PMD Release Notes

29-November-2024 - 7.8.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.8.0-SNAPSHOT.

This is a minor release.

🚀 New and noteworthy

🐛 Fixed Issues

• ant
  • #1860: [ant] Reflective access warnings on java > 9 and java < 17
• apex
  • #5333: [apex] Token recognition errors for string containing unicode escape sequence
• html
  • 5322: [html] CPD throws exception on when HTML file is missing closing tag
• java
  • #5293: [java] Deadlock when executing PMD in multiple threads
  • #5324: [java] Issue with type inference of nested lambdas
  • #5329: [java] Type inference issue with unknown method ref in call chain
• java-performance
  • #5314: [java] InsufficientStringBufferDeclarationRule: Lack of handling for char type parameters

🚨 API Changes

Deprecations

• pmd-xml
  • XMLLexer is deprecated for removal. Use net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.xml.ast.XMLLexer instead (note different package ast instead of antlr4).

✨ External Contributions

• #5284: [apex] Use case-insensitive input stream to avoid choking on Unicode escape sequences - Willem A. Hajenius (@wahajenius)