What's new in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.16.0

Apr 29, 2024
  • New:
  • #14620 - LITERAL_CASE token support in RightCurlyCheck
  • Bug fixes:
  • #14765 - OverloadMethodDeclarationOrder check ignores anything besides methods
  • #14788 - MagicNumberCheck NPE when ignoring field declarations
  • #14092 - UnusedLocalVariable does not support local classes
  • #12923 - UnusedImports does not report unused static imports when the method is used as a method reference

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.15.0 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • 14615 - fix ordering of AST under STRING_TEMPLATE_BEGIN and remove empty STRING_TEMPLATE_CONTENT nodes
  • New:
  • 11340 - Add ignoreMethodAnnotatedBy property to ParameterNumberCheck
  • Bug fixes:
  • 11230 - FallThrough check false positive with labelled break
  • 3110 - some messages are still hardcoded in english
  • Other Changes:
  • Enforce new naming convention "InputXpath{Checkname}Xxxx.java" in IT area
  • Wrap `assertThrows` with `getExpectedThrowable` method.
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing
  • Enforce input naming convention in IT
  • Remove '//ok' comments from Input files
  • Enable examples tests
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile
  • update JavadocTokenTypes.java to new format of AST print
  • Resolve CheckerFramework violations
  • Use module properties macro in all templates

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.14.2 (Mar 17, 2024)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Transitive dependency rejection after Guava upgrade to 32.1.3-jre. Author: lukasgraef #14123
  • GenericWhitespaceCheck: Handling of whitespace between generic and record header. Author: sktpy #14502
  • JavadocStyle doesn't work with inline `@return`. Author: Omar Bakry #12600
  • Notes:
  • Refactor AbstractModuleTestSupport and InlineConfigParser to support XML configs in Input files without extra detalization on modules. Author: Minghao Li #14653
  • Enable examples tests. Author: Minghao Li #13345
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Minghao Li #6207
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile. Author: Tanay #13999
  • update JavadocTokenTypes.java to new format of AST print. Author: SteLeo1602, MANISH-K-07 #14631
  • spelling: Some traditional Chinese characters were changed to simplified Chinese. Author: zhen6.gao
  • Cover pitest survivals with tests. Author: Mauryan Kansara #14019

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.14.1 (Mar 11, 2024)

  • Performance regression from 10.12.4 to 10.13.0. Author: Nick Mancuso #14566
  • False positive in RightCurly with 'alone_or_singleline' RightCurlyOption in try/catch. Author: mahfouz72 #12020
  • some messages are still hardcoded in english. Author: MANISH-K-07 #3110
  • False positive error from JavadocType with record. Author: sktpy #13309
  • VariableDeclarationUsageDistance: no violation to move variables closer to block. Author: mahfouz72 #3502

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.14.0 (Feb 28, 2024)

  • New:
  • Checkstyle fails to parse unnamed variable. Author: Nick Mancuso #13988
  • Bug fixes:
  • GenericWhitespace Check ignores exception to the ">" rule for succeeding whitespaces. Author: sktpy #14344

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.13.0 (Jan 28, 2024)

  • New:
  • 14289 - IllegalTokenText support for STRING_TEMPLATE_CONTENT
  • 13830 - Support Java 21 string template syntax
  • Bug fixes:
  • 12238 - "Unable to persist cache file" if target directory is a symlink
  • Other Changes:
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs
  • Enable checks from Error Prone Support
  • Enable examples tests
  • Remove '//ok' comments from Input files
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile
  • CustomImportOrder property 'customImportOrderRules' should be String[]
  • PropertyCacheFileTest Failing: 3 Test Methods Failing Along With testSymbolicLinkResolution() Causing Issue
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files
  • Use module properties macro in all templates
  • Make Checkstyle an (automatic) module

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.7 (Jan 1, 2024)

  • Bug fixes:
  • False positive in MissingSwitchDefault for switch statement where null label is present.
  • HiddenField false positive on inner records.
  • Indentation: split line new array not checked
  • Notes:
  • Use module properties macro in all templates.
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile.
  • Enable checks from Error Prone Support.
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files.
  • Add support to our Inputs for lines with multiple violations.
  • Enable examples tests.
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs.
  • Transitive dependency rejection after Guava upgrade to 32.1.3-jre.
  • Remove '//ok' comments from Input files .
  • Cover pitest survivals with tests.
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing.
  • File name too long error.
  • Update CI to have Maven Version 3.8.8, update min required maven version in pom to 3.6.3 .

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.6 (Dec 7, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Regexp: violation pointing to line 0 while other Checks count first line as 1. Author: Suniti #14064
  • Notes:
  • Resolve CheckerFramework violations. Author: Roman Ivanov #14084
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile. Author: Suniti #13999
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: Suniti #11446
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone.. Author: piyush bakde, Pubudu Fernando #4845
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Rohanraj123 #6207
  • Update CI to have Maven Version 3.8.8, update min required maven version in pom to 3.5.4 . Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13970
  • Fix typo in Indentation check for word 'initialisation'. Author: Redeem-Grimm-Satoshi #13783
  • Remove ArchUnit FreezingArchRule as it unstable to skip line numbers and any other extra changes . Author: Roman Ivanov #14053
  • Enable examples tests. Author: rishivardhanm, Yukai Xiao #13345
  • use valid SPDX license identifier. Author: Michael Keppler #13889
  • Cover pitest survivals with tests. Author: Suniti #14019
  • Re-enable ArchUnit Testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #13544
  • Surefire test exclusion can cause NoClassDefFoundError on case-insensitive file system. Author: Stephan Schroevers #14042
  • migrate SuppressWarningsHolder to use property macro. Author: piyush kumar sadangi, Roman Ivanov #13839
  • Use module properties macro in all templates. Author: Roman Ivanov #13693
  • doc: add direct link to check. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 4. Author: Kevin222004 #13672
  • Migrate magicnumber.xml.template to use properties template. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13930

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.5 (Nov 14, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Indentation: Switch expression doesn't pass with LeftCurlies on newlines. Author: Markus Jung #14014
  • Notes:
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 5. Author: Kevin222004, Nick Mancuso, Roman Ivanov #13809
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 2. Author: Kevin222004, Roman Ivanov #13321
  • Since version is determined incorrectly by property macros at returncount.xml.template. Author: Rohanraj123 #13934
  • Resolve Pitest Suppression in Pitest-Javadoc Profile. Author: Suniti #13999
  • Enable examples tests. Author: piyush kumar sadangi, Tanay Morakhia, Suniti, Tanay, piyush bakde, Rohanraj123, Aayush #13345
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Suniti #6207
  • doc: Added reference to the Checkstyle extension for bld. Author: Erik C. Thauvin
  • Migrate illegaltype.xml.template to use properties template. Author: Suniti, Aayush #13893
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: Suniti, sushant1987 #11214
  • Migrate multiplestringliterals.xml.template to use properties template. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13933
  • Run regression testing in CI over openjdk21. Author: Nick Mancuso #13982
  • Remove call to Lexer#removeErrorListeners. Author: Nick Mancuso #12186
  • Migrate DescendantToken to properties macros. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13885
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone.. Author: Tanay Morakhia, Suniti, Guneetsinghtuli, Rohanraj123 #4845
  • Update Javadoc checks to avoid // violation in Javadoc comments. Author: Suniti #13969
  • Targeted Pitest Mutation in July 2023. Author: Kevin222004 #13328
  • create validation of git status on Windows environments. Author: Kumar Kalpadiptya Roy #11816
  • Improve XdocGenerator to generate file in temp folder and replace xdoc only on success. Author: Aayush #13869
  • Enforce Linux Style End-of-Line (LF instead of CRLF) in all XML files for windows environment.. Author: Kumar Kalpadiptya Roy #13770
  • migrate FinalLocalVariable xdoc to use property macro. Author: Aayush #13853
  • Use module properties macro in all templates. Author: Roman Ivanov #13693
  • SpotBugs: checks a map with containsKey(), before using get(). Author: Aayush #13877
  • migrate IllegalToken to properties macros. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13860
  • Fix typo in Indentation check for word 'initialisation'. Author: Suniti #13783
  • infra: do not allow in-progress site action to be cancelled by skipped run. Author: Nick Mancuso #13863
  • Resolve pitest for FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #12671
  • MacroExecutionException: TypecastParenPadCheck: Failed to find setter javadoc for property 'option'. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13867
  • Remove '//ok' comments from Input files . Author: Suniti, Rohanraj123 #13213
  • migrate to property macros IllegalTokenText . Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13859
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: Rohanraj123 #11163
  • False Positive and Negative in SummaryJavaDocCheck. Author: Aayush #13347
  • infra: actionlint bad yaml. Author: Aayush #13765
  • Infra: enable dependabot for github actions. Author: Aayush #12984
  • 'javadoc.unclosedHtml' message is not present in documentation for most Javadoc Checks. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13775
  • Use violation messages macro in all templates. Author: piyush kumar sadangi, Roman Ivanov #13627
  • .vscode folder must be added to .gitignore to avoid getting tracked by git.. Author: Aayush #13834
  • Convert Parent Modules to Macro. Author: Roman Ivanov #13829
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 4. Author: Kevin222004, Roman Ivanov #13672
  • Node.js 12 actions are deprecated.. Author: Aayush #13045
  • Document ability to use whitespace in array configuration properties. Author: Redeem-Grimm-Satoshi #13650
  • Create a Checkstyle module to enforce comment formatting in input files. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13797

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.4 (Oct 2, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • MissingDeprecated shows unclear message on not closed html tag. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13745
  • Notes:
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 5. Author: Kevin222004 #13809
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 4. Author: Vyom-Yadav, Kevin222004 #13672
  • Assert that properties are ordered alphabetically in xdoc. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov, Roman Ivanov #13666
  • Enable examples tests. Author: piyush kumar sadangi, Guneetsinghtuli, Rohanraj123, Nick Mancuso #13345
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone.. Author: Guneetsinghtuli #4845
  • Remove '//ok' comments from Input files . Author: piyush kumar sadangi, Rohanraj123, Nick Mancuso #13213
  • Surviving pitest mutations for conditions reducing time complexity at PackageObjectFactory. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #11902
  • Extend `generate-extra-site-links.sh` to not include deleted pages in comments. Author: Nick Mancuso #13175
  • Order properties alphabetically in xdocs and javadocs. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov, Roman Ivanov #13668
  • Add Examples Macro Support to All Checks. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13732
  • Typo. Author: Clint-Mathews #13735
  • Fix Pitest script to recognize unstable mutations. Author: Vyom-Yadav #13492
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 3. Author: Kevin222004 #13501
  • Targeted Pitest Mutation in July 2023. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #13328
  • Create checks to place violations on missing macros in templates. Author: Nick Mancuso #13682
  • Use module properties macro in all templates. Author: Roman Ivanov #13693
  • Update Violation Message in Input files for FallThroughCheck. Author: Kumar Kalpadiptya Roy #13552
  • Simplify requirement for what we consider a setter method in ClassAndPropertiesSettersJavadocScraper. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13680
  • NonEmptyAtclauseDescription examples are cut in website. Author: Roman Ivanov #13660
  • Move CheckUtil#isGetterMethod and CheckUtil#isSetterMethod to MissingJavadocMethodCheck. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13596
  • Implement module properties macro. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13399
  • Get rid of module javadoc examples. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13429
  • Fix existing cases of `getFileContents()` usage. Author: Kevin222004 #11166
  • Create tests from xdoc examples. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13100

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.3 (Aug 28, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • UnnecessarySemicolonAfterTypeMemberDeclaration throws Exception on on Local Class. Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13411
  • Record pattern causes checkstyle to fail in JDK 20 (preview). Author: Nick Mancuso #13279
  • Notes:
  • Ensure only forward slashes are in relative link to parent module. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13656
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 3. Author: Kevin222004 #13501
  • Use violation messages macro in all templates. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13627
  • Use parent module macro in all templates. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13610
  • Create tests from xdoc examples. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov, stoyanK7 #13100
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules - 2. Author: Kevin222004 #13321
  • setup UnnecessaryOkComment module and suppressions (related to…. Author: Nick Mancuso #13556
  • CircleCI periodically failing with yml violations on site.yml. Author: Roman Ivanov #13567
  • Enable examples tests. Author: Nick Mancuso #13345
  • Update doc of FallThroughCheck to use same java snippet example . Author: Kumar Kalpadiptya Roy #12974
  • Create templates from xdocs. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13498
  • Exclude xdocs from line length validation and validate templates instead. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13499
  • Remove from EmptyLineSeparator documentation attention note about no xpath suppression support . Author: piyush kumar sadangi #13506
  • Implement parent module macro. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13434
  • Add a test to ensure examples have a paragraph with an id before them. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13428
  • Restore usage of TreeSet. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13505
  • Implement module violation messages macro. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13422
  • Targeted Pitest Mutation in July 2023. Author: Kevin222004 #13328
  • Move all example tests to extend `AbstractExamplesModuleTestSupport`. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13496
  • Add `@since` in javadoc of each property setter. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13421
  • Add links to examples paragraphs. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13205
  • Fix package/resource location in example tests. Author: Stoyan Kostadinov #13484

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.2 (Jul 30, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • FinalClassCheck should report private classes without constructor.
  • Notes:
  • Resolve pitest survivals in module - 2
  • Create tests from xdoc examples.
  • Add `@since` in javadoc of each property setter.
  • Implement examples macro and xdoc template parser.
  • Update doc of FallThroughCheck to use same java snippet example.
  • update link check to only check internal links in PRs.
  • Run regression testing in CI over openjdk20.
  • Specify violation messages in input files.
  • Restore xdoc-javadoc validation.
  • Extend `getXdocsFilePaths` to gather `.xml.vm` files and get rid of `getAllXdocFilePaths`.
  • Move section comments to include whole examples and shorten xml configs length.
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone..
  • Targeted Pitest Mutation in July 2023.
  • doc: update VisibilityModifier examples to match tests.
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules.
  • maven site plugin is failing to execute site goal with compiler plugin 3.11.0.
  • Write a test to ensure checks are present in menu.
  • Resolves Pitest for VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.
  • Rendering issues with website.
  • BDD configuration comments should be in XML.
  • Update issue template after split of website to use individual page for module.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.1 (Jun 25, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • SimplifyBooleanExpressionCheck throw NullPointerException while checking ternary operator. Author: Sebastien #13140
  • Notes:
  • Move Filters and File Filters to be a sibling of Checks in site menu. Author: stoyanK7 #13283
  • Create tests from xdoc examples. Author: stoyanK7 #13100
  • Remove redundant check name in anchor. Author: stoyanK7 #13288
  • Resolve pitest survivals in modules. Author: Kevin222004 #13109
  • Extend checkstyle-examples-checks. Author: stoyanK7 #13244
  • Split modules' xdoc into separate pages. Author: stoyanK7 #13097
  • Create separate ant-phase-verify execution for xdocs-examples. Author: stoyanK7 #13116
  • Mobile page rendering requires extra font difference for properties . Author: stoyanK7 #13195
  • Ensure category index page tables are in sync with checks.xml page table. Author: stoyanK7 #13285
  • Fail linkcheck on internal broken site link. Author: stoyanK7 #13176
  • Fix broken anchors in subdirectories/subpages. Author: stoyanK7 #13190
  • Doc: update AbstractClassName examples to match tests. Author: stoyanK7
  • Resolve pitest for FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #12671
  • Resolves Pitest for VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #13095
  • Doc: update ConstantName examples to match tests. Author: stoyanK7
  • Resolves Pitest for DeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #13102
  • Resolves Pitest for AbstractSuperCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #13108
  • Create initial xdocs-test folder structure. Author: stoyanK7 #13105

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.12.0 (May 27, 2023)

  • New:
  • Support record patterns (preview-feature in Java 19) as described by JEP 405. Author: Nick Mancuso #12507
  • Notes:
  • Improve code coverage for GUI classes. Author: Dami Lee, alimhtsai, “MrPatchz” #11514
  • Broken Link: Github search links are broken in documentation. Author: shamith2 #13059
  • LineLength check documentation incorrectly shows how to work with tabWidth property . Author: shamith2 #13005
  • Update doc for UnusedImports. Author: Tanay #13007
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: “MrPatchz” #11214
  • .ci/pitest.sh --list doesn't show all pitest profiles on Mac. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #13063
  • Doc: new release cycle. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Site Action generate bad link to index page. Author: stoyanK7 #13054

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.11.0 (May 10, 2023)

  • New:
  • False Negative: UnnecessaryParenthesesCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #11109
  • Bug fixes:
  • VariableDeclarationUsageDistance not able to handle try with resources properly. Author: jxr98 #11968
  • Not last return javadoc tag cause parse error. Author: Omar Bakry #12864
  • Notes:
  • Kill survivng mutation in DefaultComesLastCheck.java. Author: jxr98 #12889
  • make_report has warning on deprecation . Author: Omar Bakry #13031

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.10.0 (Apr 26, 2023)

  • New:
  • New filter: SuppressWithNearbyTextFilter to suppress checks with inline comments in any file type. Author: stoyanK7 #11939
  • Notes:
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: Omar Bakry, sd9616 #11163
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: shivam, sd9616, Sloent #11214
  • Improvements to diff report generation. Author: Nick Mancuso #12991
  • Resolve pitest for FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: coderdeadpool #12671
  • Resolve pitest suppression for FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: coderdeadpool #12997
  • Add more unit test cases for VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck. Author: Xinrui Jiang #12976
  • Check_issues job have warning on deprecation. Author: Omar Bakry #12978
  • Fix windows line endings in GitHub event text. Author: Nick Mancuso #12995
  • Doc: remove extra space. Author: 7h3-3mp7y-m4n
  • Resolve pitest suppression for FallThroughCheck. Author: shivam #12943
  • Resolve pitest suppression for AbstractViolationReporter. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12876
  • Use Environment Files instead of `set-output` in GitHub Actions.. Author: stoyanK7 #12696
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Omar Bakry, sd9616 #6207
  • Create script for appending text to $GITHUB_OUTPUT. Author: stoyanK7 #12954
  • Github CI does not run upon `Github, rebase` action. Author: stoyanK7 #11134
  • Grammar error in documentation of AbstractClassNameCheck.xml . Author: bhganesh #12932
  • Diff-Report action does not post link to report in GitHub comment. Author: stoyanK7 #12794
  • Re-enable action lint. Author: stoyanK7 #12678
  • Update doc for VisibilityModifier. Author: Omar Bakry #7616
  • Add 3 to earliest change variable to compensate for diff context. Author: stoyanK7 #12940
  • Fix concurrency group for site action. Author: stoyanK7 #12942
  • Generate site workflow should provide more specific links. Author: stoyanK7 #12853
  • Update doc for DesignForExtension. Author: ziweiwang98 #7608
  • Update doc for DescendantToken. Author: shivam #7587
  • Update doc for Translation. Author: shivam #7593

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.9.3 (Mar 26, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • False positive about MagicNumber. Author: Kevin222004 #12687
  • Notes:
  • Fail set-milestone if no milestone is found. Author: stoyanK7 #12909
  • Add repository owner environment variable in release process. Author: stoyanK7 #12840
  • doc: describe in cli doc that folder can be used. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Keep spacing between job steps consistent. Author: stoyanK7 #12851
  • Resolve pitest suppression for BeforeExecutionFileFilterSet. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12878
  • Typo in Documentation of VariableDeclarationUsageDistance. Author: jxr98 #12898
  • Kill surviving mutation in FilterSet.java. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12887
  • Deprecate com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean. Author: stoyanK7 #5337
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: zyrate #6207
  • Resolve pitest suppression for FilterSet. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12879
  • Update doc for SuppressionCommentFilter. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12827
  • Use Shellcheck to resolve violations code in Shell Script. Author: shubh220922 #11637
  • Update doc for NonEmptyAtclauseDescription. Author: shivam #7604
  • Ensure new-milestone-and-issues-in-other-repos always pulls latest commit. Author: stoyanK7 #12866

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.9.2 (Mar 20, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • #12809 - Improve performance of lambda processing
  • Other Changes:
  • Make twitter-releasenotes job depend on update-github-page
  • Restore curl --fail-with-body
  • Specify violation messages in input files

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.9.1 (Mar 16, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • A false negative about the rule ClassMemberImpliedModifier. Author: Andrei Paikin #11569

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.8.1 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • LocalizedMessage should use ModuleName in compareTo method. Author: rnveach #4930
  • Notes:
  • Fix 'set-milestone-on-referenced-issue'. Author: stoyanK7 #12801
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: Naoto Kuwayama #11214
  • Update documentation for AnnotationUseStyle. Author: Naoto Kuwayama #7571
  • Execute upload of -all jar separately. Author: stoyanK7 #12792
  • Switch to PAT secret in set-milestone workflow. Author: stoyanK7 #12799
  • Remove execution of upload -all jar from new-milestone-and-issue-in-other-repo. Author: stoyanK7 #12793
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: jxr98 #11446
  • Add forgotten secret inherit in release. Author: stoyanK7 #12797
  • Create GitHub action to put current milestone on issue of closed PR. Author: stoyanK7 #12497
  • Use dynamic names for release workflow runs. Author: stoyanK7 #12785
  • Make action to trigger all release steps. Author: stoyanK7 #12720
  • CommitValidationTest fails on revert commits. Author: stoyanK7 #12766
  • Keep workflow input descriptions consistent. Author: stoyanK7 #12776

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.8 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove Serializable interface from Violation class and EventObject extension from AuditEvent
  • Other Changes:
  • Specify violation messages in input files.
  • Make action to trigger all release steps
  • Make scripts and configurations filenames consistent
  • CommitValidationTest should ignore the release process
  • Use Shellcheck to resolve violations code in Shell Script
  • Update doc for JavadocType
  • Release perform action is failing
  • Replace all usages of xmlstarlet with getCheckstylePomVersion from util.sh
  • confg: cancel 10.8.0 release, see details in #12762
  • End of free builds for CloudBees CodeShip
  • Define variable for non-main-files-suppressions file
  • Fix RegexpOnFileNameCheck message keys
  • pitest: groovy does not run when profile fails
  • Resolve surviving annotation mutations for pitest
  • Checker: false violation removals on other failures
  • Validation for next version in GitHub action
  • pitest-survival-check-xml.groovy: prints nothing when there are no differences
  • `pitest-survival-check-xml.groovy` should automatically update list of suppressions
  • Remove admins from white list on commit validation
  • Github action "Release perform"
  • pitest: validate wildcards on target classes
  • Issue 12705: remove .m2 for codenarc execution to make it more stable on download
  • Github action to copy to sourceforge does not work
  • update all release action to have 'Setup local maven cache' step to optimize download of artifacts
  • Push 'all' jar action is not working and not failing execution

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.7 (Jan 31, 2023)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove CheckstyleAntTask's classpath parameter. Author: rnveach #12338
  • New:
  • Support latest pattern matching syntax in switch labels. Author: Nick Mancuso #12515
  • Bug fixes:
  • UnnecessaryParentheses: false negative on unnecessary parenthesis. Author: Kevin222004 #11643
  • Notes:
  • action 'R: Close/Create Milestone' is not working. Author: stoyanK7, Roman Ivanov #12570
  • Resolve surviving pitest-design-check mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12641
  • Resolve surviving pitest-coding-require-this-check mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12626
  • linkcheck report full of error on damaged links to javadoc. Author: rnveach #11572
  • Resolve violation from ResultOfMethodCallIgnored inspection. Author: rnveach #11589
  • All Github CI workflows should have concurrency of 1. Author: Nick Mancuso #12645
  • Picocli's coloring interfering with tests. Author: rnveach #12667
  • Remove Apex project from usage in testing . Author: rnveach #7815
  • Resolve surviving pitest-metrics-check mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12637
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: Shubh Srivastava #11446
  • Resolve Pitest for profile coding-2. Author: Kevin222004 #12331
  • Resolve surviving pitest-blocks mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12615
  • doc: explanation on versioning of checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Corrects classes scanned for pitest to include sub-classes. Author: rnveach #12622
  • Resolve surviving pitest-whitespace mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12601
  • Resolve surviving sizes mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12592
  • Empty ErrorStream in `checker-framework.groovy` to prevent buffer exhaustion and external processes from blocking. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12522
  • Resolve surviving pitest-java-ast-visitor mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12594
  • Specify violation messages in input files.. Author: Shubh Srivastava #11214
  • Resolve surviving modifier mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12587
  • Resolve surviving naming mutations for pitest. Author: rnveach #12589
  • Restore pitest.sh to ease operation on local. Author: Roman Ivanov #12557
  • Lint GitHub Actions workflows executed twice. Author: Nick Mancuso #12568
  • `bump_license_year.yml` not adding year to commit message.. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12572

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.6 (Jan 1, 2023)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • 12520 - Simplify JavadocStyleCheck: remove functionality for missing package-info Javadoc
  • Bug fixes:
  • 12409 - Inconsistent allowedAbbreviations when a method contains an underscore
  • 12486 - NoWhitespaceAfter false positive on synchronized method
  • 11807 - Null pointer exception with records in RequireThisCheck

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.5 (Nov 27, 2022)

  • New:
  • Allow 3rd party Check providers to group modules under custom parent module. Author: rnveach #11644
  • Bug fixes:
  • Checkstyle 10.3.3 and newer throws NullPointerException on annotated generic types from IllegalType rule. Author: Nick Mancuso #12443
  • False positive in NoWhiteSpaceAfter. Author: Andrei Paikin #12345
  • EmptyForInitializerPad: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Author: Andrei Paikin #12291
  • Notes:
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Arin Modi #12441
  • Remove new curl parameter from all GitHub actions for release . Author: stoyanK7 #12456
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: Arin Modi, Shubh Srivastava #11446
  • Github action "Copy site to sourceforge". Author: stoyanK7 #12081
  • Issue #11604: separates detail ast from xpath. Author: rnveach #11617
  • PMD warning in execution logs. Author: rnveach #12448
  • Failure of update github.io to clone checkstyle.github.io. Author: stoyanK7 #12168
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: Arin Modi #11163
  • Failure to publish github release notes ' R: Publish GitHub Page'. Author: stoyanK7 #12169
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for AccessModifierOption. Author: Shubh Srivastava #12326
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for SeparatorWrapCheck. Author: Arin Modi #12430
  • Re-enable sonar . Author: Nick Mancuso #12431
  • Investigate why GITHUB token has no access to issues . Author: stoyanK7 #12182
  • Update doc for MutableException. Author: Arin Modi #7613
  • Update Test Configuration To Support Adding TreeWalker Property. Author: Arin Modi #12395
  • Missing Link found on Checkstyle docs. Author: anchitbhuhan #12393
  • Doc: archive release notes for 8.0-8.34. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • Add release number validation. Author: stoyanK7 #12316
  • Create instance of regexp check to enforce usage of 'fail-with-body' in curl commands. Author: rnveach #12389
  • Action 'Bump version/Update Milestone' is failing to update milestones. Author: stoyanK7 #12351
  • Specify violation messages in input files.. Author: Arin Modi, Shaman20 #11214
  • 'R: Publish GitHub Page' failing at perform curl command but action status is succcess. Author: stoyanK7 #12181
  • Debug documentation is not clear. Author: NitishKumar06 #12207
  • Improper text in NewLineAtEndOfFileCheck documentation. Author: NitishKumar06 #12370
  • Doc: expanded documentation on severities. Author: rnveach
  • Resolve Pitest for Block Profile-2. Author: Kevin222004 #12330

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.4 (Oct 30, 2022)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Checker.localeLanguage property work strange with system property user.language. Author: rnveach #12101
  • Remove custom cache in Violation.java. It was extra cache for resource bundle cache for messages.. Author: rnveach #12102
  • Bug fixes:
  • False Positive: UnusedLocalVariableCheck. Author: Kirill Zuev #11920
  • Notes:
  • Overview Section is quite confusing. Author: NitishKumar06 #12228
  • Move codenarc to non GitHub CI. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11747
  • CI: validate PR number when commit is for PR. Author: Nick Mancuso #12319
  • Create CI task to fail PR if merge commit exists. Author: Nick Mancuso #12259
  • Checker-framework.groovy depends too much on name of repo. Author: Nick Mancuso #12311
  • Resolve Switch case mutation for ParenPad. Author: Kevin222004 #12327
  • Rename all 'Checker-Framework / checker-..' actions . Author: Roman Ivanov #12229
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for ParenPad. Author: Kevin222004 #12282
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for Javadoc profile. Author: Kevin222004 #12315
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for misc profile. Author: Kevin222004 #12314
  • Dependency: bump mockito-inline from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12312
  • UnusedImports doc: add limitation regarding same-name imports. Author: stoyanK7 #12224
  • Update doc for EmptyLineSeparator. Author: shubh #7619
  • Update verify-no-exception-configs validation. Author: rnveach #9984
  • Pitest/Checker: Drop New/Unnecessary Displays And Switch to Git Diff. Author: Roman Ivanov #12243
  • Add example of custom jars to Ant Documentation. Author: Navjyoth NA Thakur #5389
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for block profile. Author: Kevin222004 #12296
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for EmptyForInitializerPad-2. Author: Kevin222004 #12275
  • Doc: Update SuppressionXpathSingleFilter example (related to #3095). Author: Piotr Findeisen
  • Doc: remove teamcity badge but keep links in case we will restore it. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Create IDEA Inspections Docker image for CircleCI. Author: Nick Mancuso #12087
  • Specify violation messages in input files.. Author: shubh #11214
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for SeperatorWrapCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #12267
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for EmptyForInitializerPadCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #12265
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for MethodParamPadCheck . Author: Kevin222004 #12264
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for OperatorWrapCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #12266
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for AbstractParenPadCheck - 2. Author: Kevin222004 #12260
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for EmptyForIteratorPadCheck. Author: Kevin222004 #12261
  • Resolve Pitest suppression for AbstractParenPadCheck. Author: Kevin #12251
  • Remove changes needed for PMD Accessor violations from Java 11 improvements. Author: rnveach #12241
  • Minor word missing in checkstyle docs. Author: NitishKumar06 #12203
  • Doc: fix formatting mistake. Author: stoyanK7

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.3.4 (Sep 25, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • ImportOrder: tokens property should be not customizable, move STATIC_IMPORT to required tokens Author: rnveach #12145
  • IllegalInstantiation: make all tokens should be required, so no need to use custom values in tokens property. Author: rnveach #3955
  • VariableDeclarationUsageDistance throws NPE on empty switch statements. Author: stoyanK7 #11973
  • Notes:
  • Expand ArchUnit Testing. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12099
  • Enable Checker Framework. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12164
  • pitest-survival-check-xml.groovy: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12132
  • Add method to ignore unstable checker framework violations. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12210
  • Add badges for new GitHub actions. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12218
  • Checkstyle should use `dependencyConvergence` maven-enforcer rule. Author: Nick Mancuso #12195
  • failure to publish github release notes ' R: Publish GitHub Page'. Author: Roman Ivanov, Rahul Khinchi #12169
  • Disable execution of GitHub actions with cron in fork repositories. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12175
  • Use OS specific command and correct errorExtractingPattern. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12154
  • updates in Github actions. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12165
  • execution of 'R: Update github.io' with '10.3.3' faililng. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12160
  • Disable test execution during release. Author: Roman Ivanov #11912
  • no-error-pmd execution is failing if version in not changed to 10.4. Author: Roman Ivanov #12129
  • doc: add 'I have read check documentation...' to feature_request.md. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • pitest-survival-check-xml.groovy: IllegalArgumentException: character to be escaped is missing. Author: Vyom-Yadav #12133
  • Github action "GitHub Milestone and Upload Jar" should do all github actionvities from release.sh. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12113
  • Github Action "Update github.io". Author: Rahul Khinchi #12115
  • update publish Twit action to use secrets. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12116
  • Minor changes in in shell scripts. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12124
  • Upgrade Maven required Version for Contributors. Author: rnveach #12111
  • Github action "Release prepare" should validate presence of xml release notes. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12126
  • rename update-sources.sh . Author: Rahul Khinchi #12120

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.3.3 (Aug 28, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Translate messages to Russian. Author: zuev kirill #12039
  • RequireThisCheck not able to handle try-with-resources. Author: stoyanK7 #11821
  • Sarif support is not extended onto the Ant task defined. Author: jknair0 #11985
  • InvalidJavadocPosition: false positive for the generic constructor without access modifier. Author: stoyanK7 #11605

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.3.2 (Jul 31, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • MissingJavadocType: Support qualified annotation names. Author: stoyanK7 #11736
  • Update google_checks.xml to have the SuppressionCommentFilter and SuppressWarningsHolder modules in the config by default (and by extension, SuppressWarningsFilter). Author: Daniel del Castillo #11655
  • Notes:
  • Update releasenotes to use GitHub Pages execution. Author: Rahul Khinchi #12010
  • Allow SuppressWarningHolder to suppress the violation with NameCheck. Author: stoyanK7 #11885
  • Pitest: Kill all surviving mutations. Author: Vyom-Yadav, Nick Mancuso #11720
  • Pitest: Activate "ALL" mutator group. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11719
  • Use Shellcheck to resolve violations code in Shell Script. Author: stoyanK7 #11637
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-imports profile to 100% . Author: Vyom-Yadav #6658
  • Update GitHub Action for bump-license-year.sh. Author: Rahulkhinchi03 #11970
  • Solve fb-contrib errors. Author: pbludov, stoyanK7 #11140
  • Remove pitest mutation checking HTML model. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11904
  • automate execution by Github action bump-license-year.sh on first day of month. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11744
  • update code base to have javadoc tag to explain noinspection tag content. Author: Nick Mancuso #11277
  • doc: put example of enableExternalDtdLoad to xdoc. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • update doc for SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Kevin222004 #7576
  • releasenotes script generated empty commit. Author: Rahulkhinchi03 #11782
  • Include CDG Accelerator Plugin to boost pitest performance. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11727
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: stoyanK7 #11163
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: stoyanK7 #6207
  • There are semantic problems in the Chinese error message of keyword 'design.forExtension' .. Author: ssquan #11649
  • prepare-settings.sh fails to create settings.xml. Author: Rahulkhinchi03 #11783
  • Use groovy version provided by `apt` in pitest.yml. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11823
  • tweet-releasenotes.sh does not check env variables. Author: Roman Ivanov #11784
  • download of m2 cache from sourceforge.io is slow. Author: Roman Ivanov #11817
  • infra: turns off create dependency reduced pom for shade plugin. Author: rnveach #11806
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: stoyanK7 #11446
  • Specify violation messages in input files.. Author: stoyanK7 #11214
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for javadoc profile to 100%. Author: Vyom-Yadav #6295

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.3.1 (Jun 27, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • FallThrough should recognize yield also
  • FinalClassCheck: False positive with anonymous classes.
  • Notes:
  • automate creation of settings.xml file for release
  • Automate update of releasenotes.xml by content for new release
  • Automate twitter posts to use single shell command
  • Resolve Pitest Issues.
  • dependency: bump pitest-maven from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0
  • Disable IDEA Inspection for `AnnotationClass`
  • Update doc for LeftCurly
  • Missed limitation: Checkstyle can't parse UTF8 Java File with UTF8 BOM
  • Specify violation messages in input files.
  • Resolve IDEA violations from Teamcity 2022.04 (Bundled IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2.3)
  • Pitest: Create robust method of surviving mutation suppression
  • update code base to have javadoc tag to explain noinspection tag content
  • Update doc for TrailingComment
  • Add codenarc to CI for groovy files
  • Move Backport section on index page to be update JRE_and_JDK
  • .ci/pitest.sh --list doesn't show all pitest profiles. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11730
  • Split pitest-coding execution into 3 executions and investigate instability
  • Use Shellcheck to resolve violations code in Shell Script
  • Add 'git diff' validation after execution of verify phase to Azure
  • Solve fb-contrib errors.
  • Checkstyle doesn't publish test source code

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.3 (May 30, 2022)

  • New:
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_CASE token.
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_YIELD token.
  • Bug fixes:
  • SuppressionXpathSingleFilter suppresses all violations when used with the default configuration.
  • SuppressWarnings: support not working on local variables.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.2 (Apr 25, 2022)

  • New:
  • Add new AbstractCheck#getFilePath method in api. Author: Andrei Paikin #11507
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_RETURN token. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11536
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED token. Author: Kevin222004 #11494
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_CATCH token. Author: Binita Kumari #11498
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_FINALLY token. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11493
  • WhitespaceAfter should support LITERAL_TRY token. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11489
  • Bug fixes:
  • GUI can not find node by simple xpath. Author: Nick Mancuso #9004
  • Notes:
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone.. Author: pbludov #4845
  • Split pitest-coding execution into two executions and investigate instability. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11528
  • Solve fb-contrib errors. Author: rnveach #11140
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: ricardovogel, SarveshLimaye, Binita Kumari, Kaung Myat Htet, Abhinav, Kevin222004 #11214
  • Minor: remove testLocaleIsSupported tests. Author: pbludov #11544
  • Update doc for MethodLength. Author: Kaung Myat Htet #11474
  • Update Xpath unit tests to have at least two test methods. Author: Rahul Khinchi #8151
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Kevin222004, Abhinav #6207
  • 'checkstyle_checks.xml' should not allow single letter variable names in for loops. Author: Nick Mancuso #11522
  • Minor: move xml-maven-plugin to config directory outside of ci. Author: rnveach #11530
  • Large overhead from using streams in TokenUtil.isOfType. Author: Sander Gielisse #11370
  • Doc: Improve grammar in writingchecks.xml. Author: Otto Kaaij
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName documentation need to extended. Author: MUzairS15 #10889
  • Update Tests to use new 'verifyXxxxxx' method or 'execute' that use inlined config in Input files. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11446
  • Unit tests for Checkstyle GUI components. Author: pbludov #11475
  • Check no closed issue references workflow is not triggered on pull requests. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11442
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: Rahul Khinchi #11163
  • Fix existing cases of 'getFileContents()' usage. Author: Andrei Paikin #11166

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.1 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • LineLengthCheck ignores length of import and package statements. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10907
  • New:
  • RedundantModifier should include RECORD_DEF in acceptable tokens. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11259
  • Bug fixes:
  • All checks that use 'AbstractCheck#getLine()' should check code points instead of characters for spacing. Author: MUzairS15 #10924
  • False positive: SummaryJavadocCheck. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11213
  • Inline @return tag does not pass SummaryJavadocCheck. Author: Octavia Togami #10776
  • UnnecessaryParentheses reports incorrect violation message for return value in lambdas. Author: Otto Kaaij #11357
  • Enhance logging approach of SummaryJavadocCheck and use AST-based approach to get content of inline tag. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11030
  • Notes:
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Binita Kumari, Kevin222004, Rahul Khinchi #6207
  • Update Tests to use new verify method that use inlined config in Input files. Author: Kevin222004, Nick Mancuso #11446
  • Conver test for SuppressionXpathSingleFilterTest to use inlined config in Input files. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11439
  • Conver test for SuppressionXpathFilterTest to use inlined config in Input files. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11438
  • Specify violation messages in input files. Author: FaraazB, AmrDeveloper, Kevin222004, Rahul Khinchi #11214
  • Update doc for MultipleStringLiterals. Author: ExApricity #7650
  • Move methods common in UnusedLocalVariableCheck and FinalClassCheck to util. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11201
  • Remove suppressions for original verify method or explain in comment. Author: Roman Ivanov #10390
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser for filters. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10737
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone. Author: rnveach #4845
  • Spelling: Fix double word in TreeWalker. Author: Ricardo Vogel
  • Checkstyle should force logging of AST in checks that require it. Author: Nick Mancuso #10933
  • Refactor check for override annotation - add util method. Author: Andrei Paikin #11333
  • Fix existing cases of 'getFileContents()' usage. Author: Andrei Paikin #11166
  • JavadocMetadataScraper fails silently if it can't write the XML files. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10747
  • AvoidStarImport: update documentation with example for mix of properties. Author: AmrDeveloper #11352
  • Doc: mention that excludes can be class names. Author: Tobias Nießen

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 10.0 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • upgrade minimal required jdk version to 11. Author: rnveach, pbludov #9146
  • New:
  • WhitespaceAfter does not work on 'switch' and lambda statements. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11298
  • WhitespaceAfter should support `ELLIPSIS` token. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11116
  • Bug fixes:
  • FinalClass should exempt private-only constructor classes that are extended by another class in the same compilation unit. Author: pbludov #10859
  • False Negative: RedundantModifierCheck. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11268
  • EmptyLineSeparator: false negative in Enum and interface fields. Author: Andrei Paikin #11241
  • NPE in gui.MainFrameModel#getLastDirectory. Author: pbludov #11294
  • Notes:
  • Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach #6320
  • Update doc for FinalParameters. Author: Taniya #7588
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Binita Kumari #6207
  • Replace usages of deprecated method AccessibleObject.isAccessible. Author: Nick Mancuso #11309
  • Update doc for ReturnCount. Author: Binita Kumari #7657
  • Add icon to the GUI window. Author: pbludov #11292
  • Add 'since' property to '@Deprecated' annotation. Author: pbludov #11289
  • doc: update requirements to jdk 11. Author: pbludov
  • remove extra checkstyle build in no-exception-test.sh. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11281

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.3 (Jan 30, 2022)

  • New:
  • Support patterns in switch (preview-feature in Java 17) as described by JEP 406. Author: nmancus1 #10848
  • New Check: UnusedVariable. Author: Vyom-Yadav #7504
  • Bug fixes:
  • OutOfMemory following CheckStyle 9.X upgrade. Author: nmancus1 #10934
  • False positive in `MissingSwitchDefault` with pattern in switch label. Author: Nick Mancuso #11220
  • `OperatorWrapCheck` throws NPE on guarded patterns. Author: Nick Mancuso #11187
  • UnnecessaryParentheses: false negative. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11061
  • All checks that use `AbstractCheck#getLine()` should check code points instead of characters for spacing. Author: MUzairS15 #10924
  • Stackoverflow error on deeply concatenated strings. Author: Timur Tibeyev #9267
  • StringLiteralEquality FN about String literal expression. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11031
  • Notes:
  • Fail test execution if Input file does nor have message on violation line and Check has not signle message. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11091
  • Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach, Vyom-Yadav #6320
  • Run regression testing in CI over openjdk17. Author: nmancus1 #11185
  • Let 'site' Github action to generate javadoc. Author: nmancus1 #11228
  • Improve Japanese message translation. Author: SATO Yusuke #11200
  • add file filters for non-compilable files in openjdk16. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11215
  • Update `bump-license-year.sh` to use `g4` file extension.. Author: nmancus1 #11203
  • Replace System.exit with Runtime.exit. Author: pbludov #11172
  • Solve fb-contrib errors. Author: rnveach #11140
  • Add github action to bump year in license. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11194
  • Enforce file size on Java inputs. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11163
  • Prevent usage of 'getFileContents()' method in code. Author: haanhvu #9889
  • Infra: migrate to Truth in tests. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #9142
  • Update existing Input files to follow 100 line limit . Author: Abhinav Rajput #10625
  • Resolve Reflection Suppressions and Import Control. Author: rnveach #11113
  • Add sb-contrib plugin to spotbugs configuration. Author: pbludov #11120
  • Refactor XdocsPagesTest to use some annotation to specify the property type. Author: pbludov #10744
  • Replace assertions guarded by 'if' with assumeXXX methods in tests. Author: pbludov #11131
  • Remove checkConstructorIsPrivate from TestUtil#isUtilsClassHasPrivateConstructor. Author: pbludov #11107

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.2.1 (Dec 29, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • SimplifyBooleanExpression: A false negative about ternary operator. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11015
  • ParameterAssignment does not detect problem for Lambda parameters. Author: Vyom-Yadav #11038
  • NPE in IllegalTypeCheck when checking a record (Java 14). Author: Rahul Khinchi #10817
  • Version 9.x Reports Whitespace Before Paren After String with Emojis. Author: nmancus1 #11001
  • TrailingCommentsCheck ignores first comment character. Author: nmancus1 #10997
  • Notes:
  • Update existing Input files to follow 100 line limit . Author: Abhinav Rajput #10625
  • doc: extend beginning development with step to build in terminal before IDE. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Infra: migrate to Truth in tests. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #9142
  • adds section for list of supported JREs. Author: rnveach #10891
  • Rebase Github action is failing due to missed permission. Author: Roman Ivanov #11052
  • Setup JDK17 build. Author: pbludov #10905
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser for filters. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10737
  • Make powermock tests compatible with JDK17+. Author: rnveach #7368
  • Remove `illegal-access=warn` workaround for JDK16. Author: nmancus1 #11067
  • Update Xpath unit tests to have at least two test methods. Author: rnveach #8151
  • Pitest2 job fails when image is upgraded to ubuntu-2004:202010-01. Author: rnveach #9351
  • RightCurlyCheck.isBlockAloneOnSingleLine might throw NPE . Author: rnveach #11054
  • Remove dependency on Powermock from tests. Author: pbludov #10932
  • Fix links to maven web site - maven.apache.org. Author: Aditya Vishwakkarma, Roman Ivanov #11003
  • update doc for RedundantImport. Author: Binita Kumari #7688
  • Group Shell Scripts by Activity and not CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #11029
  • All scripts in Travis should be single line to return exit code to Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #11027
  • create example of AST for TokenTypes.ELIST. Author: Binita Kumari #9420
  • Add support for violation N lines above/below in Inline Config Parser. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10752
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.INSTANCE_INIT. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9455
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.ANNOTATION. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9387
  • create example of AST for TokenTypes.EMPTY_STAT. Author: Binita Kumari #9422
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.BLOCK_COMMENT_END. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9400

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.2 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Record inside interface is treated as method. Author: nmancus1 #10978
  • Bug fixes:
  • OperatorWrap with token ASSIGN too strict for annotations. Author: Andrei Paikin #10945
  • NPE in EqualsAvoidNull check when accessing string from base class with 'this' qualifier. Author: Andrei Paikin #10962
  • ClassFanOutComplexity fails to count all classes in multicatch and implements clause. Author: Andrei Paikin #10144
  • Version 9.x reports NoWhitespaceBefore error on semicolon or comma after string with emoji. Author: nmancus1 #10920
  • JavadocMethod accessModifiers incorrectly interpreted for interface class. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10835
  • Notes:
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.CTOR_CALL. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9412
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.IDENT. Author: Binita Kumari #9450
  • Message validation in our Inputs should not have trailing and leading '.*'. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10943
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_BOOLEAN. Author: Venkatesh-24 #9463
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_BREAK. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9464
  • Checkstyle's special system properties about localisation does not work. Author: Andrei Paikin #9072
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_MEMBER_VALUE_PAIR. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9372
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.ELLIPSIS. Author: MUzairS15 #9421
  • Travis - arch ppc64le: execution of some unexpected command. Author: Roman Ivanov #10959
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_NATIVE. Author: Abhinav Rajput #9485
  • Travis Build Failures: not enough credits. Author: Roman Ivanov #10778
  • MetadataGeneratorUtil should take the module folders as inputs. Author: MUzairS15 #10749
  • Inline Config Parser throws complex exception without config in input file. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10764
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PARAMETERS. Author: Venkatesh-24 #9551
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LAMBDA. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9458
  • Make powermock tests compatible with JDK17+. Author: pbludov #7368
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser for filters. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10737
  • Remove curly braces usage for javadoc tags in translations. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10910
  • Doc: new translations for various properties by crowdin. Author: rnveach
  • Doc: new translations for various properties. Author: rnveach

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.1 (Oct 31, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Change type "Regular Expression" to "Pattern" in docs. Author: pbludov #10842
  • Bug fixes:
  • False positive for switch expressions in MissingSwitchDefault. Author: Hyeonmin Park #10866
  • UnusedImports error if there are only array references to a given class. Author: Andrei Paikin #10855
  • StackOverflow Error in IndentationCheck on deeply concatenated strings. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10810
  • RedundantModifierCheck only reports first instance of redundant modifier. Author: Akash Mondal #10806
  • WhitespaceAround misrecognizes white spaces after emojis. Author: nmancus1 #10837
  • Notes:
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DOUBLE_COLON. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9419
  • Doc: fix broken scm manager install link. Author: Anirvan Sarkar
  • Make violations diff readable. Author: pbludov #10872
  • Update org.reflections:reflections dependency to new version 0.10.X. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10901
  • JavadocMetadataScraper fails silently if it can't write the XML files. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10747
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.ENUM. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9423
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.GENERIC_START. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9448
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.GENERIC_END. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9447
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.ENUM_DEF. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9425
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.GE. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9446
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_THROW. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9499
  • Fix PMD violation CognitiveComplexity. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10064
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_ASSERT. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9462
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.ENUM_CONSTANT_DEF. Author: Rahul Khinchi #9424
  • Add maven modernizer plugin. Author: Andrei Paikin #10760
  • Fix sarif validation schema link and no-validations profile. Author: Andrei Paikin #10863
  • UT output should be silent. Author: Amar Prakash Pandey #10844
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SUPER_CTOR_CALL. Author: Shubhojeet Banerjee #9579
  • Spelling: fix mistypes in SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter. Author: pbludov
  • Investigate localization service crowdin.com. Author: Andrei Paikin #6191

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.0.1 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix up messages - mojibake, lone apostrophes and accidental apostrophes substitutes. Author: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva #10828
  • Notes:
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.AT. Author: vinayak-gaikwad #9396
  • Add links to projects with additional checkstyle checks to site. Author: Andrei Paikin #10057
  • JavadocMetadataScrapperTest and InlineConfigParser fixes. Author: rnveach #10827
  • XmlMetaReader fails if package given to it has no expected resource files listed. Author: rnveach #10773
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Joshua Kuan, kthirano #6207
  • Javadoc everything. Author: pbludov #10818
  • The build shoul fail on Javadoc linter warnings. Author: pbludov #10815 minor: fix drone build by excluding archives from line length check. Author: Roman Ivanov #10800
  • Provide javadocs for Support clases in tests. Author: Devansu-Yadav #6336
  • Doc: splits up the release notes more and moves off older items. Author: rnveach
  • Config: bump spotbugs to new version. Author: pbludov #10781
  • Travis Build Failures. Author: rnveach #10778
  • Use cache for maven dependencies to speed up drone io builds. Author: Vadym #10065
  • JavadocMetadataScraper doesn't identify "CheckstyleTestMakeupCheck" name correctly. Author: Vyom-Yadav #10756
  • Update Doc of CommentIndentation. Author: Abhinav #9935
  • Survived line in pitest.sh pitest-java-ast-visitor. Author: Nick Mancuso #10755
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser for filters. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10737

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 9.0 (Aug 31, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Add COMPILATION_UNIT token in Ast Tree, remove EOF token. Author: Nick Mancuso #3095
  • Upgrade Java Grammar from ANTLR2 to ANTLR4. Author: Nick Mancuso #10272
  • Bug fixes:
  • Checkstyle fails with unusual annotations. Author: Nick Mancuso #8652
  • annotation array initialization indentation issue. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #10020
  • Checkstyle fails on nested type parameters. Author: Nick Mancuso #8945
  • Notes:
  • Refactor Inline Parsing and add support for inputs with multiple modules. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10745
  • Add ability to suppress forbidden API by annotation. Author: Roman Ivanov #10751
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser for tests using MemberNameCheck. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10736
  • Inlined config for Filters Inputs. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10653
  • Migrate to new verify method for inlined configs . Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10390
  • Add support for file path in Inline Config Parser. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10725
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Regexp Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10720
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Whitespace Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10689
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Miscellaneous Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10693
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Javadoc Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10692
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Coding Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10548
  • Unit tests that involve `StackOverflow` should use limited stack size. Author: Nick Mancuso #10605
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Sizes Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10676
  • Github actions for pitest does not safe artifacts in master builds for all executions. Author: AkMo3 #10684
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Naming Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10688
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Imports Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10671
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Modifier Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10675
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Block Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10659
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Metric Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10672
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Design Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10667
  • Add support for multiple violations on adjacent lines in Input Parser. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10665
  • Permanent suppression section at checkstyle_input_suppressions.xml. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10652
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Annotation Check Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10649
  • Add support for messages in inlined config. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10545
  • doc: update jooq link. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • How to define null in inlined config. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10527
  • doc: fix writingchecks.xml docs. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • Add support for multiple violations on same line in Input Parser. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10190
  • Some Inputs can not have comment on line with violation. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10378
  • Enforce line limit 100 on all Input files.. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10624
  • support non-ASCII characters in identifiers. Author: Nick Mancuso #8050
  • Checkstyle freezes on deeply nested lambdas. Author: Nick Mancuso #8291
  • Checkstyle fails to parse local enum and interface declarations. Author: Nick Mancuso #10464
  • Checkstyle fails to parse local record with `final` modifier. Author: Nick Mancuso #10516
  • Checkstyle fails to parse single comma in annotation array initialization. Author: Nick Mancuso #10515
  • Checkstyle fails to parse qualified constructor parameter. Author: Nick Mancuso #10424
  • Consider moving pitest from CircleCI to another CI. Author: AkMo3 #10188
  • doc: fix broken scm manager install link. Author: Nick Mancuso
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10548

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.45.1 (Aug 8, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • MissingJavadocMethod misses inner classes of interfaces. Author: pbludov #9876
  • Indentation: Java14 switch expressions[JEP-361] fails indentation checks when lineWrappingIndentation property of Indentation module is a non-default value. Author: Vadym #8929
  • Notes:
  • Migrate to Inline Config Parser in Tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10548
  • Refactor input files in check tests. 39 Check tests were updated. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10080
  • Upgrade appveyor to 3.8.1 maven and use option to now show download process. Author: AkMo3 #10513
  • JavadocTagContinuationIndentation does not check text inside HTML elements. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9315
  • Run regression testing in CI over openjdk16. Author: Nick Mancuso #10431
  • Violate original verify method and suppress errors. Author: Roman Ivanov #10391
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LCURLY. Author: Hreshi #9460
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.COMMENT_CONTENT. Author: vinayak-gaikwad #9411
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_CASE. Author: vinayak-gaikwad #9466
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_YIELD. Author: Shubhojeet Banerjee #9507

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.45 (Jul 31, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Incorrect catch parameter line/ column number reported. Author: Nick Mancuso #10134
  • Inconsistent `TYPE_ARGUMENT` AST. Author: Nick Mancuso #10121
  • New:
  • New Check: NoWhitespaceBeforeCaseDefaultColon. Author: Akash Mondal #8186
  • Bug fixes:
  • MatchXpath: should support comments. Author: AkMo3 #10107
  • Javadoc parser/grammar doesn't report the correct lines in Javadoc AST. Author: Nick Mancuso #10208
  • Violations from TrailingComment should possible to suppress by xpath by content of comment. Author: AkMo3 #9009
  • ArrayTypeStyle false positives in nested generics. Author: Nick Mancuso #10215
  • Notes:
  • Refactor input files in check tests. 102 Check tests were updated. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10080
  • Add Configuration.getPropertyNames and Configuration.getProperty and deprecate getAttributeNames getAttribute methods. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10164
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.COLON. Author: vinayak-gaikwad #9409
  • Loggers should use class for printing to output that does only localization. Author: AkMo3 #9794
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - AbstractJavadocCheck. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10126
  • Doc: add example to ImportOrder about other groups. Author: Ritik2604 #5982
  • Google test uses check input for OneStatementPerLineTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10277
  • Add support for violation message. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10079
  • Move all "No Error" execution from wercker.yml to travis.yml. Author: Nick Mancuso #10178
  • Parse and extract violations. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10078

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.44 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Java Grammar: improper method def line and column position for methods with ARRAY_DECLARATOR. Author: Nick Mancuso #3145
  • Bug fixes:
  • AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters should support trailing '' escape symbol. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9143
  • Extract parameter type from nested array declarator brackets. Author: Nick Mancuso #10100
  • AtclauseOrder: Falsely ignores method with annotation. Author: Vyom-Yadav #9941
  • False Positive Comments Indentaion method end, multiline comments. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9105
  • Notes:
  • Infra: migrate to Truth in tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9142
  • Update inputs for AnnotationLocationCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10174
  • Update inputs for ArrayTypeStyleCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10175
  • Parse and extract check properties from input file. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10141
  • Update inputs for NeedBracesCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10160
  • Support line wrap for config values in input files. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10163
  • Update inputs for AvoidNestedBlocksCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10155
  • Update inputs for ParameterNameCheckTest . Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10145
  • Update inputs for MissingJavadocMethodCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10147
  • Update inputs for IllegalImportCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10148
  • Semaphore: Invalid or corrupt jarfile .m2/repository/R-4.17-202009021800/ecj-4.17.jar. Author: Roman Ivanov #10138
  • Cover it folder by import control. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10074
  • spelling: fix mistype in wercker.sh. Author: pbludov
  • Parse and extract check name and check properties from input file. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10077
  • Update inputs for AnnotationUseStyleCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10112
  • Update inputs for PackageAnnotationCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10114
  • Update inputs for MissingDeprecatedCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10113
  • update ArrayTypeStyleCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: haanhvu #9880
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.TEXT_BLOCK_LITERAL_BEGIN. Author: [email protected] #9582
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.CASE_GROUP. Author: [email protected] #9406
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_BYTE. Author: hreshi #9465
  • Update inputs for AnnotationOnSameLineCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10083
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - pitest-imports (1). Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10072
  • Update inputs for MissingOverrideCheckTest. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10082
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_FIELD_DEF. Author: [email protected] #9392
  • Refactor check for config comment in inputs. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10094
  • update IllegalTypeCheckTest to use unique input file for each test method. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9921
  • Restrict usage of org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions package in tests. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #10051
  • Replace ANTLR2 dependencies in unit test inputs. Author: Nick Mancuso #10059

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.43 (May 30, 2021)

  • New:
  • Add support summary Javadoc tag in SummaryJavadoc. Author: AkMo3 #7202
  • Add SARIF as a supported output format. Author: Chao Zhang #8905
  • Bug fixes:
  • UnnecessaryParentheses false positives in 8.42. Author: Vyom-Yadav #9957
  • Unresolvable indentation violation for method definition parenthesis. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9269
  • JDK16: final after instanceof. Author: Nick Mancuso #9897

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.42 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Rename LocalizedMessage to Violation. Author: AkMo3 #4465
  • JavadocMethodCheck: swap scope to access modifiers. Author: Nick Mancuso #7417
  • New:
  • Checkstyle 8.37 parser crashes processing sealed classes or interfaces. Author: Nick Mancuso #8989
  • UnnecessaryParentheses: no violation on parenthesis in if statement between || and &&. Author: VyomYadav #5779
  • Bug fixes:
  • EmptyLineSeparator: fix message and documentation. Author: Aryaniiit002 #9803
  • ModiferOrderCheck should support 'sealed' and 'non-sealed'. Author: Nick Mancuso #9854
  • WhitespaceAround ignores empty constructor whitespaces. Author: VyomYadav #8237
  • Java: CommentsIndentation false positive for comments in multiline arguments. Author: AkMo3 #8010
  • EmptyLineSeparator skips single line comments under package. Author: AkMo3 #7297
  • IllegalIdentifierName doesn't check single no-parentheses lambda parameter. Author: Nick Mancuso #9756
  • EmptyLineSeparator: Inability to use xpath for violation on empty line. Author: AkMo3 #8179
  • Notes:
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_CLASS. Author: Mitrajit Chandra Chandra, Saransh #9469
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_SWITCH. Author: Saransh #9496
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_THIS. Author: Saransh #9498
  • Update NeedBracesCheckTest to use unique input file for each test method. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9887
  • Update IllegalImportCheckTest to use unique input file for each test method. Author: Saransh #9896
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RPAREN. Author: Mitrajit Chandra Chandra #9566
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_FINALLY. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9476
  • Update MagicNumberCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9796
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.MOD. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9517
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_THROWS. Author: Saransh #9500
  • Update RightCurlyCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9768
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_RETURN. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9492
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_TRY. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9503
  • Update JavadocVariableCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: theexplorist #9530
  • Update EmptyBlockCheckTest.java to use unique input file in each test method. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9816
  • Update coding/VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheckTest to use unique input file for each test method. Author: Amr Bumadian #9864
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.INDEX_OP. Author: Saransh #9454
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.UNARY_MINUS. Author: Saransh #9593
  • CI Check links step fails. Author: AkMo3 #9873
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_DOUBLE. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9473
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LABELED_STAT. Author: Saransh #9457
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.EXPR. Author: Saransh #9428
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RESOURCE_SPECIFICATION. Author: haanhvu #9564
  • Update AnnotationUseStyleCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: haanhvu #9520
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.CLASS_DEF. Author: Saransh #9408
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.EXTENDS_CLAUSE. Author: Saransh #9429
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_VOLATILE. Author: Amr Bumadian #9505
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_INSTANCEOF. Author: Amr Bumadian #9481
  • Update AnnotationLocationCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9437
  • Doc: removes unknown docs folder for sun config. Author: rnveach
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.QUESTION. Author: Ruchi Sahu #9557
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.FOR_ITERATOR. Author: Saransh #9445
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_FOR. Author: Saransh #9479
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.FOR_INIT. Author: Saransh #9444
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_SUPER. Author: Soist #9495
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.FOR_CONDITION. Author: Saransh #9442
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LPAREN. Author: stonefix #9510
  • Update ParameterNameCheckTest.java to use unique input file in each test method . Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9824
  • Update JavadocStyleCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Saransh #9525
  • Update JavadocTypeCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9526
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_ARGUMENT. Author: haanhvu #9585
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.MODIFIERS. Author: theanmolsharma #9519
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.IMPLEMENTS_CLAUSE. Author: theanmolsharma #9451
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_NULL. Author: theanmolsharma #9487
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.FINAL. Author: theanmolsharma #9441
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LE. Author: Abhijeet Sinha #9461
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PARAMETER_DEF. Author: Amr Bumadian #9550
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.WILDCARD_TYPE. Author: Mehmet #9596
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_TRANSIENT. Author: Saransh #9501
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LNOT. Author: Ansuman Behera #9508
  • Update LeftCurlyCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9767
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RBRACK. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9558
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: Ritik2604 #9471
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LOR. Author: Ansuman Behera #9509
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LT. Author: Saransh #9511
  • Update MethodLengthCheckTest.java to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9749
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.GT. Author: Ansuman Behera #9449
  • Update documentation for BeforeExecutionExclusionFileFilter. Author: Ritik2604 #8269
  • Update DeclarationOrderCheckTest.java to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9773
  • Update TypecastParenPadCheckTest.java to use unique input file in each test method. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9814
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.METHOD_REF. Author: Saransh #9514
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_ARRAY_INIT. Author: Saransh #9390
  • Update AbstractClassNameCheckTest.java to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Ritik2604 #9746
  • Update ImportOrderCheckTest.java to use unique input file in each test method. Author: Saransh #9780
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RCURLY. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9559
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RESOURCES. Author: Saransh #9565
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_PRIVATE. Author: theanmolsharma #9488
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_TRUE. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9502
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_ARGUMENTS. Author: djzenma #9586
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_RECORD. Author: theanmolsharma #9491
  • Prefer Method Reference above lambda expressions. Author: AkMo3 #9784
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_CONTINUE. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9470
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_STATIC. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9494
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_FLOAT. Author: theanmolsharma #9477
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_SHORT. Author: theanmolsharma #9493
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PLUS. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9553
  • Update WriteTagCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: AkMo3 #9531
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_PROTECTED. Author: Ritik2604 #9489
  • Update MissingJavadocTypeCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Saransh #9527
  • Update ExecutableStatementCountCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9736
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SWITCH_RULE. Author: jz20 #9580
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PATTERN_VARIABLE_DEF. Author: jz20 #9552
  • Update AnnotationOnSameLineCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9522
  • Update JavadocPackageCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9528
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RESOURCE. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9563
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_LONG. Author: theanmolsharma #9484
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.CTOR_DEF. Author: AkMo3 #9413
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_INT. Author: theanmolsharma #9482
  • Update AvoidStarImportCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: jz20 #9741
  • Update MissingJavadocMethodCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9524
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_VOID. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9504

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.41.1 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Reevaluate tokens in google config for OperatorWrapCheck. Author: Ayushman Sachan #4122
  • FinalClass should exempt private-only constructor classes that also have nested subclasses. Author: VyomYadav #9357
  • Problem to match content of textblock by xpath to suppress violation. Author: AkMo3 #9359
  • Checkstyle 8.41 introduces regression on indentation rules when the line starts with new after try {. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9341
  • TrailingComment report violation on comment at the begining of line. Author: AkMo3 #9010
  • False negative with validateThrows in JavadocMethod. Author: wltan #8117
  • Generated xpath suppressions should escape xml symbols. Author: Akash Mondal #6893
  • SingleLineJavadoc update for new requirements what tags are allowed in singleline javadoc. Author: Himanshu Rijal #4052
  • Fix escaped char pattern in AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck. Author: Andrei Paikin #9314
  • Notes:
  • Update MissingOverrideCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9523
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_INTERFACE. Author: theanmolsharma #9483
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.INTERFACE_DEF. Author: theanmolsharma #9456
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SINGLE_LINE_COMMENT. Author: MahmoudAbdelazim #9568
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.OBJBLOCK. Author: Saransh #9548
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.FOR_EACH_CLAUSE. Author: theanmolsharma #9443
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_PUBLIC. Author: theanmolsharma #9490
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.COMMA. Author: jz20 #9410
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_WHILE. Author: theanmolsharma #9506
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STATIC_INIT. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9576
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.VARIABLE_DEF. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9595
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.MINUS. Author: shubham11941140 #9515
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.BLOCK_COMMENT_BEGIN. Author: Devansu-Yadav #9399
  • Update SingleLineJavadocCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9532
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SLIST. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9570
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SEMI. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9567
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DOT. Author: theexplorist #9418
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STATIC_IMPORT. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9575
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TEXT_BLOCK_CONTENT. Author: VyomYadav #9581
  • Resolve Pitest Issue - AbstractJavadocCheck. Author: AkMo3 #9722
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RECORD_DEF. Author: theanmolsharma #9562
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_IF. Author: theanmolsharma #9480
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RECORD_COMPONENT_DEF. Author: theanmolsharma #9560
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_PARAMETER. Author: theanmolsharma #9589
  • Update doc for EmptyForIteratorPad. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #7618
  • Update JavadocMethodCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: AkMo3 #9529
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DO_WHILE. Author: theexplorist #9417
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.CHAR_LITERAL. Author: theexplorist #9407
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_PARAMETERS. Author: theanmolsharma #9590
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.RECORD_COMPONENTS. Author: theanmolsharma #9561
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.BSR. Author: theexplorist #9404
  • Create MatchXPath instance to forbid usage of "@Issue" annotation. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9138
  • Update doc for MissingDeprecated. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #7572
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #9584
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_EXTENSION_AND. Author: Saransh #9587
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.IMPORT. Author: theanmolsharma #9452
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED. Author: theanmolsharma #9497
  • After mport projec to IDEA there is build problem at InputIllegalImportDefault.java. Author: Roman Ivanov #9678
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.NOT_EQUAL. Author: theexplorist #9543
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.EQUAL. Author: theexplorist #9427
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TEXT_BLOCK_LITERAL_END. Author: theanmolsharma #9583
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PACKAGE_DEF. Author: theanmolsharma #9549
  • Update doc for JavadocVariable. Author: Saransh #7602
  • TrailingComment: correction for description in documentation. Author: Roman Ivanov #9643
  • Update AtclauseOrderCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Nick Mancuso #9533
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.UNARY_PLUS. Author: hiron1999 #9594
  • Update JavadocParagraphCheckTest to use unique Input file in each test method. Author: Aryaniiit002 #9535
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.ABSTRACT. Author: 20001LastOrder #9371
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.METHOD_DEF. Author: AkMo3 #9513
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STAR. Author: edwardlee #9573
  • update example of AST for TokenTypes.POST_INC. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9556
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.METHOD_CALL. Author: Saransh #9512
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPECAST. Author: Nick Mancuso #9592
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.ARRAY_DECLARATOR. Author: vivek286 #9394
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.MOD_ASSIGN. Author: Saransh #9518
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_LOWER_BOUNDS. Author: Saransh #9588
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.POST_DEC. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9554
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.NUM_LONG. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9547
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.NUM_INT. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9546
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.NUM_FLOAT. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9545
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.MINUS_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9516
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STAR_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9574
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SR. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9571
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SL. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9569
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.BAND_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9398
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.BSR_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9405
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DIV_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9416
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.PLUS_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9555
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STRING_LITERAL. Author: Saransh #9578
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.NUM_DOUBLE. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9544
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.SR_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9572
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.STRICTFP. Author: Saransh #9577
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.TYPE_UPPER_BOUNDS. Author: Saransh #9591
  • Update doc for ModifiedControlVariable. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #7649
  • Add default config and code examples for EmptyCatchBlock. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #7581
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DEC. Author: theexplorist #9414
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.ASSIGN. Author: Anshuman Singh #9373
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.BOR. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9402
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.DIV. Author: theexplorist #9415
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.BNOT. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9401
  • Create example of AST for TokenTypes.BOR_ASSIGN. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9403
  • Sonar violation: "Character classes should be preferred over reluctant quantifiers in regular expressions". Author: martin-mfg #8548
  • Add example of AST for TokenTypes.BAND. Author: Anshuman Singh #9397
  • Add new prefix "supplemental:" to commit validation. Author: AkMo3 #8928
  • Update example of AST for TokenTypes.ARRAY_INIT. Author: Anshuman Singh #9395
  • Extract common bash CI functions into util.sh. Author: Aryaniiit002 #9348
  • Generated link is incorrect if fork branch name has hash sign. Author: Andrei Paikin #9323
  • Sonar violation: Disable access to external entities in XML parsing.. Author: Andrei Paikin #9342
  • Update doc for SingleLineJavadoc. Author: the-first-avenger #7605
  • Add Method Name to Logger outputs for MethodLengthCheck. Author: Butch Howard #9353
  • Remove DetailAstImpl usages from main code. Author: AkMo3 #9271
  • Update CI executions to not fails if testing sources already cloned. Author: rnveach #9268
  • Remove downlaod progress from maven executions. Author: Andrei Paikin #9343

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.41 (Feb 28, 2021)

  • New:
  • Checkstyle should support "classpath:" protocol. Author: Nick Mancuso #9170
  • Bug fixes:
  • ImportOrder and CustomImportOrder report only first "Extra separation" violation, inconsistent order. Author: rnveach #9251
  • Record implementing interfaces, indentation faulty. Author: Nick Mancuso #9152
  • JavadocTagContinuationIndentation: no violation with block tag starting the line. Author: wltan #5711
  • Correct NoEnumTrailingCheck and UnnessaryEnumSemicolonCheck to handle empty enums. Author: Andrei Paikin #9230
  • Regression in IndentationCheck 8.40 regarding the white spaces needed in a second line of a try/resource declaration. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9236
  • Checkstyle fails on empty enum with only comma in it. Author: Andrei Paikin #8653
  • SuppressWarningsHolder fails on @SuppressWarnings in annotation array initialization. Author: Andrei Paikin #9260
  • Record definition elements "record component list" and "implements clause" out of order in AST. Author: Nick Mancuso #9221
  • Notes:
  • Create parser util class that will host util methods for parser that creates AST. Author: Nick Mancuso #9272
  • Update doc for ParameterAssignment. Author: AkMo3 #7655
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - RegexpHeader. Author: Aryaniiit002 #9317
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - HeaderCheck (1). Author: Aryaniiit002 #9304
  • test inputs should be compilable with javac11. Author: pbludov #9310
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (6). Author: Ayushman Sachan #7877
  • Solve Spotbugs violations reported for Java 11. Author: pbludov #9297
  • doc: fix checkstyle jar version in issue templates. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Extend closed issues job to check issues in other repos. Author: Andrei Paikin #9298
  • Disable markdownlint rule MD041. Author: pbludov #9292
  • Add one more closed to do issue pattern and fix violations. Author: Andrei Paikin #9276
  • update doc for AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters. Author: Vyom-Yadav #9131
  • Update doc for UniqueProperties. Author: Divesh2201 #7595
  • Update doc for NeedBraces. Author: Vyom Yadav #7583
  • update CircleCi to try one more time execution of mvn dependency:go-offline. Author: Roman Ivanov #9115
  • update doc for CustomImportOrder. Author: Soumyadeep Ganguly #7686
  • Update doc for RequireThis. Author: Ayushman Sachan #7656
  • Add job to scan sources for closed issue references. Author: Andrei Paikin #9256
  • update doc for RegexpMultiline. Author: stryder2000 #7695
  • Update doc for HiddenField. Author: Aryaniiit002 #7641
  • IllegalType: update examples to show how to target Check to fields only. Author: Aryaniiit002 #8930
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (7). Author: Aryaniiit002 #7878
  • Build also xwiki-rendering and xwiki-platform in the no regression travis job. Author: Thomas Mortagne #9242
  • Minimize the stack size used for unit tests. Author: pbludov #9163
  • diff report generation should have default projects file. Author: Andrei Paikin #9255
  • doc: remove outdated limitation from google style doc. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Improve metadata code and coverage. Author: Andrei Paikin #9231
  • Update doc for DeclarationOrder. Author: Ayushman Sachan #7635
  • documentation of VariableDeclarationUsageDistance has stange note of default distance. Author: Ayushman Sachan #9219
  • Update doc for IllegalInstantiation. Author: Himanshu Rijal #7643
  • Sonar Dashboard link doesn't work in Generated Reports. Author: Akash Mondal #9217
  • Checkstyle should support property expansion within property definitions (property chaining). Author: Nick Mancuso #9173

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.40 (Jan 31, 2021)

  • New:
  • Create new check RecordComponentName. Author: Andrei Paikin #8765
  • DesignForExtension: Special comment. Author: Nick Mancuso #4358
  • AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters should support 's' escape symbol. Author: Nick Mancuso #9133
  • Bug fixes:
  • Metadata generation fails on line wrapped type description. Author: Andrei Paikin #9204
  • Exception message for invalid token is unclear . Author: Andrei Paikin #8932
  • Indentation check gives false positive: 'array initialization rcurly' has incorrect indentation. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #8979
  • UnusedImports doesn't recognize imports shadowed by inner interfaces. Author: pbludov #4219
  • Unresolvable 'new' Indentation Rule conflict introduced in 8.38. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9071
  • ForceStrictCondition should not affect individual array elements.. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9086
  • AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck: False positive on text blocks with a line separation. Author: Nick Mancuso #9159
  • Notes:
  • doc: udpate BeforeExecutionExclusionFileFilter to show example of negative lookahead. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • fix TOKEN_TEXT_PATTERN in JavadocMetadataScraper. Author: Roman Ivanov #9140
  • Update doc for VariableDeclarationUsageDistance. Author: Ayushman Sachan #7663
  • update doc for ImportOrder. Author: Aryan Bindal #7687
  • Github action CodeQL should use maven cache. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9203
  • update ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md to make demand to show current beharior by CLI. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9114
  • Update doc for FileTabCharacter. Author: Ayushman Sachan #7620
  • Update doc for AvoidNestedBlocks. Author: Ayushman Sachan #7579
  • Add optional label/title to diff report message. Author: Andrei Paikin #9177
  • Github actions should react with thump up (+1) emoj on message if triggered. Author: Akash Mondal #9187
  • minor: fix anchors for generated pages. Author: Andrei Paikin #9185
  • nondex tool found issue in token ordering at Indentation. Author: Nick Mancuso #9003
  • Create MatchXpath instance to forbig usage of 'expected' element in Test annotation of junit. Author: Nick Mancuso #9137
  • Use diff.groovy in openjdk14-with-checks-nonjavadoc-error semaphore job. Author: Nick Mancuso #8960
  • To top button - different behavior and text on different pages. Author: Andrei Paikin #9001
  • no-error-pgjdbc is failing on master build. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #9176
  • Checkstyle: Javadoc not required on private method. Author: Andrei Paikin #8710

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.39 (Dec 31, 2020)

  • New:
  • New module: MatchXpath. Author: Timur Tibeyev #6481
  • Bug fixes:
  • OperatorWrapCheck no violation if single line comment after operator. Author: pbludov #8018
  • Xpath suppression matching prone to stack overflow. Author: pbludov #5820
  • Checkstyle fails on escape 's' character. Author: Nick Mancuso #8651
  • Incorrect warning for array initializer indentation inside annotations when using google_checks.xml. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #5951
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - TrailingComment. Author: Roman Ivanov #7763
  • IndentationCheck throws NPE on switch expresion with `->` on new line. Author: Nick Mancuso #9037
  • Notes:
  • Lack of space: that@SuppressWarnings. Author: Roman Ivanov #9130
  • Mark sonar violation 'Regular expressions should not overflow the stack' as false positive over AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck. Author: Roman Ivanov #9129
  • Github actions should reuse maven cache. Author: Andrei Paikin #9116
  • update trigering of web site generation in github actions by 'website'. Author: Andrei Paikin #9117
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for javadoc profile to 100%. Author: Andrei Paikin #6295
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (4). Author: Andrei Paikin #7875
  • Do clean in all Travis maven commands. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8908
  • Update wording of verify-no-exception-configs validation to mention what is expected. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #9066
  • Update doc for NestedIfDepth. Author: Vyom-Yadav #7652
  • Semaphore CI failing on josm project build as local artifact is not found. Author: pbludov #9021
  • Add default config example for ConstantName. Author: Vyom-Yadav #7564
  • Add default config example for MethodName. Author: Roman Ivanov #7567
  • IllegalType: inability to set default value for property memberModifiers. Author: Andrei Paikin #8933

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.38 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • new check: JavadocMissingLeadingAsteriskCheck. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #6722
  • Bug fixes:
  • InnerAssignment: false positives on for and do-while loops. Author: Roman Ivanov #6915
  • RequireThis: Incorrectly triggers for record fields in compact constructor. Author: Anh Minh Tran #8873
  • IndentationCheck: problem with content of anonymous class. Author: abhishek-kumar09 #5362
  • EmptyLineSeparator flags commas for multiple single type variables on line. Author: Andrei Paikin #8957
  • FinalLocalVariable throws a NPE on Switch expression in assignment. Author: Anh Minh Tran #8934
  • Notes:
  • Use azure CI for some validation tasks. Author: Roman Ivanov #7045
  • Travis is failing with error to install mdl package. Author: pbludov #9046
  • Isuse #7045: azure to use matrix. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Create jdk15 Input files compilation job in Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #9007
  • Test more project on drone.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #2460
  • Docker limits is reached in wercker . Author: Roman Ivanov #9019
  • Update doc for FinalClass. Author: Ehtesham #7609
  • google_checks.xml: Public class and interface javadoc is not checked. Author: Nick Mancuso #5148
  • Exclude Stream, Optional, and additional collection types from ClassFanOutComplexityCheck. Author: Andrei Paikin, Roman Ivanov #8537
  • Default values in meta files for wrapped list of values are incorrect. Author: Andrei Paikin #8941
  • Update doc for MultipleVariableDeclarations. Author: Akash Mondal #7669
  • doc: Update doc LeftCurly to have more examples. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • doc: add default example for NonEmptyAtclauseDescription. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Update doc for EmptyBlock. Author: Roman Ivanov #7580
  • doc: Update AtclauseOrderCheck for default config example. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • doc: add example for default config for AnnotationUseStyle. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Update doc for WriteTag. Author: Roman Ivanov #7606
  • MethodParamPad: add examples. Author: Roman Ivanov #3601
  • Relaxing the stated limitation about UTF-8 in documentation. Author: Olivier Cailloux #8551
  • Nondeterministic order of error messages in Translation check. Author: Rashmi Mudduluru #8963
  • Disable "checkstyle-cli-run-openjdk14" job in travis.sh. Author: Nick Mancuso #8921
  • change all "at-clause" terms to "block tag" from source code and documentation. Author: Roman Ivanov #8552
  • Run regression testing in CI over openjdk14 or newer codebase. Author: Nick Mancuso #8901
  • Remove Buddy CI config . Author: pbludov #8951
  • doc: add security policy page. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Keep user comment in env variable of git workflow. Author: Roman Ivanov #8938

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.37 (Oct 31, 2020)

  • New:
  • New check: LambdaBodyLength . Author: Andrei Paikin #8341
  • Bug fixes:
  • ClassFanOutComplexity: false positive on var. Author: Andrei Paikin #6346
  • Value 'empty' in metadata files for 'tokens' property cause problems in plugins. Author: Roman Ivanov #8916
  • FinalLocalVariable: NPE in records. Author: Anh Minh Tran #8895
  • Indentation: if with no curlies is not checked. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #3135
  • LocalFinalVariableName false-positive. Author: Andrei Paikin #8879
  • NonEmptyAtclauseDescription does not work for @return. Author: Andrei Paikin #8889
  • NoWhitespaceBeforeCheck: String index out of range (with Java 15 Text Block) when tabs are used. Author: Nick Mancuso #8849
  • Local records fail to parse when annotated. Author: Nick Mancuso #8856
  • Indentation: google-java-format and Checkstyle disagree about switch block indentation. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #3899
  • Notes:
  • doc: Add Mega-Linter to active tools list. Author: Nicolas Vuillamy
  • Anchor links for active and inactive tools on front page are broken. Author: Andrei Paikin #8925
  • update Cirrus CI to not print download progress in logs. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8918
  • Add default config example for ClassTypeParameterName. Author: AmrDeveloper #7562
  • Create Github action to generate web site . Author: Andrei Paikin #8876
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - RegexpCheck (2). Author: Anh Minh Tran #7983
  • Update doc for EqualsAvoidNull. Author: AmrDeveloper #7637
  • All Regexp Checks that has few instances should have id property. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8790
  • add spring-cloud-gcp project to CIs no errror regresson testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #6209
  • Add SpongePowered/Configurate Checkstyle run to CI to improve coverage of Java14 syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8859
  • update doc for AvoidStaticImport. Author: AmrDeveloper #7685
  • Update doc for EmptyStatement. Author: Anh Minh Tran #7665
  • Update doc for FallThrough. Author: Timur Tibeyev #7640
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-imports profile to 100% . Author: Hem Bhagat #6658
  • Use .ci/validation.cmd in appveyor ci. Author: pbludov #8864
  • Set up Cirrus CI. Author: pbludov #8855
  • Add markdown lint validation for .md files to CI. Author: pbludov #8909

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.36.2 (Sep 27, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Indentation: lambda don't respect lineWrappingIndentation when forceStrictCondition is false. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #3342
  • Java interface constants treated as non-public by ConstantName check. Author: Andrei Paikin #8569
  • JavadocTypeCheck: false positive with JavaDoc @param tags for Records (Java 14 + Java 15). Author: Nick Mancuso #8808

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.36.1 (Sep 12, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • DesignForExtension check crashes CheckStyle if an undocumented non-final method is present in a record (Java 14 + Java 15). Author: Nick Mancuso #8810
  • FinalClass check crashes CheckStyle if there are multiple constructors in a record (Java 14 + Java 15) . Author: Nick Mancuso #8811
  • IndentationCheck: false positive with nested records' methods (Java 14 + Java 15). Author: Nick Mancuso #8806
  • Support for all Token Types as a Property Type for Module Metadata. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8801
  • MissingSwitchDefault to exclude Java 14 switch expressions. Author: Nick Mancuso #8779
  • Set tokenTypesSet as validationType for non base token properties. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8785
  • Google style has improper enforcement of horizontal whitespace. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8122
  • Notes:
  • Update doc for NestedForDepth. Author: Roman Ivanov #7651
  • Improve code coverage for metadata generator classes. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8771
  • Update doc for IllegalThrows. Author: zy #7644
  • Update doc for ExplicitInitialization. Author: Demezhan Marikov #7639
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (1). Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7872
  • Doc: Add stickler-ci to the active tool list. Author: Mark Story

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.36 (Aug 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Create new check IllegalIdentifierName. Author: Nick Mancuso #8764
  • Create New Check RecordComponentNumberCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8748
  • JavadocParagraph should complain about missing blank line before at-clauses. Author: Joseph Mate #6192
  • New check RecordTypeParameterNameCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8513
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: JavaNCSSCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8505
  • Support for Java 14 switch/yield expression. Author: Nick Mancuso #6615
  • java 13 text blocks syntax is not supported. Author: Nick Mancuso #7103
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MethodParamPadCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8525
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: AbbreviationAsWordInNameCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8511
  • Implement full records support. Author: Nick Mancuso #8267
  • new Check: PatternVariableName. Author: Nick Mancuso #8407
  • Bug fixes:
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Nick Mancuso #8619
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8471
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: Indentation. Author: Nick Mancuso #8691
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: SuppressWarningsCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8456
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: AtclauseOrderCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8490
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: AnnotationLocationCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8454
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: AnnotationOnSameLineCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8455
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: WriteTagCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8499
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: UnnecessarySemicolonAfterTypeMemberDeclarationCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8476
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: UnnecessarySemicolonAfterOuterTypeDeclarationCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8475
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: InnerTypeLastCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8482
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: IllegalTypeCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8468
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: OneTopLevelClassCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8485
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: TypeNameCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8515
  • Compact Constructor AST is missing annotations. Author: Nick Mancuso #8734
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: HiddenFieldCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8466
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8502
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: CommentsIndentationCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8489
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: JavadocMethodCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8492
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: JavadocTypeCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8494
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MissingJavadocMethodCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8497
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MissingJavadocTypeCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8498
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: JavadocStyleCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8493
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: DeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8463
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8457
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: RightCurlyCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8460
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: MultipleStringLiteralsCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8616
  • LambdaParameterNameCheck throws NPE when parsing switch expressions. Author: Nick Mancuso #8683
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: ClassFanOutComplexityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8503
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8668
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: EmptyBlock. Author: Nick Mancuso #8662
  • VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck throws a NPE on switch expression syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8676
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: UnnecessaryParenthesesCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8618
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: ClassMemberImpliedModifierCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8577
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters. Author: Nick Mancuso #8613
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: StringLiteralEqualityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8617
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Support Check validation: IllegalTokenText. Author: Nick Mancuso #8576
  • Java 14 Text Blocks Checks Support validation: EqualsAvoidNullCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8614
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: MissingSwitchDefaultCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8672
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8663
  • NeedBracesCheck throws a NPE when parsing switch expression syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8664
  • IndentationCheck throws a NPE on switch expression syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8661
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: DefaultComesLastCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8665
  • Java 14 SwitchExpression Check Support validation: NPathComplexityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8681
  • HiddenFieldCheck throws a NPE on switch expression syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8659
  • UnnecessaryParenthesesCheck throws a NPE on switch expression syntax. Author: Nick Mancuso #8660
  • Change google_checks.xml to disallow abbreviations in identifiers names in accordance with Google Style Guide. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #3812
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: EmptyLineSeparatorCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8523
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MethodLengthCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8519
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: NoLineWrapCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8526
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: BooleanExpressionComplexityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8501
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: CyclomaticComplexityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8504
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: ExecutableStatementCountCheck . Author: Nick Mancuso #8517
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MethodCountCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8518
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: OuterTypeNumberCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8520
  • OuterTypeFileName throws NPE on record definition in method. Author: Nick Mancuso #8598
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: ParenPadCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8527
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: UncommentedMainCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8522
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: EqualsAvoidNullCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8464
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: OuterTypeFilenameCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8516
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: RequireThisCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8473
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: MagicNumberCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8469
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: UnusedImportsCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8488
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: NPathComplexityCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8506
  • Notes:
  • spelling: Correct French translations. Author: olivier-maury
  • Move metadata generation code to main from test folder. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8761
  • Introduction of modules metadata files generator. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8742
  • PMD shows WARN during build . Author: Nick Mancuso #8754
  • Remove BlockCommentPosition test input files from checkstyle_input_suppressions.xml. Author: Nick Mancuso #8738
  • doc: rectify RequireEmptyLineBeforeBlockTagGroupCheck javadoc. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta
  • Removal of examples from property description. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8732
  • Mofication of module property default values to reflect actual working data. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8726
  • doc: Modify PatternVariableNameCheck and RecordTypeParameterNameCheck to adhere to new template for metadata scraping. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta
  • Extend Checkstyle GUI tool to work with Xpath. Author: hembhagat #4944
  • Modification of javadoc example markers to support metadata generation. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8657
  • Proof of Java 14 syntax by new CI build item. Author: Nick Mancuso #8631
  • JavadocMethod: unclear message for incomplete tag. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #2408
  • Extract logic for token type checking to separate method. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8048
  • LineLengthCheck.fileExtensions default value and similar usages should be changed to empty string. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8633
  • Array default value should have no curly braces in Check javadoc documentation. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8630
  • master build failure due to leaked pitest coverage. Author: Nick Mancuso #8604
  • xml-maven-plugin validation should not validate '.ci-temp' folder . Author: Roman Ivanov #8606
  • ci: disable spring integration project validation due to build problem. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Tests fail with German locale on Windows with default encoding. Author: TB #6560
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: CovariantEqualsCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8462
  • Java14 Full Records Support Check Validation: WhitespaceAroundCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #8528
  • Format xml sources. Author: pbludov #8544

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.34 (Jun 28, 2020)

  • New:
  • INTERFACE_DEF token support in RightCurlyCheck. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7175
  • Bug fixes:
  • MissingJavadocMethod flagging private methods even target scope is public methods only. Author: Andrei Paikin #8266
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - Indentation. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7734
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - JavadocMethod. Author: HuGanghui #7739
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - EmptyLineSeparator. Author: HuGanghui #7730
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - VariableDeclarationUsageDistance. Author: HuGanghui #7766
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - TodoComment. Author: HuGanghui #7762
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingJavadocType. Author: HuGanghui #7747
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - UnnecessaryParentheses. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7765
  • Notes:
  • Add input file for Java14 records #8290 Author: nmancus1 #8290
  • doc: add example of how to run GUI from snapshot jar. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Java Grammar: need to introduce "id" rule to solve keyword as identifier problem. Author: nmancus1 #8308
  • Extend Checkstyle GUI tool to work with Xpath. Author: hembhagat #4944
  • Use JDK11 for wercker. Author: pbludov #8325
  • Update issue template to new format. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7834
  • Pitest Issue: Indentation. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #8270
  • Update java.g to allow new tokens to be added. Author: nmancus1 #8274
  • Remove rss and sourceforge banners from website. Author: Roman Ivanov #8286
  • Make test inputs compatible with Java 10+. Author: pbludov #8283
  • Use archunit library to control source code . Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7469

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.33 (May 31, 2020)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Drop CDATA support in javadoc grammar . Author: pbludov #4937
  • New:
  • new Check: NoCodeInFile. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8132
  • Allow to configure if ArrayTrailingComma should ignore single-line arrays. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #3201
  • Bug fixes:
  • Space betwee type annoation and [] or ... not verifiable for Google Style. Author: HuGanghui #6707
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - CustomImportOrder. Author: hembhagat #7728
  • Java9: try-with-resources should accept fields. Author: Harsh Kukreja #6332
  • JavadocTagContinuationIndentation doesn't report some lines. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #2813
  • Remove from PackageDeclaration validation for empty files. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8110
  • JavadocMethod: false positive with validateThrows if catched inside the method. Author: wltan #7473
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - CommentsIndentation. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7727
  • Notes:
  • Sonar API Token has no access rights. Author: Roman Ivanov #8279
  • Spotbugs should validate tests. Author: pbludov #8275
  • Suppress Spotbugs violation for internal JaCoCo field. Author: pbludov #8262
  • code cleanup: minimize future xdoc changes . Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #3946
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (5). Author: yajna pandith #7876
  • Cleanup .ci-temp folder after release notes generation. Author: nmancus1 #8268
  • resolve FileTabCharacter violations in test resources. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8019
  • Add default config example for AbstractClassName. Author: Praveen Kumar #7565
  • update doc for ClassDataAbstractionCoupling. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7690
  • Improve clean up of .ci-temp directory. Author: nmancus1 #7892
  • Sonar violations: Refactor the body of this try/catch to have only one invocation throwing an exception. Author: Roman Ivanov #8249
  • Checkstyle verification in printed as WARNING during build. Author: Roman Ivanov #8256
  • spelling: Fix broken links in sun_checks.xml. Author: tosi29
  • Making regex to validate missed space in comments in non main files. Author: HuGanghui #8169
  • Broken link - AvoidDoubleBraceInitialization. Author: HuGanghui #7889
  • Update CIs to validate empty outpu of 'git status' after execution. Author: nmancus1 #8228
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - JavadocMethodCheck (8). Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7980
  • Use JOSM in our CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #3786
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - UnusedImportsCheck. Author: AmrDeveloper #7921
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - CustomImportOrderCheck (3). Author: kaustubh #7804
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (2). Author: kaustubh #7873
  • Update doc for NoFinalizer. Author: Omar Shawky #7671
  • update test inputs to avoid long lines that violate 100 limit. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8036
  • doc: update link to moved javadoc-tool page. Author: pbludov
  • Resolve PMD warning deprecated attribute 'ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration/@Image' . Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8206
  • Jacoco coverage report should have grammar classes. Author: Roman Ivanov #8219
  • Update Xpath unit tests to have at least two test methods. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8151
  • Page that explains system properties is not accesible from main page. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #6475
  • Unclear beginning development instructions . Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8198
  • sync content of cli tool in xdoc and cli tool help output . Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #6216
  • Add default config example for CatchParameterName. Author: kaustubh #7563
  • Update doc for MissingCtor. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7667
  • Create code of conduct. Author: Akhil singh #7833
  • Update doc for AvoidInlineConditionals. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7664
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - JavadocMethodCheck (7). Author: Harsh Kukreja #7979
  • doc: repo1.maven.org demands https. Author: Roman Ivanov

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.32 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Checker should use UTF-8 encoding by default. Author: nmancus1 #6204
  • New:
  • Update type definitions for OneTopLevelClass. Author: wltan #7957
  • Add LABELED_STAT token support to NoWhitespaceBefore. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #8124
  • Google Style Should Enforce Spaces after Commas. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #5624
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName: static final option. Author: wltan #6582
  • New JavadocMissingWhitespaceAfterAsteriskCheck. Author: 0blivious #7183
  • Bug fixes:
  • Remove cli options -C and -W. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #8181
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7724
  • SuppressWarningsHolder should not report violations. Author: AmrDeveloper #7848
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - PackageDeclaration. Author: kaustubh #7758
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - JavadocType. Author: wltan #7741
  • Xpath results are not sorted in document order. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #6988
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder. Author: nmancus1 #7756
  • CustomImportOrderCheck.customImportOrderRules does not support the default value. Author: wltan #7128
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - InterfaceIsType. Author: HuGanghui #7735
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MethodCount. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7743
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AnnotationUseStyle. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7722
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - JavadocContentLocation. Author: Harsh Kukreja #7738
  • Notes:
  • update documentation for windows users. Author: wltan #2622
  • update doc for AnnotationOnSameLine. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7570
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - InterfaceMemberImpliedModifier. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7736
  • Improve clean up of .ci-temp directory. Author: nmancus1 #7892
  • Update doc for MissingJavadocMethod. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7603
  • Add default and missed property config example for AbbreviationAsWordInName. Author: wltan #7566
  • remove from configs hardcode caused by MCHECKSTYLE-332. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8168
  • Enforce -e for all maven commands. Author: HuGanghui #8118
  • Update doc for ParenPad. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7627
  • Update doc for InnerTypeLast. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7611
  • Update Xpath unit tests to have at least two test methods. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #8151
  • update doc for RegexpOnFilename. Author: hembhagat #7696
  • use RegexpSingleline Check to validate amount of tests in Xpath tests. Author: Malintha1996 #7987
  • Explain reason why Regexp can not be supported by Xpath. Author: kaustubh #7759
  • upadate doc of AvoidDoubleBraceInitialization to make example compilable. Author: wltan #7811
  • spelling: Fix typo in JavadocMethodCheck. Author: wltan
  • doc: add leading asterisks for javadoc. Author: Gaurav Punjabi
  • Update doc for JavadocTagContinuationIndentation. Author: kaustubh #7600
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - JavadocMethodCheck (1). Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7922
  • Update doc for SeparatorWrap. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7628
  • Update documentation of filters to reference targets of suppression. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7179
  • update doc for ClassFanOutComplexity. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7691
  • doc: Updated doc for OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder. Author: Guneshi Wickramaarachchi
  • Wrong tag usage in NeedBraces Check. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8011
  • Set up Semaphore CI. Author: Pavel Bludov #8051
  • move WriteTag Check to list of javadoc Check in XpathSuppressionFilter documentation. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7767
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingJavadocMethod. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #7745
  • ci: fix failure in codeship to recognize multiline commands. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • update doc for CyclomaticComplexity. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7692
  • Update doc for IllegalType. Author: kaustubh #7647
  • Set up JDK 14 build in CI. Author: pbludov #7969
  • OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrderCheck: warning message is unclear. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #4921
  • doc: Reduce amount of bold formatting. Author: wltan
  • Improve VisibilityModifier documentation for Rationale . Author: wltan #6745
  • Update doc for TypecastParenPad. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7630
  • Update doc for HideUtilityClassConstructor. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7610
  • resolve Trailing whitespace violations in test resources. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8020
  • LineLength is ignored in codeship config. Author: Roman Ivanov #7996
  • Update doc for UpperEll. Author: kaustubh #7596
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - RegexpCheck (1). Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7982
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - JavadocMethodCheck (6). Author: kaustubh #7978
  • Resolve errors reported by Travis Build Config Validation. Author: rnveach #8014
  • Update doc for JavadocStyle. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7599
  • OneTopLevelClass: Improve data structure efficiency. Author: wltan #7812
  • config_naming has inconsistent tag usage. Author: Shashwat Jaiswal #8005
  • Update doc for WhitespaceAround. Author: Harsh Kukreja #7632
  • Update doc for OperatorWrap. Author: Harsh Kukreja #7626
  • Update doc on description of package annotation. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7846
  • doc: update IndentationCheck note for SuppressionXpathFilter. Author: Abhishek-kumar09
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - ImportOrderCheck (3). Author: nmancus1 #7874
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - DetectorOptions. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7981
  • Update doc for NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7589
  • update doc for RegexpSingleline. Author: malintha1996 #7697

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.31 (Mar 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • New checkUnnecessarySemicolonAfterOuterTypeDeclaration. AuthorAndrei Paikin #7677
  • Bug fixes:
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AnnotationOnSameLine. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7721
  • Indentation violation for lambda depends on tab symbols in code. Authorliach #5969
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - LambdaParameterName. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7742
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingJavadocPackage. AuthorGaurab Dasgupta #7746
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - IllegalCatch. Authorsulkykookie #7732
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - InvalidJavadocPosition. AuthorShrey Kumar Singh #7737
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NeedBraces. AuthorGaurav Punjabi #7750
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - UncommentedMain. AuthorAmrDeveloper #7764
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - ImportOrder. Authorkaustubh #7733
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - JavadocStyle. Authorwltan #7740
  • NPE in MissingDeprecatedCheck. Authornmancus1 #7534
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AvoidStarImport. AuthorAkhil singh #7725
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - FinalClass. AuthorHuGanghui #7731
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingSwitchDefault. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7749
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingCtor. AuthorHuGanghui #7744
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AvoidStaticImport. AuthorGaurab Dasgupta #7726
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoLineWrap. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7753
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - PackageAnnotation. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7757
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AnnotationLocation. Authormalintha1996 #7768
  • LineLength measures Java characters, not Unicode characters. AuthorNick Mancuso #5089
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - OuterTypeFilename. AuthorHuGanghui #7755
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - SuppressWarningsHolder. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7761
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingOverride. AuthorHuGanghui #7748
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - ArrayTrailingComma. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7723
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoFinalizer. AuthorGaurab Dasgupta #7752
  • Exception when using SuppressWarningsHolder with @SuppressWarnings as an annotation property (e.g. in Lombok). AuthorAmrDeveloper #7522
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - OneTopLevelClass. Authorwltan #7754
  • JavadocStyleCheck incorrectly allows "style" tag. Authorwltan #7779
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoClone. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7751
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - EmptyCatchBlock. Authorgaurabdg #7729
  • Notes:
  • Update doc for NoLineWrap. Authorsulkykookie #7623
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - IllegalImportCheck (2). AuthorHarsh Kukreja #7855
  • update doc for AnnotationLocation to have config first and code sample after. AuthorPrabod Dunuwila #7569
  • Update doc for ThrowsCount. AuthorHarsh Kukreja #7615
  • update doc for NPathComplexity. Authoredwardlee #7694
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - RedundantImportCheck. AuthorGaurav Punjabi #7920
  • Update doc for InterfaceIsType. AuthorHuGanghui #7612
  • Update doc for InnerAssignment. AuthorAnubhav #7666
  • Update doc for MagicNumber. AuthorParag Pachpute #7648
  • update doc for JavaNCSS. AuthorGaurav Punjabi #7693
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - IllegalImportCheck (1). AuthorAkhil singh #7854
  • add spoon project to no-exception testing. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7914
  • docfix typo in config_whitespace.xml. AuthorHuGanghui
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - CustomImportOrderCheck (4). Authormalintha1996 #7805
  • Add pmd to no-error validation build item. AuthorNick Mancuso #7810
  • Update doc for DefaultComesLast. Authorkaustubh #7636
  • Update doc for NoWhitespaceBefore. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7625
  • pitestproblem with coverage in SuppressWarningsHolder.java.isSuppressedAfterEventStart AuthorAmrDeveloper #7885
  • Update doc for OuterTypeFilename. AuthorHuGanghui #7590
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStarImportCheck (1). AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7799
  • Update doc for RightCurly. Authoramoooma #7584
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStarImportCheck (2). AuthorHuGanghui #7800
  • Publish pitest report as artifact at circleci. AuthorGaurab Dasgupta #7832
  • Update doc for SingleSpaceSeparator. AuthorShrey Kumar Singh #7629
  • Update doc for NestedTryDepth. AuthorAbhishek-kumar09 #7653
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - CustomImportOrderCheck (1). Authorwltan #7802
  • Update doc for EqualsHashCode. Authorkaustubh #7638
  • Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStaticImportCheck. Authorgaurabdg #7801
  • update doc for PackageAnnotation. AuthorPrabod Dunuwila #7574
  • Update doc for SuperClone. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7661
  • update doc for RegexpSinglelineJava. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7698
  • update doc for MissingOverride. AuthorHuGanghui #7573
  • Update doc for SimplifyBooleanExpression. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7658
  • Update doc for IllegalCatch. Authorgaurabdg #7642
  • update doc for BooleanExpressionComplexity. AuthorAkhil singh #7689
  • Update doc for UncommentedMain. AuthorAmrDeveloper #7594
  • Update doc for IllegalTokenText. AuthorHuGanghui #7646
  • Update doc for OneTopLevelClass. Authorwltan #7614
  • Update doc for SimplifyBooleanReturn. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7659
  • Update doc for IllegalToken. AuthorHuGanghui #7645
  • CI should validate checkstyle violations in satelite projects. Authorrnveach #7705
  • docfix out-of-order div and dfn tags. Authorwltan
  • docfix inconsistencies between code and docs. Authorwltan
  • JavadocStyleCheckneed to support VAR html tag . Authorwltan #2410
  • Update doc for NoClone. AuthorWilfried Bounsi #7670
  • update doc for AvoidStarImport. AuthorAmrDeveloper #7684
  • Update doc for GenericWhitespace. Authorwltan #7621
  • Update doc for TodoComment. AuthorAmrDeveloper #7591

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.30 (Feb 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • New check: AvoidDoubleBraceInitialization. Author: Andrei Paikin #6480
  • Bug fixes:
  • False-positive RightCurly in google_checks since 8.20. Author: Roman Ivanov #6807
  • GenericWhitespace complains about normal spacing with generic constructor. Author: Andrei Paikin #6104
  • NewlineAtEndOfFile=lf does not create error when file uses crlf. Author: Andrei Paikin #4074
  • Notes:
  • Update doc for StringLiteralEquality. Author: gaurabdg #7660
  • Update doc for MissingSwitchDefault. Author: AmrDeveloper #7668
  • Update doc for WhitespaceAfter. Author: nmancus1 #7631
  • Doc: fix indentation of config example. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Doc: add example of non-instance member for MemberNameCheck. Author: pbludov
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: 0blivious #5832
  • Doc: deprecated -> Deprecated. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Add warning message at style coverage pages that referenced config is not released. Author: Roman Ivanov #7505
  • Change line number comparisons to use common isOnSameLine method. Author: Andrei_Paikin #7518
  • Xpath implementation: relationship between getLocalPart and getStringValue . Author: Timur Tibeyev #7486
  • Put in doc reason why ENUM_CONSTANT_DEF and LAMBDA tokens are not supported in RightCurlyCheck. Author: Roman Ivanov #7174
  • Mrk DetailAST::getNumberOfChildren as deprecated. Author: pbludov #7512
  • PMD warnings about duplicate rules. Author: Roman Ivanov #7509
  • Automation of github actions for release.sh. Author: Roman Ivanov #6186 update release.sh with minor improvments. Author: Roman Ivanov #6333

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.29 (Jan 27, 2020)

  • New:
  • New Check: AvoidNoArgumentSuperConstructorCall. Author: Andrei Paikin #7363
  • New Check NoEnumTrailingComma. Author: sd1998 #6972
  • ENUM_DEF token support in RightCurlyCheck. Author: sd1998 #7161
  • FallThrough module does not support the spelling "fall-through" by default. Author: guillaume.lambert #7374
  • Bug fixes:
  • Java 8 Grammar: annotations on varargs parameters. Author: Erik Silkensen #3238
  • Sonar violation: Disable XML external entity (XXE) processing. Author: Roman Ivanov #7468
  • Disable instantiation of modules with private ctor. Author: Roman Ivanov #7472
  • Sonar violation: "ThreadLocal" variables should be cleaned up when no longer used. Author: Roman Ivanov #7458
  • Indentation incorrect level for chained method with bracket on new line. Author: alinkov #6210
  • InvalidJavadocPosition: false positive when comment is between javadoc and package. Author: rnveach #7430
  • Notes:
  • Add method hasChildren to DetailAST. Author: pbludov #7487
  • doc: extend Indentation Check explanation of line wrap. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Sonar violation: Cognitive Complexity of methods should not be too high (above 20). Author: Roman Ivanov #7475
  • Enforce jdk8 verification during build. Author: Roman Ivanov #7492
  • Resolve all violations from SonarQube at sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #5604
  • Remove Google plus links from website. Author: Roman Ivanov #7465
  • Checks summary page is not in sync with javadoc summary . Author: pbludov #7446
  • doc: sync summaries of all checks. Author: pbludov
  • Shippable CI is slow. Author: Roman Ivanov #7450
  • Add a test to make sure that all new checks have XpathRegressionTest. Author: pbludov #7405
  • Avoid using Locale.setDefault in tests. Author: pbludov #7436
  • Google maven mirror do not have artifact for long time . Author: Roman Ivanov #7444
  • SonarCloud upcoming change: "sonar.organization" property soon mandatory . Author: Roman Ivanov #7423
  • Fix output of failed build item. Author: Roman Ivanov #7411

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.28 (Dec 30, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • JavadocMethodCheck: remove obsolete import token. Author: rnveach #7413
  • Remove properties related to class loading from JavadocMethod . Author: rnveach #7329
  • New:
  • New Check NoArrayTrailingComma. Author: sd1998 #6971
  • ANNOTATION_DEF token support in RightCurlyCheck. Author: sd1998 #7041
  • Add suppression filters to google and sun configs. Author: Roman Ivanov #6946
  • CustomImportOrder: introduce a new message for the violation within import group. Author: Zhenlei Huang #7278
  • Bug fixes:
  • CustomImportOrder: no expected violations for empty line within import group. Author: Zhenlei Huang #7119
  • RightCurlyCheck: False Positive with SAME or ALONE_OR_SINGLELINE. Author: sd1998 #7187
  • CustomImportOrder: should check empty line separator between import statements but not the ones before import statement. Author: Zhenlei Huang #7314
  • EmptyLineSeparator: does not demand empty line if comment is present. Author: Andrei Paikin #4763
  • Generation of xpath suppression file does not close file. Author: pbludov #7382
  • JavadocMethod: missed throws tag for throw in method body. Author: Roman Ivanov #7380
  • CustomImportOrder: unexpected violation for extra empty line between package and import. Author: Zhenlei Huang #6680
  • RequireThis false positive on method reference . Author: Andrei Paikin #7306
  • MissingJavadocPackage - file header interferes with javadoc detection. Author: Andrei Paikin #7117
  • Notes:
  • After migration to junit5 build output become to have output. Author: pbludov #7391
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST (part3). Author: pbludov #5777
  • Hardcode google tokens in config. Author: Roman Ivanov #6385
  • doc: fix treeWithJavadoc command line option. Author: pbludov
  • doc: add info about -b cli option to documentation. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Upgrade to junit 5. Author: Andrei Paikin, pbludov #6916
  • Re-enable Tidy plugin. Author: pbludov #7372
  • Fix type of Checker property cacheFile. Author: pbludov #7339
  • doc: change "property" to "type" in property_types.xml. Author: pbludov
  • Fix Issues left from mobile design. Author: Johannes Teklote, Roman Ivanov #7301
  • linkcheck does not see dtd files. Author: pbludov #7340
  • Integrate dependabot service. Author: Roman Ivanov #7224
  • javadoc links to non-public members . Author: pbludov #7341
  • Appveyor is not failing even build is failed . Author: Roman Ivanov #7330
  • Add sprint-integrations to no-error test of werker. Author: Roman Ivanov #7322
  • Fix Teamcity inspections issues. Author: pbludov #7309
  • Revert "config: disable functionality of CI skip, to unblock all CIs". Author: rnveach
  • Remove build for old non-LTS releases . Author: pbludov #7299
  • Set up JDK-13 build and drop jdk-12. Author: pbludov #7281
  • JDK 13 Travis Failure. Author: pbludov #7276
  • Problem to open archive web ages starting from 8.21. Author: Roman Ivanov #7268

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.27 (Nov 30, 2019)

  • New:
  • new check: JavadocContentLocationCheck. Author: pbludov #6724
  • Bug fixes:
  • RequireThisCheck: no violation produced when field is concatenated with String. Author: Andrei Paikin #7066
  • Unused param not reported when missing description. Author: Puzeyev Alexandr #6743
  • Notes:
  • Checkstyle website does not resize to mobile browser screens.. Author: Roman Ivanov #7083
  • fix website header rendering issue. Author: Johannes Teklote #7270
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for javadoc package. Author: pbludov #7208
  • Dates of release if not properly rendering in Firefox. Author: Johannes Teklote #7036
  • javadoc build problem on openjdk11. Author: Roman Ivanov #7267
  • Resolve PMD deprecation warnings on InvalidSlf4jMessageFormat. Author: Roman Ivanov #7248
  • Tests fail on OpenJDK 12 due to 'Failed to find the "modifiers" field in method setInternalState.'. Author: Roman Ivanov #7033

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.26 (Oct 28, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove AbstractTypeAwareCheck and combine the missing pieces into JavadocMethod. Author: rnveach #7116
  • Remove functionality of Checker.setClassLoader and TreeWalker.setClassLoader. Author: rnveach #3773
  • Bug fixes:
  • WriteTag: Add localization for javadoc.write.tag message. Author: pbludov #7120
  • Notes:
  • Upgrade to pmd 6.18.0. Author: Roman Ivanov #7225
  • Tests fail on OpenJDK 12 due to 'Failed to find the "modifiers" field in method setInternalState.'. Author: Roman Ivanov #7033
  • Purpose of UnnecessarySemicolonAfterTypeMemberDeclaration is unclear in documentation.. Author: Andrei Paikin #7077
  • Doc: fix config sample for SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Config: fix Travis items to do more jdk11 and jdk12 builds. Author: Roman Ivanov #7192
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for modifiers package. Author: pbludov #7186
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for header package. Author: pbludov #7185
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for regexp package. Author: pbludov #7163
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for metrics package. Author: pbludov #7145
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for imports package. Author: pbludov #7144
  • Create examples for UnnecessaryParentheses usage . Author: sd1998 #5747
  • Fix JitCI build. Author: pbludov #7170
  • Review disabled validations of eclipse compiler. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #5060
  • Config: fix previous commits check to avoid confusion with master and rewrite main ci for easier maintenance. Author: rnveach #7125
  • Use ja-JP for Japanese locale, zh-CN for Chinese locale in travis.sh. Author: pbludov #7129
  • Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach #6320
  • Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: pbludov #5124
  • Fix pitest coverage for RightCurly. Author: rnveach #6367
  • Spotbugs is not executed in build process of openjdk12. Author: Karl-Philipp Richter #7040

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.25 (Sep 30, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • DefaultLogger: remove deprecated constructors. Author: rnveach #7107
  • ConfigurationLoader: remove deprecated constructors. Author: rnveach #7108
  • XMLLogger: remove deprecated constructor. Author: rnveach #7105
  • Remove "update" methods from DetailAST as developers shouldn't be modifying the tree from inside a check. Author: rnveach #6628
  • FileContents: remove deprecated constructor and deprecated methods. Author: rnveach #7100
  • JavadocMethodCheck: remove deprecated properties ignoreMethodNamesRegex, minLineCount, allowMissingJavadoc, allowMissingPropertyJavadoc. Author: rnveach #7096
  • Remove AbstractTypeParameterNameCheck since it is Deprecated. Author: rnveach #7098
  • New:
  • RegexpMultiline not detecting matches across multiple lines. Author: rnveach #6717
  • Update CLI to allow show tree branch that match xpath. Author: Andrei Paikin #6660
  • Bug fixes:
  • Please support preceding, preceding-sibling, following and following-sibling in XPath expressions. Author: Timur Tibeyev #6479
  • DesignForExtension: method javadoc recognized as block comments. Author: rnveach #5450
  • Notes:
  • "NoExceptiontest - Checkstyle, sevntu-checkstyle" should test chekcstyle's code from PR. Author: Roman Ivanov #3279
  • CI should fail if PR is based on an old master. Author: rnveach #5496
  • Update CIs scripts to skip execution only after checking all commits changes. Author: rnveach #7023
  • Appveyor.bat is changed right after clone of repo of github . Author: Roman Ivanov #7075
  • CustomImportOrder: documentation should have description that only one separtor line is allowed. Author: Roman Ivanov #7080
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for sizes package. Author: pbludov #7060
  • Tests do not work properly on Windows with LF line endings. Author: Björn Kautler, Roman Ivanov #6558
  • Revert "Issue #2116: use checkstyle fork of xwiki with fix to pass CI build". Author: rnveach
  • Revert "Issue #2116: use forked simple-binary-encoding with fix to pass CI build". Author: Roman Ivanov
  • MainTest#testExistingTargetFileButWithoutReadAccess fails on Win10 machine. Author: Andrei Paikin #7032

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.24 (Sep 1, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Change LineLength Check parent from TreeWalker to Checker. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2116
  • MissingDeprecated: refactor to use javadoc AST . Author: rnveach #4983
  • New:
  • Add ID format property to SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter. Author: Erik Silkensen #6954
  • New check: JavadocBlockTagLocation. Author: pbludov #6929
  • new check: UnnecessarySemicolonAfterTypeMemberDeclaration . Author: Andrei Paikin #6847
  • Add ID format property to SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter. Author: Erik Silkensen #6884
  • Add ID format property to SuppressionCommentFilter. Author: Erik Silkensen #6883
  • Bug fixes:
  • Command line option -o does not produce output with -g option. Author: Andrei Paikin #6934
  • NeedBraces: lambda with no braces not reported when contents span multiple lines. Author: Andrei Paikin #3837
  • Notes:
  • Use violation term as much as possible. Author: Roman Ivanov #6771
  • Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124
  • create tests in MainTest.java to cover execution over some Input for sun and google configs. Author: Roman Ivanov #7021
  • stop using puppet/disteli CI . Author: Roman Ivanov #7017
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for miscellaneous package. Author: pbludov #6966
  • Expand XPath IT Regression Testing. Author: Mincong HUANG #6207
  • doc: fix compilation error. Author: Mincong HUANG
  • Japanese locale contains mistranslation. Author: Yuki Shira #7012
  • Make test on file that have no read access but has write access. Author: Roman Ivanov #6991
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: pbludov #5750
  • Upgrade PMD to 6.17.0. Author: Roman Ivanov #6868
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-main profile to 100% . Author: Roman Ivanov #6982
  • doc: fix sample code of AvoidInlineConditionals to be compilable. Author: Mincong HUANG
  • Java] Checkstyle CLI while generating xpath suppressions provides extraneous stdout output. Author: Roman Ivanov #6974
  • Update link to latest version of CLI jar. Author: Roman Ivanov #6933
  • spell checker is failing due to failure to get words file. Author: Roman Ivanov #6949
  • eclipse violation over javadoc of AtclauseOrderCheck.java. Author: Erik Silkensen #6947
  • javadoc error in NeedBracesCheck.java. Author: Erik Silkensen #6948
  • Xdocs: sort values for String Set properties. Author: pbludov #6938
  • CLI: Add short versions for 'executeIgnoredModules' and 'tabWidth'. Author: rnveach #6936
  • CI: hide maven download text to prevent log overflow. Author: Roman Ivanov #6919
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for filters package . Author: pbludov #6726

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.23 (Jul 27, 2019)

  • New:
  • new filter SuppressionSingleFilter. Author: rnveach #6402
  • OneStatementPerLine: add treatTryResourcesAsStatement property. Author: Andrei Paikin #6790
  • MagicNumber: new proprty ignoreAnnotationElementDefaults to ignore magic numbers in annotation default values. Author: Andrei Paikin #4383
  • new check: InvalidJavadocPosition. Author: rnveach #6649
  • Bug fixes:
  • InnerAssignment reports violation when && condition is in WHILE expression. Author: Andrei Paikin #6805
  • SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter ignores messageFormat when matching on ID. Author: Erik Silkensen #6887
  • Javadoc mishandling NEWLINE when next to ATTRIBUTE. Author: rnveach #6865
  • SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter does not match messages. Author: Erik Silkensen #6875
  • SuppressionCommentFilter ignores messageFormat when matching on ID. Author: Erik Silkensen #6879
  • InvalidJavadocPositionCheck: false negative on javadocs with local variables. Author: rnveach #6857
  • Notes:
  • doc: Serialisation -> serialization. Author: Andrei Paikin
  • Replace sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin with explicit dependency to sevntu-checks. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #6910
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: Emil Bremer Orloff #5008
  • Skip dry run build item for maven release commit. Author: ashabib #3383
  • format xdoc/javadoc files to follow rule of LineLength (max ia 100). Author: pbludov #6902
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-filters profile to 100%. Author: Erik Silkensen #6659
  • Don't use absolute checkstyle links in xdocs. Author: rnveach #6900
  • Create appveyor.bat for CI commands. Author: ahmadshabib #6696
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for filters package . Author: pbludov, Roman Ivanov #6726
  • doc: Add missing slash for constant name check doc. Author: utzcoz
  • Make inner class SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter.Suppression private. Author: pbludov #6890
  • Enforce FileTabCharacter and RegexpSingleline for trailing whitespace over resources. Author: rnveach #5941
  • Remove TreeWalker#validateDefaultTokens. Author: Andrei Paikin #6858
  • Make inner class SuppressionCommentFilter.Tag private. Author: pbludov #6844
  • Make inner class SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter.Tag private. Author: pbludov #6854
  • Add xpath tests for new Checks of 8.22. Author: Andrei Paikin #6848

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.22 (Jun 23, 2019)

  • New:
  • New check: MissingJavadocPackageCheck . Author: Andrei Paikin #6705
  • New check: UnnecessarySemicolonInTryWithResources. Author: Andrei Paikin #6774
  • New check: UnnecessarySemicolonInEnumeration. Author: Andrei Paikin #6773
  • New check: OrderedProperties. Author: Thomas Senger #6311
  • Bug fixes:
  • NeedBraces: False Positives for LITERAL_CASE and LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: Andrei Paikin #4764
  • AnnotationUseStyle does not detect all violations in EXPANDED style. Author: Andrei Paikin #6818
  • AnnotationUseStyle: compact_no_array does not violate extended and multi param annotations. Author: Andrei Paikin #3210
  • Loading config.xml from classpath doesn't work properly. Author: Peter De Maeyer #6232
  • Notes:
  • Suppression documentation links to old DTDs. Author: Roman Ivanov #6804
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for filters package . Author: pbludov #6726
  • Resolve violations from IDEA 20191.3. Author: Roman Ivanov #6821
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: pbludov #5750
  • Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: Andrei Paikin #5124
  • Limit xdoc Properties subsection to one table. Author: pbludov #6800
  • Split it module test support between different configurations. Author: rnveach #6801

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.21 (May 26, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • NewlineAtEndOfFile default should be OS agnostic. Author: Björn Kautler #4073
  • Remove PARAMETER_DEF from AnnotationLocation. Author: Björn Kautler #6462
  • API: make api not depend on antlr by splitting DetailAST between implementation and interface. Author: rnveach #3417
  • new check: MissingJavadocMethod from JavadocMethod. Author: rnveach #6703
  • Bug fixes:
  • LocalVariableName: allowOneCharVarInForLoop should allow one char variable in loop. Author: Andrei Paikin #6489
  • Do not handle local variables for VARIABLE_DEF in AnnotationLocation. Author: Björn Kautler #6463
  • OneStatementPerLine: false-positive on try-with-resource when objects just referenced. Author: Andrei Paikin #6125
  • NewlineAtEndOfFile with LF_CR_CRLF does not work properly. Author: Björn Kautler #6508
  • EmptyCatchBlock check does not work properly with non-system line endings in files. Author: Björn Kautler #6513
  • Notes:
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: jack870131 #5832
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for whitespace package. Author: pbludov #6749
  • spelling: identificator->identifier. Author: pbludov
  • spelling: inpection. Author: pbludov
  • refactoring of DetailASTTest.testTreeStructure. Author: rnveach #4900
  • Fix sonar warnings. Author: Andrei Paikin #6764
  • move OSX executions from travis.yml to travis.sh . Author: ahmadshabib #6701
  • doc: fix my name in release notes. Author: Björn Kautler
  • Issue template should clarify failure to follow template will lead to issue being closed Author: rnveach #6742
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for design package. Author: pbludov #6725
  • investigate increase of '-all' jar. Author: rnveach #6713
  • Cached Google Style is slightly outdated and not like original. Author: Björn Kautler #6619

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.20 (Apr 28, 2019)

  • New:
  • New MissingJavadocCheck(s). Author: rnveach #5411
  • Bug fixes:
  • IllegalType: illegal types in overridden methods should not be reported. Author: Björn Kautler #6612
  • EmptyLineSeparator check does not validate newlines before comments. Author: kazachka #5981
  • Exception in JavadocMethod to get access to class in jdk9. Author: rnveach #6606
  • RightCurly false-positives for multi-block continuation. Author: Björn Kautler #6466
  • TranslationCheck reports duplicate lines in xml report. Author: rnveach #5103AnnotationUseStyle: false positive on annotation with default nested annotation inside. Author: Andrei Paikin #6540
  • RightCurly with option alone false negative for class, method and constructor. Author: WANG CHAO #6345
  • Notes:
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for coding package. Author: pbludov #6586
  • Set up JDK12 buid. Author: rnveach #6687
  • Minor: GeneratedJava14LexerTest depends on encoding, not on OS, so fix the assumption to represent this. Author: Björn Kautler #6608
  • MultipleVariableDeclarations missing from sun style. Author: Björn Kautler #6490
  • Doc: expand documentation for scope property type. Author: rnveach
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for api profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #6635
  • Remove usage of antlr specific methods from our checks. Author: rnveach #6624
  • Idea: fix ThisEscapedInConstructor idea violation for AbstractClassCouplingCheck.FileContext class. Author: rnveach #4861
  • Test inputs should be completely standalone.. Author: rnveach #4845
  • Fix pitest coverage for RightCurly. Author: WANG CHAO #6367

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.19 (Apr 1, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Xpath: change implementation of the @text attribute. Author: Timur Tibeyev #6356
  • Remove `cache` field from TreeWalker in Checkstyle 8.0. Author: rnveach #2883
  • Remove DTDs from http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net and from http://puppycrawl.com/. Author: Roman Ivanov #6478
  • Remove hashCode and equals methods from FilterSet. Author: rnveach #6494
  • New:
  • Add tabWidth to Checker and FileSets. Author: rnveach #6485
  • AnnotationLocation: add support for PACKAGE_DEF, ENUM_CONSTANT_DEF. Author: pbludov #6379
  • Bug fixes:
  • JavadocUtil doesn't recognize Javadocs in certain places. Author: rnveach #6516
  • False positive in AnnotationUseStyle for version 8.17. Author: rnveach #6446
  • Overly complex default regex in SuppressWarnings format. Author: Björn Kautler #6453
  • Remove AvoidInlineConditionals from sun_checks.xml. Author: Björn Kautler #6470
  • Javadoc for package-info file is not validated. Author: rnveach #5769
  • Notes:
  • Wrong documentation for InnerAssignment. Author: Björn Kautler #6488
  • doc: added documentation for global tabWidth. Author: rnveach
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for coding package. Author: pbludov #6586
  • Exclude module-info.java from Google and Sun configurations. Author: Martin Kröning #6570
  • Fix PMD violation UseProperClassLoader. Author: pbludov #5680
  • Enable PMD rule UseUnderscoresInNumericLiterals. Author: pbludov #6579
  • Verify all modules are listed in contribution no exception configurations. Author: rnveach #5897
  • Enable PMD rule LinguisticNaming. Author: pbludov #6578
  • Java Grammar: Hard to understand message. Author: rnveach #4632
  • Site files are not schema-valid. Author: Björn Kautler #6563
  • minor: reset the test stream for each test. Author: Björn Kautler #6557
  • Upgrade to PMD 6.12.0. Author: pbludov #6536
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for annotations package. Author: pbludov #6531
  • Disable XML External Entity load in XmlUtil.java in tests. Author: Roman Ivanov #6133
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs for blocks package. Author: pbludov #6532
  • Wrong JavaDoc example for NestedForDepthCheck. Author: Björn Kautler #6491
  • Fix PMD violation CommentDefaultAccessModifier. Author: pbludov #5665
  • Enforce FileTabCharacter and RegexpSingleline for trailing whitespace over resources. Author: rnveach #5941
  • Setup checkstyle validation to forbid type StringBuffer. Author: rnveach #5506
  • Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava, phase II. Author: rnveach #3484
  • resolve warning in build output from PMD . Author: rnveach #6226
  • Expand checkstyle_resources_checks.xml to IT resources. Author: rnveach #6542
  • links in header comment block of sun_checks.xml are outdated . Author: rnveach #6420
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: pbludov #5750
  • MissingOverride javaFiveCompatibility true in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Björn Kautler #6452
  • Typo in Lcurly docs. Author: Björn Kautler #6458
  • Unclear rational in ExplicitInitialization. Author: Björn Kautler #6472
  • Wrong public identifier in doctype of example empty suppressions file. Author: Björn Kautler #6449
  • Typo in docs of VisibilityModifier. Author: Björn Kautler #6468
  • spelling: fix then / than typos. Author: Björn Kautler
  • spelling: update messages for french translation. Author: sebastienaubry
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: jack870131 #5832
  • EmptyCatchBlock change property types to Regexp. Author: rnveach #6455
  • Make all FilterElements immutable. Author: rnveach #6496
  • Remove hashCode/equals from SuppressionFilter and mark SuppressFilterElement immutable. Author: rnveach #4734
  • MissingDeprecated description has a typo. Author: ejaksla #6451

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.18 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Disable loading external DTDs by default, create system property to activate it. Author: Roman Ivanov #6474
  • IllegalType: rename "format" property to "illegalAbstractClassNameFormat". Author: rnveach #5900
  • AnnotationLocation: Remove unused tokens. Author: pbludov #6416
  • Command Line arguments should be allow to exclude a file. Author: rnveach #6399
  • New:
  • ArrayTypeStyle: add support for brackets in method definition after parameters. Author: Erik Silkensen #6301
  • new filter SuppressionXpathSingleFilter. Author: jack870131 #5879
  • Bug fixes:
  • AnnotationLocation: named parameters must be considered parameters. Author: pbludov #6440
  • JavadocStyleCheck crashes for some Javadoc comments with HTML comments. Author: rnveach #4564
  • Incorrect warning for empty lambda bodies with google_checks.xml. Author: WANG CHAO #6381
  • FinalLocalVariable: IllegalStateException. Author: Erik Silkensen #6377
  • Slowdown with UnusedImportsCheck. Author: rnveach #6403
  • Notes:
  • review TreeWalker.setupChild method for exceptional cases. Author: rnveach #4814
  • Remove powermock. Author: rnveach #6439
  • refactoring in configs. Author: rnveach #4877
  • update to picocli 3.9.1 result in UT MainTest.testNonExistentOutputFormat failure. Author: rnveach #6397
  • Negate SuppressElement.accept. Author: rnveach #4979
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: jack870131 #5832
  • Rename Filters which aren't module filters to FilterElement. Author: rnveach #4978
  • doc: add File Filter section in extending.xml. Author: WANG CHAO
  • Cache: file skipped on 2nd run when exception happened on it in first run. Author: rnveach #6297
  • Move UTF-8 limitation info in documentation. Author: WANG CHAO #6083
  • use ForbidAnnotationElementValueCheck from sevntu.checkstyle. Author: rnveach #3567
  • minor: solved pitest issues with ImportOrderCheck. Author: rnveach #6424
  • Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #6320
  • Add build instructions to README. Author: Roman Ivanov #6236
  • Indentation: indentation level is being corrupted in class fields. Author: rnveach #6308
  • doc: Fixed grammar errors. Author: Glusk2

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.17 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Java Grammar: use TYPE_EXTENSION_AND instead of BAND in typecast expression. Author: pbludov #6354
  • RightCurly: remove obsolete shouldStartLine property. Author: Piyush Sharma, Roman Ivanov #4022
  • Bug fixes:
  • FinalLocalVariable: NPE with PARAMETER_DEF on methods of inner classes. Author: Erik Silkensen #6375
  • EqualsAvoidNull: improper frame tracking. Author: rnveach #6373
  • Translation doesn't obey no halt on exception and doesn't show path to bad file. Author: rnveach #6340
  • Notes:
  • CI: spellchecker script is not ready for running manually by contributors. Author: Josh Soref #6021
  • Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #6320
  • Jenkins: switch the build machine (slave) from hyper.sh to AWS spot instance. Author: Daniil Yaroslavtsev #6359
  • EmptyLineSeparatorCheck: surviving mutant from REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach #6350
  • Update eclipse compiler to R10. Author: pbludov #6330
  • Checkstyle's self config fails on non-US locale because of english suppression. Author: Roman Ivanov #5350

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.15 (Dec 1, 2018)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove Lambda from RightCurlyCheck . Author: rnveach #5948
  • New:
  • JavadocType: Add "allowedAnnotations". Author: Nikolaos Georgiou #5608
  • IllegalType should check extends & implements and class/interface type parameters. Author: Pavel Bludov #6118
  • Bug fixes:
  • TreeWalkerAuditEvent doesn't create events on the absolute file path. Author: rnveach #6028
  • IllegalType should ignore parameters of methods with modifiers not in 'memberModifiers'. Author: Eric Bruneton #6123
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName: false positive on capital letters on the end of the word. Author: Erik Silkensen #6130
  • Notes:
  • Performance issue with file.lastModified(). Author: Roman Ivanov #6096
  • warning during build of site with equalsverifier-3.0.2. Author: Roman Ivanov #6213
  • upgrade to latest picocli version to fix extra space in help output. Author: Roman Ivanov #6175
  • Please add link to contributing.md in README.md. Author: varunu28 #5488
  • update to saxon 9.9. Author: Timur Tibeyev #6149
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST (part 2). Author: rnveach #5758
  • update sources to avoid usage of sourceforge.net URLs. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #6185
  • using picocli as command line parser. Author: Remko Popma, Roman Ivanov #6068
  • Add equalsverifier project to wrecker ci. Author: Roman Ivanov #6167
  • ImportOrder: example of Intellij Idea default import order is not working. Author: Jan Ouwens #5510

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.14 (Oct 22, 2018)

  • New:
  • IllegalType: does not check types in generics. Author: Pavel Bludov #5118
  • Notes:
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: jack870131 #5832
  • Update FullIdent to store DetailAST instead of line/column. Author: Pavel Bludov #6121

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.13 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • New:
  • ClassFanOutComplexity: count complexity base annotations/extends/implements/methods params. Author: kazachka #4092
  • Notes:
  • Code samples for Naming Checks. Author: jack870131 #5832
  • exception in build log from spotbugs. Author: Roman Ivanov #6098
  • Line numbers should start at 1. Author: Boxuan Li #6000
  • Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: rnveach #5750
  • CircleCI is failing due to missed checkout content. Author: Roman Ivanov #6093
  • Upgrade to PMD 6.6.0. Author: Pavel Bludov #5790
  • Unstable build due to not accesible decoration-1.0.0.xsd. Author: Roman Ivanov #6077

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.12 (Aug 12, 2018)

  • New:
  • LeftCurly : add support for LITERAL_CASE and LITERAL_DEFAULT . Author: Pavel Bludov #5207
  • ImportOrder: allow static imports be separated by local groups when they are at the top/bottom. Author: Pavel Bludov #5279
  • ImportOrder: new property groupsStatic to allow define groups for static imports. Author: Pavel Bludov #5724
  • InterfaceMemberImpliedModifier: New Check to demand all modifiers to be explicit in interfaces members. Author: Stephen Colebourne #5899
  • Bug fixes:
  • Remove lambda support from ParameterName. Author: kazachka #5894
  • EmptyLineSeparator raises violations when static import right after plain import. Author: Pavel Bludov #4625
  • Notes:
  • Spell check failing to get words file. Author: Pavel Bludov, Roman Ivanov #6046
  • Doc: bounty note. Author: Pavel Bludov
  • Spelling: add xcode. Author: Pavel Bludov
  • Travis CI: MAC build is broken. Author: Pavel Bludov #6055
  • Change grammars package name to grammar. Author: mismatch #5891
  • Checkstyle's html report related links are not working. Author: Roman Ivanov #6043
  • Resolve violations from IDEA 2018.1.6. Author: Roman Ivanov #6037
  • SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter: update document and examples on when it is appropriate to use. Author: Lukas Eckert #5973
  • XpathSuppression generation should support module id. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5984
  • Add XDoc SubSection Anchor. Author: rnveach #6014
  • Add to CI import order validation on certain projects. Author: Pavel Bludov #6018
  • Doc: reference in SuppressionXpathFilter doc about ability to generate suppressions by CLI. Author: Timur Tibeyev
  • XpathFileGeneratorAstFilter: EVENTS and QUERIES as single map. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5979
  • Redo XML_Structure documentation section. Author: Roman Ivanov #6011
  • Mark all checks with appropriate annotation so that they could be used in the MT mode. Author: Andrew Kuchev, rnveach #4870
  • Update documentation of SuppressionFilter with links to latest DTDs. Author: Roman Ivanov #6003
  • Checkstyle Ant prints null for checkstyle version. Author: Roman Ivanov #6001
  • Update documentation for same of RighCurly. Author: Roman Ivanov #5970
  • Internal XPath Regression fails on RequireThisCheck. Author: rnveach #5996
  • Setup Jenkins CI for building Pull Requests. Author: Daniil Yaroslavtsev #5953
  • Doc: fix download URLs. Author: Michael Ernst

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.11 (Jul 1, 2018)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Add HTML5 tags support to Javadoc antlr4 grammar and related classes. Author: Piyush Sharma #3332
  • New:
  • Generate a suppressions.xml file for SuppressionXpathFilter from the errors list by CLI command. Author: timurt #102
  • new Check - LambdaParameterName. Author: kazachka #5893
  • Bug fixes:
  • ImportOrder: False positive for multiline imports. Author: Pavel Bludov #5881

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.10.1 (May 28, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST (part 1, easy cases).

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.10 (May 1, 2018)

  • New:
  • ImportControl: add ability to control imports in certain classes . Author: rnveach #3492
  • Add the new option for Checkstyle CLI to generate the basic suppression xpath. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4530
  • Bug fixes:
  • Store IDENT token type in the xpath tree. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5508
  • Xpath Mapper : UnsupportedOperationException when several queries are combined. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5571
  • HeaderCheck: fails with empty lines. Author: Paul Campbell #5511
  • CheckUtils.parseDouble: wrong result for negative values. Author: Pavel Bludov #5709
  • FinalClassCheck: 'extractQualifiedName' omits 2nd ident of package name. Author: rnveach #5706
  • Indentation: false positive for one-line lambda. Author: Pavel Bludov #5675
  • Notes:
  • format xdoc files to follow rule of LineLength (max ia 100) . Author: rnveach #5291
  • Remove remnants of cobertura usage. Author: Pavel Bludov #5616
  • Create xdoc page to explain the new Xpath-based suppression model. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5513
  • Migrate to CircleCI 2.0. Author: Roman Ivanov #5657
  • consider introducing spelling regression checker. Author: Josh Soref, Roman Ivanov #5676
  • remove all authors javadoc tags from sources. Author: Roman Ivanov #5738
  • PMD 6: migrate configuration to pmd 6.X version. Author: Pavel Bludov #5603
  • jsoref spell checker: skipp all files/folders that are referenced in .gitignore. Author: Josh Soref #5719
  • spellchecker: don't complain about case. Author: Josh Soref #5732
  • Replace File{Input,Output}Stream with Files.new{Input,Output}Stream. Author: Pavel Bludov #5638
  • config: moved disallows to be first in import control. Author: rnveach
  • UpperEll rule description gives bogus reason: Capital(!) L looks like 1. Author: Roman Ivanov #5718
  • refactor PackageObjectFactoryTest.testCreateModuleWithNonExistName. Author: surajumang #5677
  • jsoref spellchecker: group word families togeth. Author: Josh Soref #5701
  • jsoref spell checker: remove resource from validation. Author: Josh Soref #5693
  • Update javadoc for MismatchStrategy. Author: Roman Ivanov #5695
  • spelling: anon - API: sevntu-checkstyle/sevntu.checkstyle#657. Author: Josh Soref
  • migrate to circleci 2.0. Author: Roman Ivanov #5528
  • spelling: commenting. Author: Josh Soref
  • spelling: unclear. Author: Josh Soref
  • spelling: performance. Author: Josh Soref
  • spelling: indentation. Author: Josh Soref

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.9 (Apr 4, 2018)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • ImportControl: reverse order of allow/disallow rule matching. Author: rnveach #5642
  • Bug fixes:
  • Indentation: wrapped method name. Author: Pavel Bludov #5655
  • Indentaton: super() is ignored. Author: Pavel Bludov #3808
  • IllegalType: support arrays as types. Author: kazachka #4429
  • Notes:
  • spelling: a lot of spelling fixes. Author: Josh Soref
  • PMD 6: migrate configuration to pmd 6.X version. Author: Pavel Bludov #5603
  • wercker is failing with uncler message after release on non-rebased branches. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #5452
  • Add openjdk8/9 to Travis/AppVeyor. Author: Pavel Bludov #5663
  • Remove usage of com.oracle.net package. Author: Pavel Bludov #5660
  • generated jacoco.exec file needs to be moved out of base directory. Author: Roman Ivanov #5640
  • doc: fixed improper dtd comment examples. Author: rnveach
  • Fix PMD6 violations (bestpractices). Author: Pavel Bludov #5633
  • spelling: Correct some words in the German translation. Author: Matthias Ronge
  • Drop findbugs. Author: Pavel Bludov #5622
  • Replace java.awt.event.InputEvent#getModifiers() with getModifiersEx(). Author: Pavel Bludov #5613
  • doc: fixed improper private method documentation. Author: rnveach
  • Use Jacoco instead of Cobertura for coverage check. Author: Pavel Bludov #5586
  • doc: clearly explain commit message requirements. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Jacoco workaround for MainTest. Author: Pavel Bludov #5553
  • Split pitest-checkstyle-common. Author: Pavel Bludov #5592
  • Resolve all violations from SonarQube at sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #5604
  • 100% Coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration. Author: Pavel Bludov #5591
  • 100% coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.XMLLogger. Author: Pavel Bludov #5597
  • 100% coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker. Author: Pavel Bludov #5599
  • New project badges at sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #5605
  • 100% coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory. Author: Pavel Bludov #5595
  • Switch to Powermock 2.0. Author: Pavel Bludov #5584
  • fix indentation in all sources of xdoc. Author: Varun Upadhyay #5489
  • doc: typos and grammar fixes on website main page. Author: Michael Keppler
  • PackageNamesLoaderTest refactoring. Author: Pavel Bludov #5551
  • Remove usage of javax.xml.bind.XmlElement (deprecated in JDK9). Author: Pavel Bludov #5582
  • Refactoring of JavadocUtils static init. Author: Pavel Bludov #5555
  • Switch to powermock-api-mockito2. Author: Pavel Bludov #5558
  • IllegalStateException message text was changed in JDK9. Author: Pavel Bludov #5561
  • upgrade to spotbugs 3.1.1 cause problems with execution on maven 3.3.9. Author: Roman Ivanov #5525
  • doc: InterfaceIsType description, SwingConstants is an interface, not a class.. Author: Tobias Weimer
  • Explicitly throw an exception from ClassResolver. Author: Pavel Bludov #5546
  • Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: Roman Ivanov #3708
  • minimize pitest-checkstyle-utils profile execution. Author: Roman Ivanov #4605
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #5008
  • doc: extend examples for FinalLocalVariable. Author: Roman Ivanov #5239
  • Remove dependency on tools.jar. Author: Pavel Bludov #5431
  • Fix violations in local IntelliJ 2017.3. Author: Roman Ivanov #5409
  • Intellij Idea inspection violations from 2017.2.4 or 2017.2.6. Author: Roman Ivanov #5069
  • Jacoco coverage report. Author: Pavel Bludov #5516
  • Use StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer as it offers high performan…. Author: reudismam #5505
  • AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck: re-organize regular expressions. Author: SunriseCoder #5427
  • investigate and resolve compilation warnings. Author: Andrey Mosin #5480
  • wercker build problem with hibernate-search. Author: Roman Ivanov #5499

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.8 (Jan 28, 2018)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Split TreeWalker to TreeWalker and JavaParser. Author: Pavel Bludov #5436
  • Bug fixes:
  • DesignForExtension: method javadoc is recognized if no modifier in on method. Author: Roman_Zhigunov #5255
  • XmlLogger sanitizes exception tags when it shouldn't be. Author: rnveach #5419
  • Notes:
  • spelling: Fix German translation of 'tag'. Author: Michael Keppler
  • Fix violations in local IntelliJ 2017.3. Author: rnveach #5409
  • Resolve warning during build about prerequisites tag. Author: Andrey Mosin #5377
  • JavadocMethod: "Expected an @return tag." sounds not right. Author: Varun Upadhyay #5463
  • Appveyor CI build failure: Unable to get setup from cygwin.mirror.constant.com. Author: Roman Ivanov #5474
  • spelling: improve french translation. Author: Jajawah
  • spelling: fix typo in tests. Author: Pavel Bludov
  • spelling: Fix typo. Author: Tino Desjardins
  • format xdoc files to follow rule of LineLength (max ia 100) . Author: rnveach #5291
  • Incorrect documentation for SuppressionXpathFilter. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5400
  • Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
  • TokenTypes documentation contains double encoded symbols. Author: Pavel Bludov #5423
  • Incorrect documentation for SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: Jun Lin #5401
  • XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values for Strings. Author: rnveach #3254

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.7 (Jan 3, 2018)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Removed guava from api code. Author: rnveach #3455
  • Bug fixes:
  • SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter: should not fail when violation is reported on directory. Author: rnveach #5405

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.5 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • New:
  • Try to load class from all of packages as classpath scanning doesn't work in Eclipse runtime environment. Author: kazachka #4916
  • Bug fixes:
  • RegexpOnFilenameCheck: NullPointerException when relative path is used to run checkstyle CLI . Author: Roman Ivanov #5278
  • JavadocPackage: NullPointerException when relative path is used to run checkstyle CLI. Author: Artem Dudkin #5127
  • Checker.destroy doesn't erase fileSets but erases everything else. Author: rnveach #5264
  • TranslationCheck prints violations from previous AbstractFileSetCheck run. Author: rnveach #5263
  • Notes:
  • Fix violations from new sevntu check - CheckstyleTestMakeupCheck. Author: rnveach #5228
  • Doc: typo fix and extension for 'what is javadoc'. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Checkstyle UTs shouldn't create custom configuration methods. Author: rnveach #5157
  • Adjacent static import groups ones became impossible in 8.3. Author: BBG #5176
  • Cobertura coverage check failing on jdk 152. Author: Roman Ivanov #5283
  • Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124
  • Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
  • ImportControl: unable to disallow static import. Author: Jochen Van de Velde, Roman Ivanov #4284
  • Doc: Removed maxLineLength property from javadoc, the property itself had been removed earlier. Author: Balazs Nemeth
  • Wercker build is unstable for htmlunit project due to SNAPSHOT dependency . Author: Roman Ivanov #5251
  • Fix plural agreement grammar in documentation for DesignForExtension. Author: Jake Gage #5249
  • Mark all checks with appropriate interface so that they could be used in the MT mode. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4870

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.4 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Disallowing user to use incomplete fully qualified Check names in config file. Author: BBG #4456
  • JavadocTokenTypes should keep values of tokens, restore tokens as they were at 8.1 version. Author: Piyush Sharma #5139
  • Remove extra numeric offset in JavadocTokenTypes. Author: Maksim Shilin #5114
  • Bug fixes:
  • Checkstyle produces invalid XML file. Author: rnveach #5162
  • Notes:
  • Fix violations from new sevntu check - CheckstyleTestMakeupCheck. Author: rnveach #5228
  • Unused messages in message.properties. Author: dyominov #5094
  • Two unit tests for SuppressionCommentFilterTest do not fail if CheckstyleException is not thrown. Author: rnveach #5210
  • ClassFanOutComplexity for a multi-dimensional array is calculating with an error.. Author: Artem Dudkin #5134
  • Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124
  • Checkstyle tests should be named after the class they test and extra validations/helpers should be in a special package. Author: rnveach #5104
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5003
  • Left curly nlow documentation error?. Author: Clément Guillaume #5188
  • Create GeneratedJavadocTokenTypesTest.java. Author: Piyush Sharma #5186
  • Use private final loggers instead of private static final in Checkstyle codebase. Author: crude #929
  • Move DetailNodeTreeStringPrinter#createFakeBlockComment to CommonUtils. Author: Turkin Ivan #4785
  • Prohibit the usage of hardcoded encoding in Checkstyle source code. Author: Artem Dudkin #5023
  • Appveyor: provide ability to skip CI executions base on commit files. Author: Maksim Shilin #3870
  • Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
  • Remove deprecated class BaseCheckTestSupport. Author: Subbu Dantu #4867
  • Validation by xsd during build is missed for xml files that use packages_1_0.dtd. Author: Roman Ivanov #5177
  • Sonar validation failing with StackOverflowError. Author: Roman Ivanov #5175

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.3 (Oct 9, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Uppercase letters to be allowed in package names in javadoc. Author: Piyush Sharma #4408
  • Making required arguments mandatory for javadoc tags in grammar. Author: Piyush Sharma #4942
  • New:
  • NoWhitespaceAfter: do not allow whitespace after '@' sign. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4410
  • WhitespaceAround: Add support for varargs. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4157
  • Boolean flag in Javadoc Checks that shows a current Javadoc comment has unclosed HTML tags. Author: Piyush Sharma #3311
  • Add columnCharIndex field to LocalizedMessage. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4998
  • Bug fixes:
  • IllegalType does not seem to handle multidimensional array types. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4425
  • No violation before or after changes for static import list. Author: BBG #5065
  • Whitespace after Array type when using a type annotation. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #3300
  • Google Style: Incorrect ParenPad warning. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #4294
  • NoWhitespaceBefore and empty for loop conditions. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #5058
  • Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractCheck class. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4908
  • Fix order of message parameters in DE translation file. Author: Andreas Kurth #5068
  • Issue with UnusedImports and javadoc usage.. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #3453
  • @see tag with leading asterisk before arguments lead to parse failure. Author: Piyush Sharma #5035
  • FallThrough check doesn't handle synchronized blocks. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #5037
  • NoWhitespaceAfterCheck for some array initialization crashes Checkstyle. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4557
  • Notes:
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4675
  • Pull #5113: enabled eclipse compiler to flag unused exceptions . Author: rnveach #5113
  • Conifg: bump maven-surefire-plugin to 2.20.1. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Support suppression-xpath element in SuppressionLoader. Author: Timur #4421
  • Checkstyle tests should be named after the class they test and extra validations/helpers should be in a special package. Author: rnveach #5104
  • Expand eclipse compiler to check test code. Author: rnveach #5116
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5008
  • Add file-stateful and stateless / global stateful check markers. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4883
  • Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractFileSetCheck class. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4917
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: rnveach #3891
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-metrics profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5005
  • IllegalType: update documentation to make it clear that LITERAL_NEW is not a target of this Check. Author: Roman Ivanov #5129
  • XpathQueryGenerator should consider tabWith parameter. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4999
  • Increase coverage of JavadocParser and JavadocLexer. Author: Piyush Sharma #4769
  • Doc: extend javadoc for JavadocTokenTypes.RULE_TYPES_OFFSET. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • DeclarationOrder: problem with forward references. Author: kazachka #4984
  • Fix up Portuguese messages. Author: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva #5082
  • Travis failing to execute some item on trusty instances. Author: Roman Ivanov #5086
  • Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: Roman Ivanov #3708
  • Eclipse validtion is failed with "The type org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull cannot be resolved". Author: Roman Ivanov #5078
  • Find way to launch IntellijIdea inspections from command line. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4682
  • Rename JavadocLexer rule to a more meaningful name. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #5040
  • Review disabled validations of eclipse compiler. Author: Roman Ivanov #5060
  • Using Eclipse compiler in CI to control 0 Warning level. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #2600
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4394
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4402
  • Launch Sonarqube validation in docker in our CI for each PR validation. Author: vasilyeva #4912
  • Doc: remove section about a resolved API issue. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-imports profile to 100%. Author: vasylieva #5004
  • Made XMLLogger writer final. Author: rnveach #5033
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.2 (Aug 31, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • JavadocParser: inconsistent AST tree with and without SINGLETON_ELEMENT. Author: Piyush Sharma #3810
  • move AbstractTypeAwareCheck and ClassResolver to javadoc package. Author: rnveach #4676
  • remove deprecated property maxLineLength from LeftCurlyCheck. Author: rnveach #3671
  • remove FileContentsHolder module as FileContents object is available for filters on TreeWalker in TreeWalkerAudit Event . Author: Timur, Roman Ivanov #3573
  • Replace terms in AST Tokens by terms from HTML specification. Author: Piyush Sharma #4448
  • New:
  • new Check: single line annotation location. Author: kazachka #3440
  • Add HTML5 tags support to Javadoc antlr4 grammar and related classes. Author: Piyush Sharma #3332
  • UnnecessaryParentheses: Reject parentheses around single parameters in lambdas. Author: rnveach #4639
  • Add token type to LocalizedMessage. Author: Timur #4419
  • Bug fixes:
  • Add (WS | NEWLINE) in proper places for javadoc tags. Author: Piyush Sharma #4934
  • XMLLogger methods should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4932
  • Javadoc comments containing unescaped Java code with generic types leads to enormous parsing times. Author: Piyush Sharma #4390
  • PackageObjectFactory can't instantiate AuditListeners. Author: rnveach #4742
  • Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractJavadocCheck class . Author: Andrew Kuchev #4925
  • SeverityLevelCounter should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4927
  • JavadocPackageCheck should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4945
  • Violations should print ID and observe them as unique. Author: Luolc #4607
  • SuppressWarnings triggers RedundantModifier check on enum constructor. Author: rnveach #4846
  • SummaryJavadoc: overlapping messages. Author: rnveach #4798
  • Remove checkstyle_packages.xml from checkstyle. Author: rnveach #3660
  • SummaryJavadoc: doesn't completely ignore inheritDoc tag. Author: rnveach #4744
  • TodoCommentCheck overflows the stack for files with many comments. Author: rnveach #4563
  • RegexpHeader not detecting 'nn' by regex properly. Author: Vivek Rao #4735
  • ModifiedControlVariableCheck crashes for some nested loops with multiple assignments. Author: rnveach #4630
  • MethodCountCheck: class counts include anonymous methods. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #4539
  • RequireThisCheck: NPE on method from base class with validateOnlyOverlapping off. Author: rnveach #4856
  • TreeWalkerFilter needs to be added to ModuleReflectionUtils. Author: Timur #4843
  • RequireThisCheck: Use and declare a local variable with same name as class variable cause a NPE. Author: rnveach #4777
  • Indentation: multiple try with resource not checked. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3131
  • FinalLocalVariable: false-negative with anonymous class. Author: rnveach #4727
  • Notes:
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4395
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4394
  • Remove strong, wildcard suppressions in configuration. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4384
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-design profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5007
  • Remove usage of javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter (removed in Java 9). Author: Oliver Siegmar #5027
  • shippable: unstable execution of pitest for pitest-checkstyle-common profile. Author: Andrew Kuchev, Roman Ivanov #5022
  • Fix documentation for minLineCount property in JavadocMethod. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4987
  • Using Eclipse compiler in CI to control 0 Warning level. Author: vasilyeva #2600
  • IllegalTypeCheck: split illegalClassNames for short names to prevent runtime modification. Author: rnveach #4947
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5003
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-sizes profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4993
  • MainTest.testCreateListenerWithLocationIllegalStateException isn't deleting it's test file anymore. Author: liscju #4842
  • Implement xpath query generator. Author: Timur #4901
  • Implement XpathFilter. Author: Timur #4422
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4675
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-regexp profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4988
  • ReturnCount: enforce max=1 over checkstyle code. Author: Roman Ivanov #3496
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4398
  • idea: fixing HtmlTagCanBeJavadocTag cause ant build error. Author: vasilyeva #4805
  • AnnotationUseStyleCheck defaults: mismatch between documentation and code. Author: Stephan Schroevers #4966
  • idea: fix ThisEscapedInConstructor idea violation for ImportControl class. Author: vasilyeva #4863
  • idea: twelfth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4940
  • resolve IDEA inspection BooleanParameter in AbstractModuleTestSupport.createChecker. Author: vasilyeva #4857
  • AuditEventDefaultFormatterTest should not use PowerMockito for testing. Author: rnveach #4931
  • idea: eleventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva, Roman Ivanov #4801
  • avoid boolean parameters for public methods. Author: vasilyeva #4709
  • Mapper of XPath expressions onto AST nodes. Author: Timur #4369
  • disallow java.util.Comparator in import-control. Author: Luolc #4907
  • Custom checks broken with Checkstyle 8.0. Author: rnveach #4885
  • Split BaseCheckTestSupport into AbstractPathTestSupport, AbstractModuleTestSupport, and AbstractTreeTestSupport. Author: rnveach, Subbu Dantu #4592
  • idea: ninth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4707
  • idea: fifth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4726
  • idea: add messages to all asserts. Author: vasilyeva #4808
  • wercker: NoErrorTest on sevntu with checkstyle's snapshot. Author: Roman Ivanov #4829
  • Improve Error Handling for Javadoc Parsing. Author: Piyush Sharma #4717
  • idea: add initial capacities to StringBuffer. Author: Roman Ivanov #4812
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-main profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4399
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4402

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.1 (Jul 25, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Make SuppressionCommentFilter and SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter children of TreeWalker. Author: Timur #4714
  • remove AbstractComplexityCheck, AbstractIllegalCheck, AbstractIllegalMethodCheck, AbstractNestedDepthCheck. Author: vasilyeva #4749
  • ImportControl: Remove deprecated 'url' property. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3578
  • remove deprecated AbstractDeclarationCollector, AbstractFormatCheck, AbstractOptionCheck . Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4677
  • FileText should not extends AbstractList. Author: Timur #3034
  • Move DetailAST log away from AbstractViolationReporter. Author: rnveach #3574
  • api: LocalizedMessages class should be removed. Author: Andrei Selkin #3545
  • Bug fixes:
  • SummaryJavadoc: no violation on absent summary and on javadoc where '.' is used not as end of sentense. Author: Sagar #3907
  • MethodCountCheck with wrong tokens crashes Checkstyle. Author: rnveach #4556
  • UnusedImportsCheck does not detect parameter types in javadoc block tags. Author: Brent Plump #4606
  • UnusedImports processJavadoc fails with javadoc tags that span lines. Author: Nathan Naze #2840
  • some messages are still hardcoded in english. Author: Subbu Dantu #3110
  • EmptyBlock: NPE on annotation declaration. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4472
  • Notes:
  • idea: tenth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4725
  • idea: sixth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4724
  • idea: seventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4722
  • idea: fifth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4726
  • idea: eleventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4801
  • Split BaseCheckTestSupport into AbstractPathTestSupport, AbstractModuleTestSupport, and AbstractTreeTestSupport. Author: Subbu Dantu #4592
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-header profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4401
  • activate IntellijIdea inspection InterfaceMayBeAnnotatedFunctional. Author: vasilyeva #3435
  • idea: ninth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4707
  • spelling: Fix German translation. Author: FriedrichFroebel
  • Increase coverage of JavadocParser and JavadocLexer. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4769
  • idea: third part of violations. Author: vasilyeva #4713
  • idea: fourth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4723
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'regexp' package . Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4585
  • spelling: fix typo in docs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • add vavr library to our regression testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #4363
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-filters profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4396
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4394
  • idea: second part of violations. Author: vasilyeva #4708
  • Enable IntellijIdea inspection: 'throw' inside 'finally' block. Author: vasilyeva #3301
  • idea: eights part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4711
  • MT mode: Intelllij inspection violations. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4700
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs for MainTests to 'main' folder. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4588
  • UniquePropertiesCheck.getLineNumber should be private. Author: BBG #4694
  • suppress NewlineAtEndOfFile on all internal javadoc files. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4702
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'ant' package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4686
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in header package. Author: BBG, Dmytro Kytsmen #4365
  • review all suppressed IntellijIdea inspections with comment 'till ...'. Author: Roman Ivanov #4681
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'javadoc' package . Author: BBG #4586
  • LeftCurlyCheck: clarify behavior of 'nlow' option after removal of 'maxLineLength'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3855
  • Avoid usage of getLines method from FileText. Author: Timur #4641
  • reevaluate tokens in google config for SeparatorWrapCheck. Author: kazachka #3752
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4675
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'checks' package . Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4587
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: rnveach, vasilyeva #4398
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-main profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4399
  • ConfigurationLoaderTest::testIncorrectTag is flaky. Author: rnveach #4664
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4400
  • refactoring: CodeSelectorPModel do double copy of collectio in c-tor. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3555
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'metrics' package . Author: Subbu Dantu #4575
  • Restore wercker CIs that have custom Checks. Author: rnveach #4582
  • Fix PMD violations for test code in Checkstyle. Author: vasylieva #877
  • Build fails on cobertura:check goal. Author: Roman Ivanov #4450
  • Add multi thread mode to checkstyle launcher. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4370

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 8.0 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • api changes: make getAcceptableTokens/getRequiredTokens/getDefaultTokens methods as abstract in Check.java. Author: rnveach #605
  • deprecate Checker.setClassloader , replace with Checker.setClassLoader. Author: Roman Ivanov #922
  • Remove deprecated Check class. Author: rnveach #4541
  • CheckstyleAntTask: substitude setConfig(File) with setConfig(String). Author: Michael Diamond #4449
  • remove deprecated getFilename menthod from FileContents. Author: Subbu Dantu #3666
  • rename STMT in BlockOption class to STATEMENT. Author: Subbu Dantu #4035
  • Remove unnecessary text from Javadoc tokens. Author: Piyush Sharma #3796
  • Cache conflict between Maven/Ant and Eclipse/CLI run. Author: rnveach #3566
  • New:
  • MethodCountCheck: add ANNOTATION_DEF to toknes to avoid NPE. Author: Roman Ivanov #4534
  • Bug fixes:
  • some messages are still hardcoded in english. Author: Subbu Dantu, Roman Ivanov #3110
  • MethodCountCheck: wrong counting with nested interface definition. Author: rnveach #4540
  • Indentation: custom annotation not checked. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3134
  • Javadoc is not parsed correctly in files with only CR newlines. Author: Piyush Sharma #2329
  • CLI Javadoc tree printing does not check placement of Javadoc. Author: Piyush Sharma #4405
  • Javadoc parser: custom tags content should not be parsed as HTML. Author: Piyush Sharma #4164
  • Notes:
  • pmd: fix all the remained. Author: vasilyeva #4567
  • Localized UTs are not stable on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #4316
  • Add since version to Checkstyle documentation. Author: rnveach #4475
  • Fix PMD violations for test code in Checkstyle. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #877
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'indentation' package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4538
  • Use Spotbugs tool in our build process. Author: vasylieva #4373
  • pmd: enable validation on IT java sources. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4500
  • upgrade maven-pmd-plugin to version 3.8. Author: vasylieva #4342
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in imports package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4437
  • Refactor Javadoc AST Tests. Author: Piyush Sharma #4381
  • pmd: fix JUnitAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage violations in test classes. Author: vasilyeva #4516
  • pmd: fix TestClassWithoutTestCases violations in test classes. Author: vasilyeva #4518
  • pmd: fix UselessOverridingMethod violations in test classes . Author: vasilyeva #4488
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4395
  • refactoring: remove 'final' modifier from all arguments of method/c-tor at ImportControlCheck and around. Author: sharang108 #4353
  • pmd: fix AppendCharacterWithChar violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4494
  • pmd: fix InsufficientStringBufferDeclaration violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4491
  • pmd: fix UncommentedEmptyMethodBody violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4495
  • pmd: fix LoggerIsNotStaticFinal violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4490
  • pmd: fix NcssMethodCount violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4496
  • pmd: fix JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4489
  • pmd: fix ConfusingTernary violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4493
  • pmd: fix CommentDefaultAccessModifier violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4492
  • pmd: fix CheckstyleCustomShortVariable violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4497
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva, Roman Ivanov #4400
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasylieva #4394
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4398
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in header package. Author: sharang108 #4365

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.8.2 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Simple name conflict of Checks from thirdparty checks will cause exception in run time. Author: Luolc, Roman Ivanov #4414
  • 3rd party root modules not finding by simple name. Author: rnveach #4417
  • ASTs should be appended with comment nodes only when javadoc checks are present. ASTs shouldn't be walked if there are no corresponding types of checks. Author: Piyush Sharma #4393
  • Notes:
  • SummaryJavadoc: no violation on javadoc where '.' is used not as end of sentense (fixes in javadoc files only). Author: sagar-shah94 #3907
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in imports package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4437
  • Unstable TreeWalkerTest during coverage execution. Author: Piyush Sharma #4445
  • spelling: fix spelling of name McConnell. Author: Ryan P.C. McQuen
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395
  • Design a new format of suppression dtd schema to support XPath queries. Author: Timur #4364
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in modifier package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4431
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4400
  • pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-header profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4401

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.8.1 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Problem with usage of third-party Check libraries and checkstyle 7.8. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #4387
  • Notes:
  • Pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4402
  • Pitest: create profile for non-checks code . Author: vasilyeva #4367

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.8 (May 29, 2017)

  • New:
  • ImportControl: new strategyOnMismatch property to xml file structure. Author: Tima #4274
  • NoWhitespaceAfter: add support for method reference operator (new Acceptable token). Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3950
  • LocalFinalVariableName: not validating try-with-resource variables (new Acceptable token). Author: vasilyeva #3348
  • IllegalImport: new property illegalClasses to let blacklist certain classes import. Author: Tima #3449
  • ExplicitInitialization: new property 'onlyObjectReferences'. Author: Subbu Dantu #2399
  • Bug fixes:
  • Javadoc parser: Package names should permit digits in their name. Author: Piyush Sharma #4349
  • Expand exception violation when haltOnException is off. Author: rnveach #4350
  • CacheFile: violation on external resource will invalidate entire cache even if no changes are made. Author: rnveach #4101
  • RequireThis: False positive for lambda parameters. Author: Piyush Sharma #4207
  • Notes:
  • Bump version for sevnu-checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Publish all dtd schemas to sourceforge site automatically. Author: Andrei Selkin, Roman Ivanov #4341
  • Use reflection to load Checks base on checkstyle_packages.xml. Author: Luolc #3607
  • Upgrade maven-pmd-plugin to version 3.8. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4342
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in coding package. Author: slava ganyaev, Dmytro Kytsmen #4165
  • ImportControl: blacklist mode. Author: Tima #3451
  • Localized UTs are not stable on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #4316
  • Moved more variables inside if blocks to reduce execution. Author: rnveach #4343
  • Spelling: Improve grammar of usage.distance.extend. Author: Jaron Thatcher
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in annotation package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4313
  • Revert "Revert "config: bump maven-surefire-xxxxxx to 2.20" due to unstable locale UTs #4316". Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Moved variables inside if blocks to reduce execution time. Author: rnveach #4328
  • Doc: add link to contributing instructions to CONTRIBUTING.md. Author: Nathan Naze
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in design package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4314
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3891
  • Wercker CI is unstable while cloning repositories. Author: Roman Ivanov #4329
  • Revert "config: bump maven-surefire-xxxxxx to 2.20" due to unstable locale UTs #4316. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for PackageName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4172
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MemberName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4151
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4158
  • Move all dtd schemas to sourceforge site. Author: Andrei Selkin #1571

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.7 (May 2, 2017)

  • New:
  • Ant: accept path in addition to fileset option. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3312
  • SeparatorWrap: add support for method reference operator. Author: Luolc #3951
  • NoWhitespaceBefore: add support for method reference operator. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3949
  • RightCurlyCheck: add support for lambda. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3546
  • ParenPad: thinks precedence parens are a METHOD_CALL instead of an EXPR, new token TokenTypes.DOT should be supported. Author: Subbu Dantu #3048
  • DefaultComesLast: new option skipIfLastAndSharedWithCase to raise violation if default doesn't share case. Author: Sagar #4078
  • ClassDataAbstractionCoupling and ClassFanOutComplexity: property to exclude packages. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3309
  • ClassDataAbstractionCoupling : Add a excludeClassesRegexps property . Author: Tima #3234
  • Bug fixes:
  • NPathComplexity ignores multi-part boolean expressions . Author: kazachka #56
  • ArrayTrailingComma: Extra coma is required in multiline array value. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1509
  • EmptyBlock should process LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: Piyush Sharma #4159
  • Take "break" into consideration in FinalLocalVariable. Author: Luolc #4082
  • RequireThis treats local variables as properties. Author: Piyush Sharma #3423
  • Exception message not informative enough for users on incorrect parent. Author: Subbu Dantu #2186
  • EmptyBlock: can't get violation from case token. Author: Piyush Sharma #3839
  • RightCurly: False negative on multiblock tokens with ALONE_OR_SINGLELINE option. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4091
  • Notes:
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for InterfaceTypeParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4142
  • ReturnCount: enforce max=1 over checkstyle code. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3496
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test in the blocks package. Author: Subbu Dantu, Dmytro Kytsmen #4220
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ClassTypeParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4137
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for CatchParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4136
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ConstantName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4141
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in coding package. Author: slava ganyaev, Dmytro Kytsmen #4165
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: Jun Lin #4080
  • Fix new TeamCity violations. Author: Roman Ivanov #4250
  • spelling: unify THIRDPARTY_PACKAGE into THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE. Author: Yusuke Matsubara
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoLineWrap. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen 933
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for OuterTypeNumber. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4043
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParentPad. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4062
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for StaticVariableName. Author: Akshita #4208
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoWhitespaceAfter. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3931
  • Expand missing testing for PropertyCacheFile tests. Author: Andrei Selkin #3650
  • Adding IDEA project files to gitignore and excluding them from checkstyle list. Author: Tima #4209
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodTypeParameterName. Author: Janine Freitas #4168
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParameterName. Author: Shubham Kumar #4191
  • Add suppression of .DS_Store for NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Luolc #4176
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for WhitespaceAround. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3898
  • Verifying tokens in checkstyle config handles default tokens wrong. Author: rnveach #4119
  • spelling: fix grammar in messages.properties for indentation package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • Javadoc for try-with-resources tokens is not good enough. Author: Subbu Dantu #2899
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for FileTabCharacter. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3959
  • Fix new TeamCity violations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3616
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LocalVariableName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4150
  • Formatting issue in documentation. Author: sagar shah #3902
  • doc: fix documentation for METHOD_REF token. Author: Subbu Dantu
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LocalFinalVariableName. Author: kurileo #4144
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoWhitespaceBefore. Author: Subbu Dantu #3930
  • Enforce EndOfLine symbols at the end of all files in checkstyle repository. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3072
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: slava ganyaev #3891
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParameterNumber. Author: GabrielBercaru #4090
  • RightCurly: update documentation for singleline statements with SAME option. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4085
  • spelling: fix typos in tests. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • spelling: fix typos in xdocs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • Fix typo in @serialField javadoc tag validation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4126
  • spelling: fix some typos in code/javadoc/comments. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for AbstractClassName. Author: vasilyeva #4106
  • pitest: skip Uts execution as pitest do this for wihtou mutation mode. Author: Roman Ivanov #4104
  • changed loops to end execution early. Author: rnveach #4102
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LineLength. Author: MikhailovOlegM #4013
  • Grammar mistakes in PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. Author: unrealwork #4098

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.6.1 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • SummaryJavadoc: need special processing of inheritDoc tag. Author: Sagar #3908
  • Indentation check fails for Line Wrapped Anonymous Inner Class with LCurly on newline. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3612
  • Regression false-positive FinalLocalVariable. Author: Luolc #3172
  • ImportControlLoader does not close InputStream and leaks filehandles when xml is malformed. Author: Giorgos Gaganis #3962
  • RightCurly: ALONE option doen't work for a singleline IF. Author: Andrei Selkin #4044
  • Test failed due to locale message settings. (with non-English locale settings). Author: Luolc #3896
  • Control Characters are not skipped with google_checks config. Author: Luolc #3700
  • WhitespaceAfterCheck: problem with multiline typecast. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3850
  • try to avoid non jdk runtime exceptions in code. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3763
  • Notes:
  • README: broken link. Author: unrealwork #4093
  • Wrong German translation of declaration.order.access in messages_de.properties. Author: sirdis #4081
  • Perform refactoring of AnnotationLocationCheck to increase code readability. Author: Andrei Selkin #4055
  • google_checks: update to most recent version of style guide ( Feb 28, 2017 ). Author: Roman Ivanov #3888
  • spelling: fix spelling and punctuation in comments (RightCurly). Author: Andrei Selkin
  • google_checks: update to most recent version of style guide (3 November 2016). Author: Andrei Selkin #3755
  • NPath for empty block is 1. Author: Roman Ivanov #4045
  • Add new setting in Beginning Development for IDEA docs. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #4030
  • doc: fix typos in Travis PR validation messages. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
  • UTs should not use ROOT locale when they test violation/error message . Author: Luolc #3989
  • wercker ci should have most of testing launches on real code to shorten time of Travis execution. Author: Roman Ivanov #3798
  • Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for SeparatorWrap. Author: Sagar #3904
  • doc: update documentation for usage of "period" property at SummaryJavadoc . Author: Sagar #3906
  • spelling: corrected sentence. Author: Sagar
  • EmptyLineSeparator check not enforcing empty line after class def, enum def or interface def tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #3089
  • spelling: change 'suite' to 'suit'. Author: ljacqu
  • WritingChecks: add documentation on java grammar. Author: Sagar #3883
  • expand documentation on METHOD_REF token. Author: Luolc #3731
  • circleci: provide ability to skip CI executions base on commit files. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3869
  • RequireThisCheck is not fully covered with UTs. Author: Andrei Selkin #3848
  • spelling: fix typo in documentation. Author: Craig P. Motlin
  • Code coverage is not working for certain classes in checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #3843
  • Travis faliure: "sonatype-nexus-staging not found" during release. Author: Roman Ivanov #3868

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.6 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • New:
  • add allowEmptyCatches parameter to WhitespaceAroundCheck. Author: liscju #3841
  • NoWhitespaceBefore: Add support for varargs. Author: Robert Painsi #3718
  • Google style: allow single character variables. Author: Andrei Selkin #3702
  • NPathComplexityCheck: set of tokens should not be customizable by user. Author: kazachka #3797
  • Bug fixes:
  • DesignForExtension: order of annotations change violation. Author: Andrei Selkin #3830
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName: confusing violation message. Author: rnveach #3721
  • Fix AbstractTypeAwareCheck when dealing with nested interfaces. Author: rnveach #3835
  • IllegalTokenText in google_checks should not has BACKSPACE character . Author: rnveach #3701
  • IndentationCheck: catch child indentation not checked. Author: rnveach #3803
  • Indentation: Annotation with RParen on new line when followed by other annotations causes invalid expectation. Author: shawn.kovalchick #3733
  • Notes:
  • Code coverage is not working for certain classes in checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #3843
  • ImportControl: improve xdoc documentation. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #2935
  • reevaluate tokens in IllegalTokenText. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3729
  • reevaluate 'default' and 'case' in google config for EmptyBlock. Author: rnveach #3748
  • reevaluate tokens in checkstyle config for NeedBraces. Author: rnveach #3735
  • Config: forbid assert token by Illegal token Check. Author: rnveach #3751
  • reevaluate tokens in google config for OperatorWrapCheck. Author: rnveach #3749
  • messages_ja.properties contains funny (wrongly machine-translated) messages. Author: SATO Yusuke #3831
  • config: Remove redundant and incorrect rules from import control configuration. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3736
  • travis should skip execution if configs of other CIs are changed. Author: Roman Ivanov #3818
  • doc: Add notes on import control config for inner classes. Author: Jochen Van de Velde
  • Rename method in CheckUtil. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3820
  • wercker ci should have most of testing launches on real code to shorten time of Travis execution. Author: Roman Ivanov #3798
  • Typo in website documentation for JavadocMethod.. Author: Roman Ivanov #3800
  • doc: Known API issues was added to reference #3810. Author: Roman Ivanov

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.5.1 (Feb 18, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • PackageObjectFactory hides real exception. Author: rnveach #3778
  • RightCurly: handling of try-with-resources on several lines with CS 7.5. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3776
  • Notes:
  • Add the Hibernate Search project to the Checkstyle CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #3790

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.5 (Feb 18, 2017)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • ParameterName: deprecate 'scope' and 'excludeScope' properties, introduce new property 'accessModifiers'. Author: Andrei Selkin #3675
  • New:
  • Ant: Cannot override default Checker. Author: rnveach #3530
  • ImportControl should have property which allows to validate specified file path. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3462
  • Bug fixes:
  • NullPointerException in AbstractHeaderCheck when cache file specified and no header file. Author: rnveach #3771
  • RequireThisCheck doesn't see outer classes for anonymous classes. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #3041
  • NPE on type parameter annotations for this. Author: Markus Rathgeb #3732
  • UnusedImports behaviour is different from documentation. Author: Andrei Selkin #3741
  • Javadoc: Column number of DetailNode is always 0 for first line. Author: kazachka #3507
  • FallThrough check doesn't correctly handle try-with-resources. Author: rnveach #3509
  • RedundantModifier: no violation on final enum field methods. Author: rnveach #3582
  • NPE in RightCurly with LITERAL_DO on do-while without curly braces. Author: rnveach #3681
  • Notes:
  • reevaluate tokens in google config for NeedBracesCheck. Author: rnveach #3753
  • refactoring: RightCurlyCheck code expression. Author: rnveach #3764
  • Verify tokens in google config. Author: rnveach #3740
  • Verify tokens in checkstyle config. Author: rnveach #3720
  • Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3708
  • doc: Fix typo in config_imports.xml. Author: Jochen Van de Velde
  • Investigate pitest tool. Author: Roman Ivanov #3271
  • add pgjdbc project at NoErrorTest group of tests . Author: Roman Ivanov #3670
  • use shippable CI in testing. Author: Oleg Efremenkov #3316
  • doc: fix the escaping of AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck's javadocs. Author: Michael Diamond
  • use new checks and new properties from sevntu.checkstyle project . Author: rnveach #3064
  • CI special phase to enforce 644 permissions on all files. Author: Roman Ivanov, MaksimP #3683
  • create xdoc for FileContentsHolder. Author: rnveach #3664
  • doc: Fix incorrect documentation for SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter. Author: Charlie Pai
  • doc: how to generate sources after import project to IntelijIdea. Author: Roman Ivanov

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.4 (Jan 10, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Support LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED token for NoWhitespaceAfter Rule. Author: rnveach #2803
  • google_checks.xml : NO space is allowed method method name and its arguments. Author: rnveach #2809
  • Support more tokens in WhitespaceAfter check. Author: MaksimP #3333
  • Checker: option to allow printing exception as violation and continue execution. Author: rnveach #3611
  • ImportControl: allow to load files from resources. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3450
  • BUG FIXES:
  • NullPointerException when using NeedBraces with tokens LITERAL_CASE, LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: liscju #3655
  • CustomImportOrder should check that import groups are separated by one line only. Author: kazachka #3551
  • RightCurly was misconfigured in google_checks.xml for do-while blocks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3678
  • keep a map of Check name and it package in source to avoid brute force load by PackageObjectFactory from all packages. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3184
  • Duplicated Checks in google_checks.xml config should have "id". Author: Roman Ivanov #3662
  • skip unnecessary exception 'Severity not set, ignoring exception'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3657
  • EmptyLineSeparator causing violation in `package-info.java`. Author: kazachka #3426
  • FinalLocalVariable should not to check multi-catch variables. Author: liscju #3617
  • ImportOrder: Check that import groups aren't separated internally. Author: linelect #2143
  • NOTES:
  • update documentation about getAcceptableTokens for javadoc Checks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3672
  • update documentation for VariableDeclarationUsageDistance with allowedDistance = 0. Author: Roman Ivanov #3665
  • Module term and usage is confusing in test area. Author: rnveach #3667
  • Using the SPDX identifier for the license name. Author: Robert Reiz #3653
  • XDoc: extend validation to Checker and TreeWalker. Author: rnveach #3622
  • travis: use standalone shell files . Author: Roman Ivanov #3632
  • CustomImportControl bad document examples that could lead to false positive on 'special group'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3590
  • Add new Sevntu checks and create UT for missing checks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3628
  • repo files should not have execute permissions. Author: MaksimP #3600
  • use shippable CI in testing. Author: Oleg Efremenkov #3316
  • 100% UT coverage for ParseTreeTablePModel.java. Author: Saideep, Roman Ivanov #3606
  • Set Load external DTD feature to be enabled. Author: Aurimas Liutikas #3605
  • Modules and XDocs: change setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation (more 2). Author: rnveach #3575
  • ImportControl: Deprecate 'url' property in favor of the 'file' property. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3584
  • Unexpected loss of coverage for PropertyCacheFile.java. Author: Roman Ivanov #3594
  • Update ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • refactoring to ImportControlCheck . Author: kazachka #3498
  • ThreadLocal usage in single threaded checkstyle. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2992
  • Detect final methods in Enumeration for RedundantModifier. Author: rnveach #2068

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.3 (Dec 6, 2016)

  • BREAKING BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
  • Javadoc grammar: Delete child nodes in Javadoc TEXT node. Author: rnveach #3170
  • NEW:
  • Update Google style coverage to state of 12 July 2016. Author: alberto.cuda #3381
  • Modules and XDocs: changed setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation . Author: rnveach #3255
  • CLI: Cannot override default Checker. Author: rnveach #3515
  • ParameterNameCheck: new scope and excludeScope properties . Author: alberto.cuda #3473
  • google_checks.xml CustomImportOrder problem. Author: Andrei Selkin #941
  • BUG FIXES:
  • GUI: Add support of DetailNode objects in CodeSelector. Author: kazachka #3432
  • GUI: Inconsistency in AST structure for block-comments. Author: kazachka #3445
  • Checker Cache not saving files that have suppressed violations. Author: rnveach #3488
  • NOTES:
  • ImportOrder: checkstyle_checks.xml does not have separate "java" group. Author: linelect #3577
  • doc: fix broken link to file filters page. Author: Ken Geis
  • use ForbidAnnotationElementValueCheck from sevntu.checkstyle. Author: rnveach #3567
  • Turn on Config Cache File Locally for Developers. Author: rnveach #3487
  • document isCommentNodesRequired method in xdoc. Author: Roman Ivanov #3561
  • Checkstyle tests should not require internet. Author: rnveach #3536
  • doc: note was placed to TranslationCheck that it has problems with Checker cache. Author: Roman Ivanov

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.2 (Oct 31, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • DesignForExtension: consider overridable methods and javadoc. Author: Andrei Selkin #3102
  • ImportControl: allow regex in subpackage elements.. Author: Volker Boerchers #2999
  • Allow WhitespaceAround for ARRAY_INIT token. Author: zenigata #3202
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Inconsistency in AST tructure for block-comments. Author: kazachka #3431
  • Checker Cache invalidated falsely on load in second run due to external resources. Author: rnveach #3489
  • Wrong warning from AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters. Author: Dzmitry Rusak #3476
  • Add METHOD_REF to the list of valid tokens for OperatorCheck. Author: alberto.cuda #3472
  • DetailAST should invalidate childCount cache. Author: rnveach #3486
  • DetailAST should invalidate its methods cache (aka lazy-load). Author: Andrei Selkin #3466
  • NOTES:
  • Rename PkgControl to ImportControl. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3514
  • split Guard class into two. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3497
  • openjdk8/9 test code should be parseable by checkstyle . Author: Roman Ivanov #3033
  • use shippable CI in testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #3316

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.1.2 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Wrong order of "default" method modifier. Author: alberto.cuda #3471
  • EqualsHashCode: hashCode without equals is not a violation. Author: rnveach #3308
  • Notes:
  • Revert "Pull #3162: Update version of commons-collections to 3.2.2 to fix security vulnerability CVE-2015-6420". Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava. Author: Andrei Selkin #3433
  • doc: fixed the wording in javadoc for TrailingCommentCheck. Author: José Castro
  • doc: added missing slash to backport documentation url (#3457). Author: rnveach
  • doc: added links to cs backport jre6 (#3447). Author: rnveach
  • Replace line-based suppressions with inline ones for Checkstyle's suppressions.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2226
  • Update Checkstyle GUI in order to display Javadoc tokens. Author: Baratali Izmailov #408
  • Fix ForbidCertainImports config. Author: Andrei Selkin #3412
  • use CyclomaticComplexity.switchBlockAsSingleDecisionPoint in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2874
  • SuppressCommentFilter not working with ClassDataAbstractionCoupling when specified on class. Author: Andrei Selkin #977
  • Resolve IntelijIdea inspection violations for java8. Author: Mariia Mykhailova #3233
  • Replace Guava's Joiner with Java 8 native approach. Author: Andrei Selkin #3406
  • Fix grammar in issue templates. Author: Roman Ivanov #3428
  • spelling: PR instructions, YOU --> YOUR. Author: Elliotte Rusty Harold

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.1.1 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • EqualsHashCode: hashCode without equals is not a violation. Author: rnveach
  • RedundantModifier : missed violations at interface and abstract class methods signatures with final parameters. Author: rnveach
  • Notes:
  • Remove usage of System.out.println in IT resources. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • Flaws in German translation. Author: Claas Augner
  • Add NonDex tool to pom.xml and .travis.yml. Author: Ben Lambeth

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.1 (Aug 1, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • new CLI option: exclude directories. Author: rnveach #3287
  • ImportOrder: make static imports ordering as in Eclipse. Author: Andrei Selkin #3101
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Indentation: incorrect expectation for wrapped arguments of chained calls. Author: Kevin Conaway #3208
  • RedundantModifier: miss violation on extra final in try-with-resources. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3323
  • RequireThisCheck: false positive on static field. Author: rnveach #3335
  • FinalLocalVariable: false positive when variable is assigned inside and outside switch-block. Author: Andrei Selkin #3074
  • RequireThisCheck: NPE when surrounded by braces. Author: rnveach #3334
  • NOTES:
  • IndentationCheckTest makes assumption about the order of HashMap. Author: Ben Lambeth #3369
  • Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov, Roman Ivanov #410
  • Update releasenotes generation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3350
  • Update releasenotes generation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3349
  • Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • doc: Fix JavaDoc comments (#3338). Author: Michael Simons
  • Online docs: AST example for LITERAL_DO is missing the DO_WHILE node. Author: Roman Ivanov #3209

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 7.0 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • update checkstyle to jdk8 as runtime jdk
  • Modules and XDocs: changed setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation.
  • New:
  • VisibilityModifier: allow public final fields.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Ability to differentiate annotation placement in for each loop from variable declaration..
  • Java 8 Grammar: Parsing of explicit receiver parameters.
  • Java 8 Grammar: annotation on throws types.
  • Java 8 Grammar: annotation on generic type.
  • CommentsIndentation : Check incorrect work with subsequent comments.
  • CommentsIndentation : allow upper comments for following block at multi-block structures.
  • CommentsIndentation : false-positive in empty array declarations.
  • CommentsIndentation: false-positive when a singleline comment follows a block comment.
  • RightCurly rule should properly enforce same rule for LITERAL_DO.
  • Proper support for generics in visibility modifier check.
  • Indentation: incorrect validation for imports and package.
  • Indentation: remove requirement right curlies to be first on line.
  • Notes:
  • doc: fixed checkstyle download url (#3304).
  • Reduce the number of tasks performed by Travis CI.
  • Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava.
  • doc: update for AnnotationLocation examples to be more exact.
  • 6 tests in Checkstyle master branch fail at clean Ubuntu 14.04 Docker container (Java 8, Maven 3).
  • Avoid catching of InvalidPathException and AccessDeniedException in PropertyCacheFile#persist.
  • Review all French translations.
  • Improve French translation for annotations warnings.
  • Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check.
  • corrected alphabetical order of the checks.
  • CommitValidationTest.testCommitMessageHasSingleLine to support github default format.
  • XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.19 (May 30, 2016)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Issue #3187: aligned setters with String collection fields and broke old compatibility.
  • New:
  • new Check: SingleSpaceSeparator.
  • ReturnCount: special option for methods with void return type.
  • new CLI argument: provide abililty to show debug level of logs from checkstyle code.
  • Fix cache usage in presence of filters.
  • Bug fixes:
  • CLI Javadoc tree printer doesn't show errors.
  • Block Comments: CR lines not handled the same as LF lines.
  • IllegalTokenTextCheck and IllegalTokenCheck does not work with COMMENT_CONTENT token.
  • Indentation: throwsIndent should configure indentation of `throws` on next line.
  • UnusedImports: value javadoc tag does not reference imports.
  • Notes:
  • FileContents confused about number of lines in comment separated by '\r'.
  • Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check.
  • XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values.
  • Some PullRequests validation for commit mesage miss some cases.
  • AnnotationLocation: unclear behavior when annotation is among modifiers.
  • Documentation for ANT property config is incorrect.
  • Sevntu CS not running on all CS code.
  • Update version of commons-collections to 3.2.2(from 3.2.1) to fix security vulnerability CVE-2015-6420. Author: akhil
  • doc: Indentation property description become worded in the same way.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.18 (May 3, 2016)

  • New:
  • Make CLI option to print full parsing tree (java + comments + javadoc comments).
  • Add the ability to validate language codes by TranslationCheck.
  • EmptyLineSeparator to check empty lines inside methods.
  • Bug fixes:
  • NullPointerException in FinalLocalVariableCheck with Lambdas. Author: rnveach
  • Serious performance problem in All Javadoc Check that are based on ANTLR parser. Author: rnveach
  • CommentsIndentation Check - False Positive at End-of-Method.
  • Indentation: fix line wrap hanlding.
  • Indentation module regression in 6.16 and 6.17..
  • NPE in AnnotationLocationCheck.hasAnnotations.
  • Execution of checkstyle audit failed caused by inherited javadoc tag.
  • AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters: Tail comment check failed if there's tabs before tail comment..
  • FinalLocalVariable: false positive when variable is assigned multiple times.
  • Support for LAMDA token in WhitespaceAround check.
  • Notes:
  • maven-site-plugin:3.5 has problem to build our website.
  • RegexpOnFilename example from documentation does not work on checkstyle source.
  • Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check.
  • IndentationCheckTest: 'exp' in input files are out of sync with test.
  • Some redundant messages..
  • doc: added Codacy to the list of active tools.
  • Fix all issues for Java found by Codacy static analysis tool.
  • Use Distelli CI for testing of Javadoc Checks.
  • doc: DesignForExtension documentation is extended to warn user about possible misusage of this Check.
  • Fund raising pages for checkstyle.
  • Use DatatypeConverterprintHexBinary to convert byte array to hex String in PropertyCacheFile.
  • SSLHandshakeException exception during linkcheck-maven-plugin.
  • Speed up google_check validation test.
  • Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.17 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Add 'baseName' option and remove 'basenameSeparator' option of TranslationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2204
  • New:
  • Make CLI option to be able to print Javadoc tree as plain text. Author: Baratali Izmailov #652
  • java9: try structure is not parsable when only name is used. Author: Roman Ivanov #3025
  • All messages translated to Chinese. Author: ybbpgfjtey #3001
  • RequireThis: new option validateOnlyOverlapping. Author: Andrei Selkin #2362
  • Bug fixes:
  • Bad german translation of summary.first.sentence. Author: Christian H. Kuhn #3013
  • Ignored file extensions will output unterminated tags in XML. Author: idarmans #3022
  • NPE when running CS with cache with Maven plugin using NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2218
  • Exception when using method reference in lamba "Class[]::new". Author: Ilja Dubinin #2729
  • ClassNotFoundException when using inherited exception (regression to issue #1192 fix). Author: Roman Ivanov #3008
  • Notes:
  • doc: extending Rationale of NewlineAtEndOfFile with example. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Fund raising pages for checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #3057
  • java8: Create compilable test inputs with all possible cases for method references. Author: rnveach #2968
  • upgrade equalsverifier to version 2.0. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #3035
  • remove dependency to commons-lang3 library. Author: Rasmus Kaj #2428
  • reenable two sevntu checks. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #3042
  • Use Collections.addAll() instead of adding elements individually. Author: Baratali Izmailov #625
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.ant. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy, Roman Ivanov #1487
  • Localed UTs are failing at CheckstyleAntTaskTest.testXmlOutput. Author: Roman Ivanov #3023
  • Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.16 (Mar 4, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • fix TokenTypes compatibility problems between 6.15 and 6.16. Author: rnveach #2997
  • Allow JUnit ClassRule to be public. Author: Andrej Vano #2987
  • FinalParameters should not warn for non-final parameters of native methods . Author: rnveach #2981
  • Notes:
  • Revert "Issue #2973: removed unused FLOAT_SUFFIX from java.g". Author: Roman Ivanov
  • all rows in coerage table google_style.html shoudl have anchor. Author: rnveach #2975
  • Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.16 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Move Treewalker cache to Checker. Author: Andrei Selkin #569
  • New:
  • Make CLI option to be able to print Javadoc tree as plain text. Author: Baratali Izmailov #652
  • copy Check class to AbstractCheck class to let deprecate Check class. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2551
  • Print parse tree from CLI to terminal. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2638
  • Bug fixes:
  • Skip type annotations from validation of ModifierOrderCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #903
  • Probable typo in com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.blocks.RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2762
  • Indentation check reports some incorrect indentation levels on errors. Author: rnveach #2941
  • 6.15 complains about missing @return tag in a overridden method. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2869
  • Nesting Checks in each other in config does not produce any error. Author: rnveach #2773
  • Forbid multiple violation for the same line in IndentaitonCheck. Author: liscju #676
  • LeftCurly not working correctly with lambdas. Author: liscju #2818
  • Duplicate error message for static final field in DeclarationOrder check. Author: liscju #1048
  • Translation Check: wrong support for resources with language, country, variant. Author: Andrei Selkin #2251
  • Checkstyle internal exceptions lack contextual information. Author: Andrei Selkin #2285
  • Changed semantics of PropertyExpander. Author: Petr Hejl #2886
  • Indentation properties not applied properly to lambdas. Author: rnveach #281
  • VisibilityModifier.allowPublicImmutableFields should allow public immutable fields in enums. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2887
  • FinalClass is over aggressive when extending happen inside class. Author: liscju #2822
  • WhitespaceAround should have an option allow double-brace initialization. Author: liscju #2838
  • Exception when using method reference in lamba "Class[]::new". Author: Ilja Dubinin #2729
  • Wasted disk access. Author: rnveach #2103
  • JavadocType doesn't report unused param tag. Author: liscju #2811
  • DeclarationOrder check enforces order that is not possible. Author: Andrei Selkin #924
  • Tabs are wrongly handled in Indentation check when line is wrapped. Author: rnveach #2795
  • custom javadoc inline tags cause parse error. Author: rnveach #1184
  • JavadocStyleCheck: String index out of range: -1. Author: rnveach #2788
  • Notes:
  • Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973
  • Refactor Comments AST Test. Author: rnveach #2396
  • doc: example to checkstyle's Ant configuration was added to anttask.html. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Travis: add xwiki project to regeression testing. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2938
  • PMD: resolve problems from DefaultPackage rule. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy, Roman Ivanov #957
  • doc: Improve javadoc of parameters of AnnotationLocationCheck.. Author: liscju
  • fix java8 compilation broblems in Inputs. Author: rnveach #2904
  • Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov #410
  • PMD ExceptionAsFlowControl: Do not use exceptions as flow control to create objects in PackageObjectFactory. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1159
  • ant with failOnViolation="false" will FAIL. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2185
  • Checkstyle cannot be built using JDK9 as tools.jar has been dropped . Author: Peter Wong #2905
  • CS' java 8 code isn't compilable. Author: rnveach #2880
  • doc: NPath documentation is extended. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2609
  • spelling: Correct spelling for fast-forward-merge.sh. Author: Thomas Paul Mann
  • UTs should be launched in default locale. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2783
  • Disallow usage of java.util.Stack and java.util.Vector in code. Author: Andrei Selkin #2859

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.15 (Feb 2, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • new Check: RegexpOnFilename. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2546
  • SuppressionFilter: new option 'optional' to allow skip SuppressionFilter if config file does not exist. Author: liscju #1002
  • Add possibility to specify a unique ID to all Regexp checks. Author: Andrei Selkin #1008
  • BUG FIXES:
  • StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in Indentation check. Author: rnveach #2645
  • AbstractJavadocCheck should process only doc comments placed before class, interface, constructor, method, or field declarations. Author: Baratali Izmailov #325
  • SummaryJavadoc: false "end with a period" reports when inheritDoc is used . Author: rnveach #2805
  • JavadocMethod: allowedAnnotations hides bad javadocs. Author: rnveach #2806
  • FinalLocalVariable doesn't report variable when condition separates 2 assignments. Author: Bhavik Patel #2807
  • Config of Google Style does not include InterfaceTypeParameterName check. Author: Andrei Selkin #2792
  • Indentation on annotation parameters is wrong. Author: liscju #1349
  • OneStatementPerLine check and lambda expression. Author: liscju #2688
  • Gui should have a splitter bettween tree and code and prefered columns size. Author: liscju #2767
  • RequireThis reports false-positive when an instance method is overloaded with a static one. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2539
  • NOTES:
  • Add checkstyle messages to xdocs. Author: rnveach #2836
  • Setup 'Circle CI' to run checkstyle-tester project on JDK sources. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy, Roman Ivanov #2815
  • Enforce Checks of sevntu.checkstyle (released version) over Checkstyle source code. Author: Yasser Aziza #2661
  • Use Codeship CI for testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #2727
  • Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy, Roman Ivanov #2609
  • doc: Add sbt-checkstyle-plugin to list of active tools. Author: Andrew Johnson

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.14.1 (Dec 31, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • JavaNCSSCheck: unknown format type: numero inteiro. Author: Roman Ivanov #2728
  • StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in getCheckShortName method of AuditEventDefaultFormatter. Author: Andrei Selkin #2780
  • Notes:
  • spelling: fix typo in AuditEventFormatter class name. Author: Andrei Selkin

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.14 (Dec 30, 2015)

  • BREAKING BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
  • Remove parameters validation from LocalVariableName. Author: Andrei Selkin #2549
  • NEW:
  • Print name of the Check after printing violation message. Author: Andrei Selkin #2666
  • WhitespaceAround should have an allowEmptyLambda parameter. Author: liscju #2603
  • Add ENUM_CONSTANT_DEF support to MethodParamPad . Author: Andrei Selkin #2505
  • new CatchParameterName Check: to validate names of catch-block parameters only. Author: Michal Kordas #2616
  • BUG FIXES:
  • FinalLocalVariable false-positive in SWITCH. Author: Bhavik Patel #2405
  • Typo in Javadoc tag name. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2376
  • Extend parsing rule of custom Javadoc tag name. Author: Baratali Izmailov #461
  • Nesting Checks in each other in config does not produce any error. Author: Roman Ivanov #2773
  • RequireThis check message is not clear enough. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2239
  • OneStatementPerLine: false match with try-with-resources. Author: Jon Bake #2211
  • Performance issue in UnusedImportsCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2631
  • Remove unused message. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2756
  • Create directory structure needed to store cache file. Author: Andrei Selkin #2575
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName incorrectly reports constants in annotations. Author: Abram Thielke #2694
  • Inconsistent violations for NeedBraces/allowSingleLineStatement. Author: liscju #2291
  • ParameterNameCheck: NullPointerException over checkstyle's input file. Author: Andrei Selkin #2678
  • @SuppressWarnings annotation does not suppress UncommentedMain. Author: Andrei Selkin #2646
  • UncommentedMain does not rise violations if main method has varargs as parameters. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2647
  • Fix 'tokens' property in JavadocStyle check. Author: Thomas Jensen #2644
  • GenericWhitespace: violation on generic like '...... instanceof Type;'. Author: liscju #2633
  • AbbreviationAsWordInName: update message to print name that violates a format. Author: liscju #2640
  • NOTES:
  • Use Nexus Staging Maven Plugin for release process. Author: Roman Ivanov #2619
  • Enforce Checks of sevntu.checkstyle (released version) over Checkstyle source code. Author: Andrei Selkin #2661
  • Make UT 'testNonAccessibleFile' locale independent . Author: Andrei Selkin #2749
  • Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2609
  • Make DetectorOptions as final and immutable. Author: Andrei Selkin #2523
  • Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Roman Ivanov #2080
  • conf: update guava version to 19.0. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • doc: Correct regexp in configuration example for ParameterNameCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • doc: Add example for ParameterName into xdoc. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • doc: Fix check name in CatchParameterName xdoc. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • doc: Update comment in google_checks.xml. Author: Michal Kordas
  • Reorganize token sets in UncommentedMain. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2671
  • refactor internal tests. Author: rnveach #2625
  • Update configuration for XXXXName Checks at checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2604
  • Make validation of expected warnings in integration tests more strict. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2658
  • spelling: fix typo in word 'Existing' in google_style.xml. Author: liscju
  • Fix ParseTreeBuilder's variable names to be more readable. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2642

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.13 (Nov 30, 2015)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove access to undocumented check properties. Author: rnveach #2451
  • New:
  • ParameterName: new option to skip methods with Override annotation. Author: Andrei Selkin #2290
  • Bug fixes:
  • False negative in RequireThis check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2240
  • Checkstyle throws NumberFormatException on Japanese locale when sizes and metrics Checks are used. Author: Takahashi Eikou #2601
  • EmptyLineSeparator check does not validate newlines before class and after last method. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2067
  • FallThroughCheck handles finally incorrectly. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1438
  • EqualsAvoidNull check should сheck String concatenations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1930
  • Notes:
  • minor: remove maven-failsafe-plugin from linkcheck excludes, since link was fixed. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • minor: build-helper-maven-plugin version bump to 1.10. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • adjust AbbreviationAsWordInName in checkstyle_checks.xml to catch unexpected abbreviations. Author: Roman Ivanov #2639
  • Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
  • minor: fixed improper put that should be get. Author: rnveach
  • Code review of CommentsIndentationCheck.java. Author: Andrei Selkin #2530
  • Remove drag&drop from GUI. Author: Ilja Dubinin #2608
  • create HTML web page to describe how to open issues against Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas, Roman Ivanov #2344
  • Pull #2607: Update JGit to 4.1.1.201511131810-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2607
  • Pull #2605: Make methods private in RequireThisCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2605
  • Tests for validating commit message should not allow period at the end of commit message. Author: Andrei Selkin #2590
  • doc: Correct xdoc/javadoc for ParameterNameCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • unify IT test code. Author: rnveach #2589
  • minor: separated tests so one subject per file. Author: rnveach
  • Deactivate 'allowSamelineSingleParameterlessAnnotation' property of AnnotationLocation in Checkstyle config. Author: Michal Kordas #2581
  • Create test for checkstyle-X.X-all.jar on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #2516
  • Pull #2586: Update slf4j-simple to 1.7.13. Author: Michal Kordas #2586
  • Pull #2585: Update FindBugs Maven Plugin to 3.0.3. Author: Michal Kordas #2585
  • PMD: resolve problems from DefaultPackage rule. Author: Michal Kordas #957
  • minor: fixed wrong variable usage in AbstractOptionCheck. Author: rnveach
  • Remove usage of System.out.println in IT resources. Author: Michal Kordas, Roman Ivanov #2541
  • Unify naming of all files with IT inputs. Author: rnveach #2540
  • UT to validate google/sun style xdocs. Author: rnveach #2557
  • Unify naming of all files with test inputs. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2161
  • spelling: fix strange japanese.. Author: Nobuyuki-Inaba
  • Improve documentation for CovariantEquals check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1031

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.12.1 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix RedundantModifier at final methods in anonymous class. Author: rnveach #2122
  • Performance-Optimization: Do not recompile Pattern for each file/line. Author: Fabian Loewner #2495
  • Add 'ignoreOverridden' option to skip methods with @Override annotation. Author: Andrei Selkin #2290
  • Fix skipping validation for non empty classes when allowEmptyTypes is true. Author: Andrei Selkin #2480
  • NeedBraces: allow no body loops. Author: Andrei Selkin #2436
  • Make 'processJavadoc' property 'true' by default. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1627
  • spelling: fix strange japanese. Author: Nobuyuki-Inaba #2524
  • Notes:
  • removed excess hierarchy from several Checks. Author: rnveach #2451
  • deprecated AbstractIllegalCheck. Author: rnveach #2451
  • removed xdoc google style links to master. Author: rnveach #2519
  • removed xdoc links to master. Author: rnveach #2519
  • added xdoc example url validation. Author: rnveach #2517
  • added xdoc check order validation, all xdoc are sorted. Author: rnveach #2292
  • validate existence of config file sooner. Author: rnveach #1267
  • reorganized checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: rnveach #2526
  • Describe token sets in 'writing checks' section in xdoc. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2346
  • Update System Rules to 1.13.0. Author: Michal Kordas #2513

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.12 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • CommentsIndentationCheck doesn't report errors at end of block. Author: Andrei Selkin #2078
  • Fix NoWhitespaceAfterCheck. Author: attatrol #1013
  • Fix NPE in EqualsAvoidNull check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2474
  • Fix FinalLocalVariable false-negative. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1551
  • Exclude lines with package in LineLength check. Author: rnveach #2482
  • fixed NPE in NeedBraces.isSingleLineFor. Author: rnveach #2283
  • JavaDocMethod: Exception thrown for incomplete @return tag if next line is empty. Author: John Erik Halse #2398
  • Fix reusability of JavaDoc checks. Author: Björn Kautler #2326
  • Fixed blank line indentification for EmptyLineSeparator check. Author: Pavel Baranchikov #2266
  • Support for @SuppressWarnings("all").. Author: Stéphane Galland #2275
  • Make SuppressWarningsFilter case-insensitive. Author: Michal Kordas #2202
  • Fix NPE in ModifiedControlVariable on SuppressWarnings. Author: Michal Kordas #2327
  • Do not recognize '/**/' as valid Javadoc. Author: Michal Kordas #2387
  • Make JavadocType check customizable by list of tokens. Author: Michal Kordas #2388
  • Fix FALSE positive in JavadocStyle check on inheritDoc tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2411
  • Ignore missing Javadoc for 'serialVersionUID' fields. Author: Michal Kordas #792
  • Exclude lines with imports in LineLength check. Author: Michal Kordas #2433
  • IllegalTypeCheck, requiredTokens is set to IMPORT only. Author: Roman Ivanov #2415
  • CLI should print a file name where exception is happen. Author: Roman Ivanov #2109
  • LeftCurly: add Anonymous class to allowed tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #2431
  • Notes:
  • Deploy snapshots versions in CI. Author: WonderCsabo #2167
  • require all filters appear in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: rnveach #2268
  • removed xdoc of CustomImportOrder.samePackageMatchingDepth. Author: rnveach #2453
  • added xdoc check validation. Author: rnveach #2442
  • Run CheckStyle on Full Test Directory. Author: rnveach #2421
  • fixed invalid xml examples in xdocs. Author: rnveach #2425
  • flush audit outputs sooner. Author: rnveach #2085
  • unify test input locations for whole project. Author: rnveach #2161
  • removed excess hierarchy from few Check. Author: rnveach #2451
  • Bunch of refactoring and code optimizarion. Author: rnveach
  • Update list of missing tools. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
  • Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
  • Replaced outdated link for bamboo-checkstyle-plugin. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
  • 'forbiddenapis' plugin added to maven config. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1217
  • Update list of related Tools. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
  • skip all analysers during deploy. Author: Roman Ivanov #2167
  • usage of error-prone plugin is commented out till problems with Eclipse resovled. Author: Roman Ivanov #2160
  • Inconvenience to debug UTs after recent changes in BaseCheckTestSupport. Author: Roman Ivanov #2434
  • Fix PMD violations for ShortVariable rule. Author: Roman Ivanov #985
  • PMD violations PreserveStackTrace. Author: Roman Ivanov #996
  • PMD violations EmptyMethodInAbstractClassShouldBeAbstract. Author: Roman Ivanov #997
  • PMD violation ConfusingTernary. Author: Roman Ivanov #974
  • rename CheckUtils.isVoidMethod to isNonVoidMethod. Author: Roman Ivanov #2273
  • Decrease visibility of package-private methods. Author: Michal Kordas #957
  • Rename tests to match tested class name with Test suffix. Author: Michal Kordas #2215
  • Fix all issues for Java found by Codacy static analysis tool. Author: Michal Kordas #2271
  • Fix missing code coverage. Author: Michal Kordas #2243
  • Fix typos in code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
  • Update Maven Shade Plugin to 2.4.2. Author: Michal Kordas #2464
  • Update Maven Surefire and Failsafe plugins to 2.19. Author: Michal Kordas #2394
  • Update Maven Assembly Plugin to 2.6. Author: Michal Kordas #2350
  • Update JGit to 4.1.0.201509280440-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2324
  • Update PowerMock to 1.6.3. Author: Michal Kordas #2293

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.11.2 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Make ConfigurationLoader.loadConfiguration public. Author: Michal Kordas #2260
  • Notes:
  • Create UT to check that all checkstyle modules have xdocs. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
  • Split config.html into few pages. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
  • Create xdoc documentation for FileContentsHolder. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
  • Add GENERIC_START and GENERIC_END into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of NoWhiteSpaceAfter and WhiteSpaceAround. Author: Andrei Selkin #2258
  • Add COMMA into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of NoWhiteSpaceBefore. Author: Andrei Selkin #2259
  • minor refactoring, helper method was added. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #2231
  • fixed jgit resource leaks in commit validation. Author: rnveach
  • Ilja Dubinin was added as developer. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Add WILDCARD_TYPE into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of WhitespaceAround. Author: Andrei Selkin

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.11.1 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Add lambda support to indentation check (see #281). Author: Pieter Noordhuis #1548
  • Notes:
  • Coverage has been increased to 100% in 'checks' package. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
  • Resolve Doxia Site Renderer warnings. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #905
  • Update plexus-compiler-javac-errorprone to 2.6. Author: Michal Kordas #2247
  • Update JGit to 4.0.2.201509141540-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2246
  • Fix release failure due to unknown Javadoc tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2245

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.11 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Restore 'url' option for ImportControl. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #2231
  • New:
  • New option 'requiredTranslations' to Translation check. Author: Andrei Selkin #2166
  • New option 'switchBlockAsSingleDecisionPoint' for CyclomaticComplexityCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2029
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix java grammar for unicode escape. Author: rnveach #157
  • Add basic thread-safety to Javadoc checks. Author: Michal Kordas #2237
  • Fixed NPE in FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: rnveach #1257
  • NoWhitespaceAfter, NoWhitespaceBefore and WhitespaceAround don't support GENERIC_START nor GENERIC_END tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #2219
  • Add support of lambdas which parameter types are omitted for HiddenFieldCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2175
  • Fix RedundantModifier check at final classes in interfaces. Author: Michal Kordas #2203
  • Print missing cause of exception to console on error. Author: Michal Kordas #2213
  • Fix not working excludeScope in JavadocMethod check. Author: Michal Kordas #2205
  • Fix RedundantModifier check to recognise inner classes accessible from global scope. Author: liscju #1537
  • CustomImportOrderCheck rule priorities. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1273
  • Fix false negative in AtclauseOrder check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2095
  • Fix IllegalStateException in JavadocTypeCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2112
  • Allow COMMA again in NoWhiteSpaceBefore. Author: Roman Ivanov #2089
  • Fix HiddenField false positive violations for anonymous classes. Author: Andrei Selkin #382
  • Added support of logging severity for all audit events. Author: Andrei Selkin #67
  • Allow @return tags from annotation types. Author: Phillip Webb #2141
  • Fixed redundant modifier false positive for abstract classes in interfaces. Author: Andrei Selkin #1833
  • Ignore classes nested in interaces or annotations in Final Class Check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2064
  • Detect nested enums marked as static in RedundantModifier check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1530
  • Fixed NPE in MutableExceptionCheck.isExtendedClassNamedAsException. Author: Andrei Selkin #1903
  • Change message in SummaryJavadocCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2062
  • Notes:
  • Update HTML documentation to describe all options for all checks. Author: Andrei Selkin #2169
  • Make link for each row of Google style coverage table. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1005
  • Add docs about while idiom to InnerAssignment check. Author: Michal Kordas #2230
  • Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
  • SuppressionsLoaderTest UT was stabilized. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2191
  • ROOT locale added in checker creation for UT; travis updated with a new check. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2193
  • Update Error Prone to 2.0.5. Author: Michal Kordas #2216
  • Add "Input" prefix to test input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
  • Create MacOS matrix item for Travic-CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #2210
  • POM still references nexus.codehaus.org repo. Author: Roman Ivanov #2200
  • Make coverage 100% for TokenTypesDoclet. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2126
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
  • Use StandardCharsets and get rid of UnsupportedEncodingException. Author: Michael Osipov #2034
  • Remove errors from Maven output in TokenTypesDocletTest. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2195
  • Anchor naming checks in google_style.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2108
  • AbstractHeaderCheck coverage has been increased to 100%. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1292
  • Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
  • CopyPasted ITs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2074
  • Update Maven Wagon to 2.10. Author: Michal Kordas #2183
  • Update Maven Project Info Reports Plugin to 2.8.1. Author: Michal Kordas #2182
  • Split all modules to be separate at config_naming.html. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2108
  • Remove already fixed exclusion from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #961
  • Add SLF4J binding required by JGit. Author: Michal Kordas #2129
  • Configure compiler to use Error Prone for non-input sources. Author: Michal Kordas #2160
  • Rearrange POM to use canonical ordering. Author: Michal Kordas #809
  • Unify naming files with test inputs. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
  • Create wide message for CheckstyleException in PackageObjectFactory. Author: Andrei Selkin #759
  • Fix compiler warnings in input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2130
  • Updated checkstyle_checks.xml to use ParameterNumber in default configuration. Author: Andrei Selkin #215
  • Extended Eclipse user guide for newbies of Checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #606
  • Fix exception at NeedBraces check in enhanced for loops. Author: Michal Kordas #2135
  • Make test for FileTabCharacter locale and OS independent. Author: Michal Kordas #2137
  • Add inspection scope profile for IDEA analysis. Author: Michal Kordas #2131
  • Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
  • Added tests for validating commit message. Author: liscju #937
  • Fix StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2094
  • Activated TranslationCheck in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2092
  • Fix Javadoc generation failure after addition of new tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2106
  • Add Codacy badge to main page. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
  • Update all Checks html docs with link to hosted configurations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1214
  • Create separate web page for old release notes. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2063
  • Extended javadoc/xdoc for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1900
  • Added UT which validates that all checks which exist in classpath are referenced in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #945
  • Add suppression for IntelliJ IDEA inspection. Author: Michal Kordas #2065
  • Refactoring of TreeWalker to increase readability. Author: Andrei Selkin
  • Corrected javadoc/xdoc for IllegalTypeCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.10.1 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • broken compatibility with maven-checkstyle-plugin:2.15 at checkstyle:6.10. Author: Roman Ivanov #2065

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.10 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • 'ignoreMethods' option has been removed from DeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2031
  • fix typos in properties names. Author: Michal Kordas in scope of #1555
  • Rethrow all exceptions further to caller of Checker. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1304
  • Improve exception handling in CheckstyleAntTask class. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1245
  • New:
  • Added new Check: CommentsIndentationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #333
  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed problem with lexical order in CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1469
  • Extended messages for CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1648
  • Changed SAME_PACKAGE rule for CustomImportOrderCheck. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1262
  • reimplement EqualsAvoidNullCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1377
  • enforce all checks to override getRequiredTokens, getAcceptableTokens methods. Author: Andrei Selkin #655
  • IllegalType: add 'validateAbstractClassNames' option. Author: Andrei Selkin #1805
  • Marked 'maxLineLength' as '@Deprecated' at LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #965
  • Detect public constructors in non-public classes in RedundantModifier. Author: liscju #1537
  • Fixes logic bug in gui ParseTreeInfoPanel making linesToPositions assign lines to inappropriate positions. Author: liscju
  • Fix RightCurlyCheck with same option not to rise expression in single-line blocks. Author: liscju #1416
  • Fix UnsupportedOperationException in GUI. Author: Michal Kordas #1718
  • Notes:
  • Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
  • Fix violations reported by Checkstyle checks. Author: Baratali Izmailov , Ruslan Diachenko #1566
  • Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
  • Enable Checkstyle checks for 'gui' package. Author: Roman Ivanov #1678
  • Corrected links on website. Author: Andrei Selkin #751
  • Eclipse warnings about unused fields have been fixed. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1243
  • Simplify overqualified CSS element. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
  • Remove empty CSS rule. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
  • config: maven-enforcer-plugin and equalsverifier are updated to newest version. Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Make coverage 100% for some classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
  • Utils classes have been moved to utils package, new classes CommonUtils and TokenUtils. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1898
  • Use EqualsVerifier to test equals and hashCode in IntMatchFilter. Author: Michal Kordas #1088
  • Removed suppression for SwitchDensity rule from PMD. Author: Andrei Selkin #973
  • Remove obsolete entry from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #877
  • Remove unused Coveralls plugin from pom.xml. Author: Roman Ivanov #1881
  • Update ANTLR to 4.5.1-1. Author: Roman Ivanov #1880
  • Update EqualsVerifier to 1.7.4. Author: Roman Ivanov #1879
  • replace deprecated method in HiddenCheckField. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy
  • Created JaCoCo profile of pom.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #1173
  • Update Maven FindBugs Plugin to 3.0.2. Author: Michal Kordas #1714
  • Fixed typo in JavadocMethod's examples xdocs. Author: Andrei Selkin #1668
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1010
  • Fix headers for classes in 'gui' package. Author: Michal Kordas #945
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1293
  • Resolved javadoc problems that reported by java 8. Author: Andrei Selkin #291.
  • Minor typo fixes. Author: Dave Moloney

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.9 (Aug 9, 2015)

  • BREAKING BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:
  • Change default value of property "format" to "^Abstract.*$" in AbstractClassNameCheck. Author: Bhavik Patel #1279
  • NEW:
  • New option for MagicNumber: constantWaiverParentToken. Solution to not detected properly numbers. Author: Bhavik Patel #1266
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed NPE in MultipleVariableDeclarationsCheck Issue. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1539
  • Added column number into violation messages for RightCurlyCheck and LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1511.
  • Fix BooleanExpressionComplexity check violations in Checkstyle code. Author: Andrei Selkin #1052
  • Add new option for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1019.
  • Updated configuration for Eclipse Mars in xdoc. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1464
  • updated Xdoc and Javadoc for ImportOrder and CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1464
  • Remove from dependecies deprecated jar commons-beanutils-core.jar . Author: Roman Ivanov #1471
  • RedundantModifier for inner classes and enum constructors. Author: liscju #1242
  • Add missing xdocs for allowMultipleEmptyLines property of EmptyLineSeparatorCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #881.
  • Add setter for 'ignoreEnums' in LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #975.
  • JavadocType does not check parameters in inner classes. Author: Pavel Baranchikov #1421
  • ImportOrderCheck. Fix separation for static imports. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1398
  • Fix for SuperClone and SuperFinalize checks reporting violations on native methods. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1367
  • Fix FallThroughCheck fails on if with no else. Author: Andrei Selkin #1395.
  • fix JavadocParagraph allows new line before the next paragraph. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1332
  • Fix RegexpHeader causing exception with default config. Author: Andrei Selkin #1129.
  • Fix OneStatementPerLine on multiple field initialization bug. Author: Andrei Selkin #1237.
  • extend target list fo SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1158
  • provide human message for SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1158
  • Raising exception for CustomImportOrder.SAME_PACKAGE. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1282
  • NOTES:
  • Enable CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1459
  • Add UniquePropertiesCheck into checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #1129.
  • Refactoring of FinalLocalVariableCheck to avoid 'fall through' violation. Author: Andrei Selkin #1395.
  • Add Organize Imports instructions to site. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1448
  • Fixed compilation error for CustomImportOrder input file. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1470
  • ImportOrder enabled in configuration. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1448
  • Number of updates for. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
  • Fixed incorrect Google Java Style links. Author: Andrei Selkin #751.
  • Refactoring of RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1511.
  • Apply various improvements over Checkstyle test code. Author: Michal Kordas #1542
  • Apply various improvements over Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1538
  • Remove unnecessary consecutive lines in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1534
  • Fix some SonarQube violations . Author: Michal Kordas #46
  • Enable NonEmptyAtclauseDescription check on Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #945
  • fix for UTs on Windows7 and do not conflict with WindowsServer. Author: Roman Ivanov #1496
  • Investigate UTs failure to MainTest on Windows. Author: Roman Ivanov #1510
  • fix for build problem in Idea on Windows . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.metrics. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1287
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp (partial fix). Author: Ilja Dubinin #1010
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.blocks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1291
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding. Author: Baratli Izmailov #1293
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.modifier. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1286
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1288
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1289
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov 1294
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api. Author: Roman Ivanov 1295
  • Make coverage 100% for Indentation check. Author: Michal kordas 1295
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc. Author: Michal kordas 1308
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.filters. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1296
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports. Author: Alexander Ivanov #1128
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.header. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1292
  • CheckDocsDoclet.java was removed as it is not used in a project. . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Import which produces error on MacOSX jdk has been deleted . Author: Ilja Dubinin
  • javadoc: deperecate overview.html and package.html support. Author: Roman Ivanov #1415
  • Make "private" methods "static" where possible. Author: Michal Kordas #46
  • new images were provided by our artist, new header for web site . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • BaseCheckTestSupport.verify fails on Windows. Author: WonderCsabo #1388
  • check for connection is done by our website URL, as resource file is there. That let pass test when sourceforge web site is down . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Switch options reoganized for easier reading. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1376
  • add example for ConstantName in xdoc. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1106
  • commented code was removed from CheckerTest . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • fix eclipse package declaration error in InputPackageDeclaration . Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy
  • Add Gradle to list of related tools Correct SonarQube name and links in same list . Author: Thomas Jensen
  • fix structure of site.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1341
  • Move tests which cause compilation problem in Eclipse 4.2.2 to non-compilable folder. Author: Andrei Selkin #1351.
  • Fix integration test compilation error for Windows environment. Author: Michal Kordas #1342
  • Fix failing of ITs for OneStatementPerLineCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1348.
  • surefire and failsafe plugins are moved above checkstyle validation to run before long checkstyle execution . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • add IT to validate google_checks config. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1275
  • rename fields in ConfigurationBuilder and BaseCheckTestSupport . Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy
  • update build procedure to validate all XML files against their schemas. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1275
  • Fix compilation error for Windows environment. Author: Michal Kordas #1342
  • Remove usage of deprecated methods from MainTest. Author: Michal Kordas #1325
  • Restore checkstyle validation on nemo.sonarqube.org. Author: Roman Ivanov #1319
  • Update Maven Shade Plugin, EqualsVerifier, antlr, system-rules and Maven PMD Plugin to latest versions. Author: Michal Kordas
  • system-rules, ant were updated to latest version . Author: Roman Ivanov
  • Removed all assert statements. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1298
  • Fix AbstractClassName Check on checkstyle code. Author: Bhavik Patel #945
  • Make Eclipse / m2e plugins generate valid projects . Author: Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.8.2 (Aug 6, 2015)

  • Incorrect xml structure at google_checks.xml.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.8.1 (Jul 1, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Cannot use config file bundled in jar.
  • NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Pattern from com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.DetectorOptions.getPattern.
  • StackOverflow at java.util.regex.*
  • StackOverflow in com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.MultilineDetector.findMatch.
  • RightCurly: Curly brace '}' should be on line by itself not reported for method with annotation.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.8 (Jun 29, 2015)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Detect only label as illegal token in IllegalToken check, default token set is changed to TokenTypes.LABELED_STAT.
  • Add possibility to configure targets for ParenPad check, LPAREN and RPAREN were removed from acceptable tokens
  • Set default value of max property to 4 (from 1) for ThrowsCountCheck and update javadoc/xdoc.
  • Restoring method FileContents.getFileName() to keep backward compatibility for some time.
  • Rename CheckStyleTask to CheckstyleAntTask, Rename and move checkstyletask.properties.
  • Remove AnnotationUtility and ScopeUtils from API package.
  • New:
  • New option for ModifiedControlVariableCheck: skipEnhancedForLoopVariable.
  • New options for SingleLineJavadoc: ignoredTags, ignoreInlineTags.
  • Bug fixes:
  • correction of parsing of attributes in AtclauseOrderCheck,
  • fix for JavadocMethodCheck: catch NoClassDefFoundError in ClassResolver,
  • Replace hardcoded message in WhitespaceAfterCheck with new message (i18n).
  • Solution to wrong variable reported because of name shadowing in FinalLocalVariableCheck.
  • Clarify misleading command line tool (CLI) output.
  • solution to CLI fails when it could not find output file.
  • Fixed exception in AvoidStaticImport check trying to exclude members of inner class.
  • Solution to "Incorrect config file cause CLI finish with error but no output with details" solves #1180 .
  • Fix exception in SuppressWarnings check on complex annotations.
  • Fix value pair representation in SuppressWarnings check.
  • Do not generate violation for empty SuppressWarnings.
  • Fix PackageDeclaration check for files with comments only.
  • Fix exception in SuppressWarningsHolder on complex annotations or annotation with dot.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.7 (Jun 1, 2015)

  • Breaking backward compatibility:
  • Remove FastStack from API.
  • Util classes should be moved out of api package.
  • method TreeWalker.setClassloader() was renamed to TreeWalker.setClassLoader() with deprecation of old method.
  • New:
  • New "ignorePrivateMethods" property for ThrowsCount check to skip private methods.
  • New "crlf" option for lineSeparator property in NewlineAtEndOfFile check.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Make message-based checks invariant to Locale.
  • Fix no possibility to set English language explicitly in config.
  • Do not verify overriding methods in ThrowsCount check.
  • Fix Regexp check causing exception on file with newline on top.
  • Fix RegexpMultiline check causing exception with default config.
  • Add support for canonical class names in MutableException.
  • Fix NeedBraces check not requiring braces in multiline statements when using allowSingleLineStatement option.
  • Fix equals and hashCode in SuppressionFilter, SuppressElement, IntRangeFilter, LocalizedMessage and remove obsolete toString.
  • Add "/", "+" and "-" to list of allowed tokens in MagicNumber check.
  • Extend ReturnCount check to use separate return counter for lambdas.
  • Fix exception in OneTopLevelClass check for package-info files.
  • Fix exception in FallThrough check for nested switch statements. A
  • Magic Number annotation detection enhanced for arbitrary parent nodes in MagicNumber check. A
  • Improve standard package regexp for CustomImportOrder check.
  • Fix NPE in ModifiedControlVariable check.
  • Include enums in CovariantEquals check analysis.
  • Fix parsing of allowedAnnotations property in JavadocMethod check.
  • Notes:
  • Change location of left curly braces to end of line.
  • Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.sizes.
  • 100% test coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design.
  • removing dead code and refactoring in VisibilityModifier check.
  • Replace deprecated PosixParser with DefaultParser.
  • remove dead code from MutableException check.
  • remove dead code from FinalClass check.
  • Make tests of Main class platform independent.
  • removing abandoned test input files.
  • Fix typos.
  • Fix PMD violations for number of rules.
  • Enable multiple Checkstyle checks on Checkstyle codebase.
  • Update commons-cli to 1.3.
  • Update wagon-ssh to 2.9.
  • Update maven-assembly-plugin to 2.5.4.
  • Update cobertura-maven-plugin to 2.7.
  • Complete descriptions in checks index.
  • Remove obsolete space from general error message.
  • Add missing space in error message for CustomImportOrder check.
  • resolving Findbugs violation: #911 , #909, #778, #923, #925, #596.
  • huge refactoring for CLI Main class. Author: Roman Ivanov #596
  • Option allowPublicFinalFields does not exist in VisibilityModifier check.
  • OneTopLevelClass check example is broken and documentation missing, for 'tokens' property.
  • OneTopLevelClass check example in documentation has invalid XML syntax.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.6 (Jun 1, 2015)

  • New:
  • New option for MagicNumber Check to ignore magic numbers in field declarations.
  • New option for ModifiedControlVariable Check to ignore validation of variables defined in for loop which are not changed in for loop iterator part.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Extend LeftCurly check to verify static initializers.
  • Extend EmptyBlock check to verify synchronized blocks.
  • Fix generics with arrays handling in NoWhitespaceAfter.
  • Fix upper/lower case conversation, enhance tests.
  • Introduce new handler SynchronizedHandler for checking indentation.
  • added validation for header in setHeader in RegexpHeaderCheck.java to provide better feedback when an invalid Pattern is specified.
  • Notes:
  • Delete System.exit() and delegate exit control into separate method.
  • Repair ignored test.
  • Fix AnnotationLocation violation in Checkstyle codebase.
  • Fix AvoidStaticImport check violations in codebase.
  • Fix AtclauseOrder check violations in codebase.
  • Resolve Javadoc problems found by Checkstyle.
  • Replace all occurrences of FastStack with ArrayDeque.
  • Fix PMD violations from numerous ruleset in Checkstyle.
  • Fix PMD violations from numerous ruleset in Checkstyle.
  • Update Apache Commons Lang to 3.4.
  • Use use Java 7 instead of custom logic for relative paths.
  • Add test for non existing cache file.
  • Use entrySet iterator to fix FindBugs violations.
  • Integrate Gitter with Checkstyle.
  • Resolve some problems in Javadoc reported by Java 8.
  • Disable Findbugs for 'grammars' package.
  • Update Maven Compiler Plugin to 3.3. A
  • Update FindBugs Maven Plugin to 3.0.1.
  • Update Maven Javadoc Plugin to 2.10.3.
  • Use SVG badge for coveralls.io.
  • all TODO/FIXME were removed, some of them converted to issues.
  • all findbugs validation rules are activated.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.5 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Updates the Checkstyle core version:
  • Please note that this version requires Java 7 as the minimum runtime environment. This requires you to run Eclipse on a Java 7 (or newer) JVM in order to use this plugin version.
  • This restriction does not affect the ability to analyze Java 5 or lower level source code.
  • Please read the Checkstyle release notes for details on recent changes in Checkstyle.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Get error about invalid token even though it is valid
  • Unicode issues in Checkstyle violations and violation chart view
  • Exceptions when .project or .checkstyle files are readonly

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.4 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Updates the Checkstyle core version:
  • Please note that this version requires Java 7 as the minimum runtime environment. This requires you to run Eclipse on a Java 7 (or newer) JVM in order to use this plugin version.
  • This restriction does not affect the ability to analyze Java 5 or lower level source code.
  • Please further note that with Checkstyle 6.2 the StrictDuplicate and RedundantThrows check have been removed without replacement.
  • Also the configuration option ignoreDirectoryName of the PackageDeclaration checks has been removed.
  • If your Checkstyle configuration uses one of those checks/options adaptations will be required in order to use your configuration with this version.
  • Please read the Checkstyle release notes for details.
  • Bugfixes:
  • CheckFileOnOpenPartListener can cause long UI hang at startup

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.2 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Updates the Checkstyle core version to 6.2
  • Please note that as of this version Java 7 is the minimum runtime environment supported. This requires you to run Eclipse on a Java 7 (or newer) JVM in order to use this plugin version.
  • This restriction does not affect the ability to analyze Java 5 or lower level source code.
  • Please further note that with Checkstyle 6.2 the StrictDuplicate and RedundantThrows check have been removed without replacement.
  • Also the configuration option ignoreDirectoryName of the PackageDeclaration checks has been removed.
  • If your Checkstyle configuration uses one of those checks/options adaptations will be required in order to use your configuration with this version.
  • Please read the Checkstyle release notes for details.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Derived resources are checked
  • RegexpHeader and SuppressionCommentFilter not behaving as CLI does

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.1 (Nov 28, 2014)

  • Bugfixes:
  • 5.9.0 Plugin not able to control or respect lineWrappingIndentation property
  • NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.sf.eclipsecs.ui.quickfixes.modifier.ModifierOrderQuickfix

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 6.0 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • New features that extend API:
  • Support of single-line and block comments in parse tree. ANTLR4 grammar for parsing Javadoc comments. Author: Baratali Izmailov. #49
  • New features:
  • AnnotationLocationCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #302
  • AtclauseOrderCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #306
  • JavadocParagraph. Author: Max Vetrenko. #315
  • JavadocTagContinuationIndentation. Author: Max Vetrenko. #308
  • SingleLineJavadocCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #332
  • NonEmptyAtclauseDescriptionCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #309
  • Update for existing JavadocMethodCheck to satisfy Google's style requirements. Author: Max Vetrenko. #319
  • Notes:
  • Google style is now covered to maxumum of Checkstyle ability. See detailed report here. Authors: Max Vetrenko, Ruslan Diachenko, Roman Ivanov.
  • All binaries are now compiled by Jdk6. Jdk5 is not supported any more.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.7 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Support SuppressWarningsFilter to use @SuppressWarnings annotations to suppress violations. Thanks to Trevor Robinson for patch #156.
  • New: UniqueProperties check. Thanks to Pavel Baranchikov. #19
  • Support for '&' in nested generics. Thanks to dkomanov.
  • Allow HeaderCheck definition to be specified as URL. Thanks to tnarake.
  • Allow additional URL schemes for SuppressionFilter configuration. Thanks to tnarake.
  • Bug fixes:
  • added support for a separate throws indentation configuration
  • SuppressionCommentFilter ignores messageFormat. Patch from Chris Brigham. #520
  • Exclude some java.util classes from Class Fan out. Thanks to Ivan Sopov and Vincent Massol.#31
  • Allow to ignore java.lang and certain other classes. Thanks to Ivan Sopov and Vincent Massol.#33
  • RequireThisCheck doesn't check methods. Thanks to krzyk.#41
  • Document WhitespaceAround for-each property. Thanks to Andrew Gaul.#15
  • Other corrections for typos. Thanks to Andrew Gaul.#16
  • Remnants of DoubleCheckedLocking were removed. Thanks to Antonio Ospite.
  • Notes:
  • Improved the performance of FileText construction, which increased file loading times by up to 30%.
  • Upgraded dependencies to guava-jdk5 14.0.1 and JUnit 4.11.
  • partial fix for "Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle" #46.
  • Remnants of DoubleCheckedLocking were removed. Thanks to Antonio Ospite.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.6.1 Build 201306282206 (Jul 4, 2013)

  • New and Noteworthy:
  • Bugfixes and Eclipse Kepler (4.3) support.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • NullPointerException in WriteProtectedFilter
  • Typo
  • Exception in Juno SR1/M20121121-1200 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
  • Can't access password protected remote checkstyle file

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.6 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • New features:
  • SuppressionFilter now supports loading a configuration from a URL reference.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug in the grammer for an edge case.
  • DeclarationOrder handles ignoreModifiers correctly (all fields should be before ctors and methods)
  • Inner assignment is now allowed in try-with-resources
  • Fixed bug in the grammar when built-in types are used in a generic declaration
  • Notes:
  • Removed the DoubleCheckedLocking check, as in Java 5 (and beyond), using the volatile keyword addresses the issue.
  • Added Turkish message translations.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.5 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Added Java 7 support to the grammar.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix parsing error unexpected char: 0xFFFF which was triggered when a comment line is on a line with out newline character.
  • Fixed UnusedImports to consider @linkplain, @throws and @exception tags when the option processJavadoc is turned on.
  • RequireThis now ignores static members (bug #1155921).
  • HiddenField now treats setxYz() as a setter for xYz, and setXYz() as a setter for XYz property to comply JavaBeans specification (bug #3370946).
  • Fixed parsing errors for Unicode escape sequences.
  • ignoreEnhancedForColon property added to WhitespaceAround.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.4 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Enhanced UnusedImports to have the option processJavadoc to detect whether imports are used.
  • Enhanced MagicNumber to support ignoring numbers in annotation declarations.
  • Enhanced EqualsAvoidNull to process String.equalsIgnoreCase() invocations (which can be suppressed).
  • Enhanced IllegalThrows to support ignoring methods with specified names.
  • Enhanced RedundantModifier to support detecting inner interface declarations that are declared as static.
  • Enhanced the ANT task, Command Line and Suppression Filter to be able to load their configuration file from either the filesystem or the classpath as a resource.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix MultipleVariableDeclarations to properly handle when multiple variable declarations are inside a for loop initializer.
  • Fix memory leak in FileContentsHolder.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.3 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Added OuterTypeFilename that checks that the outer type name and the file name match. For example, the class Foo must be in a file named Foo.java.
  • Enhanced PackageDeclaration to optionally check that the package name matches the name of the directory containing the file.
  • Added NestedForDepth that restricts nested for blocks to a specified depth (default = 1).
  • Added MethodCount that checks the number of methods declared in each type. This includes the number of each scope (private, package, protected and public) as well as an overall total.
  • Added OneStatementPerLine that checks there is only one statement per line.
  • Enhanced MagicNumber to support the parameter ignoreHashCodeMethod to ignore magic numbers in hashCode() methods.
  • Enhanced AbstractClassName to support checking that matching classes have the abstract modifier.
  • Enhanced the property types stringSet and intSet to support being supplied multiple times to construct the equivalent of a comma separated list.
  • Enhanced AvoidStarImport to support the properties allowClassImports and allowStaticMemberImports for finer control over what is allowed.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix JavadocMethod checking of @throws tags for methods that throw multiple non-runtime exceptions.
  • Fix HideUtilityClassConstructor to handle empty and inner classes.
  • Notes:
  • Changed the default value of the property logLoadErrors to be true for the checks RedundantThrows and JavadocMethod to ensure consistent behaviour.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.2 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Enhanced DeclarationOrder to support properties to ignore constructors, methods and modifiers.
  • Enhanced WriteTag to support empty tags, and constructor declarations.
  • Added InnerTypeLast to check nested (internal) classes/interfaces are declared at the bottom of the class after all method and field declarations.
  • Enhanced ImportOrder to support using regular expressions for defining groups.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed ImportOrder to have the sort behavior as in release 5.0. (bug #2952881). Thanks to Steve McKay for patch #2953936.
  • Fixed JavadocStyle not handling package declarations that have annotations. (bug #2911363)
  • Notes:
  • Converted the build system to Maven. The directory structure has been maintained for now, rather than adopting Maven's standard directory layout . This will change once Maven has been proven.
  • The Maven changed to be com.puppycrawl.tools (from checkstyle).
  • Introduced FileText to provide more flexibitily on how the contents of a file are represented. This allows for Checkers that wish to operate on a single character sequence instead of a list of lines.
  • Updated third party dependencies to the latest versions. See Project Dependencies for details.
  • Made the method EmptyBlockCheck.hasText(DetailAST) protected so that it is accessible to subclasses.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.1 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Enhanced ImportOrder check to support wildcard ('*') groups. Thanks to Steve McKay for patch #2891032.
  • Enhanced the naming checks ConstantName, MemberName, MethodName and StaticVariableName to utilise the access control tuning features of AbstractAccessControlNameCheck. Thanks to Steve McKay for patch #2893581.
  • Improve ConfigurationLoader to use a InputSource. Thanks to Martin von Gagern for patch #2782627.
  • Enhanced the ImportControl check to support regular expressions. Thanks to lbaeumer for patch #2937442.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Corrected build errors on javadoc generation. Thanks to Martin von Gagern for providing a patch (patch #2782630).
  • Corrected javadoc in TokenTypes class for UNARY_PLUS and UNARY_MINUS members (bug #2745145).
  • Corrected broken link in WhiteSpaceAround documentation (bug #2745287).
  • Corrected pad policy documentation for MethodParamPad (bug #2775402).
  • Added correct license information for referenced source files (bug #2778850).
  • Updated documentation for writing checks (bug #2783451).
  • Report unused Javadoc tags with no trailing whitespace(bug #2506962). Thanks to Ashlesha Patil for patch #2781021.
  • Enhanced JavadocType check to handle and report on unknown Javadoc tags. The property allowUnknownTags can be set to ignore errors. (bug #2882261)
  • Notes:
  • Updated dependencies: Updated google collections to version 1.0.
  • Updated documentation: Added links for 3rd party tools.

New in Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in 5.0.2 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • This is a small bugfix update for some minor issues encountered with 5.0.1.
  • The experimental m2eclipse integration plugin was removed from this release because of not being up to date with the current m2eclipse release(s).