• Added support for PHP 8.0 magic constant dereferencing
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Added support for changes to the way PHP 8.0 tokenizes comments
  • The existing PHP 5-7 behaviour has been replicated for version 8, so no sniff changes are required
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• File::getMethodProperties() now detects the PHP 8.0 static return type
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• The PHP 8.0 static return type is now supported for arrow functions
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• The cache is no longer used if the list of loaded PHP extensions changes
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName no longer reports __serialize and __unserialize as invalid names
  • Thanks to Filip Š for the patch
• PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidFunctionName no longer reports __serialize and __unserialize as invalid names
  • Thanks to Filip Š for the patch
• Squiz.Scope.StaticThisUsage now detects usage of $this inside closures and arrow functions
  • Thanks to Michał Bundyra for the patch
• Fixed bug #2877 : PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature false positive for array of functions
  • Thanks to Vincent Langlet for the patch
• Fixed bug #2888 : PSR12.Files.FileHeader blank line error with multiple namespaces in one file
• Fixed bug #2926 : phpcs hangs when using arrow functions that return heredoc
• Fixed bug #2943 : Redundant semicolon added to a file when fixing PSR2.Files.ClosingTag.NotAllowed
• Fixed bug #2967 : Markdown generator does not output headings correctly
  • Thanks to Petr Bugyík for the patch
• Fixed bug #2977 : File::isReference() does not detect return by reference for closures
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2994 : Generic.Formatting.DisallowMultipleStatements false positive for FOR loop with no body
• Fixed bug #3033 : Error generated during tokenizing of goto statements on PHP 8
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch