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The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.5.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• New and noteworthy
  • Modified Rules
• Fixed Issues
• API Changes
• External Contributions

New and noteworthy

Modified Rules

• The Java rule UnnecessaryModifier (java-codestyle) now detects enum constrcutors with explicit private modifier. The rule now produces better error messages letting you know exactly which modifiers are redundant at each declaration.

Fixed Issues

• all
  • #1168: [core] xml renderer schema definitions (#538) break included xslt files
• ecmascript
  • #861: [ecmascript] InnaccurateNumericLiteral false positive with hex literals
• java-bestpractices
  • #651: [java] SwitchStmtsShouldHaveDefault should be aware of enum types
  • #869: [java] GuardLogStatement false positive on return statements and Math.log
• java-codestyle
  • #667: [java] Make AtLeastOneConstructor Lombok-aware
  • #1154: [java] CommentDefaultAccessModifierRule FP with nested enums
  • #1158: [java] Fix IdenticalCatchBranches false positive
• xml
  • #715: [xml] ProjectVersionAsDependencyVersion false positive

API Changes

External Contributions

• #1159: [ui] Allow to setup the auxclasspath in the designer - Akshat Bahety
• #1169: [core] Update stylesheets with a default namespace - Matthew Duggan
• #1183: [java] fixed typos in rule remediation - Jake Hemmerle