diff --git a/bin/composer b/bin/composer
index cadff6d0d..2e83cdd19 100755
--- a/bin/composer
+++ b/bin/composer
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use Composer\XdebugHandler\XdebugHandler;
 error_reporting(-1);
 
 // Restart without Xdebug
-$xdebug = new XdebugHandler('Composer', '--ansi');
+$xdebug = new XdebugHandler('Composer');
 $xdebug->check();
 unset($xdebug);
 
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 6e2c31bfa..45a28aba7 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         "composer/metadata-minifier": "^1.0",
         "composer/semver": "^3.0",
         "composer/spdx-licenses": "^1.2",
-        "composer/xdebug-handler": "^1.1",
+        "composer/xdebug-handler": "^2.0",
         "justinrainbow/json-schema": "^5.2.10",
         "psr/log": "^1.0",
         "seld/jsonlint": "^1.4",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index b2cdb5b23..a164e4f76 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "5275194a1c51ef2f95f92838cc728abc",
+    "content-hash": "9ca39897cc82c83aa794920b6c2f0a60",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "composer/ca-bundle",
@@ -313,16 +313,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "composer/xdebug-handler",
-            "version": "1.4.6",
+            "version": "2.0.0",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/composer/xdebug-handler.git",
-                "reference": "f27e06cd9675801df441b3656569b328e04aa37c"
+                "reference": "31d57697eb1971712a08031cfaff5a846d10bdf5"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/composer/xdebug-handler/zipball/f27e06cd9675801df441b3656569b328e04aa37c",
-                "reference": "f27e06cd9675801df441b3656569b328e04aa37c",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/composer/xdebug-handler/zipball/31d57697eb1971712a08031cfaff5a846d10bdf5",
+                "reference": "31d57697eb1971712a08031cfaff5a846d10bdf5",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
             "support": {
                 "irc": "irc://irc.freenode.org/composer",
                 "issues": "https://github.com/composer/xdebug-handler/issues",
-                "source": "https://github.com/composer/xdebug-handler/tree/1.4.6"
+                "source": "https://github.com/composer/xdebug-handler/tree/2.0.0"
             },
             "funding": [
                 {
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
                     "type": "tidelift"
                 }
             ],
-            "time": "2021-03-25T17:01:18+00:00"
+            "time": "2021-04-09T19:40:06+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "justinrainbow/json-schema",
diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/DiagnoseCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/DiagnoseCommand.php
index ace5381e1..401b01a46 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/DiagnoseCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/DiagnoseCommand.php
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use Composer\SelfUpdate\Keys;
 use Composer\SelfUpdate\Versions;
 use Composer\IO\NullIO;
 use Composer\Package\CompletePackageInterface;
+use Composer\XdebugHandler\XdebugHandler;
 use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\Process\ExecutableFinder;
@@ -535,7 +536,7 @@ EOT
 
         if (filter_var(ini_get('xdebug.profiler_enabled'), FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN)) {
             $warnings['xdebug_profile'] = true;
-        } elseif (extension_loaded('xdebug')) {
+        } elseif (XdebugHandler::isXdebugActive()) {
             $warnings['xdebug_loaded'] = true;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Composer/Console/Application.php b/src/Composer/Console/Application.php
index d5f69697b..3dea8abe9 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Console/Application.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Console/Application.php
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use Composer\Util\ErrorHandler;
 use Composer\Util\HttpDownloader;
 use Composer\EventDispatcher\ScriptExecutionException;
 use Composer\Exception\NoSslException;
+use Composer\XdebugHandler\XdebugHandler;
 use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessTimedOutException;
 
 /**
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ class Application extends BaseApplication
                 $io->writeError('<warning>Composer only officially supports PHP 5.3.2 and above, you will most likely encounter problems with your PHP '.PHP_VERSION.', upgrading is strongly recommended.</warning>');
             }
 
-            if (extension_loaded('xdebug') && !getenv('COMPOSER_DISABLE_XDEBUG_WARN')) {
+            if (XdebugHandler::isXdebugActive() && !getenv('COMPOSER_DISABLE_XDEBUG_WARN')) {
                 $io->writeError('<warning>Composer is operating slower than normal because you have Xdebug enabled. See https://getcomposer.org/xdebug</warning>');
             }
 
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/ApplicationTest.php b/tests/Composer/Test/ApplicationTest.php
index 7cecb5794..31fdcd1ec 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/ApplicationTest.php
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/ApplicationTest.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 namespace Composer\Test;
 
 use Composer\Console\Application;
+use Composer\XdebugHandler\XdebugHandler;
 use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
 
 class ApplicationTest extends TestCase
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ class ApplicationTest extends TestCase
         $outputMock->expects($this->at($index++))
             ->method("write");
 
-        if (extension_loaded('xdebug')) {
+        if (XdebugHandler::isXdebugActive()) {
             $outputMock->expects($this->at($index++))
                 ->method("getVerbosity")
                 ->willReturn(OutputInterface::VERBOSITY_NORMAL);