PHP_CodeSniffer

• Newer versions of Composer will now suggest installing PHPCS using require-dev instead of require
  • Thanks to Gary Jones (@GaryJones) for the patch
• A custom Out Of Memory error will now be shown if PHPCS or PHPCBF run out of memory during a run
  • Error message provides actionable information about how to fix the problem and ensures the error is not silent
  • Thanks to Juliette R...

• Fixed bug #3609: Methods/constants with name empty/isset/unset are always reported as error
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer (@jrfnl) for the patch

PHP 8.1 Language Feature Support

PHP_CodeSniffer has run correctly under PHP 8.1 since PHP 8 support was added, but it has not supported new 8.1 language features until this release. Version 3.7.0 adds support for the following PHP 8.1 language features:

• Enums
• Explicit octal notation
• Readonly properties
• Intersection types
• The never type

Note: Standards and sniffs includ...

• Processing large code bases that use tab indenting inside comments and strings will now be faster
  • Thanks to Thiemo Kreuz (@thiemowmde) for the patch
• Fixed bug #3388 : phpcs does not work when run from WSL drives
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer (@jrfnl) and Graham Wharton (@gwharton) for the patch
• Fixed bug #3422 : Squiz.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace fixer removes HTML conte...

• 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.Exe...