# Changelog

## ????? - 5.4.4-SNAPSHOT

**New Supported Languages:**

**Feature Requests and Improvements:**

*   java
    *   Type Resolution performance improved by ~15%

**New/Modified/Deprecated Rules:**

**Pull Requests:**

*   [#126](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/126): \[java] Avoid creating a new String to qualify types
*   [#127](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/127): \[java] Don't look twice for the same variables
*   [#129](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/129): \[plsql] Added correct parse of IS [NOT] NULL and multiline DML

**Bugfixes:**

*   XML
    *   [#1518](https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/1518/): \[xml] Error while processing xml file with ".webapp" in the file or directory name
*   psql
    *   [#1549](https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/1549/): \[plsql] Parse error for IS [NOT] NULL construct


**API Changes:**
