[ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-1.5.4 (stable) Released.

[PEAR Announce]

The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-1.5.4 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- Removed use of sys_get_temp_dir() as this is not supported by the min PHP version
- 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
- 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
- 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 #20268 : Incorrect documentation titles in PEAR documentation
- Fixed bug #20296 : new array notion in function comma check fails
- 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

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/1.5.4
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer-1.5.4.tgz

Authors
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Greg Sherwood (lead)