Merge branch 'release/5.0.2' into support/5

Fixes #972

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [5.0.2] - 2024-03-28
+- Fix Smarty::assign() not returning $this when called with an array as first parameter [#972](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/972)
+
+
 ## [5.0.1] - 2024-03-27
 - Fix error in Smarty\Smarty::compileAllTemplates() by including missing FilesystemIterator class [#966](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/966)  
 

src/Data.php

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class Data
             foreach ($tpl_var as $_key => $_val) {
                 $this->assign($_key, $_val, $nocache, $scope);
             }
-			return;
+			return $this;
         }
 		switch ($scope ?? $this->getDefaultScope()) {
 			case self::SCOPE_GLOBAL:

src/Smarty.php

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Smarty extends \Smarty\TemplateBase {
 	/**
 	 * smarty version
 	 */
-	const SMARTY_VERSION = '5.0.1';
+	const SMARTY_VERSION = '5.0.2';
 
 	/**
 	 * define caching modes

tests/UnitTests/SmartyMethodsTests/Assign/AssignTest.php

@@ -42,4 +42,15 @@ class AssignTest extends PHPUnit_Smarty
         $this->smarty->assign(array('foo' => 'bar', 'foo2' => 'bar2'));
         $this->assertEquals('bar bar2', $this->smarty->fetch('eval:{$foo} {$foo2}'));
     }
+
+	/**
+	 * Test that assign returns this.
+	 */
+	public function testAssignReturnsThis()
+	{
+		$this->assertEquals(
+			'data',
+			$this->smarty->assign(['dummy' => 'data'])->fetch('eval:{$dummy}')
+		);
+	}
 }