[pmd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] PMD 6.30.0 Released

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  * Downloads:
    https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F6.30.0
    <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F6.30.0>
  * Documentation: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.30.0/
    <https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.30.0/>

    12-December-2020 - 6.30.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.30.0.

This is a minor release.

      Table Of Contents

  * New and noteworthy
    <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#new-and-noteworthy>

      o CPD
        <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#cpd>
      o Type information for VisualForce
        <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#type-information-for-visualforce>
  * Fixed Issues
    <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#fixed-issues>
  * API Changes
    <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#api-changes>

      o Deprecated API
        <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#deprecated-api>

          + Around RuleSet parsing
            <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#around-ruleset-parsing>
          + Around the |PMD| class
            <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#around-the-pmd-class>
          + Miscellaneous
            <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#miscellaneous>
      o Internal API
        <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#internal-api>
  * External Contributions
    <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#external-contributions>
  * Stats
    <https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/news/2020/12/pmd-6300-released/#stats>

      New and noteworthy

          CPD

  *

    The C# module now supports the new option
    |--ignore-literal-sequences|
    <https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_userdocs_cpd.html#-ignore-literal-sequences>,
    which can be used to avoid detection of some uninteresting clones.
    Support for other languages may be added in the future. See #2945
    <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2945>

  *

    The Scala module now supports suppression
    <https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_userdocs_cpd.html#suppression>
    through |CPD-ON|/|CPD-OFF| comment pairs. See #2929
    <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2929>

          Type information for VisualForce

The Visualforce AST now can resolve the data type of Visualforce 
expressions that reference Apex Controller properties and Custom Object 
fields. This feature improves the precision of existing rules, like 
|VfUnescapeEl| 
<https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.30.0/pmd_rules_vf_security.html#vfunescapeel>.

This can be configured using two environment variables:
/|PMD_VF_APEXDIRECTORIES|: Comma separated list of directories for Apex 
classes. Absolute or relative to the Visualforce directory. Default is 
|../classes|. Specifying an empty string will disable data type 
resolution for Apex Controller properties.
/ |PMD_VF_OBJECTSDIRECTORIES|: Comma separated list of directories for 
Custom Objects. Absolute or relative to the Visualforce directory. 
Default is |../objects|. Specifying an empty string will disable data 
type resolution for Custom Object fields.

This feature is experimental, in particular, expect changes to the way 
the configuration is specified. We'll probably extend the CLI instead of 
relying on environment variables in a future version.

Thanks to Jeff Bartolotta and Roopa Mohan for contributing this!

      Fixed Issues

  * core
      o #1939 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1939>: [core] XPath
        expressions return handling
      o #1961 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1961>: [core] Text
        renderer should include name of violated rule
      o #2874 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2874>: [core] Fix
        XMLRenderer with UTF-16
  * cs
      o #2938 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2938>: [cs] CPD: ignoring
        using directives could not be disabled
  * java
      o #2911 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2911>: [java]
        |ClassTypeResolver#searchNodeNameForClass| leaks memory
      o #2934 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2934>: [java]
        CompareObjectsWithEquals / UseEqualsToCompareStrings - False
        negatives with fields
      o #2940 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2940>: [java] Catch
        additional TypeNotPresentExceptions / LinkageErrors
  * scala
      o #2480 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2480>: [scala] Support
        CPD suppressions

      API Changes

        Deprecated API

          Around RuleSet parsing

  * |RuleSetFactory|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetFactory.html#>
    and |RulesetsFactoryUtils|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RulesetsFactoryUtils.html#>
    have been deprecated in favor of |RuleSetLoader|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetLoader.html#>.
    This is easier to configure, and more maintainable than the multiple
    overloads of |RuleSetFactoryUtils|.
  * Some static creation methods have been added to |RuleSet|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSet.html#>
    for simple cases, eg |forSingleRule|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSet.html#forSingleRule(net.sourceforge.pmd.Rule)>.
    These replace some counterparts in |RuleSetFactory|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetFactory.html#>
  * Since |RuleSets|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSets.html#>
    is also deprecated, many APIs that require a RuleSets instance now
    are deprecated, and have a counterpart that expects a |List<RuleSet>|.
  * |RuleSetReferenceId|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetReferenceId.html#>,
    |RuleSetReference|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetReference.html#>,
    |RuleSetFactoryCompatibility|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/RuleSetFactoryCompatibility.html#>
    are deprecated. They are most likely not relevant outside of the
    implementation of pmd-core.

          Around the |PMD| class

Many classes around PMD's entry point (|PMD| 
<https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/PMD.html#>) 
have been deprecated as internal, including:
/The contents of the packages |net.sourceforge.pmd.cli| 
<https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/cli/package-summary.html#>, 
|net.sourceforge.pmd.processor| 
<https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/processor/package-summary.html#>
/ |SourceCodeProcessor| 
<https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/SourceCodeProcessor.html#>
* The constructors of |PMD| 
<https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/PMD.html#> 
(the class will be made a utility class)

          Miscellaneous

  * |ASTPackageDeclaration#getPackageNameImage|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-java/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ASTPackageDeclaration.html#getPackageNameImage()>,
    |ASTTypeParameter#getParameterName|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-java/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ASTTypeParameter.html#getParameterName()>
    and the corresponding XPath attributes. In both cases they're
    replaced with a new method |getName|,
    the attribute is |@Name|.
  * |ASTClassOrInterfaceBody#isAnonymousInnerClass|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-java/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ASTClassOrInterfaceBody.html#isAnonymousInnerClass()>,
    and |ASTClassOrInterfaceBody#isEnumChild|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-java/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/ast/ASTClassOrInterfaceBody.html#isEnumChild()>,
    refs #905 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/905>

        Internal API

Those APIs are not intended to be used by clients, and will be hidden or 
removed with PMD 7.0.0.
You can identify them with the |@InternalApi| annotation. You'll also 
get a deprecation warning.

  * |net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.ecmascript.Ecmascript3Handler|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-javascript/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/ecmascript/Ecmascript3Handler.html#>
  * |net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.ecmascript.Ecmascript3Parser|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-javascript/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/ecmascript/Ecmascript3Parser.html#>
  * |EcmascriptParser#parserOptions|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-javascript/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/ecmascript/ast/EcmascriptParser.html#parserOptions>
  * |EcmascriptParser#getSuppressMap|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-javascript/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/ecmascript/ast/EcmascriptParser.html#getSuppressMap()>
  * |net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.rule.ParametricRuleViolation|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/ParametricRuleViolation.html#>
  * |ParserOptions#suppressMarker|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-core/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/ParserOptions.html#suppressMarker>
  * |net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.modelica.rule.ModelicaRuleViolationFactory|
    <https://docs.pmd-code.org/apidocs/pmd-modelica/6.30.0/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/modelica/rule/ModelicaRuleViolationFactory.html#>

      External Contributions

  * #2864 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2864>: [vf] Provide
    expression type information to Visualforce rules to avoid false
    positives - Jeff Bartolotta <https://github.com/jbartolotta-sfdc>
  * #2914 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2914>: [core] Include rule
    name in text renderer - Gunther Schrijvers
    <https://github.com/GuntherSchrijvers>
  * #2925 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2925>: Cleanup: Correct
    annotation array initializer indents from checkstyle #8083 -
    Abhishek Kumar <https://github.com/Abhishek-kumar09>
  * #2929 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2929>: [scala] Add support
    for CPD-ON and CPD-OFF special comments - Andy Robinson
    <https://github.com/andyrobinson>
  * #2936 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2936>: [java] (doc) Fix typo:
    "an accessor" not "a" - Igor Moreno <https://github.com/igormoreno>
  * #2938 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2938>: [cs] CPD: fix issue
    where ignoring using directives could not be disabled - Maikel
    Steneker <https://github.com/maikelsteneker>
  * #2945 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2945>: [cs] Add option to
    ignore sequences of literals - Maikel Steneker
    <https://github.com/maikelsteneker>
  * #2962 <https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2962>: [cpp] Add support for
    C++ 14 binary literals - Maikel Steneker
    <https://github.com/maikelsteneker>

      Stats

  * 190 commits
  * 25 closed tickets & PRs
  * Days since last release: 49

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