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????? - 6.4.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.4.0.

This is a bug fixing release.

Table Of Contents

• New and noteworthy
  • Modified Rules
• Fixed Issues
• API Changes
• External Contributions

New and noteworthy

Modified Rules

• The Java rule JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation (java-bestpractices) has a new parameter "testClassPattern". It is used to distinguish test classes from other classes and avoid false positives. By default, any class, that has "Test" in its name, is considered a test class.

Fixed Issues

• java
  • #1077: [java] Analyzing enum with lambda passed in constructor fails with "The enclosing scope must exist."
• java-bestpractices
  • #527: [java] False Alarm of JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation on Predicates
  • #1063: [java] MissingOverride is triggered in illegal places
• java-codestyle
  • #1064: [java] ClassNamingConventions suggests to add Util suffix for simple exception wrappers
  • #1065: [java] ClassNamingConventions shouldn't prohibit numbers in class names
  • #1067: [java] [6.3.0] PrematureDeclaration false-positive
• java-design
  • #824: [java] UseUtilityClass false positive when extending
  • #1021: [java] False positive for DoNotExtendJavaLangError
  • #1097: [java] False negative in AvoidThrowingRawExceptionTypes
• java-performance
  • #1098: [java] Simplify LongInstantiation, IntegerInstantiation, ByteInstantiation, and ShortInstantiation using type resolution
• doc
  • #999: [doc] Add a header before the XPath expression in rules
• vf-security
  • #1100: [vf] URLENCODE is ignored as valid escape method

API Changes

External Contributions

• #1101: [java] Fixes false positive for DoNotExtendJavaLangError - Akshat Bahety
• #1106: [vf] URLENCODE is ignored as valid escape method - Robert Sösemann