Release Notes
Version 3.17.0-SNAPSHOT
Release Date: not released yet
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.17.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases
🐛 Bug Fixes
- MPMD-334 - Source Encoding parameter is ignored
- MPMD-342 - No debug log message issued when empty report shall be skipped and not issues have been found
🚀 New features and improvements
- MPMD-309 - Add configuration option to show suppressed violations
- MPMD-332 - Support Java 18
📝 Documentation updates
- MPMD-333 - Add release notes documentation
👻 Maintenance
- MPMD-336 - Replace deprecated calls to PMD
📦 Dependency updates
- MPMD-329 - Upgrade to PMD 6.45.0
- MPMD-330 - Upgrade Maven Parent to 35
- MPMD-331 - Require Maven 3.2.5+
- MPMD-337 - Upgrade Maven Parent to 36
- 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
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
🚀 New features and improvements
📦 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
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
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
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
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
Version 3.9.0
Release Date: 2018-01-21
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.9.0
💥 Breaking changes
🐛 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