• PHPCS annotations can now be specified using hash-style comments
  • Previously, only slash-style and block-style comments could be used to do things like disable errors
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed an issue where some sniffs would not run on PHP files that only used the short echo tag
  • The following sniffs were affected:
    • Generic.Files.ExecutableFile
    • Generic.Files.LowercasedFilename
    • Generic.Files.LineEndings
    • Generic.Files.EndFileNewline
    • Generic.Files.EndFileNoNewline
    • Generic.PHP.ClosingPHPTag
    • Generic.PHP.Syntax
    • Generic.VersionControl.GitMergeConflict
    • Generic.WhiteSpace.DisallowSpaceIndent
    • Generic.WhiteSpace.DisallowTabIndent
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• The new PHP 8.1 tokenisation for ampersands has been reverted to use the existing PHP_CodeSniffer method
  • The PHP 8.1 tokens T_AMPERSAND_FOLLOWED_BY_VAR_OR_VARARG and T_AMPERSAND_NOT_FOLLOWED_BY_VAR_OR_VARARG are unsued
  • Ampersands continue to be tokenized as T_BITWISE_AND for all PHP versions
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Anna Filina for the patch
• File::getMethodParameters() no longer incorrectly returns argument attributes in the type hint array index
  • A new has_attributes array index is available and set to TRUE if the argument has attributes defined
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.NamingConventions.ConstructorName no longer throws deprecation notices on PHP 8.1
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Squiz.Commenting.BlockComment now correctly applies rules for block comments after a short echo tag
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed false positives when using attributes in the following sniffs:
  • PEAR.Commenting.FunctionComment
  • Squiz.Commenting.InlineComment
  • Squiz.Commenting.BlockComment
  • Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment
  • Squiz.WhiteSpace.MemberVarSpacing
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3294 : Bug in attribute tokenization when content contains PHP end token or attribute closer on new line
  • Thanks to Alessandro Chitolina for the patch
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the tests
• Fixed bug #3296 : PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration takes phpcs:ignore as content of case body
• Fixed bug #3297 : PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration.TerminatingComment does not handle try/finally blocks
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3302 : PHP 8.0 | Tokenizer/PHP: bugfix for union types using namespace operator
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3303 : findStartOfStatement() doesn't work with T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO
• Fixed bug #3316 : Arrow function not tokenized correctly when using null in union type
• Fixed bug #3317 : Problem with how phpcs handles ignored files when running in parallel
  • Thanks to Emil Andersson for the patch
• Fixed bug #3324 : PHPCS hangs processing some nested arrow functions inside a function call
• Fixed bug #3326 : Generic.Formatting.MultipleStatementAlignment error with const DEFAULT
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3333 : Squiz.Objects.ObjectInstantiation: null coalesce operators are not recognized as assignment
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3340 : Ensure interface and trait names are always tokenized as T_STRING
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3342 : PSR12/Squiz/PEAR standards all error on promoted properties with docblocks
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3345 : IF statement with no braces and double catch turned into syntax error by auto-fixer
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3352 : PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration can remove comments on the same line as the case statement while fixing
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3357 : Generic.Functions.OpeningFunctionBraceBsdAllman removes return type when additional lines are present
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3362 : Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent false positive for arrow functions inside arrays
• Fixed bug #3384 : Squiz.Commenting.FileComment.SpacingAfterComment false positive on empty file
• Fixed bug #3394 : Fix PHP 8.1 auto_detect_line_endings deprecation notice
• Fixed bug #3400 : PHP 8.1: prevent deprecation notices about missing return types
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3424 : PHPCS fails when using PHP 8 Constructor property promotion with attributes
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3425 : PHP 8.1 | Runner::processChildProcs(): fix passing null to non-nullable bug
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #3445 : Nullable parameter after attribute incorrectly tokenized as ternary operator
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch