From 93f5a68218de61a9739455bd0a05d6a03dbce424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Juan=20Mart=C3=ADn=20Sotuyo=20Dodero?=
 <juansotuyo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:00:34 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make allowExceptionNameRegex a Regex

---
 pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
index c846372413..3b51e9a813 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
+++ b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ or reported.
                 </value>
             </property>
             <property name="allowCommentedBlocks" type="Boolean" description="Empty blocks containing comments will be skipped" value="false"/>
-            <property name="allowExceptionNameRegex" type="String" description="Empty blocks catching exceptions with names matching this regular expression will be skipped" value="^(ignored|expected)$"/>
+            <property name="allowExceptionNameRegex" type="Regex" description="Empty blocks catching exceptions with names matching this regular expression will be skipped" value="^(ignored|expected)$"/>
         </properties>
         <example>
 <![CDATA[

From e4d9a028242aa4f5417f4bcab88655111866d02e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Dangel <andreas.dangel@pmd-code.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:12:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [doc] Update release notes (#1027, #4724)

---
 docs/pages/release_notes.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index 5beef90203..bebec02e3f 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ The remaining section describes the complete release notes for 7.0.0.
 
 * cli
   * [#4723](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4723): \[cli] Launch fails for "bash pmd"
+* core
+  * [#1027](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1027): \[core] Apply the new PropertyDescriptor&lt;Pattern&gt; type where applicable
 * miscellaneous
   * [#4699](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/4699):   Make PMD buildable with java 21
   * [#4586](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/4586):   Use explicit encoding in ruleset xml files
@@ -414,6 +416,7 @@ See also [Detailed Release Notes for PMD 7]({{ baseurl }}pmd_release_notes_pmd7.
     * [#4080](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4080): \[ant] Split off Ant integration into a new submodule
 * core
     * [#880](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/880):   \[core] Make visitors generic
+    * [#1027](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1027): \[core] Apply the new PropertyDescriptor&lt;Pattern&gt; type where applicable
     * [#1204](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1204): \[core] Allow numeric properties in XML to be within an unbounded range
     * [#1622](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1622):   \[core] NodeStream API
     * [#1687](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1687): \[core] Deprecate and Remove XPath 1.0 support