• Improved the performance of the CSS tokenizer, especially on very large CSS files (thousands of lines)
  • Thanks to Klaus Purer for the patch
• Defined tokens for lower PHP versions are now phpcs-specific strings instead of ints
  • Stops conflict with other projects, like PHP_CodeCoverage
• Added more guard code for syntax errors to various sniffs
• Improved support for older HHVM versions
  • Thanks to Kunal Mehta for the patch
• Squiz ValidLogicalOperatorsSniff now ignores XOR as type casting is different when using the ^ operator (request #567)
• Squiz CommentedOutCodeSniff is now better at ignoring URLs inside comments
• Squiz ControlSignatureSniff is now better at checking embedded PHP code
• Squiz ScopeClosingBraceSniff is now better at checking embedded PHP code
• Fixed bug #584 : Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration sniff gives incorrect NoComma error for multiline string values
• Fixed bug #589 : PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature sniff not checking all function calls
• Fixed bug #592 : USE statement tokenising can sometimes result in mismatched scopes
• Fixed bug #594 : Tokenizer issue on closure that returns by reference
• Fixed bug #595 : Colons in CSS selectors within media queries throw false positives
  • Thanks to Klaus Purer for the patch
• Fixed bug #598 : PHPCBF can break function/use closure brace placement
• Fixed bug #603 : Squiz ControlSignatureSniff hard-codes opener type while fixing
• Fixed bug #605 : Auto report-width specified in ruleset.xml ignored
• Fixed bug #611 : Invalid numeric literal on CSS files under PHP7
• Fixed bug #612 : Multi-file diff generating incorrectly if files do not end with EOL char
• Fixed bug #615 : Squiz OperatorBracketSniff incorrectly reports and fixes operations using self::
• Fixed bug #616 : Squiz DisallowComparisonAssignmentSniff inconsistent errors with inline IF statements
• Fixed bug #617 : Space after switch keyword in PSR-2 is not being enforced
• Fixed bug #621 : PSR2 SwitchDeclaration sniff doesn't detect, or correctly fix, case body on same line as statement