HISTORY.md

MediaWiki-Codesniffer release history

v44.0.0 / 2024-08-10

New sniffs

• Add Generic.CodeAnalysis.RequireExplicitBooleanOperatorPrecedence (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Add Universal.CodeAnalysis.NoDoubleNegative to replace DoubleNotOperatorSniff (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Add Universal.PHP.LowercasePHPTag (Daimona Eaytoy)

Changed sniffs

• ExtendClassUsageSniff: Add $wgInitialSessionId to non-config variables (Func)
• PhpunitAnnotationsSniff: Update also absolute class names in @covers (Umherirrender)
• SpaceBeforeClassBrace.BraceNotOnOwnLine: Handle multi-line anon class (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Don't report unused classes in@phpstan… and @psalm-import-type (thiemowmde)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Replace hard-coded@…-import-type with more flexible config (thiemowmde)

Removed sniffs

• DoubleNotOperatorSniff, replaced by Universal.CodeAnalysis.NoDoubleNegative (Daimona Eaytoy)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Support composer/semver 3.4.2 (Kunal Mehta)
• build: Update codesniffer to 3.9.0, phpcsextra to 1.2.1 (Daimona Eaytoy)
• build: Update minus-x to 1.1.3 (Alexander Vorwerk)
• build: Upgrade mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.14.0 (James D. Forrester)
• build: Upgrade php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint to 1.4.0 (Umherirrender)
• build: Upgrade phpunit to 9.6.16 (James D. Forrester)

43.0.0 / 2024-01-29

New sniffs

• Added the following sniffs from the PHPCSExtra standards: (Daimona Eaytoy)
  • Universal.Constants.LowercaseClassResolutionKeyword: Enforce lowercase ::class
  • Universal.Constants.UppercaseMagicConstants: Enforce uppercase magic constants
  • Universal.ControlStructures.DisallowAlternativeSyntax: Disallow alternative PHP syntax
  • Universal.Lists.DisallowLongListSyntax: Disallow the long list()syntax
  • Universal.Operators.TypeSeparatorSpacing: Forbid spaces in union and intersection types
  • Universal.UseStatements.KeywordSpacing: Enforce a single space around keywords in use statements
  • Universal.UseStatements.LowercaseFunctionConst: Enforce lowercase function and const in use statements
  • Universal.UseStatements.NoUselessAliases: Forbids aliases in use statements where the alias is the same as the original name
  • Universal.WhiteSpace.CommaSpacing: Enforce correct spacing around commas

Changed sniffs

• DeprecatedGlobalVariablesSniff: Add $wgCommandLineMode (Bartosz Dziewoński)
• FunctionCommentSniff & PropertyDocumentationSniff: Allow array shapes in PHPDoc comments (thiemowmde)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Require documentation of getters starting with "is", not only "get" (thiemowmde)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Actually check if a method returns anything (thiemowmde)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Add @phan-type as an allowed annotation (Umherirrender)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Add @phan-side-effect-free as an allowed annotation (Bartosz Dziewoński)
• LowerCamelFunctionsNameSniff: Ignore hook methods (DannyS712)
• PhpunitAnnotationsSniff: Enforce absolute class path for coverage annotations (Func)

Removed sniffs

• OneSpaceInlineArraySniff: Superseded by Universal.WhiteSpace.CommaSpacing
• ShortListSyntaxSniff: Superseded by Universal.Lists.DisallowLongListSyntax
• AlternativeSyntaxSniff: Superseded by Universal.ControlStructures.DisallowAlternativeSyntax

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Run in parallel with 64 jobs by default (Kunal Mehta, Antoine Musso)
• build: Allow composer/semver 3.4.0 as well as 3.3.2 (Reedy)
• tests: Add test for awfully inconsistent code (Daimona Eaytoy)
• build: Update squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.8.1 (Umherirrender)

42.0.0 / 2023-09-21

New sniffs

• Create MockBoilerplateSniff for PHPUnit tests (DannyS712)
• Create OneSpaceInlineArraySniff (Amir Sarabadani)
• Create ShortListSyntaxSniff to replace list() by short array syntax (Umherirrender)
• Enable Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Enable Squiz.ControlStructures.ControlSignature (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Replace AssignmentInControlStructuresSniff with Generic.CodeAnalysis.AssignmentInCondition (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Replace DisallowEmptyLineFunctionsSniff with Squiz.WhiteSpace.FunctionOpeningBraceSpace (Daimona Eaytoy)

Changed sniffs

• AssertCountSniff: Prefer assertSameSize when both parts are count() (Func)
• DeprecatedGlobalVariablesSniff: Add $wgHooks (Umherirrender)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Fix not counting arguments correctly (Daimona Eaytoy)
• SpaceAfterClosureSniff: Expand to enforce space after arrow functions (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatement: Ignore function name when detect unused use (Umherirrender)
• ValidGlobalNameSniff & UnusedGlobalVariablesSniff: Make sniffs skip dynamic names (Daimona Eaytoy)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• ParenthesesAroundKeyword: Use fixer->beginChangeset/endChangeset (Umherirrender)
• Make some sniffs work for more OOP structures (Daimona Eaytoy)
• build: Switch phan to special library mode (James D. Forrester)
• build: Clean up of phan config (Umherirrender)

41.0.0 / 2023-02-25

Changed sniffs

• AssertionOrderSniff: Also run for assertNotEquals/assertNotSame (Umherirrender)
• AssertionOrderSniff: Handle more wrong actual values (DannyS712)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Forbid eval() and make ForbiddenFunctions sniff more flexible (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Allow fully-typed functions to omit documentation (Lucas Werkmeister)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Allow fully typed __constructor without @param tags (thiemowmde)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Allow prose-only documentation for statically typed functions (Lucas Werkmeister)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Tiny performance optimization (thiemowmde)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Allow prose-only documentation for statically typed properties (Lucas Werkmeister)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Allow typed properties to omit documentation (Lucas Werkmeister)
• SpaceyParenthesisSniff: Minor performance optimization (thiemowmde)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• README: Remove todo about check-vars.php (Umherirrender)
• build: Add Doxygen (James D. Forrester)
• build: Pin PHPUnit to 9.5.28 (James D. Forrester)
• build: Update squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.7.2 (Taavi Väänänen)
• code: Disable OneObjectStructurePerFile during FunctionComment tests (thiemowmde)

40.0.1 / 2022-11-01

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• build: Loosen symfony/polyfill-php80 requirement (Alexander Vorwerk)

40.0.0 / 2022-11-01

New sniffs

• Create SameLineCatch sniff to warn when a catch statement is not in the same line as the preceding closing bracket. (Taavi Väänänen)
• Create EmptyLinesBetweenUse sniff to complain about blank lines between use statements. (DannyS712)
• Create TrailingComma sniff to complain about missing trailing commas in multiline arrays. (Lucas Werkmeister)

Changed sniffs

• AnnotationsSniff: Suggest expectExceptionMessageMatches() (Umherirrender)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Make forbidden argument count reporting more generic (Thiemo Kreuz)
• ExtendClassUsage: Remove dot from error message (Umherirrender)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Require php7.4 and type hint class properties (Umherirrender)
• build: Upgrade PHPUnit from 8.5+ to 9.5+ (Umherirrender)
• build: Update mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.12.0 (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Require php7.3 and use new functions (Umherirrender)
• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.7.1 (Alexander Vorwerk)
• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.7.0 (Umherirrender)
• Allow to use php8 functions with polyfill (Umherirrender)

39.0.0 / 2022-05-04

New sniffs

• Create PHPUnitAssertEmpty sniff to warn against using assertEmpty (DannyS712)

Changed sniffs

• AssertionOrderSniff: Also re-order actual value named $expected* (DannyS712)
• ClassLevelLicense: Skip whole rest of file (Lucas Werkmeister)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Add some Psalm tags (Gergő Tisza)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Skip attributes when checking for doc block (DannyS712)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Handle visibility on its own line (DannyS712)
• SpecificAssertionsSniff: Add assertEmpty() and assertNotEmpty() (DannyS712)
• SpecificAssertionsSniff: Add assertIsArray() and assertIsNotArray() (DannyS712)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• HISTORY: Fix 'visiblity' typo (Klein Muçi)
• docs: Remove or replace usages of "sanity" (Reedy)
• tests: Move AlphabeticArraySort tests into own directory (Lucas Werkmeister)
• build: Lock down composer/semver version again now everything's upgraded (James D. Forrester)
• build: Updating composer dependencies (libraryupgrader)
• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.6.2 (Alexander Vorwerk)
• build: Updating mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.11.1 (libraryupgrader)

38.0.0 / 2021-10-21

Changed sniffs

• AssertionOrderSniff: Expand for slightly more complex cases (DannyS712)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Validate @return annotations of abstract methods (Tpt)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.6.1 (Alexander Vorwerk)
• build: Updating composer dependencies (libraryupgrader)
• Drop GerritRobotComments PHPCS report (Gergő Tisza)

37.0.0 / 2021-07-16

New sniffs

• Enable PSR12.Functions.ReturnTypeDeclaration for typehint spacing (DannyS712 & Daimona Eaytoy)

Changed sniffs

• AssertCountSniff: Allow manual count on both sides (DannyS712)
• DocumentationTypeTrait: Complain about type as a type (DannyS712)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Also skip {@inheritDoc} (DannyS712)
• PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff: Allow configuring prefixes (DannyS712)
• PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff: Drop ef from default prefixes (DannyS712)
• RedundantVarNameSniff: Also check static properties (DannyS712)
• UnsortedUseStatementsSniff: Add support for bracketed namespaces (DannyS712)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Add support for bracketed namespaces (DannyS712)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Add Gerrit report format (Gergő Tisza)
• Add fix reporting to Gerrit robot comment reporter (Gergő Tisza)
• FullQualifiedClassNameSniff: Fix docs typo (relly -> really) (DannyS712)
• LowerCamelFunctionsNameSniff: Minor clean up (DannyS712)
• UnsortedUseStatementsSniff: add early returns (DannyS712)
• internal: Remove spaces before return typehints in existing code (DannyS712)
• build: Update php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint (Umherirrender)

36.0.0 / 2021-04-28

New sniffs

• Enable PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration (re-apply) (James D. Forrester)
• Add SetMethodsSniff for PHPUnit tests using MockBuilder::setMethods (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Enable Generic.WhiteSpace.LanguageConstructSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Add StaticClosureSniff (Umherirrender)

Changed sniffs

• SpaceBeforeBracketSniff: Fix newline handling (DannyS712)
• DirUsageSniff: Check strings outside of classes (DannyS712)
• PHPUnitTestTrait: Cache ::isTestFile() results (Thiemo Kreuz)
• AlphabeticArraySortSniff: Preserve tabs when autofixing (Umherirrender)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Recognize more phpunit annotations (DannyS712)
• FinalPrivateSniff: Combine two early returns (Umherirrender)
• ValidGlobalNameSniff: Fix quotes around expected names (DannyS712)
• SpecificAssertionsSniff: Fix order of assertStringContainsString parameters (DannyS712)
• UnusedUseStatement: Add support for understanding multiple namespaces (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MediaWiki/Sniffs/Commenting/*: Fix false positive for Java-style array<int, string> types (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MediaWiki/Sniffs/Commenting/*: Move helper to DocumentationTypeTrait and re-use more often (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MediaWiki/Sniffs/Commenting/*:Fix spacing around exception type on @throws tag (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatement: Fix support for Java-style array<int, string> (Thiemo Kreuz)
• UnusedUseStatement: Add support for Java-style arrays in @phan-var (Thiemo Kreuz)
• SpaceyParenthesisSniff: Fix error message for long array case (Umherirrender)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Warn about use of define() with deprecated third argument (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Add support for phan annotations (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Micro-optimizations (Daimona Eaytoy)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Include class names in messages (Lucas Werkmeister)
• UnsortedUseStatementsSniff: Fix loop on live coding/incomplete code (Umherirrender)
• SpaceBeforeBracketSniff: Remove special check (Umherirrender)
• DocCommentSniff: Remove SpacingDocTag for no-spaces before @param (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Rename and remove variables (Umherirrender)
• ValidGlobalNameSniff: Allow non-two-characters prefixes for global variables (Alexander Mashin)
• ValidGlobalNameSniff: Don't return on first valid name (DannyS712)
• MediaWiki.Usage.DeprecatedConstantUsage: Replace DB_MASTER from 1.35.3+ (James D. Forrester)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• build: Updating mediawiki/minus-x to 1.1.1 (libraryupgrader)
• internal: Use static closures (Umherirrender)
• Use neutral language (Reedy)
• Fix PSR-4 autoloading for composer 2.0 (Reedy)
• internal: Fix doc type for token argument in SpaceyParenthesisSniff (Umherirrender)
• Remove reference to T_RETURN_TYPE (Umherirrender)
• internal: Use param and return type hint on non-inherited functions (Umherirrender)
• internal: Add return type hint to Sniff::register implementation (Umherirrender)
• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.6.0 (Umherirrender)
• Improve performance of exclude-pattern in ruleset.xml (Umherirrender)
• build: Split scripts in composer.json from "composer test" (Umherirrender)
• README: Add Configuration section to document adjustable sniffs (Umherirrender)

Test coverage

• Test nested but not in_array branch in InArrayUsageSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test RedundantVarNameSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test bad @phan-var in UnusedUseStatementSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test ClassLevelLicenseSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test spacing around @var in PropertyDocumentationSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test doc comment does not belongs to function in PhpunitAnnotationsSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test missing scope branch in SpaceBeforeClassBraceSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test empty comment branch in SpaceBeforeSingleLineCommentSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test namespaced function is_null in IsNullSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test nested parenthesis in arguments in ForbiddenFunctionsSniff (Umherirrender)
• Add newline test to IfElseStructureSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis branch in DirUsageSniff (Umherirrender)
• Add newline test to WhiteSpaceBeforeFunction (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis branch in DeprecatedPHPUnitMethodsSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test ValidGlobalNameSniff with multi prefixes (Umherirrender)
• Test PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff with ignore list (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis and complex value branch in SpecificAssertionsSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis and complex value branch in AssertionOrderSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis branch in AssertCountSniff (Umherirrender)
• Add test for ExtensionInfo util class (Umherirrender)
• Test non-parenthesis branch in OpeningKeywordParenthesisSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test for param name and duplicate @return in FunctionCommentSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test edge case in PlusStringConcatSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test edge case in AlphabeticArraySortSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test edge case in VariadicArgumentSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test edge cases in UnicodeEscapeSniff (Umherirrender)
• Test edge cases in UnusedUseStatementSniff (Umherirrender)
• Add test for index error in AssignmentInReturnSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)

35.0.0 / 2021-01-28

New sniffs

• Add AssertCountSniff to warn when using assertEquals or assertSame with the results of count (DannyS712)
• Add AssertionOrderSniff for PHPUnit assertions in the wrong order (DannyS712)
• Add MissingElseBetweenBracketsSniff to error when } is followed by { (Majavah)
• Add SpaceBeforeBracketSniff for spaces between variable and array offset (DannyS712)
• Add SpecificAssertionsSniff to encourage dedicated, simpler PHPUnit assertions (DannyS712)
• Add WhiteSpaceBeforeFunctionSniff for whitespace in function signatures (DannyS712)
• Enable PSR2.Classes.PropertyDeclaration.Multiple (DannyS712)

Changed sniffs

• Move AssertEqualsSniff, DeprecatedPHPUnitMethodsSniff, PHPUnitClassUsageSniff, and PHPUnitTypeHintsSniff to new MediaWiki.PHPUnit group (DannyS712)
• AssertEqualsSniff: Whitespace handling clean-up (DannyS712)
• AssignmentInReturnSniff: Check for yield (Umherirrender)
• EmptyTagSniff: Also check the @access, @author, @dataProvider, @depends, @group, @license, @link, @since, and @suppress tags (DannyS712)
• EmptyTagSniff: Re-write for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• ExtendClassUsageSniff: Add sub classes of IndexPager to ContextSource checks (Umherirrender)
• ExtendClassUsageSniff: Fix variable name: $eligableFunc -> $eligibleFunc (Ammarpad)
• ExtendClassUsageSniff: Improve documentation (Ammarpad)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Add compact() as opposite of forbidden extract() (Umherirrender)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Add @uses (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff, PropertyDocumentationSniff: Allow parenthesis as punctuation (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff, PropertyDocumentationSniff: Have sniff convert upper case NULL to null (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff, PropertyDocumentationSniff: Update error message about "object" type hints (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Allow intersection types (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Check @param/@return on files ending in …Test.php (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Check for yield when looking for @return (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Expand FunctionCommentSniff::SKIP_STANDARD_METHODS (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Improve check for test function (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Require @return on doc block when return type hint is used (Umherirrender)
• LicenseCommentSniff: Handle possible whitespace in license names (Umherirrender)
• LowerCamelFunctionsNameSniff: Use PHPUnitTestTrait (Umherirrender)
• MissingVarType: Use camelCase for error type (Umherirrender)
• ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff: Re-write to fix whitespace handling (Umherirrender)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Add checks for object and object[] in @var documentation (Umherirrender)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Check and require @var on files ending in …Test.php (Umherirrender)
• SuperGlobalsUsageSniff: Forbid use of super global $_FILES (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Remove left over semicolons (Umherirrender)
• Avoid slow strcasecmp() where not necessary (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add and use PHPUnitTestTrait to limit specific sniffs to code in PHPUnit tests (DannyS712)
• Fix performance bottleneck in PHPUnit assert sniffs (Thiemo Kreuz)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• build: Updating mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.10.5 (DannyS712)
• build: Updating mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.10.6 (libraryupgrader)
• Bump composer/semver versions (Reedy)
• Make all single-line comments use the // phpcs:… syntax (Thiemo Kreuz)
• HISTORY.md: Add 19.x point release entries (Reedy)

19.4.0 / 2021-01-12

• Replace jakub-onderka/* with php-parallel-lint/* (Reedy)

19.3.0 / 2021-01-12

• Add tab-width=4 and increase line length to 120 (Sam Wilson)

34.0.0 / 2020-12-05

New and changed sniffs

• Add FinalPrivateSniff (DannyS712)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Check object and object[] on union type and after fixes (Umherirrender)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Allow @inheritDoc to be valid documentation of class properties (Umherirrender)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Move EmptySees check to EmptyTagSniff (Umherirrender)
• Use lowercase callable/callable[] type hints in @param/@return/@var (Umherirrender)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Update composer/semver constraints (Reedy)
• build: Updating mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.10.4 (Umherirrender)
• Fix rule name in HISTORY.md (Lucas Werkmeister)

33.0.0 / 2020-10-30

New and changed sniffs

• Re-disable PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration (enabled in v32.0.0) due to poor fixer (James D. Forrester)
• Add MediaWiki.Commenting.ClassLevelLicense from WikibaseCodeSniffer (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Expand to error on object[] typehints (DannyS712)

32.0.0 / 2020-10-26

New and changed sniffs

• Enable PSR12.Functions.NullableTypeDeclaration (Umherirrender)
• Enable PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration (Ed Sanders)
• Enable Generic.ControlStructures.DisallowYodaConditions (Ed Sanders)
• Add RedundantVarNameSniff from WikibaseCodeSniffer (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add AlphabeticArraySortSniff based on presence of @phpcs-require-sorted-array tags (Umherirrender)
• Add UnaryMinusSpacing to remove spaces after unary minus (DannyS712)
• RedundantVarNameSniff: Add understanding of legacy "var" keyword (Thiemo Kreuz)
• NullableTypeSniff: Fix handling of nullable type with default null (Arlo Breault)
• UnusedGlobalVariablesSniff: add support for closures (Umherirrender)
• ExtendClassUsageSniff: Expand subclasses of ContextSource and SpecialPage (DannyS712)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Disallow is_resource() (Kunal Mehta)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: Disallow diskfreespace(), ini_alter(), and strchr() (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FullQualifiedClassNameSniff: Optional sniff that enforces using use statements (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Handle empty type when adding null default (Umherirrender)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Fix handling of nullable doc with nullable type and default null (Arlo Breault)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Enforce lowercase primitive types (DannyS712)
• FunctionCommentSniff: Error on object typehints (DannyS712)
• Move FunctionCommentSniff annotation checks to FunctionAnnotationSniff (DannyS712)
• Move FunctionCommentSniff EmptySees check to new EmptyTagSniff (DannyS712)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Normalize @exception to @throws (Umherirrender)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Allow @beforeClass and @afterClass (Timo Tijhof)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: Allow @noinspection (DannyS712)
• IsNullSniff: handle backslash-prefixed is_null usage (Michael Moll)
• MisleadingGlobalNamesSniff: Add a sniff for $wg* variables that aren't globals (DannyS712)
• PHPUnitAssertEqualsSniff: Report particularly confusing assertNotEquals( false ) (Thiemo Kreuz)
• PropertyDocumentationSniff: Add to validate @var on class properties (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Recognize used classes even if variable/type in a tag are flipped (Thiemo Kreuz)
• UnusedUseStatementSniff: Detect uses in @see tags (Gergő Tisza)
• Support PHP 8's T_NULLSAFE_OBJECT_OPERATOR (Umherirrender)

Code cleanup and testing

• Simplify IfElseStructureSniff (Umherirrender)
• Fix possible index error in ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix possible index error in SpaceyParenthesisSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix possible index error in SpaceAfterControlStructureSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix possible index error in ReferenceThisSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix ValidGlobalNameSniff possibly running in an endless loop (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix one more index error in ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Significant simplification of UnusedGlobalVariables sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Full rewrite of the UnsortedUseStatementsSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Set tab width correctly in test runner (Ed Sanders)
• Fix handling of comment string for MissingReturnType (Umherirrender)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Relax composer/semver constraint (Reedy)
• Replaced jakub-onderka/php-parallel-lint with php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint and updated to 1.2.0 (Umherirrender)
• Replaced jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter with php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter and updated to 0.5.0 (Umherirrender)
• Update mediawiki/minus-x to 1.1.0 (Umherirrender)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.5.8 (Umherirrender)
• Update mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config to 0.10.3 (libraryupgrader)
• Declare type phpcodesniffer-standard in composer.json (DannyS712)

31.0.0 / 2020-06-22

New and changed sniffs

• Add MediaWiki.Commenting.FunctionComment.NoParamType to ensure parameter type before parameter name (Umherirrender)
• Add MediaWiki.Commenting.FunctionComment.NotParenthesisParamName to make sure param name is not wrapped in parentheses (Umherirrender)
• Add PEAR.Functions.ValidDefaultValue.NotAtEnd to prohibit required parameters after optional ones (Max Semenik)
• Add PSR12.Traits.UseDeclaration to clean up the whitespace in use statements for traits (Umherirrender)
• Generic.Files.LineLength sniff: Add tab-width=4 and increase line length to 120 (Sam Wilson)
• DeprecatedGlobalVariables: Expand to cover $wgMemc (Daimona Eaytoy)
• DeprecatedGlobalVariables: Expand to cover $wgUser (DannyS712)
• DeprecatedGlobalVariables: Expand to cover $wgVersion (DannyS712)
• DocComment: Ignore self-closing doc comments /***/ (Umherirrender)
• FunctionAnnotations: Update UnrecognizedAnnotation sniff for stable interface policy tags (DannyS712)
• FunctionComment: Ignore anon classes when looking for return (Umherirrender)
• FunctionComment: Reduce code duplication about short type checks (Umherirrender)
• FunctionComment: Sniff for boolean/integer should not be case sensitive (DannyS712)
• LowerCamelFunctionsName: Allow __serialize and __unserialize magic methods (addshore)
• PHPUnitAssertEquals: Add problematic values 1 and 1.0 (Thiemo Kreuz)
• PlusStringConcat: Include += as well as + (Umherirrender)
• SpacyParenthesis: Fix newline detection (Umherirrender)
• UnsortedUseStatements: Fix failure with leading backslashes (Thiemo Kreuz)
• UnsortedUseStatements: Remove extra php7.4 code, fixed upstream (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatement: Add @property-read and @property-write, per PSR 19 (Daimona Eaytoy)
• UnusedUseStatement: Also count uses in @method (DannyS712)
• UnusedUseStatement: Fix for complex @phan-var (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatement: Fix unnecessary detection for const in same namespace (Umherirrender)
• UnusedUseStatement: Recognize uses in @phan-var comments (DannyS712)
• UnusedUseStatement: Update for deprecation of @expectedException (DannyS712)

Code cleanup and testing

• AssignmentInReturn: Fix possible index error (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionComment: Reduce code duplication about parenthesis check (Umherirrender)
• FunctionComment: Reduce code duplication about punctation check (Umherirrender)
• FunctionComment: Streamline a few minor details in FunctionComment sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• is_null: Add test case for !is_null showing that parentheses are kept (Umherirrender)
• SpaceAfterControlStructure: Add test (Umherirrender)
• SpaceBeforeControlStructureBrace: Use T_OPEN_CURLY_BRACKET to check for '{' (Umherirrender)
• UnsortedUseStatements: Fix minor performance issue (Thiemo Kreuz)
• UnusedUseStatement: Full rewrite; 4x faster (Thiemo Kreuz)
• VariadicArgument: Check index and avoid some local vars (Umherirrender)
• Split standalone SuperfluousVariadicArgComment out of FunctionComment (DannyS712)
• general: Remove unneeded parenthesis around additions (Umherirrender)
• general: Remove unused variable and fields (Umherirrender)
• general: Remove calls to File::recordMetric (Umherirrender)
• general: Use class constant instead of class properties (Umherirrender)
• general: Use parameter when building sniff message (Umherirrender)

Documentation, dependencies and build changes

• Update PHPUnit to 8.5 (Umherirrender)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.5.5 (Umherirrender)
• Allow composer/semver version 2.0.0 (Reedy)
• docs: Use https for http links in documentation where possible (DannyS712)
• build: Add mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config (Umherirrender)
• build: Relax composer/spdx-licenses to ~1.5.2 (Reedy)

30.0.0 / 2020-02-18

• ForbiddenFunctions sniff: Remove little bits of unused code (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionComment sniff: Detect missing & for ParamNameNoMatch error code and autofix (Umherirrender)
• FunctionComment sniff: Remove a few pieces of unused code (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionComment sniff: Simplify code utilizing isset() (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionComment sniff: Fix sniff destroying comments mentioning other variables (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionComment sniff: Add another test case for @param comments containing an & (Thiemo Kreuz)
• InArrayUsage sniff: Improve performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MultipleEmptyLines sniff: Optimize for performance (again) (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MultipleEmptyLines sniff: Rewrite for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• MultipleEmptyLines sniff: Detect multiple empty lines after single line comment or php open (Umherirrender)
• UnsortedUseStatement sniff: Fix handling other content between use statements (mainframe98)
• UnsortedUseStatements sniff: Consolidate duplicate code (Thiemo Kreuz)
• general: Fix wrong type of error message parameters (Thiemo Kreuz)
• general: Inline mostly meaningless $error/$data variables in many sniffs (Thiemo Kreuz)
• general: Let two use related sniffs skip non top-level scopes (Thiemo Kreuz)
• build: Remove | sort from gen-changelog.sh (Kunal Mehta)
• build: Updating composer dependencies (libraryupgrader)
• dependencies: Remove space from php version constraint in composer.json (Reedy)
• dependencies: Update composer/semver from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 (Reedy)
• HISTORY.md: Add backticks (Ricordisamoa)

29.0.0 / 2020-01-07

• Enforce docblock on private methods (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Treat "mixed" as already including null (Kunal Mehta)
• phpunit deprecations: Handle assertType() as well (Daimona Eaytoy)
• build: Updating mediawiki/minus-x to 0.3.2 (libraryupgrader)
• Upgrade to PHPUnit 8 (mainframe98)
• Fix inconsistent sorting in UnsortedUseStatements sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Update composer/spdx-licenses from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 (Reedy)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.5.3 (Umherirrender)
• Avoid use of isset( ..., ..., [...] ) function construct / syntax (Umherirrender)
• Improve sniff for doc comments (Umherirrender)
• Minor fixups for the AssertEquals sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix code coverage reporting for this repo (Adam Wight)
• Create PHPUnitAssertEquals sniff to find problematic assertEquals() (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add a sniff for methods deprecated in PHPUnit 8 (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Create new sniff for doc comments (Umherirrender)
• build: Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.5.2 (Umherirrender)
• Add chop() to the list of forbidden functions (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add a sniff to detect and autosort use statements (mainframe98)
• Allow @testWith and @doesNotPerformAssertions (Aryeh Gregor)
• Also require return type for setUpBeforeClass() and tearDownAfterClass() (Max Semenik)
• Forbid usage of is_null() (Prateek Saxena)
• Use severity instead of excludes to allow local overrides (Thiemo Kreuz)
• FunctionAnnotationsSniff: allow @before (Max Semenik)
• Temporarily disable the sniff for assertArraySubset (Daimona Eaytoy)

28.0.0 / 2019-10-09

• Add a sniff to ensure that setUp and tearDown have :void typehints (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Improve checks for variargs (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Add rules for PHP71 nullable types (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Enable PSR12.Files.ImportStatement (Umherirrender)
• Enable PSR12.Properties.ConstantVisibility (Umherirrender)
• Forbid PHPUnit @expectedException* annotations (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Enable Generic.WhiteSpace.SpreadOperatorSpacingAfter (Umherirrender)
• Don't suggest to use a temporary variable for &$this (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Require PHP 7.2+ in composer.json (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Remove prohibitions on new PHP features (Max Semenik)
• Require PHPUnit 6+ (Daimona Eaytoy)

27.0.0 / 2019-10-03

• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.5.0 (Umherirrender)
• List @phan-assert as allowed annotation in functions (Umherirrender)
• Enforce floatval() instead of the doubleval() alias (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add @property to work with UnusedUseStatementSniff (Umherirrender)
• Also allow @phan-template as alias of @template (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Allow @template annotations (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Allow consecutive single-line comments not to start with a single space (Daimona Eaytoy)
• Allow @slowThreshold annotation in tests (Max Semenik)

26.0.0 / 2019-05-11

• Update composer/spdx-licenses from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 (Reedy)
• Update composer/semver from 1.4.2 to 1.5.0 (Reedy)
• Enable sniff to check for newlines between functions (Umherirrender)
• Upgrade PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.4.2 (Umherirrender)

25.0.0 / 2019-04-05

• Prohibit aliases is_long, is_double and is_real (mainframe98)
• Streamline PHPDoc comment parsing in UnusedUseStatement sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Upgrade PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.4.1 (Kunal Mehta)
• Enable more phan annotations (Kunal Mehta)

24.0.0 / 2019-02-05

• Allow @after and @before phpunit annotations (Umherirrender)
• Update PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.4.0 (Kunal Mehta)
• Enable new Generic.VersionControl.GitMergeConflict sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Copyedit comments (Max Semenik)
• Exclude methods in anonymous classes from the nested_functions sniff (mainframe98)
• Disallow use of @access (Umherirrender)
• Add $wgLang and $wgOut to ExtendClassUsageSniff (Umherirrender)
• Enable Generic.WhiteSpace.IncrementDecrementSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Enable Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterNot with spacing 0 (Umherirrender)
• Require mbstring since it is needed for FunctionAnnotationsSniff (Mark A. Hershberger)
• Enable Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyPHPStatement (Umherirrender)
• Fix UnusedUseStatementSniff to find more unused statements (Umherirrender)
• Remove ForLoopWithTestFunctionCall (Tim Starling)
• Add a sniff to replace !! with a cast to boolean (mainframe98)
• Adjust warning text for PhpunitAnnotations.NotClassTrait sniff (Umherirrender)
• Expand ExtendClassUsageSniff to check for config globals (Umherirrender)
• Also exclude anonymous classes in AssignmentInReturnSniff (mainframe98)
• Replace sniff for forbidden globals by deprecated globals (Umherirrender)

19.2.0 / 2019-02-05

• Disable 'Generic.PHP.DeprecatedFunctions' sniff (Kunal Mehta)

23.0.0 / 2018-11-14

• Add comment why @private and @protected are okay (Umherirrender)
• Add sniff to detect + for string concat (Umherirrender)
• Add sniff to detect __METHOD__ in closures (Umherirrender)
• Fix deprecation check for compounded licenses (Umherirrender)
• Recognize MediaWikiTestCaseBase as test class (Aryeh Gregor)
• Remove [optional] from types in @param (Umherirrender)
• Update message to talk about "top level" instead of "file comment" (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Upgrade squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.3.2 (Kunal Mehta)

22.0.0 / 2018-09-02

• Detect nesting of inline ternary statements without parentheses (Kevin Israel)
• Disable 'Generic.PHP.DeprecatedFunctions' sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Enable PSR2.Classes.ClassDeclaration (Umherirrender)
• Enable Squiz.Functions.FunctionDeclarationArgumentSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Enable Squiz.PHP.NonExecutableCodeSniff (Matěj Suchánek)
• Enable Squiz.Strings.ConcatenationSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Enable Squiz.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Fix documentation of ExtendClassUsageSniff (Matěj Suchánek)
• Cleanups to the UnusedUseStatement sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Update DB_REPLICA's last version to 1.27.3 (Kunal Mehta)
• Upgrade squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.3.1 (Reedy)
• Allow @param-taint and @return-taint (Umherirrender)

21.0.0 / 2018-07-26

• Add FunctionAnnotations checking tags in function comments only (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Add "Generic.PHP.LowerCaseType" to ruleset (Kunal Mehta)
• Add InArrayUsageSniff from Wikibase CodeSniffer (Kunal Mehta)
• Add possibility to change allowed prefixes (MGChecker)
• Automatically fix @gropu to @group (Kunal Mehta)
• Enforce format of PHP 7 UTF-8 codepoint escapes (Kevin Israel)
• ForbiddenFunctionsSniff: fix typo of "passthru" (Kevin Israel)
• Prohibit nested functions (Max Semenik)
• Update composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 (Reedy)
• Upgrade squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.3.0 (Kunal Mehta)
• Use "PSR12.Keywords.ShortFormTypeKeywords" in place of custom sniff (Kunal Mehta)

20.0.0 / 2018-05-24

• Require PHP 7 or HHVM to run (Kunal Mehta)
• Document why we still need to keep ScalarTypeHintUsageSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Drop PHP7UnicodeSyntaxSniff sniff (Kunal Mehta)

19.0.0 / 2018-05-24

Note: This will be the final release with PHP 5.5 and 5.6 support.

• Add break and continue to ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff (Umherirrender)
• Check if the default of null is in the type list of @param (Umherirrender)
• Do not enforce name for traits with phpunit annotations (Umherirrender)
• Don't allow 'iterable' type hint (Kunal Mehta)
• Prevent usage of nullable and void type hints (Kunal Mehta)
• Prohibit PHP's vanilla execution (Max Semenik)
• Reorganize PHP 7.0 compatibility sniffs into a category (Kunal Mehta)

18.0.0 / 2018-04-13

• Add common autofix replacements for invalid license tag sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Add test for 'You must use "/**" style comments for a function' (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Allow @dataProvider annotations in traits (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Automatically replace DO_MAINTENANCE (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't report forbidden tags as "should be used inside test classes" (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Don't require documenting self-explaining parameter-less functions (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Fix IllegalSingleLineComment sniff fix for unclosed comments (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Make unused global variables sniff much more robust (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Minor performance optimizations to the UnusedUseStatement sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Optimize PHPUnitClassUsage sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Optimize PrefixedGlobalFunctions sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Optimize ShortCastSyntax sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Scan for return tags from the end of the function scope (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Shorten out earlier in the DbrQueryUsage sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Shorten out earlier in the FunctionComment sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)

17.0.0 / 2018-03-28

• Allow globals to start with numbers (Umherirrender)
• Check for close parenthesis first and shorten out earlier (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Check for use statement with non-compound name (Umherirrender)
• Don't require @covers from abstract tests (Max Semenik)
• Forbid usage of assert() (Kunal Mehta)
• Improve ClassMatchesFilenameSniff::isMaintenanceScript (Umherirrender)
• Improve performance of PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff (Umherirrender)
• Optimize ClassMatchesFilename sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Optimize DirUsage sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Optimize MultipleEmptyLines sniff for performance (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Remove warning about "missing" @param comments (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Simplify UnusedGlobalVariables sniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Skip closing parentheses in "( )" and "[ ]" instead of rechecking (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Skip empty () and [], not processing closing token a second time (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.2.3 (Kunal Mehta)
• Use faster array_key_exists instead of in_array in 2 sniffs (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Use faster strcasecmp() instead of strtolower() for comparisons (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Use File::findExtendedClassName to get extends name (Umherirrender)
• Use File::getDeclarationName to get the function name (Umherirrender)
• Use File::getMethodProperties to get visibility (Umherirrender)
• Validate @license against SPDX (Umherirrender)
• Validate phpunit annotations (Umherirrender)

16.0.1 / 2018-02-24

• Fix SpaceBeforeControlStructureBraceSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Grade errors about duplicate spaces in PHPDoc tags down to warnings (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Remove unused code and function arguments from three sniffs (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Replace substr_compare with substr (Umherirrender)
• Streamline SpaceBeforeControlStructureBraceSniff implementation (Thiemo Kreuz)

16.0.0 / 2018-02-14

• Add sniff to find tests without @covers tags (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff to use namespaced PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase (Kunal Mehta)
• Avoid assignment in return statements (Umherirrender)
• Be aware of extension MediaWiki compatibility (Kunal Mehta)
• Detect variadic arguments in function comments (Umherirrender)
• Disallow PHP 7.2+ object type-hint (Kunal Mehta)
• Downgrade "Missing parameter comment" to warning (Reedy)
• Expand sniff to replace some php aliases with main function (Umherirrender)
• Fix SpaceyParenthesisSniff comment detection for ignore statements (Umherirrender)
• Fix Undefined index: scope_opener in IfElseStructureSniff (Umherirrender)
• Forbid parse_str() without a second argument (Umherirrender)
• Remove direction from @param (Umherirrender)
• Remove unneeded closing declaration comments (Umherirrender)
• Remove unneeded @codingStandardsIgnoreLine from test (Umherirrender)
• Skip __construct on checking for @return tags (Umherirrender)
• Use SPDX 3.0 license identifier (Kunal Mehta)
• Warn on usage of each() (Kunal Mehta)

15.0.0 / 2017-12-29

• Add sniff for using is_int over is_integer (Kunal Mehta)
• Allow _ in unit test method names (Gergő Tisza)
• Check function definitions for the same variable name (Kunal Mehta)
• Fix handling of alternative if in IfElseStructureSniff (Umherirrender)
• Forbid usage of extract() (Kunal Mehta)
• Ignore maintenance scripts in ClassMatchesFilenameSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Improve PHPDoc classname parsing (Gergő Tisza)
• Move phpcs.xml to .phpcs.xml (Umherirrender)
• Remove WhiteSpace.SpaceBeforeSingleLineComment.EmptyComment (Gergő Tisza)
• Replace PEAR with Packagist in README.md link (Ricordisamoa)
• Require that an explicit visibility is set on methods and properties (Kunal Mehta)
• Rework ExtendClassUageSniff to avoid private class member (Umherirrender)
• Skip inner functions in FunctionCommentSniff::processReturn (Umherirrender)
• Update PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.2.2 (Ricordisamoa, Kunal Mehta)
• Use backticks in HISTORY.md (Ricordisamoa)
• Use only PSR2.Files.EndFileNewline (Kunal Mehta)
• Use upstream Generic.Files.OneObjectStructurePerFile sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Use upstream Generic.PHP.DiscourageGoto (Kunal Mehta)
• Warn on usage of create_function() (Kunal Mehta)

14.1.0 / 2017-10-20

• Update PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.1.1 (Paladox)

14.0.0 / 2017-10-20

• Add sniff for @params instead of @param (Umherirrender)
• Better distinguish "one space before brace" and "brace on same line" (Florian Schmidt)
• Typo fix in docs (MarcoAurelio)
• Unwrap types in function docs from {} (Umherirrender)
• Update PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.1.0 from 3.0.2 (Paladox)
• Validate doc syntax (Umherirrender)

13.0.0 / 2017-09-23

• Add sniff for @cover instead of @covers (James D. Forrester)
• Add sniff to find and replace deprecated constants (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff to find unused "use" statements (Kunal Mehta)
• Add space after keyword require_once, if needed (Umherirrender)
• Fix @returns and @throw in function docs (Umherirrender)
• Prohibit some globals (Max Semenik)
• Skip function comments with @deprecated (Umherirrender)
• Sniff & fix lowercase @inheritdoc (Gergő Tisza)

0.12.0 / 2017-08-29

• Add sniff to ensure floats have a leading 0 if necessary (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff to ensure the class name matches the filename (Kunal Mehta)
• Change bootstrap-ci.php to match PHP CodeSniffer 3.0.0 (Umherirrender)
• Check for unneeded punctation in @param and @return (Umherirrender)
• Check spacing after type in @return (Umherirrender)
• Check spacing before type in @param and @return (Umherirrender)
• Clean up test helpers (Kunal Mehta)
• Do not mess long function comments on composer fix (Umherirrender)
• Enforce "short" type definitions in multi types in function comments (Umherirrender)
• Make it easier to figure out which test failed (Kunal Mehta)
• phpunit: replace deprecated strict=true (Umherirrender)
• Remove GoatSniffer integration (Kunal Mehta)
• Remove unmatched @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd (Umherirrender)
• Rename OpeningKeywordBracketSniff to OpeningKeywordParenthesisSniff (Reedy)
• Use local OneClassPerFile sniff for only one class/interface/trait (Kunal Mehta)

0.11.1 / 2017-08-13

• Add GoatSniffer ASCII art (Kunal Mehta)

0.11.0 / 2017-08-10

• Added OpeningKeywordBraceSniff (Umherirrender)
• Add sniff to forbid PHP 7 scalar type hints (Kunal Mehta)
• Enable Squiz.WhiteSpace.OperatorSpacing (Umherirrender)
• Enforce "short" type definitions on @param in comments (Umherirrender)
• Fix phpunit test on windows (Umherirrender)
• Fix Undefined offset in FunctionCommentSniff (Umherirrender)

0.10.1 / 2017-07-22

• Add .gitattributes (Umherirrender)
• Add Squiz.Classes.SelfMemberReference to ruleset (Kunal Mehta)
• build: Added php-console-highlighter (Umherirrender)
• Don't ignore files or paths with "git" in them, only .git (Kunal Mehta)
• Fix exclude of common folders (Umherirrender)
• Fix "Undefined index: scope_opener" in SpaceBeforeClassBraceSniff (Reedy)
• Forbid backtick operator (Matthew Flaschen)
• Ignore returns in closures for MissingReturn sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• PHP CodeSniffer on CI should only lint HEAD (Antoine Musso)
• Reduce false positives in ReferenceThisSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Sniff that the short type form is used in @return tags (Kunal Mehta)
• Swap isset() === false to !isset() (Reedy)
• track=1 rather than defaultbranch (Reedy)
• Update PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.0.2 (Kunal Mehta)

0.10.0 / 2017-07-01

• Add sniff to prevent against using PHP 7's Unicode escape syntax (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff to verify type-casts use the short form (bool, int) (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff for &$this that causes warnings in PHP 7.1 (Kunal Mehta)
• Clean up DbrQueryUsageSniff (Umherirrender)
• Ensure all FunctionComment sniff codes are standard (Kunal Mehta)
• Exclude common folders (Umherirrender)
• Fix handling of nested parenthesis in ParenthesesAroundKeywordSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• IllegalSingleLineCommentSniff: Check return value of strrpos strictly (Kunal Mehta)
• Improve handling of multi-line class declarations (Kunal Mehta)
• Include sniff warning/error codes in test output (Kunal Mehta)
• Make DisallowEmptyLineFunctionsSniff apply to closures too (Kunal Mehta)
• Use correct notation for UTF-8 (Umherirrender)

0.9.0 / 2017-06-19

• Add sniff to enforce "function (" for closures (Kunal Mehta)
• Add usage of && in generic_pass (addshore)
• Disallow and and or (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't require documentation for constructors without parameters (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't require documentation for '__toString' (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't require return/throws/param for doc blocks with @inheritDoc (Kunal Mehta)
• Expand list of standard methods that don't need documentation (Kunal Mehta)
• Fix FunctionComment.Missing sniff code (Kunal Mehta)
• Fix indentation (Umherirrender)
• Fix WhiteSpace/SpaceAfterClosureSniff (Antoine Musso)
• Make sure all files end with a newline (Kunal Mehta)
• test: ensure consistent report width (Antoine Musso)
• Update for CodeSniffer 3.0 (Kunal Mehta)
• Update squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.0.1 (Reedy)
• Use upstream CharacterBeforePHPOpeningTag sniff (Kunal Mehta)

0.8.0 / 2017-05-03

• Add sniff for cast operator spacing (Sam Wilson)
• Allow filtering documentation requirements based on visibility (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't require documentation for test cases (Kunal Mehta)
• Don't require @return annotations for plain "return;" (Kunal Mehta)
• Explicitly check for method structure before using (Sam Wilson)
• Fix test result parsing, and correct new errors that were exposed (Sam Wilson)
• Prevent abstract functions being marked eligible (Sam Wilson)
• PHP_CodeSniffer to 2.9.0 (Paladox)

0.8.0-alpha.1 / 2016-09-21

• Add detection for calling global functions in target classes. (Tao Xie)
• Add function commenting sniff. (Lethexie)
• Add .idea directory to .gitignore (Florian Schmidt)
• Add sniff to confirm function name using lower camel case. (Lethexie)
• Add test to verify SpaceBeforeClassBraceSniff handles extends (Kunal Mehta)
• Add the SpaceBeforeClassBraceSniff (Lethe)
• Add the SpaceBeforeControlStructureBraceSniff (Lethexie)
• Add usage to forbid superglobals like $_GET,$_POST (Lethe)
• Comments should start with new line. (Lethe)
• Disallow parenthesis around keywords like clone or require (Florian)
• Enable PSR2.Methods.FunctionClosingBrace sniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Fix reference parameters warning and no return function need return tag (Lethe)
• Fix single space expected on single line comment. (Lethexie)
• Make sure no empty line at the begin of the function. (Lethexie)
• Put failed examples and passed examples into a file. (Lethexie)
• Report warnings when $dbr->query() is used instead of $dbr->select(). (Tao Xie)
• Single Line comments no multiple '*'. (Lethe)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 2.7.0 (Paladox)

0.7.2 / 2016-05-27

• SpaceyParenthesisSniff: Don't remove last argument or array element (Kevin Israel)
• Expect specific output from sniffs (Erik Bernhardson)
• Assert fixers do as intended (Erik Bernhardson)

0.7.1 / 2016-05-06

• Fix typo in IfElseStructureSniff (addshore)

0.7.0 / 2016-05-06

• Also check for space after elseif in SpaceAfterControlStructureSniff (Lethexie)
• Factor our tokenIsNamespaced method (addshore)
• Make IfElseStructureSniff can detect and fix multiple white spaces after else (Lethexie)
• Make SpaceyParenthesisSniff can fix multiple white spaces between parentheses (Lethexie)
• Make spacey parenthesis sniff work with short array syntax (Kunal Mehta)
• Speed up PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff (addshore)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 2.6.0 (Paladox)

0.6.0 / 2016-02-17

• Add Generic.Arrays.DisallowLongArraySyntax to ruleset, autofix this repo (Kunal Mehta)
• Add sniff to detect consecutive empty lines in a file (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Disable Generic.Functions.CallTimePassByReference.NotAllowed (Kunal Mehta)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 2.5.1 (Paladox)

0.5.1 / 2015-12-28

• Avoid in_array for performance reasons (Thiemo Kreuz)
• build: Pass -s to phpcs for easier debugging (Kunal Mehta)
• Remove dead code from SpaceBeforeSingleLineCommentSniff (Thiemo Kreuz)
• Revert "CharacterBeforePHPOpeningTagSniff: Support T_HASHBANG for HHVM >=3.5,<3.7" (Legoktm)
• Simplify existing regular expressions (Thiemo Kreuz)
• build: Update phpunit to 4.8.18 (Paladox)
• Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 2.5.0 (Paladox)

0.5.0 / 2015-10-23

• Add Generic.ControlStructures.InlineControlStructure to ruleset (Kunal Mehta)
• Add IfElseStructureSniff to handle else structures (TasneemLo)
• Handle multiple # comments in Space Before Comment (TasneemLo)
• Sniff to check assignment in while & if (TasneemLo)
• Sniff to warn when using dirname(__FILE__) (TasneemLo)

0.4.0 / 2015-09-26

• Use upstream codesniffer 2.3.4 (Kunal Mehta & Paladox)
• Sniff to check for space in single line comments (Smriti.Singh)
• Automatically fix warnings caught by SpaceyParenthesisSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Automatically fix warnings caught by SpaceAfterControlStructureSniff (Kunal Mehta)
• Add ignore list to PrefixedGlobalFunctionsSniff (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Add ignore list to ValidGlobalNameSniff (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Update jakub-onderka/php-parallel-lint to 0.9.* (Paladox)
• Automatically fix warnings caught by SpaceBeforeSingleLineCommentSniff (Kunal Mehta)

0.3.0 / 2015-06-19

• Update README.md code formatting (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Don't require "wf" prefix on functions that are namespaced (Kunal Mehta)
• Simplify PHPUnit boostrap, require usage of composer for running tests (Kunal Mehta)
• SpaceyParenthesis: Check for space before opening parenthesis (Vivek Ghaisas)
• SpaceyParenthesesSniff: Search for extra/unnecessary space (Vivek Ghaisas)
• CharacterBeforePHPOpeningTagSniff: Support T_HASHBANG for HHVM >=3.5,<3.7 (Kunal Mehta)

0.2.0 / 2015-06-02

• Fixed sniff that checks globals have a "wg" prefix (Divya)
• New sniff to detect unused global variables (Divya)
• New sniff to detect text before first opening php tag (Sumit Asthana)
• New sniff to detect alternative syntax such as "endif" (Vivek Ghaisas)
• New sniff to detect unprefixed global functions (Vivek Ghaisas)
• New sniff to detect "goto" usage (Harshit Harchani)
• Update ignore with some emacs files. (Mark A. Hershberger)
• Use upstream codesniffer 2.3.0 (Kunal Mehta)
• Make mediawiki/tools/codesniffer pass phpcs (Vivek Ghaisas)
• New sniff to check for spacey use of parentheses (Kunal Mehta)
• Modify generic pass test with a case of not-spacey parentheses (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Make failing tests fail only for specific respective reasons (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Change certain errors to warnings (Vivek Ghaisas)
• Update ExtraCharacters Sniff to allow shebang (Harshit Harchani)

0.1.0 / 2015-01-05

• Initial tagged release