Patch 3

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug-report.yml

@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ body:
     attributes:
       value: |
         ## Version, OS and game info
+        > [!WARNING]
+        > "Latest" is not a valid version.
+        > Failure to fill these fields with valid information may result in your issue being closed.
 
   - type: input
     attributes:

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ updates:
       update-types:
         - "version-update:semver-major"
         - "version-update:semver-minor"
+
+    #since we lock this to exact versions, it causes conflicts with minor-next & major-next in composer.lock
+    #better to just test updates to this locally anyway since almost every version breaks something
+    - dependency-name: phpstan/phpstan
   groups:
     production-patch-updates:
       dependency-type: production

.github/workflows/support.yml

@@ -20,10 +20,7 @@ jobs:
 
             - Check our [Documentation](https://doc.pmmp.io) to see if you can find answers there
 
-            - Ask the community on our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/bmSAZBG) or our [Forums](https://forums.pmmp.io)
-
-
-            [Docs](https://pmmp.rtfd.io) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/bmSAZBG) | [Forums](https://forums.pmmp.io)
+            - Ask the community on our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/bmSAZBG)
 
           close-issue: true
           lock-issue: false

README.md

@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ PocketMine-MP accepts community contributions! The following resources will be u
  * [Building and running PocketMine-MP from source](BUILDING.md)
  * [Contributing Guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
+New here? Check out [issues with the "Easy task" label](https://github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22Easy%20task%22) for things you could work to familiarise yourself with the codebase.
+
 ## Donate
 PocketMine-MP is free, but it requires a lot of time and effort from unpaid volunteers to develop. Donations enable us to keep delivering support for new versions and adding features your players love.
 

changelogs/5.26.md

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# 5.26.0
+Released 22nd March 2025.
+
+This is a minor feature release focused on 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.
+
+## Performance
+- Significantly improved performance of entity movement. Load testing with item entities showed a 3x increase in the number of entities supported without lag.
+- Significantly improved performance of on-ground checks for player movement. This still needs further work, but optimisations implemented in this version should improve performance substantially.
+- Updated `pocketmine/nbt` dependency with performance improvements to `TAG_Compound` and `TAG_List` comparison. This should improve performance of inventory-related actions.
+- `InventoryTransaction` now avoids useless item clones when processing transactions, which should improve performance of inventory-related actions.
+
+## Dependencies
+- `pocketmine/bedrock-protocol` has been updated to `36.2.0`, which adds new functions to access some packet fields.
+- `pocketmine/nbt` has been updated to `1.1.0`, which improves performance when comparing NBT object trees.
+
+## Gameplay
+- Block breaking animation speed now takes into account the following: jumping, being in water, haste, mining fatigue
+
+## Tools
+- `blockstate-upgrade-schema-utils.php` now has a new `dump-table` command, which turns a `.bin` palette table file into human-readable text for debugging.
+
+## API
+### `pocketmine\block`
+- The following methods have been added:
+  - `public RuntimeBlockStateRegistry->hasStateId(int $stateId) : bool` - checks whether the given state ID is registered
+
+### `pocketmine\crafting`
+- The following methods have been deprecated:
+  - `CraftingManager::sort()` - this was implicitly internal anyway
+
+### `pocketmine\utils`
+- The following constants have been added:
+  - `TextFormat::MATERIAL_RESIN`
+- The following static properties have been added:
+  - `Terminal::$COLOR_MATERIAL_RESIN`
+
+### `pocketmine\data\bedrock\block`
+- `BlockStateToObjectDeserializer` now permits overriding **deserializers** for Bedrock IDs. This may be useful to implement custom state handling, or to implement missing block variants (such as snow cauldron).
+  - This was originally prohibited since 5.0.0. However, there is no technical reason to disallow overriding **deserializers**.
+  - Overriding **serializers** is still **not permitted**. Reusing type IDs doesn't make any sense and would break internal design contracts.
+  - If you want to make a custom version of a vanilla block, create a custom type ID for it, exactly as you would for a regular custom block.
+- The following methods have been added:
+  - `public BlockStateToObjectDeserializer->getDeserializerForId(string $id) : ?(\Closure(BlockStateReader) : Block)`
+
+### `pocketmine\data\bedrock\item`
+- `ItemDeserializer` now permits overriding **deserializers** for Bedrock IDs. As above, this may be useful to implement custom data handling, or to implement missing variants of existing items.
+  - This was originally prohibited since 5.0.0. However, there is no technical reason to disallow overriding **deserializers**.
+  - Overriding **serializers** is still **not permitted**. Reusing type IDs doesn't make any sense and would break internal design contracts.
+  - As above, if you want to make a custom version of a vanilla item, create a custom type ID for it, exactly as you would for a regular custom item.
+- The following methods have been added:
+  - `public ItemDeserializer->getDeserializerForId(string $id) : ?(\Closure(SavedItemData) : Item)`
+
+## Internals
+- `new $class` is now banned on new internals code by a PHPStan rule. Closures or factory objects should be used instead for greater flexibility and better static analysis.
+- `CraftingManager` now uses a more stable hash function for recipe output filtering.
+- `ChunkCache` now accepts `int $dimensionId` in the constructor. This may be useful for plugins which implement the nether.
+- `RuntimeBlockStateRegistry` now precomputes basic collision info about known states for fast paths.
+  - This permits specialization for common shapes like cubes and collisionless blocks, which allows skipping complex logic in entity movement calculation. This vastly improves performance.
+  - Any block whose class overrides `readStateFromWorld()` or `getModelPositionOffset()` will *not* be optimised.
+  - `Block->recalculateCollisionBoxes()` now has a hard requirement not to depend on anything other than available properties. It must not use `World` or its position.
+    - This change was problematic for `ChorusPlant`, which used nearby blocks to calculate its collision boxes.
+    - Blocks which need nearby blocks should override `readStateFromWorld()` and set dynamic state properties, similar to fences.
+    - This design flaw will be corrected with a major change to `Block` internals currently in planning for a future major version.
+- `Block->getCollisionBoxes()` may not be called at all during gameplay for blocks with shapes determined to be simple, like cubes and collisionless blocks.
+- `BlockStateToObjectDeserializer` now checks if the returned blockstate is registered in `RuntimeBlockStateRegistry` to promote earlier error detection (instead of crashing in random code paths).

changelogs/5.27.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# 5.27.0
+Released 27th March 2025.
+
+This is a support release for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.70.
+
+**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.
+
+## Interim releases
+If you're upgrading from 5.25.x directly to 5.27.0, please also read the following changelogs, as the interim releases contain important changes:
+- [5.26.0](https://github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/blob/5.26.0/changelogs/5.26.md#5260) - Performance improvements and other internal improvements
+
+## General
+- Aded support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.21.70.
+- Removed support for earlier versions.

composer.json

@@ -34,25 +34,25 @@
       "adhocore/json-comment": "~1.2.0",
       "netresearch/jsonmapper": "~v5.0.0",
       "pocketmine/bedrock-block-upgrade-schema": "~5.1.0+bedrock-1.21.60",
-      "pocketmine/bedrock-data": "~4.0.0+bedrock-1.21.60",
+      "pocketmine/bedrock-data": "~4.1.0+bedrock-1.21.70",
       "pocketmine/bedrock-item-upgrade-schema": "~1.14.0+bedrock-1.21.50",
-      "pocketmine/bedrock-protocol": "~36.0.0+bedrock-1.21.60",
+      "pocketmine/bedrock-protocol": "~37.0.0+bedrock-1.21.70",
       "pocketmine/binaryutils": "^0.2.1",
       "pocketmine/callback-validator": "^1.0.2",
       "pocketmine/color": "^0.3.0",
       "pocketmine/errorhandler": "^0.7.0",
       "pocketmine/locale-data": "~2.24.0",
       "pocketmine/log": "^0.4.0",
       "pocketmine/math": "~1.0.0",
-      "pocketmine/nbt": "~1.0.0",
+      "pocketmine/nbt": "~1.1.0",
       "pocketmine/raklib": "~1.1.0",
       "pocketmine/raklib-ipc": "~1.0.0",
       "pocketmine/snooze": "^0.5.0",
       "ramsey/uuid": "~4.7.0",
       "symfony/filesystem": "~6.4.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
-      "phpstan/phpstan": "2.1.6",
+      "phpstan/phpstan": "2.1.8",
       "phpstan/phpstan-phpunit": "^2.0.0",
       "phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules": "^2.0.0",
       "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.5.24"