pmd/docs/pages/release_notes.md

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title: PMD Release Notes
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## {{ site.pmd.date | date: "%d-%B-%Y" }} - {{ site.pmd.version }}

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD {{ site.pmd.version }}.

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### 🚀 New and noteworthy

### 🌟 Rule Changes

#### Renamed Rules
* Several rules for unit testing have been renamed to better reflect their actual scope. Lots of them were called
  after JUnit / JUnit 4, even when they applied to JUnit 5 and / or TestNG.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnitAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage`.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts`.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldIncludeAssert %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert`.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseAfterAnnotation %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnit4TestShouldUseAfterAnnotation`.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnit4TestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation`.
  * {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseTestAnnotation %} (Java Best Practices) has been renamed from `JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation`.

The old rule names still work but are deprecated.

### 🐛 Fixed Issues
* java
  * [#4532](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4532): \[java] Rule misnomer for JUnit* rules
  * [#5261](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/5261): \[java] Record patterns with empty deconstructor lists lead to NPE
* java-codestyle
  * [#5253](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/5253): \[java] BooleanGetMethodName: False-negatives with `Boolean` wrapper
* java-errorprone
  * [#5067](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/5067): \[java] CloseResource: False positive for FileSystems.getDefault()

### 🚨 API Changes
* java-bestpractices
  * The old rule name `JUnit4TestShouldUseAfterAnnotation` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseAfterAnnotation %} instead.
  * The old rule name `JUnit4TestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation %} instead.
  * The old rule name `JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseTestAnnotation %} instead.
  * The old rule name `JUnitAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage %} instead.
  * The old rule name `JUnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts %} instead.
  * The old rule name `JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert` has been deprecated. Use the new name {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldIncludeAssert %} instead.


### ✨ Merged pull requests
* [#4965](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/4965): Fix #4532: \[java] Rename JUnit rules with overly restrictive names - [Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero](https://github.com/jsotuyod) (@jsotuyod)
* [#5225](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5225): Fix #5067: \[java] CloseResource: False positive for FileSystems.getDefault() - [Lukas Gräf](https://github.com/lukasgraef) (@lukasgraef)
* [#5241](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5241): Ignore javacc code in coverage report - [Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero](https://github.com/jsotuyod) (@jsotuyod)
* [#5258](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5258): Ignore generated antlr classes in coverage reports - [Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero](https://github.com/jsotuyod) (@jsotuyod)
* [#5264](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5264): Fix #5261: \[java] Fix NPE with empty pattern list - [Clément Fournier](https://github.com/oowekyala) (@oowekyala)
* [#5269](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5269): Fix #5253: \[java] Support Boolean wrapper class for BooleanGetMethodName rule - [Aryant Tripathi](https://github.com/Aryant-Tripathi) (@Aryant-Tripathi)
* [#5275](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5275): Use plugin-classpath to simplify javacc-wrapper.xml - [Andreas Dangel](https://github.com/adangel) (@adangel)
* [#5278](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/5278): \[java] CouplingBetweenObjects: improve violation message - [Andreas Dangel](https://github.com/adangel) (@adangel)

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