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changelogs/5.26.md

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+# 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 break progress 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).

src/VersionInfo.php

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 final class VersionInfo{
 	public const NAME = "PocketMine-MP";
-	public const BASE_VERSION = "5.25.3";
-	public const IS_DEVELOPMENT_BUILD = true;
+	public const BASE_VERSION = "5.26.0";
+	public const IS_DEVELOPMENT_BUILD = false;
 	public const BUILD_CHANNEL = "stable";
 
 	/**