Reports

• new derivations feature to allow computing values from existing values. @dantleech (see documentation)
• deprecate baseline_expressions as the same can now be accomplished with derivations. @dantleech
• introduce aggregate-preview report (includes diff column): will become the new aggregate in PHPBench 2.0 @dantleech

Expressions

• lazy function evaluation on select functions (currently exclusive to the if() function). @dantleech
• allow the nullsafe operator on bare variables

Meta

• Exclude docs and other non-code assets in .gitattributes @sasezaki
• Bump phpstan to 2.x @dantleech

• Handle undefined offset error for unsupproted time formats
• Allow NULL to be passed as a time unit (will use the base unit)

1.6.0

This release contains changes relating to the generation of JSON reports for use with things such as github-action-benchmark

• reports: JSON progress logging #1018
• reports: JSON report renderering #1136
• expression-language: if(cond,val1,val2) as a conditional expression
• expression-language: != unequals operator
• expression-language: time_unit function to normalize a timeunit
• expression-language: time_convert function to convert time

• Fix the PHAR build

• Drop support for PHP 8.2
• Add support for PHP 8.5

• Adds support for Symfony 8 @Kocal

• Bump box version fixing #1123

• Reintroduce phpbench.schema.json (was accidentally ignored in .gitattrbibutes)
• Fix readthedocs documentation build

• Add support for 8.4 (explicit nullables)
• Bring the phpbench/dom library into this repository.
• Introduce .gitattributes to not publish tests files etc.

• Fix schema concat issue which prevents PHAR from launching.