CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

2.5.0 - 2026-01-06

• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.7.
• Increased minimum PHP version to 8.3.

2.4.0 - 2025-08-21

• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.6.
• Updated dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer from ^1.0 to ^1.1.
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/composer-installer/releases/tag/v1.1.0
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/composer-installer/releases/tag/v1.1.1
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/composer-installer/releases/tag/v1.1.2
• Updated sirbrillig/phpcs-variable-analysis from ^2.11 to ^2.12.
  • https://github.com/sirbrillig/phpcs-variable-analysis/releases/tag/v2.12.0
• Updated squizlabs/php_codesniffer from ^3.9 to ^3.13.
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.10.0
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.10.1
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.10.2
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.10.3
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.11.0
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.11.1
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.11.2
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.11.3
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.12.0
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.12.1
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.12.2
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.13.0
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.13.1
  • https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.13.2
• Updated wp-coding-standards/wpcs from ^3.1 to ^3.2.
  • https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards/releases/tag/3.2.0

2.3.0 - 2024-12-19

• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.5.
• Increased minimum PHP version to 8.2.

2.2.0 - 2024-03-26

• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.3.

2.1.0 - 2023-12-13

• Updated to PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer version 3.8: https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.8.0.
• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.2.
• Increased minimum PHP version to 8.1.

2.0.2 - 2023-11-02

• Added <rule ref="Generic.Arrays.DisallowLongArraySyntax" />.

2.0.1 - 2023-09-11

• Changed config minimum_supported_version to minimum_wp_version: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards/wiki/Customizable-sniff-properties.

2.0.0 - 2023-09-05

• Update to WordPress coding standards version 3.0.0: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards/releases/tag/3.0.0.
• Update to WordPress VIP coding standards version 3.0.0: https://github.com/Automattic/VIP-Coding-Standards/releases/tag/3.0.0
• Increased minimum WordPress version to 6.1.
• Increased minimum PHP version to 8.0.

[1.3.1] - 2023-01-31

• For now allow PHP 7.4.

1.3.0 - 2022-12-01

Changed

• Updated minimum WordPress version to 5.9: https://codex.wordpress.org/Supported_Versions.
• Updated minimum PHP version to 8.0: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.

Fixed

• Error trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated on PHP 8.1. #1

1.2.0 - 2022-04-12

Changed

• We deviate from the WordPress Coding Standards and switch to the short array syntax.

1.1.0 - 2022-02-17

Changed

• Updated minimum WordPress version to 5.7: https://codex.wordpress.org/Supported_Versions.
• Updated minimum PHP version to 7.4: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.

1.0.0 - 2021-06-25

Added

• Added PHPCompatibilityWP rule.
• Added VariableAnalysis rule.
• Added WordPress rule.
• Added WordPressVIPMinimum rule.
• Added WordPress-VIP-Go rule.
• Excluded WordPress.Files.FileName.InvalidClassFileName sniff.
• Excluded WordPress.Files.FileName.NotHyphenatedLowercase sniff.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^bower_components/* for the bower_components folder.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^node_modules/* for the node_modules folder.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^vendor/* for the vendor folder.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^vendor-bin/* for the vendor-bin folder.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^wordpress/* for the wordpress folder.
• Added relative exclude pattern ^wp-content/* for the wp-content folder.