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title: PMD Release Notes
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## ????? - 6.6.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.6.0.

This is a minor release.

### Table Of Contents

* [New and noteworthy](#new-and-noteworthy)
    *   [New Rules](#new-rules)
* [Fixed Issues](#fixed-issues)
* [API Changes](#api-changes)
* [External Contributions](#external-contributions)

### New and noteworthy

#### New Rules

*   The new Java rule [`LocalVariableNamingConventions`](pmd_rules_java_codestyle.html#localvariablenamingconventions) (`java-codestlye`)
    detects local variable names that don't comply to a given convention. It defaults to standrd Java convention of using camelCase,
    but can be configured. Special cases can be configured for final variables and catched exceptions' names.

*   The new Java rule [`FormalParameterNamingConventions`](pmd_rules_java_codestyle.html#formalparameternamingconventions) (`java-codestlye`)
    detects formal parameter names that don't comply to a given convention. It defaults to standrd Java convention of using camelCase,
    but can be configured. Special cases can be configured for final parameters and lambda parameters (considering wether they are
    explicitly typed or not)

### Fixed Issues

*   core
    *   [#1225](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1225): \[core] Error in sed expression on line 82 of run.sh while detecting installed version of Java
*   doc
    *   [#1215](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1215): \[doc] TOC links don't work?
*   java-codestyle
    *   [#1211](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1211): \[java] CommentDefaultAccessModifier false positive with nested interfaces (regression from 6.4.0)
    *   [#1216](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1216): \[java] UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName false positive for the same name method
*   java-design
    *   [#1217](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1217): \[java] CyclomaticComplexityRule counts ?-operator twice
*   plsql
    *   [#980](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/980): \[plsql] ParseException for CREATE TABLE
    *   [#981](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/981): \[plsql] ParseException when parsing VIEW
    *   [#1047](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1047): \[plsql] ParseException when parsing EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
*   ui
    *   [#1233](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1233): \[ui] XPath autocomplete arrows on first and last items

### API Changes

*   The `findDescendantsOfType` methods in `net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.ast.AbstractNode` no longer search for exact type matches, but will
    match subclasses too. That means, it's now possible to look for abstract node types such as `AbstractJavaTypeNode` and not only for it's concrete subtypes.

### External Contributions

* [#1182](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1182): \[ui] XPath AutoComplete - [Akshat Bahety](https://github.com/akshatbahety)
* [#1231](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1231): \[doc] Minor typo fix in installation.md - [Ashish Rana](https://github.com/ashishrana160796)