3.13.3 - 2025-09-04

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Added

• Tokenizer support for PHP 8.4 dereferencing of new expressions without wrapping parentheses. PHP 8.4 | Tokenizer/PHP: allow for anon class dereferencing #1160
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Tokenizer support for PHP 8.4 abstract properties. PHP 8.4 | Tokenizer/PHP: fix union/intersection/DNF type tokenization with abstract properties #1183
  • The File::getMemberProperties() method now also supports abstract properties through a new is_abstract array index in the return value. PHP 8.4 | File::getMemberProperties(): add support for abstract properties #1184
  • Additionally, the following sniffs have been updated to support abstract properties:
    • Generic.PHP.LowerCaseConstant PHP 8.4 | Generic/[Lower|Upper]CaseConstant: add support for abstract properties #1185
    • Generic.PHP.UpperCaseConstant PHP 8.4 | Generic/[Lower|Upper]CaseConstant: add support for abstract properties #1185
    • PSR2.Classes.PropertyDeclaration PHP 8.4 | PSR2/PropertyDeclaration: add support for abstract properties  #1188
    • Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment PHP 8.4 | Squiz/VariableComment: add support for abstract properties #1186
    • Squiz.WhiteSpace.MemberVarSpacing PHP 8.4 | Squiz/MemberVarSpacing: add support for abstract properties #1187
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patches
• Tokenizer support for the PHP 8.4 "exit as a function call" change. Proposal to fix Tokenizer issue with FQN exit/die/true/false/null #1201
  • When exit/die is used as a fully qualified "function call", it will now be tokenized as T_NS_SEPARATOR + T_EXIT.
  • Additionally, the following sniff has been updated to handle fully qualified exit/die correctly:
    • Squiz.PHP.NonExecutableCode
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patches

Changed

• Tokenizer/PHP: fully qualified true/false/null will now be tokenized as T_NS_SEPARATOR + T_TRUE/T_FALSE/T_NULL. Proposal to fix Tokenizer issue with FQN exit/die/true/false/null #1201
  • Previously, these were tokenized as T_NS_SEPARATOR + T_STRING.
  • Additionally, the following sniffs have been updated to handle fully qualified true/false/null correctly:
    • Generic.CodeAnalysis.UnconditionalIfStatement
    • Generic.ControlStructures.DisallowYodaConditions
    • PEAR.Functions.ValidDefaultValue
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patches.
• Generic.PHP.Syntax: the sniff is now able to scan input provided via STDIN on non-Windows OSes. Generic.PHP.Syntax false negative when file content passed via STDIN #915
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration: the WrongOpener* error code is now auto-fixable if the identified "wrong opener" is a semi-colon. PSR2/SwitchDeclaration: make "wrong opener" fixable if opener is a semi-colon #1161
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• The PSR2.Classes.PropertyDeclaration will now check that the abstract modifier keyword is placed before a visibility keyword. PHP 8.4 | PSR2/PropertyDeclaration: add support for abstract properties  #1188
  • Errors will be reported via a new AbstractAfterVisibility error code.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Various housekeeping, including improvements to the tests and documentation.
  • Thanks to Bernhard Zwein, Rick Kerkhof, Rodrigo Primo and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions.

Fixed

• Fixed bug --parallel option fails if pcntl_waitpid returns non-managed process ID #1112 : --parallel option fails if PHP_CodeSniffer is invoked via bash and the invokation creates a non-PHPCS-managed process.
  • Thanks to Rick Kerkhof for the patch.
• Fixed bug Fatal error when inadvertently passing the same file twice and using parallel execution #1113 : fatal error when the specified "files to scan" would result in the same file being added multiple times to the queue.
  • This error only occured when --parallel scanning was enabled.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• Fixed bug PEAR.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorIndent expects wrong indentation when there are multiple chained calls in the same statement #1154 : PEAR.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorIndent: false positive when checking multiple chained method calls in a multidimensional array.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• Fixed bug Ruleset::processRule(): fix edge case bug - inconsistent handling of empty string array key #1193 : edge case inconsistency in how empty string array keys for sniff properties are handled.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo and Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Fixed bug Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment truncates class name if it contains underscores #1197 : Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment: return types containing a class name with underscores would be truncated leading to incorrect results.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.

Other

• The Wiki documentation is now publicly editable. 🎉
  • Update proposals can be submittted by opening a pull request in the PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer-documentation repository.
    Contributions welcome !
  • Thanks to Anna Filina, Dan Wallis and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their work on getting this set up.
• The Phar website has had a facelift. Make the PHAR "website" a little more fancy #107
  • Thanks to Bernhard Zwein for making this happen!

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New Contributors

The PHP_CodeSniffer project is happy to welcome the following new contributors:
@benno5020, @NanoSector

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This discussion was created from the release 3.13.3 - 2025-09-04.