1.5.0 - 2025-11-13

Added

Universal

• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.Attributes.BracketSpacing sniff to enforce a fixed number of spaces on the inside of attribute block brackets. #386, #406
  The sniff offers the following properties to influence its behaviour:
  • spacing (defaults to 0).
  • ignoreNewlines (defaults to false).
    When new lines are allowed (ignoreNewlines=true) and a new line is found, the sniff will verify that there are no superfluous blank lines at the start/end of an attribute block.
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.Attributes.DisallowAttributeParentheses sniff to forbid parentheses for attribute instantiations without arguments. #387, #409
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.Attributes.RequireAttributeParentheses sniff to demand that all attribute instantiations always use parentheses, even if no argument is passed. #387, #410
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.Attributes.TrailingComma sniff to demand a trailing comma for multi-line, multi-attribute attribute blocks and forbid trailing commas in single-line attribute blocks and in multi-line attributes containing only a single attribute. #397, #413
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.PHP.DisallowExitDieParentheses sniff to forbid invocations of exit/die with parentheses when no argument is passed. #399
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.PHP.RequireExitDieParentheses sniff to demand that invocations of exit/die always use parentheses, even if no argument is passed. #398
• 🔧 📚 New Universal.WhiteSpace.FirstClassCallableSpacing sniff to enforce consistent spacing around the ellipses for first class callables. #385
  The sniff offers the following property to influence its behaviour: spacing (defaults to 0).

Changed

Universal

• Universal.WhiteSpace.CommaSpacing: improved handling of commas in PHP attributes. #391, #412
  • The spacing after a trailing comma (after the last attribute in a block) will no longer be checked to prevent potential conflicts with attribute bracket spacing sniffs.
  • Spacing errors for commas between attributes in an attribute block will now get an *InAttributeBlock error code suffix, so in-/excluding them selectively is more straight-forward.
    Note: spacing around commas between parameters passed to an attribute will still be reported with the *InFunctionCall error code suffix, same as before.
  • Metrics for comma spacing in attribute blocks is now also measured and reported separately.

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHP_CodeSniffer requirement has been updated to ^3.13.5 || ^4.0.1 (was ^3.13.4 || ^4.0.0). #408
• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.2.0 (was ^1.1.2). #408
• Various housekeeping.