• Time and memory output is now shown if progress information is also shown (request #335)
• A tilde can now be used to reference a user's home directory in a path to a standard (request #353)
• Added PHP_CodeSniffer_File::findStartOfStatement() to find the first non-whitespace token in a statement
  • Possible alternative for code using PHP_CodeSniffer_File::findPrevious() with the local flag set
• Added PHP_CodeSniffer_File::findEndOfStatement() to find the last non-whitespace token in a statement
  • Possible alternative for code using PHP_CodeSniffer_File::findNext() with the local flag set
• Generic opening function brace sniff now ensure the opening brace is the last content on the line
  • Affects OpeningFunctionBraceBsdAllmanSniff and OpeningFunctionBraceKernighanRitchieSniff
  • Also enforced in PEAR FunctionDeclarationSniff and Squiz MultiLineFunctionDeclarationSniff
• Generic DisallowTabIndentSniff now replaces tabs everywhere it finds them, except in strings and here/now docs
• Generic EmptyStatementSniff error codes now contain the type of empty statement detected (request #314)
  • All messages generated by this sniff are now errors (empty CATCH was previously a warning)
  • Message code Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyStatement.NotAllowed has been removed
  • Message code Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyStatement.NotAllowedWarning has been removed
  • New message codes have the format Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyStatement.Detected[TYPE]
  • Example code is Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyStatement.DetectedCATCH
  • You can now use a custom ruleset to change messages to warnings and to exclude them
• PEAR and Squiz FunctionCommentSniffs no longer ban @return tags for constructors and destructors
  • Removed message PEAR.Commenting.FunctionComment.ReturnNotRequired
  • Removed message Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment.ReturnNotRequired
  • Change initiated by request #324 and request #369
• Squiz EmptyStatementSniff has been removed
  • Squiz standard now includes Generic EmptyStatementSniff and turns off the empty CATCH error
• Squiz ControlSignatureSniff fixes now retain comments between the closing parenthesis and open brace
• Squiz SuperfluousWhitespaceSniff now checks for extra blank lines inside closures
  • Thanks to Sertan Danis for the patch
• Squiz ArrayDeclarationSniff now skips function calls while checking multi-line arrays
• Fixed bug #337 : False positive with anonymous functions in Generic_Sniffs_WhiteSpace_ScopeIndentSniff
• Fixed bug #339 : reformatting brace location can result in broken code
• Fixed bug #342 : Nested ternary operators not tokenized correctly
• Fixed bug #345 : Javascript regex not tokenized when inside array
• Fixed bug #346 : PHP path can't be determined in some cases in "phpcs.bat" (on Windows XP)
• Fixed bug #358 : False positives for Generic_Sniffs_WhiteSpace_ScopeIndentSniff
• Fixed bug #361 : Sniff-specific exclude patterns don't work for Windows
• Fixed bug #364 : Don't interpret "use function" as declaration
• Fixed bug #366 : phpcbf with PSR2 errors on control structure alternative syntax
• Fixed bug #367 : Nested Anonymous Functions Causing False Negative
• Fixed bug #371 : Shorthand binary cast causes tokenizer errors
  • New token T_BINARY_CAST added for the b"string" cast format (the 'b' is the T_BINARY_CAST token)
• Fixed bug #372 : phpcbf parse problem, wrong brace placement for inline IF
• Fixed bug #373 : Double quote usage fix removing too many double quotes
• Fixed bug #20196 : 1.5.2 breaks scope_closer position