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31-October-2019 - 6.19.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.19.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

New and noteworthy

Updated PMD Designer

This PMD release ships a new version of the pmd-designer. For the changes, see PMD Designer Changelog.

Java Metrics

Modified Rules

  • The Java rules InvalidLogMessageFormat and MoreThanOneLogger (java-errorprone) now both support Log4j2. Note that the rule "InvalidSlf4jMessageFormat" has been renamed to "InvalidLogMessageFormat" to reflect the fact, that it now supports more than slf4j.

  • The Java rule LawOfDemeter (java-design) ignores now also Builders, that are not assigned to a local variable, but just directly used within a method call chain. The method, that creates the builder needs to end with "Builder", e.g. newBuilder() or initBuilder() works. This change fixes a couple of false positives.

  • The Java rule DataflowAnomalyAnalysis (java-errorprone) doesn't check for UR anomalies (undefined and then referenced) anymore. These checks were all false-positives, since actual UR occurrences would lead to compile errors.

  • The java rule DoNotUseThreads (java-multithreading) has been changed to not report usages of java.lang.Runnable anymore. Just using Runnable does not automatically create a new thread. While the check for Runnable has been removed, the rule now additionally checks for usages of Executors and ExecutorService. Both create new threads, which are not managed by a J2EE server.

Renamed Rules

Fixed Issues

  • core
    • #1978: [core] PMD fails on excluding unknown rules
    • #2014: [core] Making add(SourceCode sourceCode) public for alternative file systems
    • #2020: [core] Wrong deprecation warnings for unused XPath attributes
    • #2036: [core] Wrong include/exclude patterns are silently ignored
    • #2048: [core] Enable type resolution by default for XPath rules
    • #2067: [core] Build issue on Windows
    • #2068: [core] Rule loader should use the same resources loader for the ruleset
    • #2071: [ci] Add travis build on windows
    • #2072: [test][core] Not enough info in "test setup error" when numbers of lines do not match
    • #2082: [core] Incorrect logging of deprecated/renamed rules
  • java
    • #2042: [java] PMD crashes with ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute...
  • java-bestpractices
    • #1531: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod false-positive with method result
    • #2025: [java] UnusedImports when @see / @link pattern includes a FQCN
  • java-codestyle
    • #2017: [java] UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName triggered for inner class
  • java-design
    • #1912: [java] Metrics not computed correctly with annotations
  • java-errorprone
    • #336: [java] InvalidSlf4jMessageFormat applies to log4j2
    • #1636: [java] Stop checking UR anomalies for DataflowAnomalyAnalysis
  • java-multithreading
    • #1627: [java] DoNotUseThreads should not warn on Runnable
  • doc
    • #2058: [doc] CLI reference for -norulesetcompatibility shows a boolean default value

API Changes

Deprecated APIs

For removal
Internal APIs

External Contributions

Source: README.md, updated 2019-10-31