Stable version!

• Detection of all dead members is implemented and stable!
  • Dead methods, constants, enum cases and properties
• Thus, no more BC breaks in extension points are expected
• It took ~4 years of development

Performance improvements

• Result cache offloaded to own cache (#319)
  • Analysis reusing cache:
    • up to ~40% less memory
    • up to ~40% faster
  • Result cache size: decreased by ~55%

New features:

• Fully new Laravel support (#294)
  • Route registration — Route::get(), post(), put(), patch(), delete(), any(), match(), resource(), apiResource()
    • Callable array syntax: [Controller::class, 'method']
    • Legacy string syntax: 'Controller@method'
    • Invokable controllers: Controller::class
  • Event listeners — Event::listen(), Event::subscribe()
  • Auto-discovered event listeners — classes with handle* methods whose first parameter has a class type
  • Scheduled jobs — Schedule::job()
  • Gate definitions — Gate::define() (callable + invokable), Gate::policy()
  • Policy resolution — $this->authorize() calls resolve policy class via Laravel's namespace convention (Models\ → Policies\)
  • Console commands — __construct, handle on Illuminate\Console\Command subclasses
  • Jobs — __construct, handle, failed, middleware, retryUntil, uniqueId, tags, backoff, uniqueVia, displayName on ShouldQueue / Dispatchable classes
  • Service providers — __construct, register, boot
  • Middleware — handle, terminate, __construct (detected by first parameter type Illuminate\Http\Request)
  • Notifications — via, toMail, toArray, toDatabase, toBroadcast, toVonage, toSlack
  • Form requests — authorize, rules, messages, attributes, prepareForValidation, passedValidation, failedValidation, failedAuthorization
  • Policies — before, viewAny, view, create, update, delete, restore, forceDelete (heuristic via \Policies\ namespace + Policy suffix)
  • Mailables — build, content, envelope, attachments, headers
  • Broadcast events — broadcastWith, broadcastAs, broadcastWhen
  • JSON resources — paginationInformation
  • Notifiable routing — routeNotificationFor* methods
  • Eloquent features:
    • Model methods — constructor, boot, booted, casts, newFactory
    • Query scopes — scope* methods
    • Relationships — methods returning Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\*
    • Attribute accessors — methods returning Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\Attribute
    • Legacy accessors/mutators — get*Attribute() / set*Attribute()
    • Observers — Model::observe() calls + #[ObservedBy] attribute (all observer event methods)
    • Factories — definition, configure
    • Seeders — run
    • Migrations — up, down
• Symfony improvements
  • #[Autoconfigure(constructor:, calls:)], #[AutowireCallable], #[TaggedIterator], #[TaggedLocator], #[Required] on properties, #[AsSchedule], #[AsCronTask], #[AsPeriodicTask], !php/enum references in config yamls (#317)
  • Allow explicit containerXmlPaths configuration - no need for phpstan/phpstan-doctrine for DIC calls analysis (#325)
  • Symfony UX support: #[AsTwigComponent]/#[AsLiveComponent] (constructor, mount()), #[LiveProp], #[LiveAction], #[LiveListener], lifecycle hooks (#329)
• Reflection improvements
  • support member constructors like new ReflectionMethod(Class, 'method') (#313)

Dependencies:

• Requires PHP ^8.1 (was ^7.4) (#296)
• Requires phpstan/phpstan ^2.1.41, (was ^2.1.23) (#297)

Fixes:

• Fix false-positive for self-referencing property access in property hooks (#311)

New features:

• Dead properties detection (#277, #281, #291)
  • Never read and never written properties are detected
• Property hooks full support (#281)
  • Now part of transitivity chain detection (both read & write)
• Twig supports template parameters (#275)
  • Including transitively referenced ones
  • Supports:
    • Params passed to $controller->render('my.twig', ['param' => $viewModel]),
    • Params returned from #[Template] controller methods
    • Params rendered via Twig\Environment::render() and similar
• Symfony:
  • AutowireLocator to support defaultPriorityMethod (#286, @alcohol)
  • Support #[Interact] attribute for commands (#288, @mjanser)
• Nette tester
  • test* methods, setUp/tearDown, @dataProvider (#299)

Improvements:

• Solution to partial analysis false positives over inline ignores (#292)
• ApiPhpDocUsageProvider: only count phpdocs within analysed files (#284)

Breaking changes:

• All dead members are detected by default (#301)
  • You can rollback to previous setup via:

parameters:
    shipmonkDeadCode:
        detect:
            deadEnumCases: false
            deadProperties:
                neverRead: false
                neverWritten: false

Fixes:

• Fix infinite run for huge unused subtrees while groupping errors (#282)

New features:

• Support PHP 8.5 features (#269)
• Support phpbench entrypoints (#262, @simPod)
• Support behat entrypoints (#267, @devbanana)
• Support stream_wrapper_register magic (#266)

Improvements

• All filepaths are now resolved relative to config file they reside (same as native PHPStan configs) (#219)
  • usageProviders.symfony.configDir
  • usageExcluders.tests.devPaths

Dependencies

• phpstan/phpstan now requires ^2.1.23 (was ^2.1.12) (#254)

Breaking changes

• All classes are final (#237)

Improvements:

• Symfony & Doctrine (#258):
  • Support #[AsDoctrineListener]
  • Support #[AutoconfigureTag('doctrine.event_listener')]

Fixes:

• Fix disabling dead methods detection (#257)

Improvements:

• Symfony:
  • Support #[AsTransitionListenerWorkflow] and other Event listener attributes (#248, by @S1ructure)
  • Support #[AsMessageHandler] attribute (#247, by @S1ructure)

Fixes

• Property hooks partial support; fix crash & false positives (#244)

Improvements

• Symfony: support anonymous services in DIC (#238)
• Support @api over enums and enum cases (#240)
• Debug output not to report mixed over mixed usages caused by ReflectionClass<object>::getMethods() etc. (#241)