The 5.0 release will be used by cake 5 core and plugin packages. The primary changes involve type declarations and type hints for PHP 8.0+.

What's Changed

• cake 5: Switch to slevomat parameter typehint sniffs by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/329
• cake 5: Switch to slevomat return typehint sniff by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/331
• cake 5: Extend doc comment and attribute spacing checks by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/332
• cake 5: Add function tag alignment check by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/334
• cake 5: Sort param and return type hints by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/335
• Convert array type to generic in non-unions by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/338
• cake 5: Add slevomat property type hint sniffs by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/339
• Add sniff to require use statements by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/342
• Add support for scalar type by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/345
• Don't sort unknown generics as arrays by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/346
• 5.x: Enable missing native type hint sniffs by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/349
• Remove parenthesis next to commas by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/352
• Add missing docblock closer by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/353
• Add $this and self to sort list by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/354
• Simplify test case for TypeHintSniff by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/355
• Add option to skip legacy generics by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/359
• Add explicit dependency on phpstan/phpdoc-parser by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/360
• Bump up slevomat coding standard. by @ADmad in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/362
• Add test for intersections to type hint sniff by @othercorey in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/364
• Bump up slevomat/coding-standard by @ADmad in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/pull/365

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer/compare/4.6.0...5.0.0