Major new feature 🚀

Local type aliases

Thanks to @jiripudil and his PR phpstan/phpstan-src#460, you can now enjoy @phpstan-type and @phpstan-import-type in class-level PHPDoc. See the documentation for more details.

Improvements 🔧

• Add AlwaysUsedClassConstantsExtension interface (#495), #4859, thanks @jdecool!
• Remove unnecessary dependencies (phpstan/phpstan-src@2cd7a03)

Bugfixes 🐛

• unlink() also clears stat cache (phpstan/phpstan-src@63d0670), #4797
• Named arguments - fix optional arguments and variadics (phpstan/phpstan-src@3e5621e), #4800
• Fix Closure::bind() (phpstan/phpstan-src@566b44b), #4808
• Fix CatchWithUnthrownExceptionRule for new $expr() (phpstan/phpstan-src@8463afd), #4806
• Fix CatchWithUnthrownExceptionRule for $expr::foo() (phpstan/phpstan-src@8c7cf85), #4805
• Allow autoloaders to require/require_once for #4836 via a fake read (#491), thanks @rrazor!
• Get closer to how type inference in TypeScript works (phpstan/phpstan-src@3be90f0), #4803
• Fix throwpoint in elseif condition (phpstan/phpstan-src@fb62e5e)
• Fix excessive memory usage (phpstan/phpstan-src@7c0146c), #4815

Function signature fixes 🤖

• Update XSLTProcessor::transformToXML signature (#492), thanks @jawira!
• Update rediscluster inspections (#493), thanks @sudo-plz!
• Fix array_sum return type (#494), thanks @VincentLanglet!
• Fix wrong IntlDateFormatter format signature (#496), thanks @alfredbez!