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Description
PHPCS 3.3.0 (June 2018) introduced a new XML format to pass custom array properties to sniffs.
Support for the old-style comma-separate string format for passing array values was deprecated in PHPCS 3.3.0 and support for the old format will be removed in PHPCS 4.0 as discussed in squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer#1665
I think it would be prudent to add a deprecation notice in one of the last 3.x minors to bring this to the attention of ruleset maintainers who haven't updated their ruleset yet.
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