darsyn/ip

• Drop support for PHP versions less than 7.1
• Remove deprecations on PHP 8.4

• Rename default branch name from develop/master to 6.x; branch 5.x from 5.0.0 tag for ongoing support (bugfixes only). Update GitHub Actions CI workflows, and update README with description on the 6.x/5.x split.
• Drop support for PHP versions less than 7.1.
• Fix PHP 8.4 deprecation errors (nullable arguments must be explicit).
• Add strict types.
• Add native type support. Remove unnecessary type annotations in doc blocks. Remove unit tests that assert invalid types no longer allowed by PHP's strict typing.

Add support for PHP 8.4 (static analysis fixes and added to CI pipeline).
PHP 8.4 deprecations are expected as they cannot be removed without dropping support for PHP versions less than 7.1

• Add support for PHP 8.4.
• Reference comment added for generating documentation on Podman.

• Split off Doctrine functionality into separate package darsyn/ip-doctrine.
• Better static analysis and higher coverage.

• Removed Doctrine functionality, and split it off into its own package: darsyn/ip-doctrine. List it as a Composer dependency suggestion.
• Change from Psalm to PHPStan for static analysis.
  • Add types to all function arguments lists and return values.
  • Update the codebase to pass static analysis on max level (standard, deprecation, and bleeding edge rules).
• Test against PHP versions 8.2 and 8.3 in CI pipeline.
• Update README with notes on version compatibility.
• Explicitly state the requirement of the ctype PHP extension.
• Add PHPUnit attributes alongside annotations to be compatible with the highest version of PHPUnit for any supported PHP version.

• Split off Doctrine functionality into separate package darsyn/ip-doctrine.
• Better static analysis and higher type coverage.

Pull in Return Types from 4.0.2

• Added IpInterface::equals() method for comparing two IP addresses.
• Added getCommonCidr(IpInterface $ip): int for determining how in range two IP addresses are according to their common CIDR value.
• Added isBenchmarking(), isDocumentation(), and isPublicUse() type methods for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• Added isBroadcast(), isShared(), and isFutureReserved() type methods for IPv4 addresses.
• Added getMulticastScope(), isUniqueLocal(), isUnicast(), and isUnicastGlobal() type methods for IPv6 addresses.
• Added Ipv6::fromEmbedded() factory method to create an instance of an IPv4-embedded address as IPv6 instead of Multi.
• Made internal helper methods for dealing with binary data into utility classes: Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary and Darsyn\IP\Util\MbString.
• Complete documentation overhaul
• Increase test coverage.
• Started using static analysis both locally and via GitHub actions.
• Documentation and tests are excluded from the Git archive to reduce download size when installing Composer dependency as dist.
• Updated Code of Conduct to Contributor Covenant v2.1

PATCH: Add missing return tags to PHPDoc to prevent latest symfony/error-handler printing info logs to console.

• Add return types to DocComments to prevent symfony/error-handler from throwing deprecation errors

• Correct string casting of IP objects
• Unit testing fully working in CI from PHP 5.6 to PHP 8+
• Binary utility helper

• Add Code of Conduct to project.
• Add new internal helper for dealing with binary strings.
• Add namespace indicator to function calls to speed up symbol resolution.
• Add __toString() to IP objects.
• Update unit tests, now runnable on all PHP versions 5.6 to 8.1

• Complete rewrite of library.

Version 3.4.0; deprecations ready for major version bump.