diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 91bc4a87..0585fbdf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Licensed under [Boost Software License](http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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+## Fork changes
+
+This fork is modified to use absolute paths instead of relative in communication with remote debugger.
+
+This fork works only with similarly modified vscode-lrdb extension - [kapecp/vscode-lrdb](https://github.com/kapecp/vscode-lrdb).
+
 ## Introduction
 
 LRDB is Debugger for Lua programing language.
diff --git a/include/lrdb/debugger.hpp b/include/lrdb/debugger.hpp
index e9e69fc4..649fe93a 100644
--- a/include/lrdb/debugger.hpp
+++ b/include/lrdb/debugger.hpp
@@ -634,6 +634,9 @@ class debugger {
                       const std::string& hit_condition = "") {
     breakpoint_info info;
     info.file = file;
+    if (!is_path_separator(file.at(0)) && working_dir) { // is relative path and working_dir is set
+      info.file = std::string(working_dir) + "/" + info.file;
+    }
     info.line = line;
     info.condition = condition;
     if (!hit_condition.empty()) {
@@ -776,6 +779,25 @@ class debugger {
     return v;
   }
 
+  /// @brief set wcurrent working directory for relative path resolution
+  void set_working_dir(char* arg_working_dir) {
+    working_dir = (char*) malloc(4096 * sizeof(char));
+    strcpy(working_dir, arg_working_dir);
+  }
+
+  void path_to_absolute(char* path_absolute, const char* path) {
+    if (path[0] == '@') {
+      path++;
+      path_absolute[0] = '@';
+      path_absolute[1] = '\0';
+    }
+    if (!is_path_separator(path[0]) && working_dir) {  // is a relative path and working_dir is set
+      strcat(path_absolute, working_dir);
+      strcat(path_absolute, "/");
+    }
+    strcat(path_absolute, path);
+  }
+
  private:
   void sethook() {
     lua_pushlightuserdata(state_, this_data_key());
@@ -837,7 +859,13 @@ class debugger {
         if (source[0] == '@') {
           source++;
         }
-        if (is_file_path_match(it->file.c_str(), source)) {
+        else { // @ is prepended to all filenames. When there is no @, the line is from eval, therefore can not have a breakpoint
+          return 0;
+        }
+        char source_absolute[4096] = {0};
+        path_to_absolute(source_absolute, source);
+
+        if (is_file_path_match(it->file.c_str(), source_absolute)) {
           return &(*it);
         }
       }
@@ -964,6 +992,8 @@ class debugger {
     STEP_ENTRY,
   };
 
+  char *working_dir = NULL;
+
   lua_State* state_;
   bool pause_;
   //  bool error_break_;
diff --git a/include/lrdb/server.hpp b/include/lrdb/server.hpp
index 8316741e..ef85951a 100644
--- a/include/lrdb/server.hpp
+++ b/include/lrdb/server.hpp
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 namespace lrdb {
 
-#define LRDB_SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION "2"
+#define LRDB_SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION "3"
 
 /// @brief Debug Server Class
 /// template type is messaging communication customization point
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ class basic_server {
 
  private:
   void init() {
+    getcwd(working_dir, 4096); // probably will need to check for trailing slash
+    debugger_.set_working_dir(working_dir);
+    
     debugger_.set_pause_handler([&](debugger&) {
       send_pause_status();
       while (debugger_.paused() && command_stream_.is_open()) {
@@ -101,6 +104,10 @@ class basic_server {
     json::object param;
     param["protocol_version"] = json::value(LRDB_SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION);
 
+    char working_dir[4096];
+    getcwd(working_dir, 4096);
+    param["working_directory"] = json::value(working_dir);
+
     json::object lua;
     lua["version"] = json::value(LUA_VERSION);
     lua["release"] = json::value(LUA_RELEASE);
@@ -233,8 +240,17 @@ class basic_server {
     json::array res;
     for (auto& s : callstack) {
       json::object data;
-      if (s.source()) {
-        data["file"] = json::value(s.source());
+      
+      char absolute_source[4096] = {0};
+      const char* source = s.source();
+
+      if (source && source[0] == '@') {
+        debugger_.path_to_absolute(absolute_source, s.source());
+        source = absolute_source;
+      }
+
+      if (source) {
+        data["file"] = json::value(source);
       }
       const char* name = s.name();
       if (!name || name[0] == '\0') {
@@ -247,7 +263,7 @@ class basic_server {
         name = s.what();
       }
       if (!name || name[0] == '\0') {
-        name = s.source();
+        name = source;
       }
       data["func"] = json::value(name);
       data["line"] = json::value(double(s.currentline()));
@@ -411,6 +427,7 @@ class basic_server {
     }
   }
 
+  char working_dir[4096];
   bool wait_for_connect_;
   debugger debugger_;
   StreamType command_stream_;