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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

*   all
    *   [#1318](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1318): \[test] Kotlin DSL to ease test writing

### API Changes

* Several classes and interfaces from the properties framework are now deprecated and will be removed with 7.0.0.
  * `MethodProperty`, `FloatProperty`, `FileProperty`, `TypeProperty` and their multi-valued counterparts
    are discontinued for lack of a use-case, and will probably not be replaced with 7.0.0.
    Users of `FloatProperty` should consider using a `DoubleProperty`.
  * `EnumeratedPropertyDescriptor`, `NumericPropertyDescriptor`, `PackagedPropertyDescriptor`, and the related builders
    (in `net.sourceforge.pmd.properties.builders`) will be removed. In the future, these interfaces won't be around
    but their functionality will, under another form. The related methods `PropertyTypeId#isPropertyNumeric` and
    `PropertyTypeId#isPropertyPackaged` are also deprecated.
  * All classes of net.sourceforge.pmd.properties.modules are deprecated and will be removed. They were
    never intended as public api.
  * The classes `PropertyDescriptorField`, `PropertyDescriptorBuilderConversionWrapper`, and the methods
    `PropertyDescriptor#attributeValuesById`, `PropertyDescriptor#isDefinedExternally` and `PropertyTypeId#getFactory` are deprecated with no
    intended replacement. These were used to read and write properties to and from XML, and were never
    intended as public API.
  * The class ValueParserConstants is deprecated with no intended replacement, it was not intended as
    public API.
  * The method `PropertyDescriptor#preferredRowCount` is deprecated with no intended replacement. It was
    never implemented, and does not belong in this interface.

### External Contributions

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