3.9.1 - 2024-03-31

[jrfnl]

Added

• Documentation for the following sniffs:
  • Generic.PHP.RequireStrictTypes
  • Squiz.WhiteSpace.MemberVarSpacing
  • Squiz.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace
  • Squiz.WhiteSpace.SuperfluousWhitespace
  • Thanks to Jay McPartland and Rodrigo Primo for the patches.

Changed

• The following sniffs have received performance related improvements:
  • Generic.CodeAnalysis.UselessOverridingMethod
  • Generic.Files.ByteOrderMark
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patches.
• Performance improvement for the "Diff" report. Should be most notable for Windows users. Fixer: improve performance of generateDiff() #355
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• The test suite has received some performance improvements. Should be most notable contributors using Windows. Tests: improve performance of the sniff tests #351
  • External standards with sniff tests using the PHP_CodeSniffer native test framework will also benefit from these changes.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Various housekeeping, including improvements to the tests and documentation.
  • Thanks to Jay McPartland, João Pedro Oliveira, Rodrigo Primo and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions.

Fixed

• Fixed bug Improve context detection for PSR12.Operators.OperatorSpacing / Squiz.WhiteSpace.OperatorSpacing - avoids fixer conflict, bow out on parse error #289 : Squiz.WhiteSpace.OperatorSpacing and PSR12.Operators.OperatorSpacing : improved fixer conflict protection by more strenuously avoiding handling operators in declare statements.
  • Thanks to Dan Wallis for the patch.
• Fixed bug Generic/UselessOverridingMethod: small improvements to the sniff code #366 : Generic.CodeAnalysis.UselessOverridingMethod : prevent false negative when the declared method name and the called method name do not use the same case.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• Fixed bug Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration sniff not very configurable (follow up on Squizlabs#582) #368 : Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration fixer did not handle static closures correctly when moving array items to their own line.
  • Thanks to Michał Bundyra for the patch.
• Fixed bug Tests: fix for PHP 8.4 deprecation of implicitly nullable types #404 : Test framework : fixed PHP 8.4 deprecation notice.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch

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New Contributors

The PHP_CodeSniffer project is happy to welcome the following new contributors:
@jaymcp @jpoliveira08

Statistics

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Merged: 52 pull requests

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This discussion was created from the release 3.9.1 - 2024-03-31.