PMD Release Notes

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??-October-2019 - 6.19.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.19.0.

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

Fixed Issues

• core
  • #2014: [core] Making add(SourceCode sourceCode) public for alternative file systems
  • #2036: [core] Wrong include/exclude patterns are silently ignored
• java
  • #2042: [java] PMD crashes with ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute…
• java-codestyle
  • #2017: [java] UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName triggered for inner class
• java-design
  • #1912: [java] Metrics not computed correctly with annotations

API Changes

Deprecated APIs

For removal

• pmd-core
  • All the package net.sourceforge.pmd.dcd and its subpackages. See DCD.
  • In LanguageRegistry:
    • commaSeparatedTerseNamesForLanguageVersion
    • commaSeparatedTerseNamesForLanguage
    • findAllVersions
    • findLanguageVersionByTerseName
    • getInstance
  • RuleSet#getExcludePatterns. Use the new method getFileExclusions instead.
  • RuleSet#getIncludePatterns. Use the new method getFileInclusions instead.
• pmd-java
  • CanSuppressWarnings and its implementations
  • isSuppressed
  • isSupressed
• pmd-apex
  • CanSuppressWarnings and its implementations
  • isSupressed

External Contributions

• #2032: [core] Allow adding SourceCode directly into CPD - Nathan Braun
• #2047: [java] Fix computation of metrics with annotations - Andi