PMD 5.7.0 released

20 May 2017

20-Mai-2017 - 5.7.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 5.7.0.

This is a minor release.

The rule “FieldDeclarationsShouldBeAtStartOfClass” of the java-design ruleset has a new property ignoreInterfaceDeclarations. Setting this property to true ignores interface declarations, that precede fields. Example usage:

Added the ‘empty’ renderer which will write nothing. Does not affect other behaviors, for example the command line PMD exit status will still indicate whether violations were found.

General
- #377: [core] Use maven wrapper and upgrade to maven 3.5.0
- #376: [core] Improve build time on travis
java
- #378: [java] Parser Error for empty statements
java-coupling
- #1427: [java] Law of Demeter violations for the Builder pattern
java-design
- #345: [java] FieldDeclarationsShouldBeAtStartOfClass: Add ability to ignore interfaces
- #389: [java] RuleSetCompatibility - not taking rename of UnusedModifier into account
java-junit
- #358: [java] Mockito verify method is not taken into account in JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert rule
java-strings
- #334: [java] [doc] Add suggestion to use StringUtils#isBlank for InefficientEmptyStringCheck
jsp-basic
- #369: [jsp] Wrong issue “JSP file should use UTF-8 encoding”

The method net.sourceforge.pmd.util.StringUtil#htmlEncode(String) is deprecated. org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils#escapeHtml4(String) should be used instead.

#368: [vf] Adding proper AST support for negation expressions
#372: [core] Fix XSS in HTML renderer
#374: [java] Add property to ignore interfaces in FieldDeclarationsShouldBeAtStartOfClassRule
#381: [core] Fix broken link in the site’s doc
#382: [java] Added documentation details on InefficientEmptyStringCheck
#383: [jsp] Fixed JspEncoding false positive
#390: [java] Remove trailing whitespaces in design.xml
#391: [apex] Fix documentation typo
#392: [java] False positive for Law Of Demeter (Builder pattern)
#395: [java] Mockito verify method is not taken into account in JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert rule