Features

• Backported #372: Add support for generic methods. This will make it
  easier for libraries to adopt as they do not need to force anyone to
  upgrade to PHP8-only XP 13
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Fixed Returning a value from a constructor is deprecated in PHP 8.6
  (@thekid)

Features

• Backported #371: Rename is() -> instance() (PHP 8.6 deprecated) - @thekid
• Merged PR #369: Replace spl_object_hash() with spl_object_id() - @thekid

Features

• Merged PR #364: I/O exceptions refactoring, fixing a naming conflict with
  the IoException class introduced into PHP 8.6 as part of the I/O poll
  infrastructure - see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/poll_api#exception_hierarchy
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Ensured the files used by the archive class loading mechanism are closed
  when the class loaders are garbage-collected
  (@thekid)

Features

• Made nullable types compatible with all supported PHP versions - @thekid
• Backported RFC #364 - I/O exceptions refactoring from XP 12 - @thekid

Bugfixes

• Fixed io.streams.StreamTransfer::transferAll() not correctly returning
  the number of written bytes as advertised
  (@thekid)

Features

• Optimized reading from util.Bytes, iterables and strings in io.Blob class
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #362: Add a seekable input stream which spools to a temporary
  file: io.streams.SpooledInputStream
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #361: Have Buffer class implement the Seekable interface
  (@thekid)

Features

• Merged PR #360: Add an io.Blob class as a bridge between string, bytes
  and streams, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #359: Integrate PHP's stream filters into io.streams, see
  https://www.php.net/manual/en/filters.php
  (@thekid)

Features

• Merged PR #356: Implement UUID v7 - time-ordered UUIDs - @thekid

Bugfixes

• Fixed util.Random warnings with PHP 8.5 - @thekid

Features

• Merged PR #355: Work with DateInterval instances in util.TimeSpan
  (@thekid)
• Added PHP 8.6, changed PHP 8.5 to no longer allow failures in CI
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Fixed PHP 8.5 deprecation warnings about using null as an array offset
  being deprecated
  (@thekid)