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# PRESS RELEASE
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# PRESS RELEASE
# PHPCS 4.0 is now available - Thanks to your support!


## Highlights of the 4.0 release

* Root rulesets can now overrule config and CLI settings set in child rulesets.
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* Root rulesets can now overrule config and CLI settings set in child rulesets.
### Root rulesets can now overrule config and CLI settings set in child rulesets.
<config> directives set in the "root" ruleset are now prioritized over directives in included rulesets. Reminder: When two included rulesets at the same nesting level both set the same directive, the value from the last included ruleset gets prioritized. This has not changed.

* Ability to scan files without extension.
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* Ability to scan files without extension.
### Scanning files without extension.
Files without extensions are no longer ignored. That is, if users explicitly pass them on the command line or specify them in a ruleset. When users scan directories recursively, however, files without extensions will still be ignored.

* Less chance on scans failing on parse errors during live coding.
* Exit code improvements
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* Exit code improvements
### Automatically exit with exit code 0
If no issues were found or remain after fixing, both PHPCS and PHPCBF now exit with code 0. Users who prefer for non auto-fixables to be ignored for the exit code determination can now set the new ignore_non_auto_fixable_on_exit config flag to 1.
For full details on the new exit codes, check the ["Advanced Usage"] Wiki page at (https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/wiki/Advanced-Usage#understanding-the-exit-codes).

* Proper separation of output between STDOUT and STDERR.
Piping output to STDOUT will no longer contain progress information or error notices
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Piping output to STDOUT will no longer contain progress information or error notices
As per POSIX standards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams#Standard_error_.28stderr.29), all status, debug, and progress output is now directed to STDERR instead of STDOUT. Only report output is now directed to STDOUT. Piping output to STDOUT will no longer contain progress information or error notices. As a result, timing and memory consumption stats will now be displayed more often.

* Array properties set in a ruleset file can now extend a potential default value for the property.


Other note worthy improvements from the past few months
* Permalinks to XSD schema
* The documentation Wiki is now publicly editable.


<!-- MAYBE, but probably not appropriate for the release mail, maybe better to move this to the "2 year after take-over" mail Dec 1st -->
We'd also like to commemorate Robbert Müller, co-maintainer of the PHP_CodeSniffer Composer Installer plugin, who passed away at the age of 46 this July.
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