Added changelog for 2.9.0

Author: gsherwood

package.xml

@@ -1758,6 +1758,57 @@ http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0.xsd">
       -- Hooks for version control systems will no longer be maintained within the PHPCS project
     </notes>
   </release>
+  <release>
+   <version>
+    <release>2.9.0</release>
+    <api>2.9.0</api>
+   </version>
+   <stability>
+    <release>stable</release>
+    <api>stable</api>
+   </stability>
+   <date>2017-05-04</date>
+   <license uri="https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/blob/master/licence.txt">BSD License</license>
+   <notes>
+    - 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
+    </notes>
+  </release>
   <release>
    <version>
     <release>2.8.1</release>