PMD 6.26.0 released

25 July 2020

25-July-2020 - 6.26.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.26.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

New and noteworthy

New Rules

  • The new Java rule UnusedAssignment (java-bestpractices) finds assignments to variables, that are never used and are useless. The new rule is supposed to entirely replace DataflowAnomalyAnalysis.

Modified rules

  • The Java rule ArrayIsStoredDirectly (java-bestpractices) now ignores by default private methods and constructors. You can restore the old behavior by setting the new property allowPrivate to “false”.

Fixed Issues

  • apex
    • #2610: [apex] Support top-level enums in rules
  • apex-bestpractices
    • #2626: [apex] UnusedLocalVariable - false positive on case insensitivity allowed in Apex
  • apex-performance
    • #2598: [apex] AvoidSoqlInLoops false positive for SOQL with in For-Loop
  • apex-security
    • #2620: [visualforce] False positive on VfUnescapeEl with new Message Channel feature
  • core
    • #710: [core] Review used dependencies
    • #2594: [core] Update exec-maven-plugin and align it in all project
    • #2615: [core] PMD/CPD produces invalid XML (insufficient escaping/wrong encoding)
  • java-bestpractices
    • #2543: [java] UseCollectionIsEmpty can not detect the case this.foo.size()
    • #2569: [java] LiteralsFirstInComparisons: False negative for methods returning Strings
    • #2622: [java] ArrayIsStoredDirectly false positive with private constructor/methods
  • java-codestyle
    • #2546: [java] DuplicateImports reported for the same import… and import static…
  • java-design
    • #2174: [java] LawOfDemeter: False positive with ‘this’ pointer
    • #2181: [java] LawOfDemeter: False positive with indexed array access
    • #2189: [java] LawOfDemeter: False positive when casting to derived class
    • #2580: [java] AvoidThrowingNullPointerException marks all NullPointerException objects as wrong, whether or not thrown
    • #2625: [java] NPathComplexity can’t handle switch expressions
  • java-errorprone
    • #2578: [java] AvoidCallingFinalize detects some false positives
    • #2634: [java] NullPointerException in rule ProperCloneImplementation
  • java-performance
    • #1736: [java] UseStringBufferForStringAppends: False positive if only one concatenation
    • #2207: [java] AvoidInstantiatingObjectsInLoops: False positive - should not flag objects when assigned to lists/arrays

API Changes

Deprecated API

For removal

External Contributions

Stats

  • 156 commits
  • 43 closed tickets & PRs
  • Days since last release: 28