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Summary

• Test PHP 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6 on Ubuntu and Windows, keeping Laravel 12/13 and compatible Livewire 3/4 combinations.
• Use Pest 5.3.5+ for Laravel 13 so dependencies resolve on PHP 8.6; retain older Pest versions for Laravel 12/Testbench compatibility.
• Replace the obsolete Livewire version detection and method-test skip with an assertion of the existing safe empty-suggestions fallback when Livewire 3/4 omits the component name. The initial CI change preserved production code and the runtime PHP requirement; the follow-up below fixes PHPStan-reported production issues.
• Remove end-of-life Laravel 10/11 jobs, which Composer blocks because of security advisories, without disabling security checks.

Verification

• Reproduced the existing Livewire 4 test failure on PHP 8.5.12 and PHP 8.6.0RC3 before changes.
• All 18 Linux combinations pass locally: PHP 8.4/8.5/8.6 × Laravel 12 + Livewire 3/4 or Laravel 13 + Livewire 4 × prefer-lowest/prefer-stable. Each exercises 66 assertions; two external OpenAI tests skip without credentials.
• PHP 8.6/Laravel 12 emits upstream dependency deprecations; exit status remains zero. Laravel 13/Pest 5 runs cleanly.
• Composer strict validation, changed PHP syntax checks, git diff --check, and YAML matrix expansion pass (36 hosted jobs).
• Existing PHPStan check on PHP 8.2 reports the same 10 errors before and after this dependency change, with byte-identical JSON output.

Hosted CI verified at head 5219afa43fa609f4ac7abc5a5d25b55a1f2490d6: push run and PR run each passed all 36 matrix jobs (72 successful test jobs total). Each run includes 12 PHP 8.5 jobs and 12 PHP 8.6 jobs across Ubuntu/Windows and both dependency preferences. Representative setup/test logs confirm PHP 8.5.12 and PHP 8.6.0-dev actually execute 66 assertions. Older Laravel 12 dependency sets emit deprecations but exit successfully. The separate PHPStan check still has the confirmed 10-error pre-existing baseline, so the overall PR check rollup is not fully green.

Hosted Windows compatibility

The first hosted run exposed existing Windows command parsing of caret/pipe constraints. The workflow now lets Laravel choose its Carbon version and passes Livewire major wildcards without shell-sensitive operators. All 18 Linux combinations were rerun successfully after this adjustment. Both final-head hosted test runs now pass, including all Windows jobs.

PHPStan follow-up requested by owner

• Fixed typed validator factory resolution, boolean filtering, and collection generics.
• Guard the optional Livewire 3 registry class when Livewire 4 is installed.
• Handle merge markers without a captured source branch using an unknown-branch fallback; regression test fails on old code with Undefined array key 1 and passes after the fix.
• Removed ineffective array_filter call and five obsolete baseline suppressions; no new suppressions. Runtime PHP requirement remains unchanged.
• Local PHPStan on PHP 8.2: no errors. Full suites on PHP 8.2/8.5: 47 passed, two credential-dependent skips, 68 assertions; PHP 8.6 executes 68 assertions and exits 0 with upstream Laravel 12 dependency deprecations.
• Pushed follow-up eaaf381; fresh hosted checks pending. Earlier PHPStan failure statements above describe the previous head, not this follow-up.