1.27.0

Changes

Changed

• PHP 8 Attributes Migration: Removed doctrine/annotations and doctrine/cache dependencies, migrated to native PHP 8 attributes
• Minimum PHP Version: Updated requirement from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.2
• Development Tools: Updated PHPUnit from 9.6 to 11.0, migrated test suite to PHP 8 attributes
• Dependencies: Updated to stable Ray dependencies (ray/aop ^2.18.0, ray/di ^2.18.0), replaced nocarrier/hal with koriym/hal ^1.1
• CI/CD: Updated Scrutinizer CI to PHP 8.4

Removed

• doctrine/annotations (abandoned package)
• doctrine/cache (abandoned package)
• symfony/polyfill-php83 (unnecessary for PHP 8.2+)
• Backward compatibility code for annotations

Fixed

• CI workflow to remove PHP 8.1 from test matrix
• Parameter processing to handle methods without attributes correctly
• Updated .gitignore for .phpunit.cache directory

⚠️ Migration Required

Applications using annotations must migrate to PHP 8 attributes:

composer require --dev bearsunday/rector-bearsunday

# Preview changes
vendor/bin/rector process src --config=vendor/bearsunday/rector-bearsunday/rector.php --dry-run

# Apply migration
vendor/bin/rector process src --config=vendor/bearsunday/rector-bearsunday/rector.php

Why This Change?

The doctrine/annotations package has been officially abandoned by its maintainers. This change:

• Eliminates security and compatibility risks from abandoned packages
• Adopts native PHP 8 attributes as the modern standard
• Improves performance (no runtime annotation parsing overhead)
• Provides automated migration tooling

Full changelog: https://github.com/bearsunday/BEAR.Resource/blob/1.x/CHANGELOG.md