Merge branch 'pr-2041'

[modelica] Initial implementation for PMD

docs/_data/sidebars/pmd_sidebar.yml

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         - title: Error Prone
           output: web, pdf
           url: /pmd_rules_pom_errorprone.html
+    - title: null
+      output: web, pdf
+      subfolders:
+      - title: Modelica Rules
+        output: web, pdf
+        subfolderitems:
+        - title: Index
+          output: web, pdf
+          url: /pmd_rules_modelica.html
+        - title: Best Practices
+          output: web, pdf
+          url: /pmd_rules_modelica_bestpractices.html
     - title: null
       output: web, pdf
       subfolders:

docs/pages/release_notes.md

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 ### New and noteworthy
 
+#### Modelica support
+
+Thanks to [Anatoly Trosinenko](https://github.com/atrosinenko) PMD supports now a new language:
+[Modelica](https://modelica.org/modelicalanguage) is a language to model complex physical systems.
+Both PMD and CPD are supported and there are already [3 rules available](pmd_rules_modelica.html).
+The PMD Designer supports syntax highlighting for Modelica.
+
+While the language implementation is quite complete, Modelica support is considered experimental
+for now. This is to allow us to change the rule API (e.g. the AST classes) slightly and improve
+the implementation based on your feedback.
+
+
 ### Fixed Issues
 
 *   java-codestyle
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 ### External Contributions
 
+*   [#2041](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2041): \[modelica] Initial implementation for PMD - [Anatoly Trosinenko](https://github.com/atrosinenko)
+
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