Release 5.10.0

changelogs/5.10.md

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+# 5.10.0
+Released 14th December 2023.
+
+**For Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.50**
+
+This is a minor feature release, including new gameplay features and minor performance improvements.
+
+**Plugin compatibility:** Plugins for previous 5.x versions will run unchanged on this release, unless they use internal APIs, reflection, or packages like the `pocketmine\network\mcpe`  or `pocketmine\data` namespace.
+Do not update plugin minimum API versions unless you need new features added in this release.
+
+**WARNING: If your plugin uses the `pocketmine\network\mcpe` namespace, you're not shielded by API change constraints.**
+Consider using the `mcpe-protocol` directive in `plugin.yml` as a constraint if you're using packets directly.
+
+## General
+- PHP 8.2 is now used by default. PHP 8.1 is still supported, but will be removed in a future 5.x release.
+- Improved timings reports by removing `Breakdown` timings group. This group serves no purpose with tree timings and made for confusing reading.
+
+## Performance
+- Improved performance of `Block::encodeFullState()` in most conditions. This in turn improves performance of `World::setBlock()` and `World::setBlockAt()`.
+- Improved network compression performance by avoiding unnecessary object allocations.
+- Timings now report time spent in individual `Snooze` handlers, making it easier to debug performance issues.
+
+## Gameplay
+### Blocks
+- Implemented crop growth speed modifiers.
+  - The following things now positively affect crop growth speed:
+    - Being planted on or being adjacent to farmland (hydrated farmland offers a larger benefit than dry farmland)
+    - Potential light level of at least 9
+    - Being planted in rows with space between them (or a different type of crop)
+  - The following things now negatively affect crop growth speed:
+    - Improper arrangement (e.g. the same crop on all sides)
+    - Insufficient light level (below 9)
+  - Poorly arranged crops will grow slower in this version. Past versions behaved as if crops were always planted in ideal conditions.
+  - Crops planted in ideal conditions will grow at the same speed as before.
+
+### Items
+- Added the following new items:
+  - All types of Smithing Template
+- Pitcher Pod is now correctly registered. In previous versions, it was mapped to the Pitcher Crop block, causing incorrect name display in commands.
+
+## Internals
+- Cleaned up various getter usages where direct property access is possible.
+- Avoided unnecessary repeated getter calls in some loops.
+- `NetworkSession` may now track `string` instead of `CompressBatchPromise` when a batch was synchronously compressed. This significantly reduces object allocations and improves performance.
+- `NetworkSession` now sends less information to clients on login validation failure. This avoids leaking potentially sensitive error information to clients.
+  - Clients can correlate their disconnects with server-side logs using the `Error ID` shown on the disconnect screen.

src/VersionInfo.php

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 final class VersionInfo{
 	public const NAME = "PocketMine-MP";
-	public const BASE_VERSION = "5.9.1";
-	public const IS_DEVELOPMENT_BUILD = true;
+	public const BASE_VERSION = "5.10.0";
+	public const IS_DEVELOPMENT_BUILD = false;
 	public const BUILD_CHANNEL = "stable";
 
 	/**