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title: PMD Release Notes
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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
#### Quickstart Ruleset for Apex
PMD provides now a quickstart ruleset for Salesforce.com Apex, which you can use as a base ruleset to
get your custom ruleset started. You can reference it with `rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml`.
You are strongly encouraged to [create your own ruleset](https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.12.0/pmd_userdocs_making_rulesets.html)
though.
The quickstart ruleset has the intention, to be useful out-of-the-box for many projects. Therefore it
references only rules, that are most likely to apply everywhere.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
#### PMD Designer
The rule designer's codebase has been moved out of the main repository and
will be developed at [pmd/pmd-designer](https://github.com/pmd/pmd-designer)
from now on. The maven coordinates will stay the same for the time being.
The designer will still be shipped with PMD's binaries.
#### New Rules
* The new Java rule {% rule "java/design/AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures" %} (`java-design`) finds methods or constructors
that declare unchecked exceptions in their `throws` clause. This forces the caller to handle the exception,
even though it is a runtime exception.
* The new Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/DetachedTestCase" %} (`java-errorprone`) searches for public
methods in test classes, which are not annotated with `@Test`. These methods might be test cases where
the annotation has been forgotten. Because of that those test cases are never executed.
* The new Java rule {% rule "java/bestpractices/WhileLoopWithLiteralBoolean" %} (`java-bestpractices`) finds
Do-While-Loops and While-Loops that can be simplified since they use simply `true` or `false` as their
loop condition.
### Fixed Issues
* doc
* [#1721](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1721): \[doc] Documentation provides an invalid property configuration example
* java-bestpractices
* [#1701](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1701): \[java] UseTryWithResources does not handle multiple argument close methods
### API Changes
#### Command Line Interface
The start scripts `run.sh`, `pmd.bat` and `cpd.bat` support the new environment variable `PMD_JAVA_OPTS`.
This can be used to set arbitrary JVM options for running PMD, such as memory settings (e.g. `PMD_JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx512m`)
or enable preview language features (e.g. `PMD_JAVA_OPTS=--enable-preview`).
The previously available variables such as `OPTS` or `HEAPSIZE` are deprecated and will be removed with PMD 7.0.0.
#### Deprecated API
* {% jdoc core::renderers.CodeClimateRule %} is deprecated in 7.0.0 because it was unused for 2 years and
created an unwanted dependency.
Properties "cc_categories", "cc_remediation_points_multiplier", "cc_block_highlighting" will also be removed.
See [#1702](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1702) for more.
* The Apex ruleset `rulesets/apex/ruleset.xml` has been deprecated and will be removed in 7.0.0. Please use the new
quickstart ruleset `rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml` instead.
### External Contributions
* [#1704](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1704): \[java] Added AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures Rule - [Bhanu Prakash Pamidi](https://github.com/pamidi99)
* [#1706](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1706): \[java] Add DetachedTestCase rule - [David Burström](https://github.com/davidburstromspotify)
* [#1709](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1709): \[java] Detect while loops with literal booleans conditions - [David Burström](https://github.com/davidburstromspotify)
* [#1717](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1717): \[java] Fix false positive in useTryWithResources when using a custom close method with multiple arguments - [Rishabh Jain](https://github.com/jainrish)
* [#1724](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1724): \[doc] Correct property override example - [Felix W. Dekker](https://github.com/FWDekker)
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