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The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.2.0.

This is a bug fixing release.

Table Of Contents

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

New and noteworthy

Ecmascript (JavaScript)

The Rhino Library 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
• For 1.7.7.1

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: [core] PMD build failure on Windows

• java

  • #907: [java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML

• java-bestpractices

  • #907: [java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML

API Changes

External Contributions

• #941: [java] Use char notation to represent a character to improve performance - reudismam
• #943: [java] UnusedPrivateField false-positive with @FXML - BBG
• #951: [java] Add ignoredAnnotations property to unusedPrivateMethod rule - BBG