlapping JavaScript/CSS with PHP code colorizes now.
• Fix of error underlining location.

Composer

• Fix of crash in case of circular dependency in unused packages.

Extensibility

• Introducing Devsense.PHP.Nodes.dll.

1.18.8215

• From Existing Code project template.
• (VS2015) Fix of Text Explorer - listing and running tests works in VS RC without admin.

IntelliSense

• PHPDoc above local variable works even without @var.
• @ignore PHPDoc tag above a local variable avoids reporting it as unused.

Editor

• (VS2015) Fix of lost PHP code colorization after HTML code edit.
• Fix of tool tips during debugging.
• Fix of HTML formatter.
• Fix of code analysis crash of huge complex functions.
• (VS2015) Laravel blade templating experimental support.

Debug

• (VS2015) Fix of Autos Window.

1.18.8182

IntelliSense

• Correct completion of aliases and use of aliased namespaces.
• IntelliSense inside PHPDoc for type hints and PHPDoc tags.
• Code completion after "new" looks at function signature to preselect class name.
• F1 onto user-defined function/class/constant looks into @link PHPDoc and opens it if any.
• Fix of IntelliSense update for files out of PHP project.

Refactoring

• When renaming a file from Solution Explorer, user is prompted to refactor name of contained class.

Editor

• Option to outline code blocks (if, switch, case, for, foreach).
• Navigate To (Ctrl+,) looks into referenced packages as well.
• PHPDoc tags colorization and completion fixes.
• Fix of Go To Brace (Ctrl+]).
• Editor fixes.
• Option to reformat line of code after moved using Alt+Up/Down (VS2013 and later).
• Editor performance improvements.
• 'elseif' in IntelliSense and snippet.
• 'Operator' color is customizable.
• Major editor engine change.
• Fix of brace completion within strings and comments.
• Fix of signature helper bolding wrong parameter after comma.
• Fix of smart indentation after mixture of HTML and PHP.

Heredoc

• Colorization of HEREDOC and NOWDOC with XML or HTML code.
• Outlining of HEREDOC and NOWDOC content.
• Background color for HEREDOC and NOWDOC content.

HTML Editor

• Visual Studio 2015 HTML Editor.
• Fixes (VS2015 only) - outlining, items in context menu.

Miscellaneous

• Fixes for importing/upgrading wizard.
• Visual Studio 2010 fixes - Options Dialog crash, Smart Indent.

1.17.8075

• Fix of Options Dialog when php.ini contains an invalid path.
• Fix of PHP Web Project for Microsoft Platforms couldn't be published

Editor

• Fix of parser when file contains 'else:' construct.
• Fix of lost outlining while editing code.
• Fix of snippets completion.
• Fix of editor internal exceptions.

Testing

• phpunit.xml.dist in Core or Tests directories set as test configuration automatically.

1.17.8026

Editor

• Stability fix.
• Document format fix.
• Smart Indent fix after "\something;".

Testing

• Test Explorer fix Visual Studio 2015.

1.17.8005

Editor

• Optimizations.
• Fix of syntax errors below DOC comments.
• Go to brace (Ctrl+]) scrolls window to new cursor position.
• Smart indent fixes within PHPDoc.
• Smart indent fixes after do{}while();.

Code Validation

• Assignment to the same variable warnings fix.

Debug

• Fix when path contains Unicode characters.
• Fix of watching some expressions containing space.
• Fix of debugger freeze when editing values.
• Datatips work even if the code contains syntax errors.

1.16.7958

• Tooltip colors in dark theme fixes.
• Formatting options for semicolon and right brace handled.
• IntelliSense after $somevar:: fix.
• Block indentation supported.
• Smart new line in PHPDoc disabled in Block indent.

1.16.7912

Project

• Installing PHP 5.6 instead of 5.4 from WebPlatformInstaller if there is no PHP yet.

Publish

• FTP/SFTP library updated.
• Project publish not allowed during debug, fixes issues with Visual Studio not responding.

IntelliSense

• Missing description of a method is taken from parent declaration.
• Magic properties shown even if real declaration is not visible.
• Optimizations.
• New implementation of code completion.
• New implementation of function signature help.
• Code completion pre-selects most recent item.
• Code completion improvements after backslash, new, global and function.
• Code completion has WPF tool tips (formatted and coloured).
• Code completion works better with namespaces.
• Code completion shows only next part of a namespaced name. Backslash commits and shows the next part.
• After typing "$" and deleting the "$", completion is dismissed.
• Editor exception fixes.
• Minor IntelliSense fixes.
• Option for enabling/disabling preselection of most recently used member.
• Better IntelliSense after "use".
• Fixes of code completion when cursor is between two non-string tokens.
• Fixes for special function names (echo, empty, isset, __construct, ...).
• Fix of newly declared variables missing from code completion.
• Symbol icon in tooltips.

Editor

• Refactoring | Rename in context menu (HTML Editor must be disabled).
• Drag&Droping files from Windows Explorer opens them.
• Go To Brace with extending selection (Ctrl+Shift+]).
• Shift+F12 looks into referenced projects as well.
• Shift+F12 highlights "new" of corresponding "__construct".
• Tooltip during debugging fixes.
• Name of class or interface is coloured.
• Code completion fixes between a word and variable name.
• (VS2013+) Matching ' and " is not autocompleted inside strings and comments.
• New Smart Indent engine (major change).
• Fixes.
• Snippets are formatted after insertion.
• Fix of cases where VS shows error dialog after deleting portion of code.

PHPDoc

• When generating PHPDoc (after typing /**), selection is placed over 'summary' text.
• Syntax in PHPDoc comments is highlighted (type names, variable names, tags, delimiters).
• Colours of PHPDoc syntax in Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors, PHP Doc ...

Code Validation

• Closure is callable.
• compact() function handled.
• Fix of duplicitous warning messages.
• Fix of duplicitous error messages.
• Fix of foreach variable warnings, Iterator objects allowed, strings not.

Refactoring | BETA

• After changing an identifier name, smart tag (Ctrl+.) with rename action is displayed.
• Smart tag for rename allows to show preview.
• Variables, labels, types, interfaces, functions, methods, fields, constants, class constants.
• Rename dialog (Ctrl+R,R).
• Fix of cases where renamed identifier is a part of string or with prefixed namespaces.

Testing

• Other test errors (syntax error, unknown class etc.) handled.
• Other PHPUnit output noted in Output window.

Debug

• Variable '$user' can be watched.

Setup

• The extension is installed for all users.

Composer

• Composer integration fixes.
• Replace property in composer.json handled.

1.15.7750

• Improvements of automatic directory mapping during remote debugging .
• Fix of MsBuild targets files.

1.15.7746

• Faster installation. Fixes for 32bit Windows.
• TRAIT constant added, parser, IntelliSense.
• Composer package properties fixes.
• Fix of line endings when formatting and inserting new line.
• Fix of IntelliSense when there are two classes with the same full name.

1.15.7721

• Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, CTP6 supported.
• MSBuild capabilities improvements.
• Microsoft Web PHP Project template (which allows azure publish and web deploy).
• Fixes.

Editor

• Ctrl+M,L supported when using advanced HTML Editor.
• Collapsed /* summary / contains first line of the description.
• IntelliSense improvements based on code analysis.
• Fix of navigation bar when advanced HTML Editor is enabled.
• Fix of navigation bar when advanced HTML Editor is disabled.
• Source code validation and analysis.
• Type in tooltips is shortened according to current namespace.
• Tooltip text is wrapped.
• Fix for tooltips when debugging from array chains and foreach variables.
• Function header text contains '&' for references.
• Fixes.
• Fix of HTML highlighting when support for HTML Editor is enabled.
• Memory leak fix.
• Task list, Error List with too many items processed on background.
• Optimizations.
• Find All References (Shift+F12).
• Contextual highlighting of references.
• Correct F1 Help URL for $_COOKIE and $_ENV.
• IntelliSense analyses @var PHPDoc tag above class when accessing object as array.
• Errors underlining, outlining, smart tags fixes.
• Known type of functions/variables/constants in tool tips.

Code Validation

• Type analysis running on background.
• Error detection based on type analysis.
• /* @var T $x / in local scope forces type of local variable.
• Detection of unused variables and uninitialized variables.
• Detection of undefined classes.
• Detection of type mismatch.
• Detection of unreachable code.
• Detection of unused or undefined labels.
• Detection of common typos and common runtime errors.

Composer

• Composer packages handled by Solution Explorer, Code Analysis and IntelliSense.
• Direct actions to Install new, update or install missing.
• Packages from composer.json are shown in Project References in tree hierarchy.
• Missing packages downloaded automatically on project load.
• Packages are included in IntelliSense.

Test Explorer

• Bundled PHPUnit updated to version 4.5.
• Running selected tests with @dataProvider fix.
• Faster tests discovery.
• 'phpunit.xml.dist' and 'phpunit.xml' allowed as PHPUnit configuration file names.

1.14.5747

• Fix of crash, when extension_dir directive in php.ini contains invalid characters.
• Fix of F12 when window is scrolled few lines up.

1.14.5606

• $argv and $argc in IntelliSense.
• Fix for Tab settings when indenting and unindenting (Tab, Shift+Tab).
• When changing File Extension/Editor options, IntelliSense cache is reloaded immediatelly.
• Memory usage optimization.
• Project system improvements.
• IntelliSense performs more tasks on background.
• S/FTP faster target directory check.
• IntelliSense cursor position fixes.
• IntelliSense fix for self, parent, static when inside a namespace.
• When navigating from Navigation Bar into a collapsed region, region is expanded.

1.14.5548

• Fix of code formatting within try/catch block.
• Fix of crash when there is a file missing on disk.
• Fix of Tool Tip crash when first letter of an identifier is mouseovered.
• Fix of IntelliSense exception.
• Fix of old HTML support IntelliSense.
• Fix of Error List and Task List; only errors of opened files or files within a PHP project are listed, only tasks of a file within a PHP project are listed

1.14.5536

• Include and Exclude performance improvements.
• Error List performance improvements.
• Navigation Bar performance improvements.
• Fix of crash when .NET Performance and Diagnostics is launched with PHP Project.
• Fix of crash when debugging is stopped.
• IntelliSense engine runs max for few seconds.
• Fixed IntelliSense when cursor is at the end of file.
• Fixed IntelliSense for functions and constants.
• Fixed IntelliSense when PHPDoc type names have to be translated using current naming context.
• Fixed IntelliSense over identifiers which name should be translated using current naming context.

1.14.5514

• IntelliSense object members.
• Opening documents fix.
• Starting web project fix.
• Items in navigation bar are sorted alphabetically.
• Conditionally declared functions and classes are visible in IntelliSense.

1.14.5495

• Feedback form in Help | PHP Tools Feedback.
• Feedback form when app crashes from PHP Tools.

Debug

• Fix of debugging when path contains '#' character.
• Debug path mapping considers project references and SubPath property.

Project

• Support for NuGet.

Testing

• Test Configuration Editor.
• Support for custom PHPUnit configuration file.
• Organizing tests by a test suite defined in a configuration file.
• Support for bootstrapper and other PHPUnit options.
• Faster test discovery.
• By default, only files suffixed with Test.php are probed.
• Test class must have 'Test' suffix.

1.14.5458

• High DPI UI support.
• Support for JS debugging in PHP main file.
• Fixes.

Editor

• Peek to definition.
• Quick Info syntax colored.
• More information in IntelliSense.
• Redesigned IntelliSense.
• Over "new" expression, F1 and F12 jumps to the constructor of class.
• Code collapsing of lambda functions.
• Fix of crash when there is "func() = expr;" code.
• Fix when there is a method called "assert".
• Fix when using declare().

Project

• Project-wide Error List.

1.13.5416

• Brace completion of ' disabled when typing in comments.
• Fix of smart indentation causing editor to freeze.

1.13.5386

• Task List from code comments fixes.

Publish

• Publish fixes.
• Publish of selected files and folders added.
• Improved publish performance.

Editor

• Full automatic brace completion.
• Comment selection fix when the selection ends on beginning of a line.
• Changing options updates editor of already opened files properly.

Test Adapter

• Stack trace fixes.
• ReflectionException fix.
• Incomplete test fix.
• Support for risky tests.

1.13.5282

• Extended code analysis for classes, interfaces and member methods.
• Task List updated with TODOs from code comments (customizable in Options|Tools|Environment|Task List) and from PHPDoc/@todo.
• Smart Tags implementation for implement Interface, Implement Abstract Members and Override Members.
• Project From Existing Code excludes .svn and .hg directories.
• Project From Existing Code excludes hidden directories and its content.
• Project From Existing Code allows to specify list of wildcards for ignored file names.
• Faster project opening.
• Project system improvements.
• Smaller package.
• Less memory requirements.
• .NET 4.5 required.
• @link PHPDoc keyword.
• Fixed use of navigation bar immediately after opening a file.
• Find Symbol Results fixes.
• FTP/SFTP publish is handeling profiles with server names with explicit port number but without scheme.

1.12.5211

• Fix of PHP Editor when Navigation Bar is hidden.
• Setup configures file association with .php and .phpproj properly.

1.12.5187

• Project From Existing Code creates correct msbuild file in case of special characters in file names.
• IntelliSense exception fix in case of license is not activated.
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Application support for .php extension.
• Web Projects uses "Set As Start Page" command instead of ".. Start File".
• Setup fixes for VS2010.
• Setup fixes when there is an older version installed.
• VS2012 Options page mishmashed characters fix.
• PHP build-in server hostname option is used properly in opened browser.

1.12.5174

• Console PHP Project template.
• Fix of CSS files colorization when opening them by double-click from Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010.
• Fix for Split Window when using mixed HTML/PHP Editor.
• Fix for IIS Express PHP registration when starting debug of PHP project.
• Fix for internal detection of installed VS packages and languages in case of non-standard VS config registry root.

1.12.5112

• Files from [metadata] includes private/protected keywords properly.
• Check for conflict with PHP Language Support extension.

Test Adapter

• Test Explorer integration, PHPUnit included.
• PHPUnit classes available in IntelliSense.

Phalanger

• Compatibility with Phalanger Tools 1.12+.

1.11.5062

MSI installer

• Fix when there is running Visual Studio during install.

1.11.5051

• Debug Quick Watch fixes (inside return and array use)
• IntelliSense shows types of properties and constants of builtin PHP types.
• Project properties scroll bars fix.
• Project properties on first load marked as dirty.
• Visual Studio 2010 without 'Visual Web Developer' feature does not allow HTML Editor.

MSI installer

• Fixed issues with updating or uninstalling the extension.
• Fixed issues with missing project and item templates.
• Allowed downgrade to an older version.

Debug

• Improved php.ini check.
• Fixing php.ini under non-Administrator account or with UAC enabled.
• "xdebug.remote_host" option validated properly.
• Opening php.ini from Interpreters dialog allows edit with UAC.
• Debug launch with debug issues fix.
• Silverlight debugging without IE shows readable error message.

1.10.4967

• "Browse With" support, user is able to choose browser used to debug
• Fixed processing of files under long paths (under directories > 255 chars)
• Opening documents from last solution session fix (Visual Studio 2013)
• Debugger improvements
• Silverlight debugging (requires Internet Explorer)
• "Start without debugging" runs correct browser application
• Fix for Web Essentials and certain commands (like Create CSS bundle)
• Brace Completion option available (VS 2013)

1.9.4910

• IntelliSense after static::.
• IntelliSense of parameters with type hint inside a namespace fix.
• Fix of PHPDoc parser; use of @method without parameters fix.
• Icons in Visual Studio 2013 Navigate To window.
• Option to remove UTF8 BOM of PHP files.
• Option to specify hostname for built-in PHP server.
• "Show All Files" switch is available on VS Shell Integrated as well.
• Stopping debug session properly closes server.
• Debugging works if IE has been uninstalled from the system.
• Show Line Numbers and Word Wrap options work in new PHP/HTML/JS/CSS editor.
• Compatibility fixes for ReSharper - PHP editor, false warnings, snippets, formatting etc.

1.9.4839

• Fix for included/excluded files appearing in IntelliSense.
• Fix for indentation of generated PHPDoc.
• Fix for IntelliSense completion in PHPDoc.
• Generated PHPDoc has "mixed" types by default and contains @throws if there is "throw new" statement.

1.9.4832

• Compatibility fixes when Phalanger is installed.
• Compatibility check for VS 2010 without SP1.
• Fix of parser failing for lines with certain length.
• Fix of error reporting during package initialization.
• Fix of IntelliSense initialization for multiple projects in solution.

Source Control

• Added support for syntax highlighting in diff window.

Project System

• Performance improvements of Drag&Drop operation, and adding items into project in general.
• Created .phpproj.user file us backward compatible with previous version of Visual Studio.

1.9.4815

Project System

• Fix of adding items with semi-colon in its name.
• Fix of flickering and collapsing when deleting items.
• Fix of correct item selected after deletion.
• Fix of IDE inresponsibility.

1.9.4792

• Improved project system
• Fix of nested file nodes (e.g. .coffee files and Web Essentials)
• Support for Xdebug using IPv6 address
• Fix of Collapse To Def command
• Fix of wrong snippets path not updated by Visual Studio
• Fix of Tool Tips / Quick Watch when debugging
• Fix of outlining being continuously collapsed when typing
• Fix of debugging when a Web App Project is in solution
• Fix of debug keeping listening on port
• Publish takes also dependent file nodes (e.g. generated from .coffee)
• Fix of code snippets not being available
• Explorer icons associated also under non-administrator account

1.9.4736

• Removed Start Page
• Visual Studio manages file associations with .phpproj and .php
• Support for Visual Studio 2013
• Inserting snippets with reformat fix
• Updated icons for VS2013 and VS2013
• About box with additional package information
• Experimental HTML/JS/CSS support (enable in TOOLS|OPTIONS|PHP Tools)

Project System

• Improved project system
• Improved source control support
• Bolding of startup file on PHP project
• Improved project loading
• Asynchronous project loading

1.8.4704

• SFTP publish allows empty private key
• Expired subscription does not cause notification to appear every VS startup
• Fix of conflicting PhpNetCore.dll when Phalanger is installed
• Fix of debugger keeping socket opened after VS is closed

1.8.4608

• Memory usage optimizations
• .coffee and .less item templates added (if supported by VS)
• PHP 5.5 syntax supported
• php.ini configuration issue checker improvements
• Code commenting improvements for mixed tabs/spaces on commented lines
• Improved metadata generation for native PHP functions and classes (F12 on builtin PHP stuff)
• Publish dialog fix; saves data when enter is pressed
• Allowing to use some 3rd party extensions getting color information improperly
• File System publisher doesn't propage readonly and hidden attributes
• SFTP publisher supports private key
• Navigating to php files via Find Results fix

Debug

• Xdebug configuration checks improvements
• Debugger/Watch allows complex expressions
• Debugger handles evaluation with side effect
• Debugger hexadecimal view support
• During debugging on IIS Express, verbose messages are printed to VS Output
• If IIS Express fails to start, user is notified and debug session won't start

IntelliSense

• Support for generators added into IntelliSense
• F1 Help provided for more PHP keywords
• updated integrated documentation (Sep 3rd 2013)
• Some optional parameters of PHPManual functions shown properly as optional
• Initial value of PHPManual function parameters shown in tool tips

1.8.4504

• Asking for trial at Visual Studio startup can be disabled now
• Option to disable keyword reference highlighting under the cursor
• Option to disable PHPDoc generating for /**

Debug

• Autos window during debugging
• Remote debugging through SSH tunnel allowed

1.8.4473

• start page shows subscription expiration
• project system fixes for dragging and removing
• version date is checked against subscription expiration
• start page shows changelog
• requires to try professional features
• license is valid for any Visual Studio version until subscription is valid

1.8.4452

• occurences of the identifier under the caret is highlighted across the whole file
• Publishable property fix, listing files to publish fix
• HTML IntelliSense (code completion, including smart closing tag)
• HTML element pair highlighting
• HTML automatic closing element inserted on >
• HTML commenting/uncommenting selection (applicable only if HTML xor PHP are selected)
• formatting HTML document
• improvements in HTML colorizer, more "non-standard" HTML code allowed
• improved performance and stability of colorizer
• creating new PHP project automatically opens 'index.php'
• fixed IntelliSense of DOMNodeList
• foreach of DOMNodeList, DirectoryIterator, ArrayIterator
• foreach of classes derived from Iterator with function current()
• PHP project publish bug fixes

1.7.4340

• Automatic installation of PHP with Xdebug from Web Platform Installer
• IntelliSense enhancements
• no code completion after "var" keyword
• private static and non-static functions and properties only shown in its class context
• overriding of builtin PHP functions shows valid type hints
• update of builtin PHP manual to April 2013 version
• PDO:: constants in IntelliSense
• PDO methods have proper return type and -> after them works
• F1 works for built-in PHP classes and their members
• fix of smart indent after "(new X)->xxx;" statement
• Class Search allows searching for class members too
• Object Browser shows additional PHPDoc information
• Debugger improvements
• Debugger allows to select what kind of errors are handled
• Fatal, Parse, Unknown errors breaks debug
• fix when running VS as Guest; fixes startup crash and activating trial crash
• fix when running project after configuration error; new configuration takes an effect

1.6.4251

• remote debugging fix

1.6.4231

• PHP Debugger improvements
• strings longer than 1024 handled, can be previewed and edited
• arrays and objects with more than 32 elements handled, can be viewed and edited
• modified values/objects in immediate window are updated in debug view
• fix of automatic port selection
• project located in disk root starts up properly
• fix of startup url, forward slashes instead of backward
• formatting fix of return expression
• devsense.com web site is not opened after installation
• F12 and F1 when cursor is just before the word
• project properties can be saved even if no PHP interpreter is configured
• fix when VS is being closed with built-in PHP web server running
• fix of project properties port number input text box

1.6.4187

• PHP class item template
• fix of scrolling the document to the cursor position on enter after long lines
• fix of formatting on code using heredoc
• start page is displayed after an update and disable checkbox is more visible
• start page contains more information about features

1.6.4160

• Navigate To support (Ctrl + ,)
• PHP 5.4 traits syntax
• PHP 5.4 function array dereference syntax
• PHP 5.4 function call on object instantioation
• IntelliSense of new PHP 5.4 constructs
• IntelliSense hides private members out of its class
• IntelliSense after use/extends/implements/new improved, traits handled
• proper icons of interfaces in IntelliSense lists
• fix of adding handlers into IIS configuration
• JavaSript debugger (JScript) support (implies use of IE)
• selection of debuggers (PHP and/or JavaScript) in project properties
• improved PHPDoc, handles @property-write, @property-read and more @method syntaxes
• PHP debugger improvements
• IntelliSense improvements
• Project Publish "Skip missing files check" option
• Project system improvements when using source control binding
• overriding of functions fix; autocompletes type hints and parameters default value
• control variable from catch() block in IntelliSense
• php item templates do not have BOM

1.6.4064

• minor fix when VS freezes on first opened php file
• PHPDoc @param without variable name handled
• feedback button crash fix
• publishing issue fix with new files
• debugging path mapping fixes
• formatter handles class field initializers
• singleline PHPDoc not collapsible
• class search shows classes, global functions, constants
• tooltip stability issue fix
• closing file crash while IntelliSense is active fix
• renaming files under source control fix

1.6.4040

• Minor fix of IntelliSense and Class View within solutions with more than one PHP project loaded

1.6.4039

• Project Publish
• Manual Publish command
• Publish profiles management
• Publish Wizard, connection validation
• File System, FTP, FTPS, SFTP protocols
• Automatic publish before Run
• Fast incremental Publish
• Remote Debugging / Custom server
• Automatic directory mapping
• Publish before run
• PHP Built-in server Routing Script option
• Class View, Class search
• structured by namespaces
• Object Browser
• IntelliSense improvements:
• Asynchronous IntelliSense (Completor, Word Completion, ToolTip, MethodTip) immediate editor response
• IntelliSense of array items, foreach enumeration
• array type hint in PHPDoc supported (e.g. ObjType[])
• Global constants defined thru define() with PHPDoc
• Global variables defined thru PHPDoc (using @global tag)
• Other IntelliSense engine improvements
• IntelliSense engine optimizations
• fast editor response when matching/highlighting braces
• Description of more PHP keywords and built-in functions
• 'Go To Declaration' (F12) in case of variables and properties does not show implicit declarations
• 'Go To Declaration' (F12) of declarations from @method or @property jumps to corresponding PHPDoc tag
• options for disabling code collapsing by default, collapsing of PHPDoc blocks or #region/#endregion
• option for IntelliSense variable preselection when $ is typed
• collapsing of <?php ?> code blocks
• collapsing of group of line comments, allowing to have whitelines between them
• VS 2012 light/dark project icons
• .php file is opened in an existing instance of Visual Studio when opening from Windows Explorer
• VS 2012 faster response in large projects
• Start Page with News re-enabled only after major update
• project system fixes, improvements
• fixed Method Info for multilined function calls
• fixed performance issue of huge PHP projects when whole VS was laggy

1.5.3865

• new PHP Variable color
• better support for VS2012 dark theme
• VS 2012 preview tab supported
• fixed reseting of HTML colors on VS 2012
• fixed IntelliSense replacement span, e.g. right before a string
• fixed syntax error of class constant set to a string containing $

1.5.3802

• fixed debugging when user stopped debug manually before debug session ended
• fixed debugging of projects located in paths containing Unicode characters
• fixed 'project from existing code' wizard messages
• fixed entering new line with 'virtual space' option and with caret after the line end
• fixed IntelliSense deduction of abstract methods but with PHPDoc information
• support for improved method call syntax $classname::$methodname()
• support for improved array syntax [1,2,3, 'key' => $value]

1.5.3767

• PHP code formatting fixes
• project system fixes
• more IntelliSense within FTP site and FileSystem site

1.5.3746

• Windows 8 Debugger Systray fix
• fix of crashing when RedGate Reflector is installed
• IntelliSense optimizations
• IntelliSense of namespaces fixes
• beta of arrays IntelliSense, foreach
• version in Start Page
• IIS Express debugging fix when default URL is used
• PHP Project system improvements
• Drag&Drop and Ctrl+C/X/V within same project
• solution explorer refresh button
• missing files marked with exclamation mark in solution explorer
• VS12 additional colors fix
• debugging of certain servers (PHP 5.4, IIS Express) allowed without Administrator rights
• debugger catch Exceptions
• PHP Exceptions listed in Debug -> Exceptions
• HTML highlighting uses VS settings, Spellchecker addon compatibility fix

1.5.3650

• PHP code debugging (XDebug support)
• Immediate Window during debugging
• Debug Quick Watch and Tooltips with actual value
• Editting values during debugging
• PHP projects
• @property and @method PHPDoc tags
• package fix on Windows XP
• performance fix of Visual Studio Web Site
• IntelliSense fixes
• Comment/Uncomment selection fix
• Project From Existing Code... (File -> New)
• Custom file extensions available free
• Built-in PHP 5.4 server support
• IIS Express server support
• PHP configuration issues manager
• Automatic one-time file association

1.1.3415

• formatting fixes
• duplicities in navigation bar fixes
• automatic generaton of PHPDoc when /** is typed above declaration
• minor IntelliSense fix when new function is being typed

1.1.3385

• IntelliSense shows static functions after object operator
• IntelliSense fixes
• Smart Indent and Reformatter fixes

1.1.3330

• typing variable name fix
• smart indent fixes
• more keywords in IntelliSense
• right brace inside string fix (smart indent, highlighting, brace matching)
• IntelliSense during Method Info fix
• Go to Brace supported (Ctrl+])

1.1.3267

• outlining bug fix

1.1.3266

• smart indentation improvements
• namespace formating fixes
• Code completer improvements

1.1.3248

• F1 Help

• region/#endregion outlining

• all PhpDoc tags
• improved PHPDoc parser
• smart indentation
• smart outdentation of '{', 'case', 'default'
• formatting options
• automatic PHP document formatting
• automatic code block reformat after '}', ':' or ';'
• formatting of code selection
• Whole PHP Manual integrated
• fixes of namespaces handling
• fixed namespaced names code completion
• namespace blocks collapsing
• Mac New Lines (CR) supported
• Files in Solution Explorer handled properly

1.0.3045

• tooltip handling fix

1.0.3039

• code snippets, code surrounding, expansion browser
• PHPDoc highlighting
• added missing keywords in code sense
• updated integrated documentation (PDO, Zip)
• automatic $ when inserting static class field
• comment/uncomment lines refinement

1.0.2940

• Automatic .php file association

1.0.2930

• IntelliSense improvements & fixes
• PHPDoc of class fields in ToolTip

1.0.2896

• PHP documentation updated
• optimizations, improved IntelliSense for functions with PHPDoc
• Caching progress in status bar
• Custom file extensions supported

1.0.2848

• fix when changing outside Visual Studio
• DIR constant added
• improvements when coding in namespace

1.0.2842

• code sense fixes
• code sense of 'new' improvements
• more PHP documentation
• "Find Symbol Results" window shows full line of code if possible
• 'Go to definition' centers view
• generated metadata file contains PHP documentation if available
• welcome dialog showed, fix
• lambda functions support if available

1.0.2818

• 'global' keyword handled, type inference enhancements
• code sense improvements and fixes
• 'Show All Files'/'Include'/'Exclude' commands in solution explorer
• 'Open folder in Windows Explorer' in colution explorer
• package metadata updated
• package Welcome dialog, licensing, trial, buy
• PHP documentation for class library symbols
• performance improvements

1.0.2667

• collapse to definition
• brace matching
• web root based on solution explorer
• go to definition of class library symbol shows generated metadata file
• HTML scanner allows single quoted attributes
• "Find symbol results" window
• Fonts&Colors setting fix when improperly loaded by VS
• $ before a variable name autocompleted properly on VS11
• Navigation bar fixes

1.0.2567

• performance improvements
• VS11 support added
• HTML colors changed
• bug fixes

1.0.2529

• Initial release.