If you feel like PHPStan could be faster when analysing your project, you can debug what’s actually making it slow. Usually the cause of slow analysis can be pinpointed to a single file or a handful of files in a project that make PHPStan’s analysis crawl to a halt.

This release has been in the works for a year. But it doesn’t mean there hasn’t been anything else released for a year.

PHPStan 1.10.60 introduces enhancements in handling parameters passed by reference. These parameters, besides typical returned values, also serve as a form of output that a called function can produce: