4.5.0

⚠️ PHPCS 3.2.3+ is now required.

New sniffs:

• SuperfluousExceptionNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous suffix Exception for exceptions
• SuperfluousAbstractClassNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous prefix or suffix Abstract for abstract classes
• SuperfluousInterfaceNamingSniff: Reports usage of superfluous prefix or suffix Interface for interfaces
• UseSpacingSniff: Enforces configurable number of lines before first use, after last use and between two different types of use (eg. between use function and use const)
• EmptyCommentSniff: Reports empty comments
• DocCommentSpacing: Enforces configurable number of lines before first content (description or annotation), after last content (description or annotation), between description and annotations, between two different annotations types
• DisallowOneLinePropertyDocCommentSniff: Require comments with single-line content to be written as multi-liners (thanks to @Majkl578)
• RequireOneLinePropertyDocCommentSniff: Require comments with single-line content to be written as one-liners (thanks to @Majkl578)
• TypeCastSniff: Enforces using shorthand cast operators, forbids use of unset and binary cast operators (thanks to @Majkl578)

Improvements:

• EarlyExitSniff: New check "Remove useless elseif to reduce code nesting"
• UnusedUsesSniff: ignoredAnnotationNames - To ignore specified annotation names (thanks to @xificurk)
• ReferenceUsedNamesOnlySniff: Improved annotations parsing
• FullyQualifiedClassNameInAnnotationSniff: Improved annotations parsing
• ForbiddenAnnotationsSniff: Improved annotations parsing
• AlphaneticallySortedUsesSniff: Make error message more clear (thanks to @brettdorrans)

Fixes:

• EarlyExitSniff: Report else when all conditions contain early exit