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??-January-2021 - 6.31.0-SNAPSHOT

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.31.0-SNAPSHOT.

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

CPD

  • The C++ module now supports the new option --ignore-literal-sequences, which can be used to avoid detection of some uninteresting clones. This options has been introduced with PMD 6.30.0 for C# and is now available for C++ as well. See #2963.

New Rules

  • The new Apex rule OverrideBothEqualsAndHashcode brings the well known Java rule to Apex. In Apex the same principle applies: equals and hashCode should always be overridden together to ensure collection classes such as Maps and Sets work as expected.

  • The new Visualforce rule VfHtmlStyleTagXss checks for potential XSS problems when using <style> tags on Visualforce pages.

Deprecated rules

  • java-performance
    • AvoidUsingShortType: arithmetic on shorts is not significantly slower than on ints, whereas using shorts may provide significant memory savings in arrays.
    • SimplifyStartsWith: the suggested code transformation has an insignificant performance impact, and decreases readability.

Fixed Issues

  • core
    • #2970: [core] PMD 6.30.0 release is not reproducible
    • #2994: [core] Fix code climate severity strings
  • java-bestpractices
    • #575: [java] LiteralsFirstInComparisons should consider constant fields
    • #2454: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod violation for disabled class in 6.23.0
    • #2833: [java] NPE in UseCollectionIsEmptyRule with enums
    • #2876: [java] UnusedPrivateField cannot override ignored annotations property
    • #2957: [java] Ignore unused declarations that have special name
  • java-codestyle
    • #2960: [java] Thread issue in MethodNamingConventionsRule
  • java-design
    • #3006: [java] NPE in SingularFieldRule with concise resource syntax
  • java-errorprone
    • #2976: [java] CompareObjectsWithEquals: FP with array.length
    • #2977: [java] 6.30.0 introduces new false positive in CloseResource rule?
    • #2979: [java] UseEqualsToCompareStrings: FP with “var” variables
    • #3004: [java] UseEqualsToCompareStrings false positive with PMD 6.30.0
    • #3062: [java] CloseResource FP with reassigned stream
  • java-performance
    • #2296: [java] Deprecate rule AvoidUsingShortType
    • #2740: [java] Deprecate rule SimplifyStartsWith

API Changes

Deprecated API

Experimental APIs

  • The method GenericToken#getKind has been added as experimental. This unifies the token interface for both JavaCC and Antlr. The already existing method AntlrToken#getKind is therefore experimental as well. The returned constant depends on the actual language and might change whenever the grammar of the language is changed.

External Contributions