??-July-2019 - 6.17.0
The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.17.0.
This is a minor release.
New and noteworthy
Lua support
Thanks to the contribution from Maikel Steneker, and built on top of the ongoing efforts to fully support Antlr-based languages, PMD now has CPD support for Lua.
Being based on a proper Antlr grammar, CPD can:
- ignore comments
- honor comment-based suppressions
Fixed Issues
- core
- #1913: [core] “-help” CLI option ends with status code != 0
- doc
- #1896: [doc] Error in changelog 6.16.0 due to not properly closed rule tag
- #1898: [doc] Incorrect code example for DoubleBraceInitialization in documentation on website
- #1906: [doc] Broken link for adding own CPD languages
- #1909: [doc] Sample usage example refers to deprecated ruleset “basic.xml” instead of “quickstart.xml”
- java-multithreading
- #1903: [java] UnsynchronizedStaticFormatter doesn’t allow block-level synchronization when using allowMethodLevelSynchronization=true
- xml
- #1666: [xml] wrong cdata rule description and examples
API Changes
External Contributions
- #1869: [xml] fix #1666 wrong cdata rule description and examples - Artem
- #1892: [lua] [cpd] Added CPD support for Lua - Maikel Steneker
- #1908: [doc] Update ruleset filename from deprecated basic.xml to quickstart.xml - crunsk
- #1917: [core] Add ‘no error’ return option, and assign it to the cli when the help command is invoked - Renato Oliveira