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A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.24.0

📦 Dependency updates

• #386: chore: Update dependabot config to consider custom setup action
• #387: Bump actions/setup-java from 4.7.1 to 5.2.0 in /.github/actions/setup
• #388: Bump actions/cache from 4.2.4 to 5.0.4 in /.github/actions/setup
• #389: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 13.3.0 to 13.4.0
• #390: Bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.25.4 to 0.25.5
• #391: Bump actions/cache from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5
• #392: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1
• #393: Bump actions/create-github-app-token from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1
• #394: Bump actions/cache from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5 in /.github/actions/setup
• #395: Bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.25.5 to 0.25.6
• #396: Bump PMD from 7.23.0 to 7.24.0... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.24.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.24.0/

24-April-2026 - 7.24.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.24.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🌟️ New Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.23.0
• Support for Eclipse 2026-03 added
• Support for Eclipse 2025-03 removed

✨ Merged pull requests

• #381: Support eclipse 2026-03 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.23.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.23.0/

27-March-2026 - 7.23.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.23.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.22.0

🐛 Fixed Issues

• #367: FileNotFoundException: rule-tests_1_0_0.xsd

✨ Merged pull requests

• #368: Update rule-tests schema to 1.1.1 and fix #367 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.22.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.22.0/

27-February-2026 - 7.22.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.22.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀️ New and noteworthy
  • Security fixes
• 🌟️ New and Changed Rules
  • New Rules
  • Changed Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Deprecations
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.21.0

✨ Merged pull requests

• #353: chore: Avoid using classloader for auxclasspath settings - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.21.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.21.0/

30-January-2026 - 7.21.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.21.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀️ New and noteworthy
  • 🚀️ New: Java 26 Support
  • Build Requirement is Java 21
  • CPD
• 🌟️ New and Changed Rules
  • New Rules
  • Changed Rules
  • Deprecated Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Deprecations
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.20.0
• Support for Eclipse 2025-12 added
• Support for Eclipse 2024-12 removed

✨ Merged pull requests

• #338: Support eclipse 2025-12 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.20.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.20.0/

30-December-2025 - 7.20.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.20.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🌟️ Changed Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Experimental API
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.19.0

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.19.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.19.0/

28-November-2025 - 7.19.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.19.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀️ New and noteworthy
  • Updated PMD Designer
• 🌟️ New and Changed Rules
  • New Rules
  • Deprecated Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Deprecations
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.18.0

📦 Dependency updates

• #302: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4
• #303: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4
• #304: Bump actions/create-github-app-token from 2.1.1 to 2.1.4
• #307: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.26.1 to 11.1.0
• #309: Bump actions/cache from 4.2.4 to 4.3.0
• #310: Bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.23.1 to 0.24.1
• #311: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.6.1 to 3.6.2
• #312: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin from 3.8.1 to 3.9.0
• #313: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin from 3.27.0 to 3.28.0
• #314: Bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.24.1 to 0.24.2
• #315: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 11.1.0 to 12.0.1
• #316: Bump build-tools from 34 to 35
• #318: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
• #319: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 12.0.1 to 12.1.0
• #320: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 12.1.0 to 12.1.1
• #321: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.6.2 to 5.0.0
• #322: Bump actions/download-artifact from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0
• #323: Bump PMD from 7.17.0 to 7.18.0... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.18.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.18.0/

31-October-2025 - 7.18.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.18.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀️ New and noteworthy
  • Build Requirement is Java 17
• 🌟️ New and Changed Rules
  • New Rules
  • Changed Rules
  • Deprecated Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Deprecations
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.17.0
• Support for Eclipse 2025-09 added
• Support for Eclipse 2024-09 removed

✨ Merged pull requests

• #290: chore: Add pmd-css - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #291: chore: Improve do-release.sh - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #292: chore: CI Improvements - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #300: Support eclipse 2025-09 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.17.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.17.0/

12-September-2025 - 7.17.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.17.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • ✨ New Rules
  • Deprecated Rules
  • CPD: New Markdown Report Format
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Deprecations
  • Experimental API
  • PMD Report Format CSV
  • Rule Test Schema
  • Deprecations
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.16.0

✨ Merged pull requests

• #284: chore: license header cleanup - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)

📦 Dependency updates

• #282: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin from 3.26.0 to 3.27.0
• #283: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.25.1 to 10.26.1
• #285: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0
• #286: Bump maven from 3.9.8 to 3.9.11
• #287: Bump build-tools from 32 to 33
• #288: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1
• #289: Bump PMD from 7.15.0 to 7.16.0... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.16.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.16.0/

25-July-2025 - 7.16.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.16.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • 🚀 New: Java 25 Support
  • New: CPD support for CSS
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Experimental APIs that are now considered stable
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.15.0
• Support for Eclipse 2025-06 added
• Support for Eclipse 2024-06 removed

✨ Merged pull requests

• #277: [ci] Fix publish release - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #281: Support eclipse 2025-06 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.15.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.15.0/

27-June-2025 - 7.15.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.15.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Rule Test Schema
• 💵 Financial Contributions
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.14.0

Merged pull requests

• Refactor GitHub Action Workflows (#271) by @adangel
• [ci] Make build a reuseable workflow (#272) by @adangel... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.14.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.14.0/

30-May-2025 - 7.14.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.14.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • PMD CLI now uses threaded execution by default
  • New Rule UnnecessaryWarningSuppression (experimental)
  • Migrating to Central Publisher Portal
  • More CLI parameters shared between PMD and CPD
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • CLI
  • Deprecations
  • Experimental
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.13.0

Dependency updates

• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#265)
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#267)
• Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.21.4 to 10.23.0 (#268)
• Bump PMD from 7.12.0 to 7.13.0 (#269)... read more

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.13.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.13.0/

25-April-2025 - 7.13.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.13.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • Docker images
  • Experimental support for language dialects
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Deprecations
  • Experimental API
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats... read more

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released.
It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.12.0
• Support for Eclipse 2025-03 added
• Support for Eclipse 2024-03 removed

Merged pull requests

• Support eclipse 2025-03 (#260) by @adangel
• Explicitly refresh and rebuild test project after .classpath change (#261) by @adangel... read more