Ampstaq v2.1.0

What's New

29 PHP Extensions + Xdebug Out of the Box

Ampstaq now ships with more extensions enabled than XAMPP, WampServer, or Laragon — covering all requirements for Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, and Magento.

11 new extensions added: bcmath, ffi, ftp, gmp, ldap, odbc, pdo_odbc, pdo_pgsql, pgsql, shmop, tidy

Xdebug 3.5.1 is now automatically downloaded and pre-configured for IDE step debugging (port 9003, trigger mode — zero performance impact unless activated).

Smart Extension Detection

PHP extensions are now auto-detected from the ext/ directory instead of being hardcoded. This eliminates load warnings when extensions are compiled into core (e.g. bcmath and opcache in PHP 8.5+). Works cleanly across all supported PHP versions (7.4–8.5).

Full Bundle Support

Xdebug DLLs are included in the full bundle ZIP and detected from stack/.packages/ for offline installations. The minimal release downloads Xdebug automatically during setup.

Downloads

File	Description
ampstaq.exe	Minimal — downloads components on first run (~220MB)
ampstaq-full-v2.1.0.zip	Full bundle — offline-capable, everything included (~213MB)

Full Extension List

bcmath, bz2, curl, exif, ffi, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, intl, ldap, mbstring, mysqli, odbc, openssl, pdo_mysql, pdo_odbc, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, shmop, soap, sockets, sodium, sqlite3, tidy, xsl, zip + OPcache + Xdebug