XOOPS DebugBar 1.3.0 Is Here: Smarter Diagnostics, Safer Debugging, Faster Development

The XOOPS development experience just took another big step forward. XOOPS DebugBar 1.3.0 is now available for XOOPS 2.7, bringing developers and site administrators a more powerful, polished, and security-conscious way to understand what is happening inside their websites.

Built for PHP 8.2 and newer, XOOPS DebugBar adds an administrator-only diagnostics toolbar to rendered pages and pairs it with protected administration screens for performance analytics, logs, system diagnostics, and Xdebug profiles. The result is a practical command center that helps developers spot slow requests, repeated queries, configuration issues, and application errors without losing sight of security or usability.

Turn performance data into action

DebugBar 1.3.0 makes it easier to move from “this page feels slow” to a useful diagnosis. Its Analytics area brings together stored request profiles, slow URLs, repeated-query and N+1 candidates, per-module comparisons, performance-budget violations, flight-recorder snapshots, OPcache health, and available Xdebug profiles.

Teams can define budgets for slow requests, queries, resource use, and XOOPS bootstrap time, then use the collected evidence to focus optimization work where it matters most. Query logging modes and slow-query highlighting keep database investigations targeted, while the signed, read-only EXPLAIN workflow helps administrators inspect supported SELECT queries safely.

A clearer view of the whole XOOPS request

The browser toolbar puts essential request information close at hand, including database queries, timers, blocks, errors, Smarty data, and included files. A new practical guide helps developers and webmasters get productive quickly, while extension documentation explains how module authors can add their own instrumentation and collectors.

Optional integrations expand the toolkit without turning them into requirements. Monolog can provide structured file logging, Ray can receive forwarded diagnostics when available, Xdebug can create one-shot profiles, and OPcache statistics can reveal server health. xWhoops and Tracy remain capability-detected and optional, so their absence will not prevent DebugBar from loading.

Improved Security

Powerful diagnostics must be handled carefully, and security is a central theme of the 1.3.0 release. Toolbar output is restricted to authenticated administrators, administrative changes use XOOPS CSRF protection, and diagnostic values pass through bounded sanitization and redaction.

The release also introduces a dedicated protected signing key for EXPLAIN requests, stricter validation that accepts only a single read-only SELECT statement, safer rendering for dumped values and email previews, and allowlisted access to logs, profiles, and flight-recorder files. If an optional capability or required security resource is unavailable, DebugBar is designed to fail safely.

More dependable, more polished

Version 1.3.0 includes a wide range of fixes and refinements across AJAX behavior, editor links, mail previews, Server-Timing headers, dark-mode syntax highlighting, profile-table detection, Monolog storage fallback, and browser widgets. It also improves the accuracy of bootstrap measurements and repeated-query thresholds, while keeping collection-heavy features disabled or bounded by sensible defaults.

The module supports XOOPS 2.7.0 or newer and PHP 8.2 or newer, with compatibility coverage through PHP 8.5. Existing users should run the XOOPS module update after installing version 1.3.0 so the new preferences, protected EXPLAIN key, and refreshed browser assets are applied.

Whether you are building a module, tracking down an elusive error, or tuning a busy XOOPS site, DebugBar 1.3.0 gives you better evidence, faster answers, and greater confidence. Install or update the module, enable XOOPS Debug and the DebugBar toolbar for an administrator account, and start exploring what your site has been trying to tell you.