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title: PMD Release Notes
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## {{ site.pmd.date }} - {{ site.pmd.version }}

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

This is a {{ site.pmd.release_type }} release.

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### New and noteworthy

#### Modified rules

*   The Java rule {% rule java/bestpractices/UnusedPrivateField %} has a new property `ignoredFieldNames`.
    The default ignores serialization-specific fields (eg `serialVersionUID`).
    The property can be used to ignore more fields based on their name.
    Note that the rule used to ignore fields named `IDENT`, but doesn't anymore (add this value to the property to restore the old behaviour).

### Fixed Issues
* core
  * [#3792](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3792): \[core] Allow to filter violations in Report
  * [#3881](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3881): \[core] SARIF renderer depends on platform default encoding
  * [#3882](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3882): \[core] Fix AssertionError about exhaustive switch
  * [#3884](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3884): \[core] XML report via ant task contains XML header twice
  * [#3896](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3896): \[core] Fix ast-dump CLI when reading from stdin
* doc
  * [#2505](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2505): \[doc] Improve side bar to show release date
* java
  * [#3068](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3068): \[java] Some tests should not depend on real rules
  * [#3889](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3889): \[java] Catch LinkageError in UselessOverridingMethodRule
  * [#3910](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3910): \[java] UnusedPrivateField - Allow the ignored fieldnames to be configurable
* java-performance
  * [#3867](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3867): \[java] UseArraysAsList with method call
* plsql
  * [#3706](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/3706): \[plsql] Parsing exception CURSOR statement with parenthesis groupings

### API Changes

#### Experimental APIs

* Report has two new methods which allow limited mutations of a given report:
  * {% jdoc !!core::Report#filterViolations(net.sourceforge.pmd.util.Predicate) %} creates a new report with
    some violations removed with a given predicate based filter.
  * {% jdoc !!core::Report#union(net.sourceforge.pmd.Report) %} can combine two reports into a single new Report.
* {% jdoc !!core::util.Predicate %} will be replaced in PMD7 with the standard Predicate interface from java8.

### External Contributions
* [#3883](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3883): \[doc] Improve side bar by Adding Release Date - [@jasonqiu98](https://github.com/jasonqiu98)
* [#3910](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3910): \[java] UnusedPrivateField - Allow the ignored fieldnames to be configurable - [@laoseth](https://github.com/laoseth)
* [#3928](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3928): \[plsql] Fix plsql parsing error in parenthesis groups - [@LiGaOg](https://github.com/LiGaOg)

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