# 5.9.0
Released 6th December 2023.

**For Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.50**

This is a support release for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.50.

**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.

## General
- Added support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.50.
- Removed support for older versions.

## Fixes
- Fixed `pitcher_plant` and `pitcher_pod` not being accepted by `StringToItemParser` (and therefore not being usable in commands).
- Rotation of items in item frames in worlds from newer versions of Bedrock is now correctly loaded.
- Fixed possible crash in block update sending if a chunk was unloaded during a previous chunk's block update syncing.
- Fixed `AsyncTask::fetchLocal()` throwing an exception if `null` was stored in the local storage.

## Documentation
- `Server::prepareBatch()` is now correctly marked as `@internal`.
- Updated documentation for `Server::prepareBatch()` to accurately reflect its behaviour.
- Fixed incorrect path in doc comments of `EnumTrait` and `RegistryTrait`.

## Internals
- Added PHP 8.3 to the test matrix. This has not been thoroughly tested yet, so it should only be used for testing purposes.