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New and noteworthy

Modified rules

• The Java rule {% rule java/bestpractices/UnusedPrivateField %} has a new property ignoredFieldNames. The default ignores serialization-specific fields (eg serialVersionUID). The property can be used to ignore more fields based on their name. Note that the rule used to ignore fields named IDENT, but doesn't anymore (add this value to the property to restore the old behaviour).

Fixed Issues

• core
  • #3792: [core] Allow to filter violations in Report
  • #3881: [core] SARIF renderer depends on platform default encoding
  • #3882: [core] Fix AssertionError about exhaustive switch
  • #3884: [core] XML report via ant task contains XML header twice
  • #3896: [core] Fix ast-dump CLI when reading from stdin
• doc
  • #2505: [doc] Improve side bar to show release date
• java
  • #3068: [java] Some tests should not depend on real rules
  • #3889: [java] Catch LinkageError in UselessOverridingMethodRule
  • #3910: [java] UnusedPrivateField - Allow the ignored fieldnames to be configurable
• java-performance
  • #3867: [java] UseArraysAsList with method call
• plsql
  • #3706: [plsql] Parsing exception CURSOR statement with parenthesis groupings

API Changes

Experimental APIs

• Report has two new methods which allow limited mutations of a given report:
  • {% jdoc !!core::Report#filterViolations(net.sourceforge.pmd.util.Predicate) %} creates a new report with some violations removed with a given predicate based filter.
  • {% jdoc !!core::Report#union(net.sourceforge.pmd.Report) %} can combine two reports into a single new Report.
• {% jdoc !!core::util.Predicate %} will be replaced in PMD7 with the standard Predicate interface from java8.

External Contributions

• #3883: [doc] Improve side bar by Adding Release Date - @jasonqiu98
• #3910: [java] UnusedPrivateField - Allow the ignored fieldnames to be configurable - @laoseth
• #3928: [plsql] Fix plsql parsing error in parenthesis groups - @LiGaOg

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