And 3. Psalm now outputs PHP version it uses for code analysis (and explains why it uses it)

2. Psalm now highlights file names to provide visual anchors

While most of the work on Psalm is about getting it understand your code right, there's a place for UI improvements as well. There are several that are either already shipped or coming soon: 1. Psalm now linkifies files in supporting terminals (thanks to @gregorharlan)

It’s not a difference from reality — it’s a different way of displaying the same data. The glass-half-empty version is that PHPStan is 4x more popular (and will likely remain that way). The glass-half-full version is that Psalm has closed that gap considerably:

Meta content: this is the growth in popularity (measured by @packagist & using a log scale) of Psalm and PHPStan over the last 4 years. It shows that there's a healthy appetite for both in the PHP ecosystem — that one's growth hasn't come at the expense of the other.

Psalm 4.6 is out with much-improved IDE integration. Static screenshots don't do it justice – instead, watch @joe_hoyle's demo of the awesome features he's recently added:

On Wednesday, I (@mattbrowndev) spent an hour talking about Psalm with the fine folk of @PhpReleaseRadar. There are no stunning revelations, but I hope it gives you a decent idea of who I am, and what Psalm is: youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9Wng48…. My parents were proud...

@GitHub repos have a tab for maintainers to help monitor security alerts. Here’s a new action that runs Psalm’s security analysis, then sends results to that tab: github.com/psalm/psalm-githu… Many thanks to @LukasReschke, who has done amazing work to improve Psalm’s security analysis

For three years I've been closing issues that asked for Psalm to understand this sort of code, because I thought it was too complicated.

You can now experiment with automatic code fixes right on Psalm's website – just look for this button: psalm.dev/r/99f92ccbd9

PHP is *everywhere* (from typescript.org/)

This is ominous

A match ($made_in_heaven): PHP 8 introduces match expressions (thanks to @IlijaTovilo), and Psalm will provide full support. Play around with the upcoming feature here: psalm.dev/r/82bcedc134