rectorphp/rector 2.8.3

Released Rector 2.8.3

on GitHub

Faster node traversal and updated PHPStan stack 🚀

This release brings performance improvements to node visitors, reducing unnecessary traversals and reflection resolution during analysis.

It also updates PHPStan to 2.3.4 and phpstan/phpdoc-parser to 2.4, with compatibility fixes for the updated PHPDoc type nodes.

Performance Improvements 🚀

• Avoid nested traversals in ByRefNodeVisitor by tracking by-reference variable names per FunctionLike (#8879) Thanks @samsonasik
• Only resolve call reflection for 2-item array arguments in CallLikeReflectionNodeVisitor (#8880) Thanks @samsonasik

Bugfixes 🐛

• [TypeDeclaration] AddArrayFunctionClosureParamTypeRector: resolve array item types from unions of arrays (#8877) Thanks @SanderMuller
• Lock the fixture directory itself to prevent conflicts between parallel test workers using different TMPDIR values (#8878) Thanks @SanderMuller

Internals ⚙️

• Bump PHPStan to 2.3.4 and phpstan/phpdoc-parser to 2.4, adapting PHPDoc node handling for the new NameNode, FullyQualifiedNameNode, and RelativeNameNode types (#8883) Thanks @ondrejmirtes