[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.1 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- PHPCS can now exit with 0 even if errors are found
  -- Set the ignore_errors_on_exit config variable to 1 to set this behaviour
  -- Use with the ignore_warnings_on_exit config variable to never return a non-zero exit code
- Added Generic DisallowLongArraySyntaxSniff to enforce the use of the PHP short array syntax (request #483)
  -- Thanks to Xaver Loppenstedt for helping with tests
- Added Generic DisallowShortArraySyntaxSniff to ban the use of the PHP short array syntax (request #483)
  -- Thanks to Xaver Loppenstedt for helping with tests
- Generic ScopeIndentSniff no longer does exact checking for content inside parenthesis (request #528)
  -- Only applies to custom coding standards that set the "exact" flag to TRUE
- Squiz ConcatenationSpacingSniff now has a setting to ignore newline characters around operators (request #511)
    -- Default remains FALSE, so newlines are not allowed
    -- Override the "ignoreNewlines" setting in a ruleset.xml file to change
- Squiz InlineCommentSniff no longer checks the last char of a comment if the first char is not a letter (request #505)
- The Squiz standard has increased the max padding for statement alignment from 12 to 20
- Fixed bug #479 : Yielded values are not recognised as returned values in Squiz FunctionComment sniff
- Fixed bug #512 : Endless loop whilst parsing mixture of control structure styles
- Fixed bug #515 : Spaces in JS block incorrectly flagged as indentation error
- Fixed bug #523 : Generic ScopeIndent errors for IF in FINALLY
- Fixed bug #527 : Closure inside IF statement is not tokenized correctly
- Fixed bug #529 : Squiz.Strings.EchoedStrings gives false positive when echo'ing using an inline condition
- Fixed bug #537 : Using --config-set is breaking phpcs.phar
- Fixed bug #543 : SWITCH with closure in condition generates inline control structure error
- Fixed bug #551 : Multiple catch blocks not checked in Squiz.ControlStructures.ControlSignature sniff
- Fixed bug #554 : ScopeIndentSniff causes errors when encountering an unmatched parenthesis
- Fixed bug #558 : PHPCBF adds brace for ELSE IF split over multiple lines
- Fixed bug #564 : Generic MultipleStatementAlignment sniff reports incorrect errors for multiple assignments on a single line

Package Info
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PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts; the main phpcs script that tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect violations of a defined coding standard, and a second phpcbf script to automatically correct coding standard violations. PHP_CodeSniffer is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer
   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/download/2.3.1
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.1.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)