4.7.2

Fixes:

• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Fixed false positives
• RequireShortTernaryOperatorSniff: Fixed false positive
• StaticClosureSniff: Fixed false positive
• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Fixed fixer
• UnusedParameterSniff: Fixed false positive
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• UselessInheritDocCommentSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positive

4.7.1

Fixes:

• UnusedParameterSniff: Fixed false positive
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positives
• UnusedInheritedVariablePassedToClosure: Fixed false positives
• RequireNullCoalesceOperatorSniff: Fixed false positives
• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Fixed false positives with get_class()
• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Fixed error messages
• UselessVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed checks for parentheses around "case"

4.7.0

New sniffs:

• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Reports use of __CLASS__, get_parent_class(), get_called_class(), get_class() and get_class($this). Class names should be referenced via ::class contant when possible
• StaticClosureSniff: Reports closures not using $this that are not declared static
• RequireCombinedAssignmentOperatorSniff: Requires using combined assigment operators, eg +=, .= etc
• NullTypeHintOnLastPositionSniff: Enforces null type hint on last position in @var, @param and @return annotations
• UselessConstantTypeHint: Reports useless @var annotation (or whole documentation comment) for class constants because the type of constant is always clear
• UselessInheritDocCommentSniff: Reports documentation comments containing only {@inheritDoc} annotation because inheritance is automatic and it's not needed to use a special annotation for it
• TraitUseDeclarationSniff: Prohibits multiple traits separated by commas in one use statement
• TraitUseSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of lines before first use, after last use and between two use statements
• UnusedVariableSniff: Looks for unused variables
• UselessVariableSniff: Looks for useless variables
• UnusedParameterSniff: Looks for unused parameters
• UnusedInheritedVariablePassedToClosureSniff: Looks for unused inherited variables passed to closure via use
• UselessAliasSniff: Looks for use alias that is same as unqualified name
• UselessSemicolonSniff: Looks for useless semicolons
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Looks for useless parentheses
• NewWithoutParenthesesSniff: Reports new with useless parentheses

Improvements:

• RequireNullCoalesceOperatorSniff: === null and !== null conditions are detected too
• RequireShortTernaryOperatorSniff: Works with properties too

Fixes:

• UnusedUsesSniff: Fixed false positives for classes used in @see annotation
• FullyQualifiedClassNameInAnnotationSniff: Fixed fixer
• NamespaceSpacingSniff: Fixed false positive when phpcs comment is before namespace

4.6.3

Fixes:

• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: Fixed alwaysUsedPropertiesAnnotations support of prefixes
• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: Fixed false positive with constant in string
• LongTypeHintsSniff: Fixer should be case insensitive
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Added missing @inheritdoc support for properties

4.6.2

Fixes:

• EarlyExitSniff: Added missing yield from support
• LanguageConstructWithParenthesesSniff: Added missing yield from check
• FunctionHelper: Added missing yield from detection if function returns value

4.6.1

Compatibility with PHPCS 3.3

Fixes:

• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Fixed fixer for classes in doccomments
• DisallowEqualOperatorsSniff: Fixed message when operator is <> (thanks to @carusogabriel)

4.6.0

New sniffs:

• NamespaceDeclarationSniff: Enforces one space after namespace, disallows content between namespace name and semicolon and disallows use of bracketed syntax
• NamespaceSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of lines before and after namespace
• RequireOneNamespaceInFileSniff: Requires only one namespace in a file
• DisallowIncrementAndDecrementOperatorsSniff: Disallows using ++ and -- operators
• RequireShortTernaryOperatorSniff: Requires short ternary operator ?: when possible
• DisallowShortTernaryOperatorSniff: Disallows short ternary operator ?:
• DisallowEmptySniff: Disallows use of empty()
• ShortListSniff: Enforces using short form of list syntax, [...] instead of list(...) (thanks to @Majkl578)

Improvements:

• InlineDocCommentDeclarationSniff: Reports empty @var annotations
• InlineDocCommentDeclarationSniff: Reports invalid comment type used for inline documentation comment
• InlineDocCommentDeclarationSniff: Reports doccomment above foreach and while as well
• UseSpacingSniff: Enforce zero number of lines between same types of use statement
• UnusedUsesSniff: ignoredAnnotations - Case sensitive list of annotation names that the sniff ignore completely (both name and content are ignored)
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: allAnnotationsAreUseful - Doccomment is useful if it contain any annotation, option usefulAnnotations is deprecated
• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: alwaysUsedPropertiesAnnotations supports prefixes
• UnusedUsesSniff: Improved @method annotation parsing

Fixes:

• EarlyExitSniff: Fixed notices
• EarlyExitSniff: Fixed fixer for complicated logical conditions
• UnusedUsesSniff: Fixed false positives
• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: Fixed false positive when property used in new
• ReferencedNameHelper: goto label should not be resolved as constant
• TypeHelper: Fixed regexp

4.5.2

Fixes:

• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Return annotation is not useless when return type hint is missing

4.5.1

Fixes:

• EmptyCommentSniff: Empty comments in multiline commented code are not reported
• ReferencedNameHelper: Global constant used in class constant definition was not detected

4.5.0

⚠️ PHPCS 3.2.3+ is now required.

New sniffs:

• SuperfluousExceptionNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous suffix Exception for exceptions
• SuperfluousAbstractClassNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous prefix or suffix Abstract for abstract classes
• SuperfluousInterfaceNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous prefix or suffix Interface for interfaces
• UseSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of lines before first use, after last use and between two different types of use (eg. between use function and use const)
• EmptyCommentSniff: Reports empty comments
• DocCommentSpacing: Enforces configurable number of lines before first content (description or annotation), after last content (description or annotation), between description and annotations, between two different annotations types
• DisallowOneLinePropertyDocCommentSniff: Require comments with single-line content to be written as multi-liners (thanks to @Majkl578)
• RequireOneLinePropertyDocCommentSniff: Require comments with single-line content to be written as one-liners (thanks to @Majkl578)
• TypeCastSniff: Enforces using shorthand cast operators, forbids use of unset and binary cast operators (thanks to @Majkl578)

Improvements:

• EarlyExitSniff: New check "Remove useless elseif to reduce code nesting"
• UnusedUsesSniff: ignoredAnnotationNames - To ignore specified annotation names (thanks to @xificurk)
• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Improved annotations parsing
• FullyQualifiedClassNameInAnnotationSniff: Improved annotations parsing
• ForbiddenAnnotationsSniff: Improved annotations parsing
• AlphaneticallySortedUsesSniff: Make error message more clear (thanks to @brettdorrans)

Fixes:

• EarlyExitSniff: Report else when all conditions contain early exit