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• The folder is now off by default and can be enabled via the existing setting
• Much improved search functionality
• The PSR-11 service container is shallow-blacklisted by default. This will vastly improve performance on most frameworks such as symfony & laravel by stopping recursive parsing at the DI container unless you dump it explicitly
• TracePlugin now supports blacklisting stack frames from paths, such as your /vendor/ folder
• Numeric arrays with more than 1000 items in them will only dump the first 50 recursively. You can disable or configure this with ArrayLimitPlugin
• Supports PHP 8.1
• Lots of little stuff

Breaking changes

• Minimum supported PHP version is now 5.6
• Kint::$max_depth has been renamed Kint::$depth_limit to match internals
• Kint\Renderer\RichRenderer::$object_plugins has been renamed $value_plugins
• The Object namespace has been renamed Zval - So certain class statics will have been renamed (eg. Kint\Object\BlobObject::$char_encodings to Kint\Zval\BlobValue::$char_encodings)
• d(1) special case has been removed (Didn't work in edge cases) Call Kint::trace() instead
• For plugin development there have been a lot of internal changes
  • The whole Object namespace has been renamed Zval in anticipation of naming conflicts
  • parseDeep has been removed

• Fixes for PHP 7.4
• Namespaced functions will now be normalized correctly
• Colors are automatically disabled in windows in CliRenderer
• If (for some reason) you have neither iconv nor mbstring available, Kint will just assume ASCII and hope for the best
• Event handlers for click/keypress are now registered as capture so other events on the page won't override them

I will be starting work on a new major version next. 3.x support will continue for bugfixes

• Checks if the previous style and script tags still exist when deduplicating ajax calls in case the originals have been removed

• FsPathPlugin now works for windows paths too
• ToStringPlugin is now opt-in because of misbehaving third party libraries that cause fatal errors in it
• Fixed search when folder is disabled

• Callfinder now supports calling kint with a trailing comma in PHP 7.3
• Callfinder now supports expression detection with PHP 7.4's upcoming ??= operator
• MysqliPlugin: Fixed some connection failure edge cases that would produce warnings
• Rich SourcePlugin: Line numbers are back, and paste accuracy bugs are fixed
• Added a test shim to allow testing on PHP 7.4/8+
• Removed ruby dependency for sass formatting/compilation

• Fix folders to work when loaded with ajax
• RichRenderer: Allow dumps to be put into the folder individually
• export-ignore phar file for sensitive IDEs
• Added MysqliPlugin (Opt-in)

We're here!

Kint 3 bumps the minimum requirement up to PHP 5.3, comes separately in a phar file, and now uses namespaces.

The facade has been heavily rewritten to make it easier to reuse instances of Kint for performance.

kint-php/kint-js and kint-php/kint-twig have been updated to match Kint 3, with kint-twig making heavy use of the new facade features

The rich renderer now sends dumps to a folder docket at the bottom of your browser by default. You can turn this off with Kint\Renderer\RichRenderer::$folder = false if needed

• Adds a JS search button
• Fixes some IE quirks

The first tag of the new major version. This drops support for PHP 5.1/5.2, but improves code quality all around. A more or less full list of changes is available in issue #260

• Bugfixes
• Added special access paths for some magic methods
• Sort methods by line number after hierarchy
• Sort properties with strnatcasecmp instead of strcmp
• Added blacklist to ToString plugin, add SimpleXMLElement by default
• Removed the value representation from unknown types
• Removed object property reflection
• Made some parser plugins opt-in:
  • Binary
  • Serialize
  • DOMNode/DOMIterator
• Renderers can now alter parser plugins before parsing
  • The text-based renderers now disable all the plugins they don't use ahead of time
• Added special access paths for more magic methods like __toString
• Dropped automated testing of PHP 5.2
  • 5.2 will be dropped when TravisCI drops it in april
  • 5.1 and 5.2 are still technically supported, but since (hopefully) no-one uses those any huge bugs will be fixed on an as-reported basis.
• Added Kint::dumpArray to allow you to supply your own object seeds (Names and access paths) along with an array of data. Useful for integrating with other systems.
  • This allows correct access paths for Kint::trace()