Dependency Upgrades

[veliu]

This pull request introduces several updates to modernize the codebase, improve compatibility, and enhance test quality. The most significant changes include updating PHP and dependency requirements, migrating test annotations to attributes, and improving test assertions for stricter type checks. There are also some minor documentation and configuration updates.

Dependency and compatibility updates:

• Updated composer.json to require PHP 8.4 or newer, updated Symfony Console and Webmozart Assert dependencies, and bumped dev dependencies such as PHPUnit and Psalm. Added a conflict for stevebauman/unfinalize. [1] [2]
• Adjusted .laminas-ci.json to ignore PHP platform requirements for 8.4 and enabled backward compatibility checks.

Testing improvements:

• Migrated PHPUnit data providers from docblock @dataProvider annotations to PHP 8 attributes (#[DataProvider(...)]) in tests/ValueTest.php for better IDE and static analysis support. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
• Replaced assertEquals with assertSame in all tests for stricter type and value checking. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Configuration and documentation:

• Updated phpunit.xml to use the <source> element instead of <coverage> for including source directories.
• Updated CONTRIBUTE.md and README.md to fix typos, improve formatting, and correct the PHP CS Fixer command. [1] [2]
• Allowed risky rules in .php-cs-fixer.dist.php by setting setRiskyAllowed(true).

[michaelpetri]

lgtm expect the bc break and the dependency to webmozart/assert which should be dropped, or did I missed something?

[michaelpetri]

lgtm, feel free to 🚢