[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-2.5.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-2.5.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- PHPCS will now look for a phpcs.xml file in parent directories as well as the current directory (request #626)
- PHPCS will now use a phpcs.xml file even if files are specified on the command line
  -- This file is still only used if no standard is specified on the command line
- Added support for a phpcs.xml.dist file (request #583)
  -- If both a phpcs.xml and phpcs.xml.dist file are present, the phpcs.xml file will be used
- Added support for setting PHP ini values in ruleset.xml files (request #560)
  -- Setting the value of the new ini tags to name="memory_limit" value="32M" is the same as -d memory_limit=32M
- Added support for one or more bootstrap files to be run before processing begins
  -- Use the --bootstrap=file,file,file command line argument to include bootstrap files
  -- Useful if you want to override some of the high-level settings of PHPCS or PHPCBF
  -- Thanks to John Maguire for the patch
- Added additional verbose output for CSS tokenizing
- Squiz ComparisonOperatorUsageSniff now checks FOR, WHILE and DO-WHILE statements
  -- Thanks to Arnout Boks for the patch
- Fixed bug #660 : Syntax checks can fail on Windows with PHP5.6
- Fixed bug #784 : $this->trait is seen as a T_TRAIT token
- Fixed bug #786 : Switch indent issue with short array notation
- Fixed bug #787 : SpacingAfterDefaultBreak confused by multi-line statements
- Fixed bug #797 : Parsing CSS url() value breaks further parsing
- Fixed bug #805 : Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment.InvalidTypeHint on Scalar types on PHP7
- Fixed bug #807 : Cannot fix line endings when open PHP tag is not on the first line
- Fixed bug #808 : JS tokeniser incorrectly setting some function and class names to control structure tokens
- Fixed bug #809 : PHPCBF can break a require_once statement with a space before the open parenthesis
- Fixed bug #813 : PEAR FunctionCallSignature checks wrong indent when first token on line is part of a multi-line string

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/2.5.0
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.5.0.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)