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PMD Release Notes

25-Februar-2017 - 5.4.5

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 5.4.5

This is a bug fixing release.

Table Of Contents

New and noteworthy

Modified Rules

  • The Java rule UnusedModifier (ruleset java-unusedcode) has been expanded to consider more redundant modifiers.
  • Annotations marked as abstract.
  • Nested annotations marked as static.
  • Nested annotations within another interface or annotation marked as public.
  • Classes, interfaces or annotations nested within an annotation marked as public or static.
  • Nested enums marked as static.

Fixed Issues

  • general
  • #234: [core] Zip file stream closes spuriously when loading rulesets
  • #256: [core] shortnames option is broken with relative paths
  • java-basic
  • #232: [java] SimplifiedTernary: Incorrect ternary operation can be simplified.
  • java-coupling
  • #270: [java] LoD false positive
  • java-design
  • #216: [java] [doc] NonThreadSafeSingleton: Be more explicit as to why double checked locking is not recommended
  • #219: [java] UnnecessaryLocalBeforeReturn: ClassCastException in switch case with local variable returned
  • java-optimizations
  • #215: [java] RedundantFieldInitializer report for annotation field not explicitly marked as final
  • java-unusedcode
  • #246: [java] UnusedModifier doesn't check annotations
  • #247: [java] UnusedModifier doesn't check annotations inner classes
  • #248: [java] UnusedModifier doesn't check static keyword on nested enum declaration
  • #257: [java] UnusedLocalVariable false positive

External Contributions

  • #266: [java] corrected invalid reporting of LoD violation
Source: README.md, updated 2017-02-25