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New and noteworthy

Dart support

Thanks to the contribution from Maikel Steneker, and built on top of the ongoing efforts to fully support Antlr-based languages, PMD now has CPD support for Dart.

Being based on a proper Antlr grammar, CPD can:

• ignore comments
• ignore imports / libraries
• honor comment-based suppressions

Updated PMD Designer

This PMD release ships a new version of the pmd-designer. For the changes, see PMD Designer Changelog.

Enhanced Matlab support

Thanks to the contribution from Maikel Steneker CPD for Matlab can now parse matlab programs which use the question mark operator to specify access to class members:

lassdef Class1
properties (SetAccess = ?Class2)

Modified Rules

• The Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/AssignmentToNonFinalStatic" %} (java-errorprone) will now report on each assignment made within a constructor rather than on the field declaration. This makes it easier for developers to find the offending statements.

• The Java rule {% rule "java/codestyle/NoPackage" %} (java-codestyle) will now report additionally enums and annotations that do not have a package declaration.

Fixed Issues

• all
  • #1515: [core] Module pmd-lang-test is missing javadoc artifact
  • #1788: [cpd] [core] Use better ClassLoader for ServiceLoader in LanguageFactory
  • #1794: [core] Ruleset Compatibility fails with excluding rules
• go
  • #1751: [go] Parsing errors encountered with escaped backslash
• java
  • #1532: [java] NPE with incomplete auxclasspath
  • #1691: [java] Possible Data Race in JavaTypeDefinitionSimple.getGenericType
  • #1729: [java] JavaRuleViolation loses information in className field when class has package-private access level
• java-bestpractices
  • #1190: [java] UnusedLocalVariable/UnusedPrivateField false-positive
  • #1720: [java] UnusedImports false positive for Javadoc link with array type
• java-codestyle
  • #1755: [java] False negative in UnnecessaryLocalBeforeReturn when splitting statements across multiple lines
  • #1782: [java] NoPackage: False Negative for enums
• java-design
  • #1760: [java] UseObjectForClearerAPI flags private methods

API Changes

No changes.

External Contributions

• #1745: [doc] Fixed some errors in docs - 0xflotus
• #1746: [java] Update rule to prevent UnusedImport when using JavaDoc with array type - itaigilo
• #1752: [java] UseObjectForClearerAPI Only For Public - Björn Kautler
• #1761: [dart] [cpd] Added CPD support for Dart - Maikel Steneker
• #1776: [java] Show more detailed message when can't resolve field type - Andrey Fomin
• #1781: [java] Location change in AssignmentToNonFinalStatic - Maikel Steneker
• #1789: [cpd] [core] Use current classloader instead of Thread's classloader - Andreas Schmid
• #1791: [dart] [cpd] Dart escaped string - Maikel Steneker
• #1821: [matlab] [cpd] Matlab question mark token - Maikel Steneker

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