2026-??-?? - 7.27.0-SNAPSHOT The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.27.0-SNAPSHOT. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Updated Apex Support Kotlin type-aware analysis 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Renamed Rules Changed Rules Deprecated Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations Experimental API ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ Ne…
2026-??-?? - 7.27.0-SNAPSHOT The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.27.0-SNAPSHOT. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy 🐛️ Fixed Issues chore #6837: chore: Input 'app-id' has been deprecated with message: Use 'client-id' instead core #1995: [core] PMD should di…
29-June-2026 - 7.26.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.26.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Swift Changes Updated PMD Designer 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Deprecated Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy Swift Changes The Swift parser now forwards syntax errors as usual pro…
29-May-2026 - 7.25.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.25.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Updated ANTLR library to 4.13.2 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Changed Rules Renamed rules and properties 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations Experimental API ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy Updated ANTLR libr…
24-April-2026 - 7.24.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.24.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🌟️ New Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🌟️ New Rules The new Apex rule AvoidInterfaceAsMapKey reports Map declarations (fields, variables, parameters) whose key type is an interface that has at least one abstract implementing class defining e…
27-March-2026 - 7.23.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.23.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🐛️ Fixed Issues ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🐛️ Fixed Issues core #6503: [core] Links in HTML report are broken java-errorprone #6502: [java] CloseResource: False positive for allowedResourceMethodPatterns entries when using unqualified method calls java-secur…
27-February-2026 - 7.22.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.22.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Security fixes 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Changed Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy Security fixes This release fixes a stored XSS vulnerability in VBHTMLRender…
30-January-2026 - 7.21.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.21.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy 🚀️ New: Java 26 Support Build Requirement is Java 21 CPD 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Changed Rules Deprecated Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy 🚀️ New: Java 26 Su…
30-December-2025 - 7.20.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.20.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🌟️ Changed Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Experimental API ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🌟️ Changed Rules The Java rule OnlyOneReturn has a new property ignoredMethodNames. This property by default is set to compareTo and equals, thus this rule now by…
28-November-2025 - 7.19.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.19.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Updated PMD Designer 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Deprecated Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy Updated PMD Designer This PMD release ships a new version of the pm…
31-October-2025 - 7.18.0 The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.18.0. This is a minor release. Table Of Contents 🚀️ New and noteworthy Build Requirement is Java 17 🌟️ New and Changed Rules New Rules Changed Rules Deprecated Rules 🐛️ Fixed Issues 🚨️ API Changes Deprecations ✨️ Merged pull requests 📦️ Dependency updates 📈️ Stats 🚀️ New and noteworthy Build Requirement is Java 17 From now on, Java…