October 4 2025, Phan 5.5.2

New features:

• Add some PHP 8.5 compatibility support - full support will be in Phan 6.x

Bug fixes:

• Fix never-return type narrowing #5078
• Fix issue #5063: Handle edge cases in type analysis
• Fix issue #5074: Type inference improvements
• Handle intersection types in @throws annotations #5073
• Fix SelfType instantiation for class constants #5057
• Map overridden method types before inheriting them #5068
• Resolve static before emitting PhanTypeMismatchReturn #5067
• Complain about ArrayObject/ArrayIterator with objects #5064
• Allow @extends/@inherits in PHPDoc on traits again #5061
• Normalize generic multi-type elements before expanding them #5059
• Use mixed instead of empty union to substitute unspecified template types #5058
• Flag 'catch' variables declared as unused in PHP 8 #5050
• Fixed -l handling to support one or multiple files #5056
• Add hash options argument to the 8.1 function signature delta map #5048
• Increase max recursion depth in asExpandedTypes #5046
• Infer more partial types for array union #5047
• Restore compatibility with older php-ast #5045
• Consider ClosureType as callable in CallableParamPlugin #5041
• Move code for complex callables from ContextNode to UnionTypeVisitor #5039
• Respect log_error for invalid maybe-callable FQSENs #5038
• Emit issues for duplicate @template annotations #5082

Plugins:

• UseReturnValuePlugin: support #[\NoDiscard] attribute #5051

Maintenance:

• Update php-ast to 1.1.3 #5042