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

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.2.0.

This is a bug fixing release.

### Table Of Contents

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

### New and noteworthy

#### Ecmascript (JavaScript)

The [Rhino Library](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino) has been upgraded from version 1.7.7 to version 1.7.7.2.

Detailed changes for changed in Rhino can be found:
* [For 1.7.7.2](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#rhino-1772)
* [For 1.7.7.1](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#rhino-1771)

Both are bugfixing releases.

#### Modified Rules

* The Java rule `UnusedPrivateField` (ruleset `java-bestpractices`) now has a new `ignoredAnnotations` property
that allows to configure annotations that imply the field should be ignored. By default `@java.lang.Deprecated`
and `@javafx.fxml.FXML` are ignored.

* The Java rule `UnusedPrivateMethod` (ruleset `java-bestpractices`) now has a new `ignoredAnnotations` property
that allows to configure annotations that imply the method should be ignored. By default `@java.lang.Deprecated`
is ignored.

### Fixed Issues

*   all
    *   [#928](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/928): \[core] PMD build failure on Windows

*   java
    *   [#907](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/907): \[java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML
*   java-bestpractices
    *   [#907](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/907): \[java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML

### API Changes

### External Contributions

* [#941](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/941): \[java] Use char notation to represent a character to improve performance - [reudismam](https://github.com/reudismam)
* [#943](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/943): \[java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML - [BBG](https://github.com/djydewang)
* [#951](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/951): \[java] Add ignoredAnnotations property to unusedPrivateMethod rule - [BBG](https://github.com/djydewang)