[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0RC1 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0RC1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- PHPCBF will now fix incorrect newline characters in a file
- PHPCBF now exists cleanly when there are no errors to fix
- Added phpcbf.bat file for Windows
- Verbose option no longer errors when using a phar file with a space in the path
- Fixed a reporting error when using HHVM
  -- Thanks to Martins Sipenko for the patch
- addFixableError() and addFixableWarning() now only return true if the fixer is enabled
  -- Saves checking ($phpcsFile->fixer->enabled === true) before every fix
- Added addErrorOnLine() and addWarningOnLine() to add a non-fixable violation to a line at column 1
  -- Useful if you are generating errors using an external tool or parser and only know line numbers
  -- Thanks to Ondřej Mirtes for the patch
- CSS tokenizer now identifies embedded PHP code using the new T_EMBEDDED_PHP token type
  -- The entire string of PHP is contained in a single token
- PHP tokenizer contains better detection of short array syntax
- Unit test runner now also test any standards installed under the installed_paths config var
- Exclude patterns now use {} delimiters, allowing the | special character to work correctly again
- The filtering component of the --extensions argument is now ignored again when passing filenames
  -- Can still be used to specify a custom tokenizer for each extension when passing filenames
  -- If no tokenizer is specified, default values will be used for common file extensions
- Diff report now produces relative paths on Windows, where possible (further fix for bug #20234)
- If a token's content has been modified by the tab-width setting, it will now have an orig_content in the tokens array
- Generic DisallowSpaceIndent and DisallowTabIndent sniffs now check original indent content even when tab-width is set
  -- Previously, setting --tab-width would force both to check the indent as spaces
- Fixed a problem where PHPCBF could replace tabs with too many spaces when changing indents
- Fixed a problem that could occur with line numbers when using HHVM to check files with Windows newline characters
- Removed use of sys_get_temp_dir() as this is not supported by the min PHP version
- Squiz ArrayDeclarationSniff now supports short array syntax
- Squiz ControlSignatureSniff no longer uses the Abstract Pattern sniff
  -- If you are extending this sniff, you'll need to rewrite your code
  -- The rewrite allows this sniff to fix all control structure formatting issues it finds
- The installed_paths config var now accepts relative paths
  -- The paths are relative to the PHP_CodeSniffer install directory
  -- Thanks to Weston Ruter for the patch
- Generic ScopeIndentSniff now accounts for different open tag indents
- PEAR FunctionDeclarationSniff now ignores short arrays when checking indent
  -- Thanks to Daniel Tschinder for the patch
- PSR2 FunctionCallSignatureSniff now treats multi-line strings as a single-line argument, like arrays and closures
  -- Thanks to Dawid Nowak for the patch
- PSR2 UseDeclarationSniff now checks for a single space after the USE keyword
- Generic ForbiddenFunctionsSniff now detects calls to functions in the global namespace
  -- Thanks to Ole Martin Handeland for the patch
- Generic LowerCaseConstantSniff and UpperCaseConstantSniff now ignore namespaces beginning with TRUE/FALSE/NULL
  -- Thanks to Renan Gonçalves for the patch
- Squiz InlineCommentSniff no longer requires a blank line after post-statement comments (request #20299)
- Squiz SelfMemberReferenceSniff now works correctly with namespaces
- Squiz FunctionCommentSniff is now more relaxed when checking namespaced type hints
- Tab characters are now encoded in abstract pattern errors messages
  -- Thanks to Blaine Schmeisser for the patch
- Invalid sniff codes passed to --sniffs now show a friendly error message (request #20313)
- Generic LineLengthSniff now shows a warning if the iconv module is disabled (request #20314)
- Source report no longer shows errors if category or sniff names ends in an uppercase error
  -- Thanks to Jonathan Marcil for the patch
- Fixed bug #20261 : phpcbf has an endless fixing loop
- Fixed bug #20268 : Incorrect documentation titles in PEAR documentation
- Fixed bug #20296 : new array notion in function comma check fails
- Fixed bug #20297 : phar does not work when renamed it to phpcs
- Fixed bug #20307 : PHP_CodeSniffer_Standards_AbstractVariableSniff analyze traits
- Fixed bug #20308 : Squiz.ValidVariableNameSniff - wrong variable usage
- Fixed bug #20309 : Use "member variable" term in sniff "processMemberVar" method
- Fixed bug #20310 : PSR2 does not check for space after function name
- Fixed bug #20322 : Display rules set to type=error even when suppressing warnings
- Fixed bug #20323 : PHPCS tries to load sniffs from hidden directories
- Fixed bug #20346 : Fixer endless loop with Squiz.CSS sniffs
- Fixed bug #20355 : No sniffs are registered with PHAR on Windows

Package Info
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PHP_CodeSniffer is a PHP5 script that tokenises PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect violations of a defined coding standard. It is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent. It can also help prevent some common semantic errors made by developers.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer
   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/download/2.0.0RC1
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.0.0RC1.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)