UserInterface::getPassword() can return NULL

kind of it

Filed CR https://www.drupal.org/node/3346788 →

Looks good to me!

We can't just add return types in case someone has subclassed User and overridden this method: https://3v4l.org/E3qE3

We need a wider discussion about how to add return types, possibly across all of core in Drupal 11, but for now this must be a docs-only fix.

then docs only

applied patch #8 successfully, looks good to me.

Committed and pushed to 10.1.x, 10.0.x and 9.5.x with the following grammar fix on commit, thanks!

diff --git a/core/modules/user/src/UserInterface.php b/core/modules/user/src/UserInterface.php
index 7330e34af6..51c7601a79 100644
--- a/core/modules/user/src/UserInterface.php
+++ b/core/modules/user/src/UserInterface.php
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public function setUsername($username);
    * Returns the hashed password.
    *
    * @return string|null
-   *   The hashed password, NULL if password is not set.
+   *   The hashed password, or NULL if a password is not set.
    */
   public function getPassword();

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Updated and published the CR