[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-2.9.0 (stable) Released.

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-2.9.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- Added Generic.Debug.ESLint sniff to run ESLint over JS files and report errors
  -- Set eslint path using: phpcs --config-set eslint_path /path/to/eslint
  -- Thanks to Ryan McCue for the contribution
- T_POW is now properly considered an arithmetic operator, and will be checked as such
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- T_SPACESHIP and T_COALESCE are now properly considered comparison operators, and will be checked as such
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- Generic.PHP.DisallowShortOpenTag now warns about possible short open tags even when short_open_tag is set to OFF
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- Generic.WhiteSpace.DisallowTabIndent now finds and fixes inproper use of spaces anywhere inside the line indent
  -- Previously, only the first part of the indent was used to determine the indent type
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- PEAR.Commenting.ClassComment now supports checking of traits as well as classes and interfaces
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- Squiz.Commenting.FunctionCommentThrowTag now supports re-throwing exceptions (request #946)
  -- Thanks to Samuel Levy for the patch
- Squiz.PHP.DisallowMultipleAssignments now ignores PHP4-style member var assignments
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- Squiz.WhiteSpace.FunctionSpacing now ignores spacing above functions when they are preceded by inline comments
  -- Stops conflicts between this sniff and comment spacing sniffs
- Squiz.WhiteSpace.OperatorSpacing no longer checks the equal sign in declare statements
  -- Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
- Added missing error codes for a couple of sniffs so they can now be customised as normal
- Fixed bug #1266 : PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace can throw an error while fixing mixed PHP/HTML
- Fixed bug #1364 : Yield From values are not recognised as returned values in Squiz FunctionComment sniff
- Fixed bug #1373 : Error in tab expansion results in white-space of incorrect size
  -- Thanks to Mark Clements for the patch
- Fixed bug #1381 : Tokenizer: derefencing incorrectly identified as short array
- Fixed bug #1387 : Squiz.ControlStructures.ControlSignature does not handle alt syntax when checking space after closing brace
- Fixed bug #1392 : Scope indent calculated incorrectly when using array destructuring
- Fixed bug #1394 : integer type hints appearing as TypeHintMissing instead of ScalarTypeHintMissing
  -- PHP 7 type hints were also being shown when run under PHP 5 in some cases
- Fixed bug #1405 : Squiz.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace fails to fix closing brace within indented PHP tags
- Fixed bug #1421 : Ternaries used in constant scalar expression for param default misidentified by tokenizer
- Fixed bug #1431 : PHPCBF can't fix short open tags when they are not followed by a space
  -- Thanks to Gonçalo Queirós for the patch
- Fixed bug #1432 : PHPCBF can make invalid fixes to inline JS control structures that make use of JS objects

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/2.9.0
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-2.9.0.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)