PMD 6.24.0 released

24 May 2020


24-May-2020 - 6.24.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.24.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

New and noteworthy

CPD now supports XML as well

Thanks to Fernando Cosso CPD can now find duplicates in XML files as well. This is useful to find duplicated sections in XML files.

Updated PMD Designer

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

New Rules

  • The new Java Rule LiteralsFirstInComparisons (java-bestpractices) find String literals, that are used in comparisons and are not positioned first. Using the String literal as the receiver of e.g. equals helps to avoid NullPointerExceptions.

    This rule is replacing the two old rules PositionLiteralsFirstInComparisons and PositionLiteralsFirstInCaseInsensitiveComparisons and extends the check for the methods compareTo, compareToIgnoreCase and contentEquals in addition to equals and equalsIgnoreCase.

    Note: This rule also replaces the two mentioned rules in Java’s quickstart ruleset.

Deprecated Rules

Fixed Issues

  • apex-bestpractices
    • #2468: [apex] Unused Local Variable fails on blocks
  • core
    • #2444: [core] Support reproducible builds
    • #2484: [core] Update maven-enforcer-plugin to require Java 118
  • c#
    • #2495: [c#] Support for interpolated verbatim strings
  • java
    • #2472: [java] JavaCharStream throws an Error on invalid escape
  • java-bestpractices
    • #2145: [java] Deprecate rules PositionLiteralsFirstIn(CaseInsensitive)Comparisons in favor of LiteralsFirstInComparisons
    • #2288: [java] JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert: Add support for Hamcrest MatcherAssert.assertThat
    • #2437: [java] AvoidPrintStackTrace can’t detect the case e.getCause().printStackTrace()
  • java-codestyle
    • #2476: [java] MethodNamingConventions - Add support for JUnit 5 method naming
  • java-errorprone
    • #2477: [java] JUnitSpelling false-positive for JUnit5/4 tests
  • swift
    • #2473: [swift] Swift 5 (up to 5.2) support for CPD

API Changes

Deprecated APIs

Experimental APIs

Note: Experimental APIs are identified with the annotation Experimental, see its javadoc for details

External Contributions

Stats

  • 114 commits
  • 29 closed tickets & PRs
  • Days since last release: 30