Release Notes
Version 3.22.0
Release Date: 2024-04-18
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.22.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.22.0
🚀 New features and improvements
📦 Dependency updates
- MPMD-394 - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 41 to 42 (#148) @dependabot
 - MPMD-393 - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 (#147) @dependabot
 - MPMD-393 - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 (#146) @dependabot
 - Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 3 to 4 (#143) @dependabot
 - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-resources from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (#140) @dependabot
 - Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.12.0 to 3.14.0 (#137) @dependabot
 - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.11.0 to 2.15.1 (#138) @dependabot
 - MPMD-388 - Upgrade to Parent 41 @michael-o
 
👻 Maintenance
- Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5 to 6 (#142) @dependabot
 
Version 3.21.2
Release Date: 2023-10-30
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.21.2
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.21.2
🐛 Bug Fixes
👻 Maintenance
- Move commons-lang3 to test scope (#131) @elharo
 
📝 Documentation updates
- Typo: fill –> file (#133) @elharo
 
📦 Dependency updates
Version 3.21.0
Release Date: 2023-05-12
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.21.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.21.0
🚀 New features and improvements
🐛 Bug Fixes
👻 Maintenance
- MPMD-374 - Remove deprecated and unused PmdCollectingRenderer (#128) @michael-o
 - MNG-6829 - Replace any StringUtils#isEmpty(String) and #isNotEmpty(String) (#124) @timtebeek
 - Remove vestigial useJava5 parameter (#119) @elharo
 - MPMD-367 - Verify / ubuntu-latest jdk-11-temurin 3.9.1 broken at head in MPMD-270-325-JDK11 (#121) @elharo
 
📦 Dependency updates
- MPMD-364 - Upgrade to PMD 6.55.0 (#115) @dependabot
 - MPMD-364 - Upgrade to PMD 6.54.0 (#112) @adangel
 - MPMD-366 - Update parent pom to 39 (#118) @elharo
 - MPMD-372 - Upgrade plugins and components (in ITs) (#128) @michael-o
 - Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.22 to 1.23 (#117) @dependabot
 - Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.21.1 to 5.23.0 (#114) @dependabot
 - Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 2 to 3 (#113) @dependabot
 - Bump doxia-sink-api from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0 (#111) @dependabot
 - Bump wagon-http-lightweight from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#108) @dependabot
 
Version 3.20.0
Release Date: 2023-01-06
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.20.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.20.0
🐛 Bug Fixes
👻 Maintenance
- MPMD-361 - Explicitly start and end tables with Doxia Sinks in report renderers
 
📦 Dependency updates
- MPMD-360 - Upgrade to PMD 6.53.0 (#109) @adangel
 - MPMD-358 - Upgrade to PMD 6.52.0 (#104) @adangel
 - MPMD-357 - Upgrade to PMD 6.51.0 (#100) @adangel
 - Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.21.0 to 5.21.1 (#99) @dependabot
 - MPMD-356 - Upgrade to PMD 6.50.0 (#98) @adangel
 - Bump maven-common-artifact-filters from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 (#95) @dependabot
 - Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.20.1 to 5.21.0 (#93) @dependabot
 
Version 3.19.0
Release Date: 2022-09-01
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.19.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.19.0
🐛 Bug Fixes
- MPMD-353 - API incompatibility with jansi after upgrading m-shared-utils (#91) @adangel
 
📦 Dependency updates
- Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.21 to 1.22 (#88) @dependabot
 - Bump wiremock from 1.49 to 2.27.2 (#57) @dependabot
 - MPMD-354 - Upgrade to PMD 6.49.0 (#92) @adangel
 - Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.20.0 to 5.20.1 (#86) @dependabot
 
Version 3.18.0
Release Date: 2022-08-20
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.18.0
GitHub: https://github.com/apache/maven-pmd-plugin/releases/tag/maven-pmd-plugin-3.18.0
🚀 New features and improvements
- MPMD-348 - Support Java 19 (#82) @adangel
 
🐛 Bug Fixes
- [SECURITY] Fix Partial Path Traversal Vulnerability (#80) @JLLeitschuh
 
📦 Dependency updates
- MPMD-352 - Upgrade Maven Common Artifact Filters to 3.3.1
 - MPMD-351 - Upgrade Maven Artifact Transfer to 0.13.1
 - MPMD-350 - Upgrade Maven Shared Utils to 3.3.4
 - MPMD-349 - Upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1/Maven Reporting Impl to 3.2.0 (#84) @michael-o
 - MPMD-347 - Upgrade to PMD 6.48.0 (#81) @adangel
 - Bump maven-plugins from 36 to 37 (#79) @dependabot
 - MPMD-345 - Upgrade to PMD 6.47.0 (#73) @adangel
 - Bump commons-lang3 from 3.8.1 to 3.12.0 (#72) @dependabot
 - Bump plexus-resources from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 (#56) @dependabot
 - Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.16 to 1.21 (#54) @dependabot
 
💥 Compatibility Notice
For technical reasons the parameter sourceEncoding has been replaced with inputEncoding.
For details please see MPMD-349/2b7d2d7065bae1f984c82d210062064376fbd430.
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
🐛 Bug Fixes
📝 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
🔧 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
🔧 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
🚀 New features and improvements
📦 Dependency updates
Version 3.13.0
Release Date: 2020-01-25
JIRA: Release Notes - Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.13.0
🐛 Bug Fixes
🚀 New features and improvements
📝 Documentation updates
🔧 Build
📦 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
📝 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
🚀 New features and improvements
📦 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
📝 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
- 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
 



