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title: PMD Release Notes
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## {{ site.pmd.date }} - {{ site.pmd.version }}

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD {{ site.pmd.version }}.

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### 🚀 New and noteworthy

### 🐛 Fixed Issues

* core
  * [#4978](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4978): \[core] Referenced Rulesets do not emit details on validation errors
  * [#4983](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/4983): \[cpd] Fix CPD crashes about unicode escapes
* java
  * [#4973](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/4973): \[java] Stop parsing Java for CPD
* java-bestpractices
  * [#4278](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4278): \[java] UnusedPrivateMethod FP with Junit 5 @MethodSource and default factory method name
  * [#4852](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4852): \[java] ReplaceVectorWithList false-positive (neither Vector nor List usage) 
  * [#4975](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4975): \[java] UnusedPrivateMethod false positive when using @MethodSource on a @Nested test
  * [#4985](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4985): \[java] UnusedPrivateMethod false-positive / method reference in combination with custom object

### 🚨 API Changes

### ✨ External Contributions

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