Latest version

5.0.5 (11th August 2013)

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• Our license: BSD-style

Recent announcements

• 2013-08-11 PMD 5.0.5: minor version with lots of bug fixes (Changelog)

  • Fixed bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/milestone/PMD-5.0.5/

• 2013-05-01 PMD 5.0.4: minor version with lots of bug fixes (Changelog)

  • Fixed bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/milestone/PMD-5.0.4/

• 2013-04-05 PMD 5.0.3: minor version with lots of bug fixes (Changelog)

  • Fixed bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/milestone/PMD-5.0.3/

• 2013-02-03 PMD 5.0.2: minor version with lots of bug fixes (Changelog)

  • Fixed bugs: https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd/bugs/milestone/PMD-5.0.2/

• 2012-11-28 PMD 5.0.1: minor version with lots of bug fixes.

  • 22 Fixed bugs
  • New EcmaScript Rule: Basic ruleset: AvoidTrailingComma
  • Improved JSP parser to be less strict with not valid XML documents (like HTML)
  • Improved CPD: Support in CPD for IgnoreAnnotations and SuppressWarnings("CPD-START")
  • PMD Command Line: Improved command line interface (CLI) parsing using JCommander.

• 2012-07-29 PMD on github: Our source code repository is now on github.

  You can easily fork it from here: https://github.com/pmd/pmd.

• 2012-05-01 PMD 5.0.0: major version supporting additional languages and new rules (Changelog)

  • Additional languages support (Java, JavaScript, XML, XSL, JSP)
  • Many bug fixes and new rules
  • Internal refactoring which breaks compatibility, but adds generic support for additional languages.
  • Maven coordinates have been changed: net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd
  • For details, see the Changelog.

  Note: PMD 5 is not backwards compatible with PMD 4.x.

Next development version

5.1.0-SNAPSHOT

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