5.0.0

New sniffs

• SpreadOperatorSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of spaces after the ... operator
• DisallowArrayTypeHintSyntaxSniff: Disallows usage of array type hint syntax (eg. int[], bool[][]) in phpDocs in favour of generic type hint syntax (eg. array<int>, array<array<bool>>)
• TrailingCommaInCallSniff: Enforces trailing commas in multi-line calls
• DisallowMixedTypeHintSniff: Disallows usage of "mixed" type hint in phpDocs
• SuperfluousTraitNamingSniff: Reports use of superfluous suffix Trait for traits

Improvements

• Added support for generic and intersection types in PHP docs
• Improved support for more namespaces in a file
• UselessIfConditionWithReturnSniff: New option assumeAllConditionExpressionsAreAlreadyBoolean
• EarlyExitSniff: More useless elseif and else conditions are reported
• NullTypeHintOnLastPositionSniff: Added support for @property and @method annotations
• FullyQualifiedClassNameInAnnotationSniff: Added support for @property and @method annotations
• LongTypeHintsSniff: Added support for @property and @method annotations
• LongTypeHintsSniff: Inline doccomments are checked now
• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Added support for @method annotations (thanks to @hranicka)
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Some useless parentheses were not reported

Fixes

• OptimizedFunctionsWithoutUnpackingSniff: Fix for trailing commas in function calls
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• UselessVariableSniff: Fixed false positive

⚠️BC breaks

• EmptyLinesAroundTypeBracesSniff: Renamed to EmptyLinesAroundClassBracesSniff and moved to namespace Classes
• DisallowEqualOperatorsSniff: Moved to namespace Operators
• UselessConditionWithReturnSniff: Splitted to UselessIfConditionWithReturnSniff and UselessTernaryOperatorSniff
• Removed support for @var annotation in format /** @var $variable type */ for most of the sniffs
• Removed support for @param annotations without parameter name for most of the sniffs
• AlphabeticallySortedUsesSniff: psr12Compatible option is now enabled by default
• NullableTypeForNullDefaultValueSniff: Removed deprecated enabled option
• ClassConstantVisibilitySniff: Removed deprecated enabled option
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Mark enableObjectTypeHint option as deprecated
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Removed deprecated usefulAnnotations option
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Removed deprecated enableNullableTypeHints option
• TypeHintDeclarationSniff: Removed deprecated enableVoidTypeHint option
• Removed deprecated DisallowLateStaticBindingForContantsSniff (alias for DisallowLateStaticBindingForConstantsSniff)

4.8.7

⚠️ PHPCS 3.4+ is now required (thanks to @carusogabriel)

Fixes:

• DeclareStrictTypesSniff: Fixed correct number of whitespaces in autofix and errormessage (thanks to @wietsewarendorff)
• RequireMultiLineTernaryOperatorSniff: Fixed close tag w/o prior semi (thanks to @donatj)
• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: Fixed false positive
• SuperfluousExceptionNamingSniff: Fixed false positive
• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Fixed internal errors
• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Fixed infinite loop
• DisallowYodaComparisonSniff: Don't fix assigment in condition
• RequireOnlyStandaloneIncrementAndDecrementOperatorsSniff: Fixed false positive
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positive
• ReferencedNameHelper: Fixed reference names with whitespace

4.8.6

⚠️ PHPCS 3.3.1+ is now required for PHP 7.3 compatibility.

Fixes:

• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positives
• UnusedPrivateElementsSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positives
• TraitUseSpacingSniff: Fixer should not remove useful code
• NamespaceDeclarationSniff: Fixed false positive
• RequireOneNamespaceInFileSniff: Fixed false positive
• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Fixed false positive
• UnusedUsesSniff: Fixed false positive
• RequireMultiLineTernaryOperatorSniff: Fixed false positive
• OptimizedFunctionsWithoutUnpackingSniff: Fixed infinite loop

4.8.5

Fixes:

• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• DisallowImplicitArrayCreationSniff: Fixed false positive
• DisallowImplicitArrayCreationSniff: Fixed missing reporting
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed internal error

4.8.4

Fixes:

• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Fixed reporting and fixer
• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Fixed internal error
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessVariableSniff: Fixed false positive

4.8.3

Fixes:

• UnusedInheritedVariablePassedToClosureSniff: Fixed fixer
• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Some errors were not reported and fixed
• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Fixed internal error
• RequireTernaryOperatorSniff: Fixed internal error

4.8.2

Fixes:

• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Some errors were not reported and fixed
• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Fixed fixer
• DocCommentSpacingSniff: Fixed internal error
• StaticClosureSniff: Fixed false positive

4.8.1

Fixes:

• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Fixed internal error
• DisallowLateStaticBindingForConstantsSniff: Fixed typo in sniff name (previous name still works)

4.8.0

⚠️ PHPCS 3.3.0+ is now required.

New sniffs:

• RequireOnlyStandaloneIncrementAndDecrementOperatorsSniff: Reports ++ and -- operators not used standalone
• UselessParameterDefaultValueSniff: Looks for useless parameter default value
• DisallowLateStaticBindingForContantsSniff: Disallows late static binding for constants
• UselessLateStaticBindingSniff: Reports useless late static binding
• ControlStructureSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of lines around control structures
• UselessConditionWithReturnSniff: Reports useless conditions where both branches return true or false
• RequireTernaryOperatorSniff: Requires ternary operator when possible
• RequireMultiLineTernaryOperatorSniff: Ternary operator has to be reformatted to more lines when the line length exceeds the given limit
• DisallowImplicitArrayCreationSniff: Disallows implicit array creation
• DuplicateAssignmentToVariableSniff: Looks for duplicate assignments to a variable
• DisallowContinueWithoutIntegerOperandInSwitchSniff: Disallows use of continue without integer operand in switch because it's emits warning in PHP 7.3 and higher
• OptimizedFunctionsWithoutUnpackingSniff: Reports functions that should not be invoked with argument unpacking because of opcache optimizations (thanks to @Majkl578)

Improvements:

• DocCommentSpacingSniff: New options linesCountBetweenAnnotationsGroups and annotationsGroups
• UselessParenthesesSniff: New option ignoreComplexTernaryConditions
• UnusedVariableSniff: New option ignoreUnusedValuesWhenOnlyKeysAreUsedInForeach
• EarlyExitSniff: New option ignoreStandaloneIfInScope
• ShortListSniff: Improved fixer

Fixes:

• EarlyExitSniff: Fixed false positive
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positives
• UselessParenthesesSniff: Fixed false positive
• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Fixed fixer
• RequireShortTernaryOperatorSniff: Infinite loop fix (thanks to @dg)
• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Possible fix of false positives
• DisallowIncrementAndDecrementOperatorsSniff: Fixed error codes for post operators in some situations
• IdentificatorHelper: A lot of fixes

4.7.3

Fixes:

• ModernClassNameReferenceSniff: Fixed false positives
• UnusedVariableSniff: Fixed false positive
• UselessVariableSniff: Fixed false positives