Release Notes

Version 3.17.0

Release Date: 2022-05-31

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.17.0

GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.17.0

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-309 - Add configuration option to show suppressed violations (#59) @adangel
MPMD-332 - Support Java 18 (#63) @adangel

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-334 - Source Encoding parameter is ignored (#64) @laoseth
MPMD-342 - No debug log message issued when empty report shall be ski… (#69) @michael-o

📝 Documentation updates

MPMD-333 - Add release notes documentation (#61) @adangel

👻 Maintenance

MPMD-336 - Replace deprecated calls to PMD (#66) @adangel

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-329 - Upgrade to PMD 6.45.0
MPMD-330 - Upgrade Maven Parent to 35 (#60) @adangel
MPMD-331 - Require Maven 3.2.5+ (#60) @adangel
MPMD-337 - Upgrade Maven Parent to 36 (#67) @adangel
MPMD-338 - Upgrade to Doxia/Doxia Sitetools to 1.11.1
MPMD-339 - Upgrade plugins in ITs
MPMD-340 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API/Impl to 3.1.0
MPMD-341 - Upgrade Maven Plugin Test Harness to 3.3.0
MPMD-343 - Upgrade to PMD 6.46.0 (#71) @adangel
Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.19.0 to 5.20.0 (#68) @dependabot
Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.18.1 to 5.19.0 (#58) @dependabot
Bump commons-io from 2.6 to 2.7 in /src/it/MPMD-318-auxclasspath-includeTests/module-a (#65) @dependabot
Bump slf4jVersion from 1.7.25 to 1.7.36 (#53) @dependabot

Version 3.16.0

Release Date: 2022-02-05

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.16.0

GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.16.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-325 - Could not find class due to IncompatibleClassChangeError warning
MPMD-324 - Ruleset URLs have hyphen replaced with forwardslash
MPMD-323 - ResourceManager should use project base dir instead of pom location

🔧 Build

MPMD-328 - Shared GitHub Actions

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-327 - Upgrade to PMD 6.42.0

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-326 - Set Maven 3.1.1 as minimum version

Version 3.15.0

Release Date: 2021-09-06

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.15.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-314 - PMD report extension not set correctly for custom report class
MPMD-315 - Maven PMD Plugin fails on Java 16: Unsupported targetJdk value ‘16’.
MPMD-317 - NoClassDefFoundError for provided classes
MPMD-318 - Incorrect aux classpath if ‘includeTests’ set to true
MPMD-320 - Error when using toolchain and spaces in repository path

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-283 - Create a real aggregate goal
MPMD-311 - Improve excludeFromFailureFile docs
MPMD-313 - Improve <jdkToolchain> parameter description
MPMD-321 - Display PMD version that is being used also for pmd:pmd and pmd:cpd
MPMD-322 - Display when PMD/CPD is skipped

🔧 Build

MPMD-319 - Add GitHub Action to confirm build PR

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-308 - Set Maven 3.1.0 as minimum version
MPMD-316 - Require Java 8
MPMD-312 - Upgrade to PMD 6.38.0

Version 3.14.0

Release Date: 2020-10-24

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.14.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-297 - Classloader not being closed after PMD run
MPMD-300 - Unable to format output with custom renderer (CodeClimateRenderer)
MPMD-305 - CPD goal does not support txt as a format parameter
MPMD-307 - NPE when using custom rule

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-290 - Add CPD example for C#
MPMD-301 - make build Reproducible
MPMD-304 - maven-pmd-plugin should be toolchains-aware

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-298 - Upgrade Doxia Sitetools to 1.9.2 to remove dependency on Struts
MPMD-302 - Upgrade to PMD 6.29.0

Version 3.13.0

Release Date: 2020-01-25

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.13.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-288 - NullPointerException when File.list() returns null
MPMD-289 - check: unable to find pmd.xml
MPMD-292 - PMD Log is not always integrated into maven log
MPMD-295 - Maven PMD Plugin fails on Java 13: Unsupported targetJdk value ‘13’

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-225 - Create report even if no warnings have been found by default
MPMD-269 - Display PMD version that is being used
MPMD-296 - Copy ruleset files into a subdirectory of target

📝 Documentation updates

MPMD-241 - Document the version relationship between plugin and pmd
MPMD-287 - Add additional contribution information for GitHub

🔧 Build

MPMD-285 - remove pluginTools version override for build (which block reproducible build…)
MPMD-293 - Fix integration test builds on jenkins

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-291 - Upgrade to PMD 6.21.0

Version 3.12.0

Release Date: 2019-04-11

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.12.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-277 - Plugin tries to download local submodules from repo

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-280 - Support targetJdk 12
MPMD-281 - Display found violations grouped by priority
MPMD-282 - Add rule name to HTML report

📝 Documentation updates

MPMD-279 - Improve documentation of maxAllowedViolations

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-275 - Upgrade to PMD 6.13.0
MPMD-284 - Upgrade parent to 33

Version 3.11.0

Release Date: 2018-10-23

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.11.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-266 - Aggregate report in multi-module projects doesn't use correct auxclasspath
MPMD-268 - Missing warnings about deprecated rules

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-270 - JDK 11 compatibility
MPMD-272 - Support ignoreAnnotations options for CPD

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-271 - Upgrade pmd 6.8.0

Version 3.10.0

Release Date: 2018-05-29

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.10.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-253 - PMD links to java Xref fail in aggregated report
MPMD-257 - Allow to disable analysisCache completely, avoid warnings
MPMD-258 - PMD output multiplies with every module in multi module projects
MPMD-259 - FileNotFoundException with analysisCache=true, includeTests=true and no test classes

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-256 - Add maxAllowedViolations property for PMD
MPMD-264 - Add rule priority to HTML report

📝 Documentation updates

MPMD-263 - Add documentation information for GitHub

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-252 - Upgrade parent to 31
MPMD-261 - Upgrade to PMD 6.4.0
MPMD-262 - Upgrade maven-surefire/failsafe-plugin 2.21.0

Version 3.9.0

Release Date: 2018-01-21

JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.9.0

💥 Breaking changes

MPMD-240 - Migrate plugin to Maven 3.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

MPMD-244 - Maven PMD plugin fails but no reason is given for the failure
MPMD-245 - targetJdk property should use maven.compiler.source by default
MPMD-248 - cpd-check goal leaks file handle
MPMD-249 - The plugin documentation point to old (deprecated) rulesets
MPMD-251 - Invalid report XML is generated with includeXmlInSite=true

🚀 New features and improvements

MPMD-246 - Output details of processing errors

📝 Documentation updates

MPMD-239 - Add documentation about upgrading PMD version at runtime

🔧 Build

MPMD-235 - Javadoc errors when building with java8

📦 Dependency updates

MPMD-247 - Upgrade to PMD 6.0.1