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This makes two changes to the PHPStan tooling.

Update PHPStan to 2.3.5

Updates phpstan/phpstan from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5. This release adds support for auto-fixable rules through the new --fix option, which can also remove unmatched ignoreErrors entries and @phpstan-ignore comments, and allows extensions to be registered with attributes.

The other PHPStan-related packages, phpstan/phpstan-phpunit (2.1.1) and phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules (2.1.1), are already at their latest versions.

Raise the maximum PHP version analyzed to 8.6

phpVersion.max in tests/phpstan/base.neon is raised from 80500 to 80600, and the comment above it now describes the setting as the supported version range rather than the minimum version.

With the maximum at 8.5, PHPStan narrows PHP_VERSION_ID to int<70400, 80500>, so any check for PHP 8.6 is reported as always false. For example, the PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80600 check in #15204 is flagged with greaterOrEqual.alwaysFalse, even though the branch is reachable on PHP 8.6.

Testing

Running the full analysis locally with both changes reports no new errors, and no baseline or ignoreErrors entries became unmatched, so the baselines are unchanged. With the change from #15204 applied, its greaterOrEqual.alwaysFalse warning is no longer reported.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65817

Use of AI Tools

Claude Code was used to check for available updates, apply the PHPStan update, test the phpVersion change, run PHPStan locally, and draft this description.

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Merged in r65310.