PMD 6.40.0-SNAPSHOT
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PMD Release Notes

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30-October-2021 - 6.40.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.40.0-SNAPSHOT.

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

New rules

The new Apex rule EagerlyLoadedDescribeSObjectResult finds DescribeSObjectResults which could have been loaded eagerly via SObjectType.getDescribe().

    <rule ref="category/apex/performance.xml/EagerlyLoadedDescribeSObjectResult" />

Fixed Issues

apex
- #3532: [apex] Promote usage of consistent getDescribe() info
java-errorprone
- #3560: [java] InvalidLogMessageFormat: False positive with message and exception in a block inside a lambda
java-performance
- #2364: [java] AddEmptyString false positive in annotation value

API Changes

External Contributions

#3538: [apex] New rule EagerlyLoadedDescribeSObjectResult - Jonathan Wiesel
#3549: [java] Ignore AddEmptyString rule in annotations - Stanislav Myachenkov
#3561: [java] InvalidLogMessageFormat: False positive with message and exception in a block inside a lambda - Nicolas Filotto
#3565: [doc] Fix resource leak due to Files.walk - lujiefsi