Update dependency squizlabs/php_codesniffer to v3.13.5

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
squizlabs/php_codesniffer	3.13.2 → 3.13.5

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Release Notes

PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer (squizlabs/php_codesniffer)

v3.13.5: - 2025-11-04

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Added

• Runtime support for PHP 8.5. All known PHP 8.5 deprecation notices have been fixed.
  • Syntax support for new PHP 8.5 features will follow in a future release.
  • If you find any PHP 8.5 deprecation notices which were missed, please report them.

Changed

• Various housekeeping, including improvements to the tests and documentation.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions.

Fixed

• Fixed bug #​1216: Tokenizer/PHP: added more defensive coding to prevent PHP 8.5 "Using null as an array offset" deprecation notices.
  • Thanks to Andrew Lyons for the patch.
• Fixed bug #​1279: Tokenizer/PHP: on PHP < 8.0, an unclosed attribute (parse error) could end up removing some tokens from the token stream.
  • This could lead to false positives and false negative from sniffs, but could also lead to incorrect fixes being made mangling the file under scan.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.

Other

• Please be aware that the master branch has been renamed to 3.x and the default branch has changed to the 4.x branch.
  • If you contribute to PHP_CodeSniffer, you will need to update your local git clone.
  • If you develop against PHP_CodeSniffer and run your tests against dev branches of PHPCS, you will need to update your workflows.

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New Contributors

The PHP_CodeSniffer project is happy to welcome the following new contributors:
@​andrewnicols

Statistics

Closed: 2 issues
Merged: 36 pull requests

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v3.13.4: - 2025-09-05

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Fixed

• Fixed bug #​1213: ability to run tests for external standards using the PHPCS native test framework was broken.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Fixed bug #​1215: PHP 8.5 "Using null as an array offset" deprecation notices.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.

Statistics

Closed: 0 issues
Merged: 3 pull requests

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v3.13.3: - 2025-09-04

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Added

• Tokenizer support for PHP 8.4 dereferencing of new expressions without wrapping parentheses. #​1160
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Tokenizer support for PHP 8.4 abstract properties. #​1183
  • The File::getMemberProperties() method now also supports abstract properties through a new is_abstract array index in the return value. #​1184
  • Additionally, the following sniffs have been updated to support abstract properties:
    • Generic.PHP.LowerCaseConstant #​1185
    • Generic.PHP.UpperCaseConstant #​1185
    • PSR2.Classes.PropertyDeclaration #​1188
    • Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment #​1186
    • Squiz.WhiteSpace.MemberVarSpacing #​1187
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patches
• Tokenizer support for the PHP 8.4 "exit as a function call" change. #​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. #​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. #​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. #​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. #​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 #​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 #​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 #​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 #​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 #​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. #​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

Statistics

Closed: 11 issues
Merged: 40 pull requests

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