PMD Release Notes | PMD Source Code Analyzer

Edit me

??-??-2020 - 6.26.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.26.0-SNAPSHOT.

This is a minor release.

The new Java rule UnusedAssignment (java-bestpractices) finds assignments to variables, that are never used and are useless. The new rule is supposed to entirely replace DataflowAnomalyAnalysis.

apex
- #2610: [apex] Support top-level enums in rules
apex-bestpractices
- #2626: [apex] UnusedLocalVariable - false positive on case insensitivity allowed in Apex
apex-security
- #2620: [visualforce] False positive on VfUnescapeEl with new Message Channel feature
core
- #710: [core] Review used dependencies
- #2594: [core] Update exec-maven-plugin and align it in all project
java-design
- #2174: [java] LawOfDemeter: False positive with ‘this’ pointer
- #2189: [java] LawOfDemeter: False positive when casting to derived class
java-errorprone
- #2578: [java] AvoidCallingFinalize detects some false positives
- #2634: [java] NullPointerException in rule ProperCloneImplementation
java-performance
- #1736: [java] UseStringBufferForStringAppends: False positive if only one concatenation
- #2207: [java] AvoidInstantiatingObjectsInLoops: False positive - should not flag objects when assigned to lists/arrays

#2558: [java] Fix issue #1736 and issue #2207 - Young Chan
#2560: [java] Fix false positives of LawOfDemeter: this and cast expressions - xioayuge
#2590: Update libraries snyk is referring to as unsafe - Artem Krosheninnikov
#2597: [dependencies] Fix issue #2594, update exec-maven-plugin everywhere - Artem Krosheninnikov
#2621: [visualforce] add new safe resource for VfUnescapeEl - Peter Chittum
#2640: [java] NullPointerException in rule ProperCloneImplementation - Mykhailo Palahuta
#2643: [java] AvoidCallingFinalize detects some false positives (2578) - Mykhailo Palahuta