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## {{ site.pmd.date }} - {{ site.pmd.version }}
The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD {{ site.pmd.version }}.
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### New and noteworthy
#### Changes in how tab characters are handled
In the past, tab characters in source files has been handled differently in different languages by PMD.
For instance in Java, tab characters had a width of 8 columns, while C# used only 1 column. Visualforce instead
used 4 columns.
This has been unified now so that tab characters are consistently now always 1 column wide.
This however might be a **incompatible** change, if you're using the properties "BeginColumn" or "EndColumn"
additionally to "BeginLine" and "EndLine" of a Token/AST node in order to highlight
where a rule violation occurred in the source file. If you have logic there that deals with tab characters,
you most likely can remove this logic now, since tab characters are now just "normal" characters
in terms of string processing.
See also [[all] Ensure PMD/CPD uses tab width of 1 for tabs consistently #2656](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2656).
#### New Rules
* The new Java rule {% rule "java/bestpractices/AvoidReassigningCatchVariables" %} (`java-bestpractices`) finds
cases where the variable of the caught exception is reassigned. This practice is surprising and prevents
further evolution of the code like multi-catch.
#### Modified Rules
* The Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/CloseResource" %} (`java-errorprone`) has a new property
`closeNotInFinally`. With this property set to `true` the rule will also find calls to close a
resource, which are not in a finally-block of a try-statement. If a resource is not closed within a
finally block, it might not be closed at all in case of exceptions.
As this new detection would yield many new violations, it is disabled by default. It might be
enabled in a later version of PMD.
#### Deprecated Rules
* The Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/DataflowAnomalyAnalysis" %} (`java-errorprone`)
is deprecated in favour of {% rule "java/bestpractices/UnusedAssignment" %} (`java-bestpractices`),
which was introduced in PMD 6.26.0.
### Fixed Issues
* core
* [#724](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/724): \[core] Avoid parsing rulesets multiple times
* [#1962](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1962): \[core] Simplify Report API
* [#2653](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2653): \[lang-test] Upgrade kotlintest to Kotest
* [#2656](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2656): \[all] Ensure PMD/CPD uses tab width of 1 for tabs consistently
* [#2690](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2690): \[core] Fix java7 compatibility
* java-bestpractices
* [#2471](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2471): \[java] New Rule: AvoidReassigningCatchVariables
* [#2663](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2663): \[java] NoClassDefFoundError on upgrade from 6.25.0 to 6.26.0
* [#2668](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2668): \[java] UnusedAssignment false positives
* [#2673](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2673): \[java] UnusedPrivateField and SingularField false positive with lombok annotation EqualsAndHashCode
* [#2684](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2684): \[java] UnusedAssignment FP in try/catch
* [#2686](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2686): \[java] UnusedAssignment must not flag abstract method parameters in interfaces and abstract classes
* java-design
* [#2461](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2461): \[java] ExcessiveParameterListRule must ignore a private constructor
* java-errorprone
* [#2410](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2410): \[java] ProperCloneImplementation not valid for final class
* [#2431](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2431): \[java] InvalidLogMessageFormatRule throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when only logging exception message
* [#2439](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2439): \[java] AvoidCatchingThrowable can not detect the case: catch (java.lang.Throwable t)
* [#2470](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2470): \[java] CloseResource false positive when resource included in return value
* [#2531](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2531): \[java] UnnecessaryCaseChange can not detect the case like: foo.equals(bar.toLowerCase())
* [#2647](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2647): \[java] Deprecate rule DataFlowAnomalyAnalysis
* java-performance
* [#2441](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2441): \[java] RedundantFieldInitializer can not detect a special case for char initialize: `char foo = '\0';`
* [#2530](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2530): \[java] StringToString can not detect the case: getStringMethod().toString()
### API Changes
* XML rule definition in rulesets: In PMD 7, the `language` attribute will be required on all `rule`
elements that declare a new rule. Some base rule classes set the language implicitly in their
constructor, and so this is not required in all cases for the rule to work. But this
behavior will be discontinued in PMD 7, so missing `language` attributes are now
reported as a forward compatibility warning.
#### Deprecated API
##### For removal
* {% jdoc !!core::Rule#getParserOptions() %}
* {% jdoc !!core::lang.Parser#getParserOptions() %}
* {% jdoc !!core::lang.AbstractParser %}
* {% jdoc !!core::RuleContext#removeAttribute(java.lang.String) %}
* {% jdoc !!core::RuleContext#getAttribute(java.lang.String) %}
* {% jdoc !!core::RuleContext#setAttribute(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object) %}
* {% jdoc apex::lang.apex.ApexParserOptions %}
* {% jdoc !!java::lang.java.ast.ASTThrowStatement#getFirstClassOrInterfaceTypeImage() %}
* {% jdoc javascript::lang.ecmascript.EcmascriptParserOptions %}
* {% jdoc javascript::lang.ecmascript.rule.EcmascriptXPathRule %}
* {% jdoc xml::lang.xml.XmlParserOptions %}
* {% jdoc xml::lang.xml.rule.XmlXPathRule %}
* Properties of {% jdoc xml::lang.xml.rule.AbstractXmlRule %}
* {% jdoc !!core::Report.ReadableDuration %}
* Many methods of {% jdoc !!core::Report %}. They are replaced by accessors
that produce a List. For example, {% jdoc !a!core::Report#iterator() %}
(and implementing Iterable) and {% jdoc !a!core::Report#isEmpty() %} are both
replaced by {% jdoc !a!core::Report#getViolations() %}.
* The dataflow codebase is deprecated for removal in PMD 7. This
includes all code in the following packages, and their subpackages:
* {% jdoc_package plsql::lang.plsql.dfa %}
* {% jdoc_package java::lang.java.dfa %}
* {% jdoc_package core::lang.dfa %}
* and the class {% jdoc plsql::lang.plsql.PLSQLDataFlowHandler %}
* {% jdoc !!visualforce::lang.vf.VfSimpleCharStream %}
### External Contributions
* [#2656](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2656): \[all] Ensure PMD/CPD uses tab width of 1 for tabs consistently - [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker)
* [#2659](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2659): \[java] StringToString can not detect the case: getStringMethod().toString() - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2662](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2662): \[java] UnnecessaryCaseChange can not detect the case like: foo.equals(bar.toLowerCase()) - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2671](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2671): \[java] CloseResource false positive when resource included in return value - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2674](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2674): \[java] add lombok.EqualsAndHashCode in AbstractLombokAwareRule - [berkam](https://github.com/berkam)
* [#2677](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2677): \[java] RedundantFieldInitializer can not detect a special case for char initialize: `char foo = '\0';` - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2678](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2678): \[java] AvoidCatchingThrowable can not detect the case: catch (java.lang.Throwable t) - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2679](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2679): \[java] InvalidLogMessageFormatRule throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when only logging exception message - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2682](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2682): \[java] New Rule: AvoidReassigningCatchVariables - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2697](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2697): \[java] ExcessiveParameterListRule must ignore a private constructor - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
* [#2699](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2699): \[java] ProperCloneImplementation not valid for final class - [Mykhailo Palahuta](https://github.com/Drofff)
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