[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.3 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.3 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- Improved the performance of the CSS tokenizer, especially on very large CSS files (thousands of lines)
  -- Thanks to Klaus Purer for the patch
- Defined tokens for lower PHP versions are now phpcs-specific strings instead of ints
  -- Stops conflict with other projects, like PHP_CodeCoverage
- Added more guard code for syntax errors to various sniffs
- Improved support for older HHVM versions
  -- Thanks to Kunal Mehta for the patch
- Squiz ValidLogicalOperatorsSniff now ignores XOR as type casting is different when using the ^ operator (request #567)
- Squiz CommentedOutCodeSniff is now better at ignoring URLs inside comments
- Squiz ControlSignatureSniff is now better at checking embedded PHP code
- Squiz ScopeClosingBraceSniff is now better at checking embedded PHP code
- Fixed bug #584 : Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration sniff gives incorrect NoComma error for multiline string values
- Fixed bug #589 : PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature sniff not checking all function calls
- Fixed bug #592 : USE statement tokenising can sometimes result in mismatched scopes
- Fixed bug #594 : Tokenizer issue on closure that returns by reference
- Fixed bug #595 : Colons in CSS selectors within media queries throw false positives
  -- Thanks to Klaus Purer for the patch
- Fixed bug #598 : PHPCBF can break function/use closure brace placement
- Fixed bug #603 : Squiz ControlSignatureSniff hard-codes opener type while fixing
- Fixed bug #605 : Auto report-width specified in ruleset.xml ignored
- Fixed bug #611 : Invalid numeric literal on CSS files under PHP7
- Fixed bug #612 : Multi-file diff generating incorrectly if files do not end with EOL char
- Fixed bug #615 : Squiz OperatorBracketSniff incorrectly reports and fixes operations using self::
- Fixed bug #616 : Squiz DisallowComparisonAssignmentSniff inconsistent errors with inline IF statements
- Fixed bug #617 : Space after switch keyword in PSR-2 is not being enforced
- Fixed bug #621 : PSR2 SwitchDeclaration sniff doesn't detect, or correctly fix, case body on same line as statement

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/2.3.3
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.3.3.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)