Bleeding edge 🔪

• Added absent type checks about @phpstan-assert PHPDoc tags (phpstan/phpstan-src@ca0a7e9), #11780

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Improvements 🔧

• Update nikic/php-parser to v4.19.4 (phpstan/phpstan-src@0b9ce98)
• Process ClassConstFetch::$class when it's a Name node (phpstan/phpstan-src@712c33e)
• Process ClassConstFetch::$name (phpstan/phpstan-src@b38c852)
• Fix unused private property is not sometimes detected (#3539), #11802, thanks @staabm!

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fixes for lowercase-string
  • Keep lowercase when trim (#3491), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Add support for str_repeat and str_pad for lowercase string (#3490), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Update ReplaceFunctionsDynamicReturnTypeExtension for lowercase-string (#3489), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Update parse_str for lowercase string (#3492), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • More precise IntegerRangeType::toString() (#3475), thanks @staabm!
  • Add support for lowercase-string on parse_url() (#3493), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Improve Vsprintf inference (#3496, #3501), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Offset access on lowercase-string is lowercase-string (#3502), thanks @staabm!
  • IntegerType::toString() is lowercase (#3510), thanks @VincentLanglet!
  • Handle lowercase string in sprintf (#3498), thanks @VincentLanglet!
• Update composer/pcre (phpstan/phpstan-src@3cdac94), #11786
• Fix a few regex class parsing usecases (#3488), thanks @mvorisek!
• Fix preg_match_all with PREG_SET_ORDER does not see capture group as optional (#3506), #11661, thanks @staabm!
• Fix false-positive with preg_match(): Strict comparison using === between '' and non-falsy-string…ween '' and non-falsy-string (#3509), #11744, thanks @staabm!

Function signature fixes 🤖

• functionMap: a bit more precise get_defined_constants (#3537), thanks @janedbal!
• token_name() returns non-empty-string (#3540), thanks @staabm!
• curl_multi_getcontent() can return null (#3527), thanks @staabm!
• Update SplFileInfo::getPathInfo return type (#3487), thanks @DannyvdSluijs!
• Update return type of spl_autoload_functions on PHP8.0+ (#2810), thanks @ManuelHu!

Internals 🔍

• Fix missing ltrim in regex parse (#3495), thanks @mvorisek!
• Un-deprecate ConstantTypeHelper (phpstan/phpstan-src@3a83f6b)
• Introduce Scope::getMaybeDefinedVariables() (#3521), #11772, thanks @ruudk!
• TypeInferenceTestCase: allow asserting array offset certainty (#3503), thanks @ruudk!
• Simplify preserveKeys TrinaryLogic creation in two extensions (#3516), thanks @herndlm!
• Add Type::sliceArray() (#3514) (#3514), thanks @herndlm!
• Set normalized in BenevolentUnionType (#3522), thanks @herndlm!
• Refactor RegexGroupParser for more immutability and less pass-by-ref (#3508), thanks @staabm!