The main functional change is that PUC will now use shorter HTTP request timeouts when not running inside a Cron task. This is to comply with the WP VIP coding standard that strongly recommends a maximum timeout of 3 seconds.
Prompted by #107
This fixes or explicitly ignores most - but not all - coding standard issues that are reported when running PHP_CodeSniffer with the basic WordPress ruleset and the WordPress-VIP ruleset.
Notably, one of the issues that remain is the request timeout for update requests and VCS API requests. The current default is 10 seconds, but the WordPress-VIP standards appear to require 3 seconds or less. Personally, I'm not sure if that low limit is appropriate for requests that are intended to mostly run in Cron jobs.
^ Except dependencies like Parsedown.
The readme is now out of date. The legacy version of Parsedown was removed because we no longer need to support PHP versions older than 5.3. The stub file that loads ParsedownModern.php stays in place because it has the "class_exists" check.
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