11.0.0

A major release: the package requires PHP 8.3 and drops two traits. Read Upgrading below before updating.

Changed

• Requires PHP 8.3 or later (PHP 8.2 is no longer maintained). CI runs on PHP 8.3 and 8.4, with Laravel 12 and 13.
• declare(strict_types=1) in every file. A scalar of the wrong type passed to a typed parameter of this package now throws a TypeError instead of being converted. The package has many untyped parameters, which keep accepting what they accepted.
• Return types on public methods, added where the code returns a single type: isApproved(): bool, isReply(): bool, hasReplies(): bool, hasTerm(): bool, getAvatarAttribute(): string, getKeywordsStrAttribute(): string, getFormat(): string|array|false, createModel(): object, __toString(): string and others. A model that overrides one of them with another return type must be updated.
• Declared dependencies match what the code uses: illuminate/contracts and nesbot/carbon are required, illuminate/filesystem is not (nothing used it), and fakerphp/faker is a development dependency (only the test factories use it).
• PasswordService declares its $hasher property: creating it dynamically is deprecated since PHP 8.2.
• Post::getImageAttribute() is documented as string|null and returns null explicitly when the post has no thumbnail (same value as before); getPostInstance() and newFromBuilder() are documented as returning static.
• The models declare the columns and relations the code reads with @property tags, for static analysis.
• The package is checked by the Pollora harness: every gate blocks a merge (code style, PHPStan with a baseline of 52 reports that can only go down, Rector, dependency analysis, security patterns, public surface, tests).

Removed

• Pollora\Colt\Concerns\AdvancedCustomFields: deprecated, it relied on a Pollora\Colt\Acf\AdvancedCustomFields class that was never part of the package and threw a LogicException. Read ACF values with get_field() or through the model's meta.
• Pollora\Colt\Laravel\Auth\ResetsPasswords: the trait that stored a reset password with WordPress's hashing. A controller that used it must hash the password itself with Pollora\Colt\Services\PasswordService::makeHash() and save the user_pass of the user.

Upgrading

1. Run PHP 8.3 or later.
2. Remove use AdvancedCustomFields and use ResetsPasswords from your classes.
3. If you override one of the methods listed under "Return types", give it a compatible return type.
4. Run your tests: a TypeError points at a call that relied on a scalar being converted.