# 5.10.0
Released 14th December 2023.

**For Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.50**

This is a minor feature release, including new gameplay features and minor 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.

## General
- PHP 8.2 is now used by default. PHP 8.1 is still supported, but will be removed in a future 5.x release.
- Improved timings reports by removing `Breakdown` timings group. This group serves no purpose with tree timings and made for confusing reading.

## Performance
- Improved performance of `Block::encodeFullState()` in most conditions. This in turn improves performance of `World::setBlock()` and `World::setBlockAt()`.
- Improved network compression performance by avoiding unnecessary object allocations.
- Timings now report time spent in individual `Snooze` handlers, making it easier to debug performance issues.

## Gameplay
### Blocks
- Implemented crop growth speed modifiers.
  - The following things now positively affect crop growth speed:
    - Being planted on or being adjacent to farmland (hydrated farmland offers a larger benefit than dry farmland)
    - Potential light level of at least 9
    - Being planted in rows with space between them (or a different type of crop)
  - The following things now negatively affect crop growth speed:
    - Improper arrangement (e.g. the same crop on all sides)
    - Insufficient light level (below 9)
  - Poorly arranged crops will grow slower in this version. Past versions behaved as if crops were always planted in ideal conditions.
  - Crops planted in ideal conditions will grow at the same speed as before.

### Items
- Added the following new items:
  - All types of Smithing Template
- Pitcher Pod is now correctly registered. In previous versions, it was mapped to the Pitcher Crop block, causing incorrect name display in commands.

## Internals
- Cleaned up various getter usages where direct property access is possible.
- Avoided unnecessary repeated getter calls in some loops.
- `NetworkSession` may now track `string` instead of `CompressBatchPromise` when a batch was synchronously compressed. This significantly reduces object allocations and improves performance.
- `NetworkSession` now sends less information to clients on login validation failure. This avoids leaking potentially sensitive error information to clients.
  - Clients can correlate their disconnects with server-side logs using the `Error ID` shown on the disconnect screen.