PMD For Eclipse 7.21.0.v20260130-1017-r Released

30 January 2026

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A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released. It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

• Update to PMD 7.21.0

✨ Merged pull requests

• #353: chore: Avoid using classloader for auxclasspath settings - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)

📦 Dependency updates

• #347: chore: Bump maven from 3.9.11 to 3.9.12
• #348: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 12.3.0 to 13.0.0
• #350: Bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.25.1 to 0.25.4
• #352: Bump actions/cache from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2
• #355: Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2
• #356: Bump actions/setup-java from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0
• #357: Bump tycho from 4.0.10 to 5.0.2
• #358: Bump PMD from 7.20.0 to 7.21.0

API Changes

Deprecations

The following methods have been deprecated for removal:

• net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.properties.IProjectProperties#getAuxClasspath()
• net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.properties.impl.ProjectPropertiesImpl#getAuxClasspath()

Use the new method getClasspath() instead. It doesn’t use a custom classloader anymore and just returns the classpath as a single string (path elements separated by the os specific path separator).

The following class has been deprecated for removal:

• net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.cmd.JavaProjectClassLoader