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Version 0.14.2

• Added a summary output on the command line (thanks to jarrettchisholm).
• New check : Detect forbidden keywords (thanks to jarrettchisholm).
• New check : Detect forbidden regular expressions like IP address, etc. (thanks to jarrettchisholm).
• New check : Detect variable variable.

Version 0.14.1

• Improved performances A LOT !
• Better checking of ignored files/directories
• Added T_FINALLY token to the parser
• Better messages for logical operators && and
• Outsourced the error messages
• Added French translation
• New check : NPath complexity
• New check : Prefered quotes style

Version 0.14.0

• PSR-0 Compliance (thanks to James Brooks).
• new Array Reporter (thanks to James Brooks).
• Allow an array of configuration values to be passed through, rather than XML (thanks to James Brooks).
• new Check : "mandatoryHeader"

Version 0.13.2

• Change in the default configurations : White spaces are required before and after the concatenation operator ".".

NOTE : This may generate lots of new warnings.

•  Issue 77 : Exclude files/directories option from the web launcher.

Version 0.13.1

•  Issue 71 : False positive : close()
•  Issue 72 : Allow the config file to be in any directory
•  Issue 73 : False positive : delete()
•  Issue 74 : Allow multiple src directories/files in the command line.

Version 0.13.0

•  Issue 70 : Simplification of the "strictCompare" rule. When active this rule will be checked everywhere.

This may generate lots of warnings.

Version 0.12.5

Issue 69: PHP tag should be at the beginning of the line

Version 0.12.4

•  Issue 59 : Enhancement: Add allowed exceptions to docBlocks section of configuration
•  Issue 63 : Catch parsing exceptions and other PHP errors
•  Issue 65 : Add composer.json file
•  Issue 66 : block closure '}' detected in a string

Version 0.12.3

•  Issue 52 : Config for PHP frameworks
•  Issue 54 : detect empty files

Version 0.12.2

•  Issue 53 : else/ elseif without curly braces (thanks to Maximilian Pachl)
• Added a check of the curly braces after a "else" statement

Version 0.12.1

•  Issue 50  : --exclude flag is not honoured
• No space expected after '=' when used in assignation by reference

Version 0.12.0

• New reporter : xml_console (for use with Netbeans plugin : http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmdnb/), thanks to Jens Radtke
•  Issue 47  : False docBlock error when using empty return in a method
• Added the version number in the run.php file

Version 0.11.0

• Issue 1 : Refactoring of the code
•  Issue 43 : False positive for "The function throws an exception"
•  Issue 41 : False positive : The statement 'while' must contain its code within a {} block.
•  Issue 24 : Line length checking of non-PHP code should be toggleable in a config option.
• Added Zend Framework style configuration file

Version 0.10.6

•  Issue 40 : Propose replacement for PHP aliases
• Now generates absolute file path in the reports (allow Jenkins to display the source code)

Version 0.10.5

•  Issue 39 : Error on closing tag for space-based indentation checks
•  Issue 38 : False positive for : The function XXX must have a docblock comment

Version 0.10.4

• Issue 37: Web interface (currently very limited)

Version 0.10.3

•  issue 25  : New Rule : Use of "==" in strpos
• Bug correction: Not correctly counting the end of a stack item after a "ELSE IF"

Version 0.10.2

•  issue 27  : Unused code is wrongly detected
•  issue 26  : Empty lines in comments will corrupt line numbering
•  issue 25  : Error: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
•  issue 23  : Wrong indentation level for curly braces on new line
• Embedding of CSS inside HTML Header
• Fix for null pointer exceptions when run against newer code

Version 0.10.1

• Fixed Rule encapsedVariablesInsideString : False positive when using heredoc
• Fixed Rule needBraces : False positive for do/while

Version 0.10.0

• Added support for interfaces
• Improved checking of variables by scope
• Rewrote the checkLargeLine() function
• Added rudimentary progress reporting, invoked with the parameter --progress
• Edited Style errors for clarity
• Included regex in the error report for appropriate types
• Errors are now described in much greater detail and more consistent language
• Removed 'old : ' and 'new : ' prefixes from constructor name hints
• New output type - html console
• Removed "controlStructNeedCurly" rule, duplicate with "needBraces" rule
• Completed the test cases
• The tokenizer now returns T_TAB separately from T_WHITESPACE

Thanks a lot to Justin Creasey and Adam King

Version 0.9.8

•  Issue 3 : Check for unreachable code

Version 0.9.7

• Deprecation of long $HTTP VARS predefined variables
• Configuration of system variables lists
•  Issue 10 : Don't blindly remove first 2 chars of file path

Version 0.9.6

• Corrected the inner assignement rule (wasn't detecting the end of a control statement if no brackets).
• Corrected the file exclusion list.
• Corrected a bug with nextToken at the end of a file.
• Added the possibility to add exceptions to the checkVariableNaming rule

Version 0.9.5

• Corrected a bug with @SuppressWarnings on a class.

Version 0.9.4

• Added invoke and callStatic to the special functions.

Version 0.9.3

• Refactoring of the indentation check (thanks to Charles Marion). The "noTabs" rule is replaced by the "indentation" rule.
• Reactivation of the "noSpaceAfterControlStmt" rule.
• Correction of a bug with multiple output files.
• Added a rule for the naming of protected functions.

Version 0.9.2

• Multiple output files (separated by a comma in the --format command line parameter)

Version 0.9.1

• Possibility to scan multiple source directories (separated by a comma in the --src command line parameter)

Version 0.9

• Dependency on lib_xsl removed
• Documentation updated to link to the new project home (http://code.google.com/p/phpcheckstyle/)
• HTML Report validated with W3C validator, HTML characters escaped
• Possibility to suppress some warnings using annotations before a class or a function in the code (@SuppressWarnings)
• New logo

Version 0.8.11

• Refactoring : Added the current stack of instruction to provide contextual information
• New test : unusedCode
• New test : deprecated functions

Version 0.8.10

• Corrected JavaNCSS count of packages
• New test : functionInsideLoop

Version 0.8.9

• Corrected LevelOfNesting calculation
• New test : oneClassPerFile

Version 0.8.8

• New test : variableNaming
• Added the possibility to configure the regular expressions for the naming rules
• A taste of it's own dog food

Version 0.8.7

• New test : checkUnusedVariables
• New test : checkUnusedFunctionParameters

Version 0.8.6

• Correction in the controlStructOpenCurly check.

Version 0.8.5

• New test : empty statement ;;
• New test : inner assignment
• New test : unused private functions

Version 0.8.4

• Refactored the whiteSpaceBore / noSpaceBefore / whiteSpaceAfter / noSpaceAfter methods.
• Refactored peekNextValidToken and peekPrvsValidToken to avoid using call by reference
• New test : function length
• New test : empty block if ($a) {}
• New test : avoid heredoc
• New test : excessive function parameters
• New test : need braces
• New tests : switch have a default and default is at the end
• New test : switch case should have a break

Version 0.8.3

• Added some tests on the docbloc (@param and @return)
• Added a test on unary operators
• Corrected a bug in the detection of the end of a function

Version 0.8.2

• Added new test (Use boolean operators instead of logical operators)

Version 0.8.1

• Corrected a bug with NEW_LINE character inside a constant string

Version 0.8

• Replaced the token_get_all() function by token_get_all_nl() found here : http://php.net/manual/fr/function.token-get-all.php

This function returns the new line caracters as a token. This solve some problems and impact a lot of code.

• Added the possibility to generate a report on the number of lines of code compatible with the JavaNCSS format (http://kclee.de/clemens/java/javancss/)
• Added new tests (Extract TODOs, Avoid passing references)
• Some refactoring

Version 0.7.1

• Added new tests (Cyclomatic Complexity, ...)

Version 0.7

• All tests are now configurable
• Included some propositions from the forum
• Added the possibility to define a severity level for each test rule
• Ignoring the .svn repositories
• Changed the XML outpout in order to be compatible with the checkstyle format (http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/)

Version 0.6.1

• Bugs Fixes
• HTML Ouput changes

Version 0.6

This is the very first release of PHPCheckstyle (hosted on Spike source). It is an alpha release.