markus staab

It was a pleasure to work with @misterdeviling@bird.makeup thru a lot of old #PHPStan bugs. Yesterdays release contains a massive package of fixes.

while we concentrated on the maintenance parts, @OndrejMirtes@phpc.social could concentrate his efforts on improving DX with better docs and other nice additions.

Achievement unlocked: crossed the 1000 commits line in @phpstan@phpc.social core

TIL: your github action might fail because of a overlong command line, which gets cut without further notice.

Not sure its a #php or #windows or #githubactions effect.

1:1 the same command works on a ubuntu based github action without error

this week I am on vacation from my primary job..

@misterdeviling@bird.makeup and me working thru #PHPStan issues and we can look back on a pretty successfull week.

Lots of fixed issues and merged contributons. some multi year old bugs fixed.

Its a lot of fun

I love solving puzzles..

today I found out that a #phpstan container cache invalidates when you resize your bash/shell window. also when jumping between directories using `cd`.

not intentional of course. lets see what we can do about that.

Starting with #phpstan 2.1.39 in case we know constants are deprecated only in certain php versions, we no longer error about them, when used in a `if (PHP_VERSION_ID < 80400) {`-like condition.

see E_STRICT before PHP 8.4:
https://phpstan.org/r/0dc9fe34-0c60-4254-9174-f37e910cb4cf

I recently learned that git bisect has a "run" subcommand, which allows you to automate the bisect process.

in a blog post I am describing how you can find a regression commit in phpstan-src.

the same approach works for any git based project.

https://staabm.github.io/2026/02/07/git-bisect-run.html

After ~6 weeks of collaboration we released a blazing fast #PHPStan version - static analysis on steroids.

https://staabm.github.io/2026/01/25/phpstan-on-steroids.html