v3.6.0

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v3.5.2

Fixed

• The branch detector was not able to detect the Moodle version following MDL-83424.
• The moodle.PHPUnit.TestCaseProvider sniff can now detect fully-qualified class names.

Added

• A new NamespaceScopeUtil helper was added with methods to help qualify names within a file.

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v3.5.1

Fixed

• The moodle.Commenting.VariableComment sniff now accepts the following tags as valid on a @var:
  • @since
  • @link
  • @deprecated

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v3.5.0

Changed

• Bumped dependencies for:
  • squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 3.13.2
  • phpcsstandards/phpcsextra to 1.4.0
  • dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer to 1.1.1
• A number of legacy Moodle rules have been removed. See MDLSITE-7597 for further information.
• The Generic.Arrays.DisallowLongArraySyntax rule has been changed to an error as planned in #58.
• The list of global variables has been updated to reflect the complete list of globals used in Moodle #182.

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v3.4.11

Fixed

• The moodle.Commenting.InlineComment sniff will now accept a full-stop inside a closing parentheses as valid English.
• The @Transform tag is now an accepted tag for Behat tests
• The moodle.Commenting.InlineComment sniff is now aware of PHP enum types.

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v3.4.10

Changed

• The moodle.NamingConventions.ValidFunctionName sniff will now ignore errors on methods employing the #[\Override] attribute.
• The moodle.Commenting.MissingDocblock sniff no longer warns about missing docs on non-global anonymous classes, for example those written as an instance class in a unit test.

Fixed

• Fixed an edge case leading to the file phpdoc block being incorrectly detected by various sniffs.
• Fixed a couple of problems with the moodle.Files.BoilerplateComment related to empty comment lines and to comments in the <?php open tag line.

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v3.4.9

Fixed

• Fixed a recent regression by allowing to the moodle.Files.BoilerplateComment sniff to contain "extra" consecutive comment lines immediately after the official boilerplate ends.

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v3.4.8

Added

• The existing moodle.PHPUnit.TestCaseCovers sniff now detects multiple uses of the @coversDefaultClass annotation. Only one is allowed by class.
• The existing moodle.Files.BoilerplateComment sniff now performs more checks (spacing, placement, blank lines, ...) and is able to fix many of them.

Changed

• Made codes for moodle.Commenting.MissingDocblock more specific to the scenario (Fixes #154).

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v3.4.7

Added

• Add new moodle.PHPUnit.ParentSetUpTearDown sniff to verify, among other things, that all the setUp(), tearDown(), setUpBeforeClass() and tearDownAfterClass() methods in unit tests are properly calling to their parent counterparts. Applies to Moodle 4.5 and up.
• Add new moodle.Commenting.ConstructorReturn sniff to check that constructors do not document a return value.

Changed

• Update composer dependencies to current versions, notably PHP_CodeSniffer (3.10.1) and PHPCompatibility (96072c30).
• The moodle.Commenting.MissingDocblock sniff will now detect use of the Override attribute (Fixes #155).

Fixed

• Various fixes to own (GH workflow) integration tests.

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v3.4.6

Fixed

• Solved a problem where Windows file paths were not normalised leading to false positive results on some path-based sniffs.
• Solved a problem with fetching the name of an anonymous class, or closure.