Release 8.34

28.06.2020

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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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

Release 8.33

31.05.2020

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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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

Release 8.32

26.04.2020

Breaking backward compatibility:

Checker should use UTF-8 encoding by default. Author: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #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: Nick Mancuso #7874
Resolve Pitest Issues - DetectorOptions. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7981
Update doc for NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7589
update doc for RegexpSingleline. Author: malintha1996 #7697

Release 8.31

29.03.2020

Breaking backward compatibility:

Remove all deprecated setClassLoader methods from Checker and TreeWalker. Author: Nick Mancuso #7190

New:

New check: UnnecessarySemicolonAfterOuterTypeDeclaration. Author: Andrei Paikin #7677

Bug fixes:

Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AnnotationOnSameLine. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7721
Indentation violation for lambda depends on tab symbols in code. Author: liach #5969
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - LambdaParameterName. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7742
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingJavadocPackage. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7746
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - IllegalCatch. Author: sulkykookie #7732
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - InvalidJavadocPosition. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7737
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NeedBraces. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7750
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - UncommentedMain. Author: AmrDeveloper #7764
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - ImportOrder. Author: kaustubh #7733
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - JavadocStyle. Author: wltan #7740
NPE in MissingDeprecatedCheck. Author: Nick Mancuso #7534
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AvoidStarImport. Author: Akhil singh #7725
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - FinalClass. Author: HuGanghui #7731
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingSwitchDefault. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7749
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingCtor. Author: HuGanghui #7744
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AvoidStaticImport. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7726
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoLineWrap. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7753
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - PackageAnnotation. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7757
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - AnnotationLocation. Author: malintha1996 #7768
LineLength measures Java characters, not Unicode characters. Author: Nick Mancuso #5089
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - OuterTypeFilename. Author: HuGanghui #7755
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7761
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - MissingOverride. Author: HuGanghui #7748
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - ArrayTrailingComma. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7723
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoFinalizer. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7752
Exception when using SuppressWarningsHolder with @SuppressWarnings as an annotation property (e.g. in Lombok). Author: AmrDeveloper #7522
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - OneTopLevelClass. Author: wltan #7754
JavadocStyleCheck incorrectly allows "style" tag. Author: wltan #7779
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - NoClone. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7751
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST - EmptyCatchBlock. Author: gaurabdg #7729

Notes:

Update doc for NoLineWrap. Author: sulkykookie #7623
Resolve Pitest Issues - IllegalImportCheck (2). Author: Harsh Kukreja #7855
update doc for AnnotationLocation to have config first and code sample after. Author: Prabod Dunuwila #7569
Update doc for ThrowsCount. Author: Harsh Kukreja #7615
update doc for NPathComplexity. Author: edwardlee #7694
Resolve Pitest Issues - RedundantImportCheck. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7920
Update doc for InterfaceIsType. Author: HuGanghui #7612
Update doc for InnerAssignment. Author: Anubhav #7666
Update doc for MagicNumber. Author: Parag Pachpute #7648
update doc for JavaNCSS. Author: Gaurav Punjabi #7693
Resolve Pitest Issues - IllegalImportCheck (1). Author: Akhil singh #7854
add spoon project to no-exception testing. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7914
doc: fix typo in config_whitespace.xml. Author: HuGanghui
Resolve Pitest Issues - CustomImportOrderCheck (4). Author: malintha1996 #7805
Add pmd to no-error validation build item. Author: Nick Mancuso #7810
Update doc for DefaultComesLast. Author: kaustubh #7636
Update doc for NoWhitespaceBefore. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7625
pitest: problem with coverage in SuppressWarningsHolder.java.isSuppressedAfterEventStart Author: AmrDeveloper #7885
Update doc for OuterTypeFilename. Author: HuGanghui #7590
Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStarImportCheck (1). Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7799
Update doc for RightCurly. Author: amoooma #7584
Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStarImportCheck (2). Author: HuGanghui #7800
Publish pitest report as artifact at circleci. Author: Gaurab Dasgupta #7832
Update doc for SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: Shrey Kumar Singh #7629
Update doc for NestedTryDepth. Author: Abhishek-kumar09 #7653
Resolve Pitest Issues - CustomImportOrderCheck (1). Author: wltan #7802
Update doc for EqualsHashCode. Author: kaustubh #7638
Resolve Pitest Issues - AvoidStaticImportCheck. Author: gaurabdg #7801
update doc for PackageAnnotation. Author: Prabod Dunuwila #7574
Update doc for SuperClone. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7661
update doc for RegexpSinglelineJava. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7698
update doc for MissingOverride. Author: HuGanghui #7573
Update doc for SimplifyBooleanExpression. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7658
Update doc for IllegalCatch. Author: gaurabdg #7642
update doc for BooleanExpressionComplexity. Author: Akhil singh #7689
Update doc for UncommentedMain. Author: AmrDeveloper #7594
Update doc for IllegalTokenText. Author: HuGanghui #7646
Update doc for OneTopLevelClass. Author: wltan #7614
Update doc for SimplifyBooleanReturn. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7659
Update doc for IllegalToken. Author: HuGanghui #7645
CI should validate checkstyle violations in satelite projects. Author: rnveach #7705
doc: fix out-of-order div and dfn tags. Author: wltan
doc: fix inconsistencies between code and docs. Author: wltan
JavadocStyleCheck: need to support VAR html tag . Author: wltan #2410
Update doc for NoClone. Author: Wilfried Bounsi #7670
update doc for AvoidStarImport. Author: AmrDeveloper #7684
Update doc for GenericWhitespace. Author: wltan #7621
Update doc for TodoComment. Author: AmrDeveloper #7591

Release 8.30

29.02.2020

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: Nick Mancuso #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
doc: fix typo training -> trailing. Author: Andrei_Paikin
Mark 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

Release 8.29

26.01.2020

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

Release 8.28

29.12.2019

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

Release 8.27

30.11.2019

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

Release 8.26

27.10.2019

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

Release 8.25

29.09.2019

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

Release 8.24

01.09.2019

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

Release 8.23

27.07.2019

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

Release 8.22

22.06.2019

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

Release 8.21

26.05.2019

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

Release 8.20

28.04.2019

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 #5103
AnnotationUseStyle: 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: BBjörnKautler #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

Release 8.19

31.03.2019

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

Release 8.18

25.02.2019

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

Release 8.17

27.01.2019

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

Release 8.16

30.12.2018

New:

ClassMemberImpliedModifier: New Check to demand all modifiers to be explicit in class members. Author: Stephen Colebourne #5885

Bug fixes:

ImportOrder reports incorrect errors for redundant imports. Author: rnveach #6303
JavadocMethod: False positive from comment inside method. Author: rnveach #6273

Notes:

Pitest: add new mutator REMOVE_CONDITIONALS. Author: rnveach #6320
pitest: increase mutation coverage for javadoc profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #6295
set up JDK11 build. Author: pbludov #6228
Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: Pavel Bludov #5750
pitest: increase mutation coverage for indentation profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #6294
Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST (part 1, hard cases). Author: Pavel Bludov #5759
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5008
Pitest: add new mutator FALSE_RETURNS. Author: rnveach #6272
Pitest: add new mutator CONSTRUCTOR_CALLS . Author: rnveach #6289
Pitest: add new mutator TRUE_RETURNS. Author: rnveach #6264
pitest: increase mutation coverage for blocks profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #6293
Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: rnveach #3708
exception in build log from spotbugs. Author: Roman Ivanov #6098
Move test inputs with deprecated packages to resources-noncompilable. Author: Pavel Bludov #6252
Pitest script order issue locally. Author: rnveach #6275
create Travis ready to use shell script to check that pistes profiles cover all classes. Author: rnveach #4684
XmlLoader: remove incomplete namespaces support. Author: rnveach #6262
Upgrade Powermock2 to RC4. Author: Pavel Bludov #6238
Resolve Teamcity violations of inspection engine 2018.3 . Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #6241
Split and Organize Checkstyle IT inputs. Author: Roman Ivanov #5106

Release 8.15

30.11.2018

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

Release 8.14

21.10.2018

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

Release 8.13

04.10.2018

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

Release 8.12

11.08.2018

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 by new property separatedStaticGroups. Author: Pavel Bludov #5279
ImportOrder: new property staticGroups 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

Release 8.11

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

Notes:

Remove usages of ANTLRInputStream . Author: Pavel Bludov #5971
Update Teamcity to use IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.4. Author: Roman Ivanov #5949
Setup Jenkins CI for building Pull Requests. Author: Daniil Yaroslavtsev #5953
RightCurly: false negative in ALONE and anonymous classes. Author: Piyush Sharma #4058
xpath generator documentation does not show nuances. Author: Roman Ivanov #5876
Enforce more checks over checkstyle resources. Author: Roman Ivanov #4100
Resolve errors and warnings from Eclipse oxygen 4.7.3. Author: Roman Ivanov #5916
Remove old ant phases and configs. Author: Roman Ivanov #5934
No explanation of what is metadata tag on checkstyle config. Author: Roman Ivanov #2726
https://checkstyle.org to http://checkstyle.org. Author: Roman Ivanov #5601
doc: update xdoc for ParameterName to clarify how to check catch parameters. Author: Roman Ivanov
CircleCI compains 'extraneous key [java] is not permitted'. Author: Roman Ivanov #5902
update DTD public names. Author: Subbu Dantu, Roman Ivanov #5722
activate new sponsoring web services. Author: Roman Ivanov #5256
Rename all utility classes to xxxxUtil. Author: Pavel Bludov, Roman Ivanov #5812

Release 8.10.1

Bug fixes:

Update AbstractChecks to log DetailAST (part 1, easy cases). Author: rnveach #5757

Notes:

Align XDocs and Javadocs. Author: rnveach #5750
move pitest execution to CircleCI. Author: Roman Ivanov #5854
format all files to be 100 symbols in length. Author: Roman Ivanov #5791
Travis unexpected problem with xml validation. Author: Roman Ivanov #5785
appveyor fails to reuse maven cache during build. Author: Roman Ivanov #5831
Compile all jdk9 files in Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #5827
Please add new Eclipse Plugin to active tools list on your website. Author: ChristianWulf #5521
Activate checks related to java.io.Closeable . Author: Pavel Bludov #5752
buddy ci failure on "Fetching changes started". Author: Roman Ivanov #5793
use https://snyk.io/ to find vulnerabilities in dependecies. Author: Roman Ivanov #5788
remove xml declaration tag from all dtd files. Author: Subbu Dantu #5721
find way to launch IntellijIdea inspections from command line. Author: Roman Ivanov #4682
Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava, phase II. Author: rnveach #3484
Docker-based CI from Codeship Pro. Author: Roman Ivanov #3807
use new CI - https://buddy.works/. Author: Roman Ivanov #5473

Release 8.10

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

Release 8.9

Breaking backward compatibility:

ImportControl: reverse order of allow/disallow rule matching. Author: rnveach #5642

Bug fixes:

Indentation: wrapped method name. Author: Pavel Bludov #5655
Indentation: 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 unclear 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 performance. 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

Release 8.8

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

Release 8.7

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

Release 8.6

Breaking backward compatibility:

AbstractLoader: move out of api, rename, and remove abstract modifier . Author: Roman_Zhigunov #5338

New:

new Checker filter SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter as akin to Treewalker's SuppressionCommentFilter. Author: Andrei Selkin #4841
Add @exception JavaDoc block tag to NonEmptyAtclauseDescriptionCheck. Author: Lev_Sikhovets #5388
Support suppression-xpath element in SuppressionLoader. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4421
add ANNOTATION_DEF to RequireThisCheck. Author: rnveach #5363
SuppressionFilter: add suppression by message. Author: rnveach #2804

Bug fixes:

TranslationCheck: should fire file started/finished when invoking errors. Author: rnveach #5057
fixed RequireThisCheck and for loop variable handling. Author: rnveach #5392
changed RequireThis kept track of the frame being examined. Author: rnveach #5364
ImportOrder with option=bottom should not allow non-static import after static import. Author: Julian Hyde #4981
ReturnCount: unclear message when only max property is specified. Author: vaano94 #5306
Incorrect indentation check for method preceded by annotation, with method parameter on separate line. Author: BBG #5154
fixed RequireThisCheck and enum constants handling. Author: rnveach #5361
fixed RequireThisCheck and catch variable handling. Author: rnveach #5351
AnnotationUtility.getAnnotation fails when there is an comment in the annotation. Author: rnveach #5327
False RedundantModifier violation for final method of enum inside final class. Author: BBG #5268
fixed bug on matching xpath when no xpath given. Author: rnveach #5321
Checkstyle ignores javadoc that placed over Annotation type elements . Author: Pavel Bludov #4169
JavadocMethod: No error for a misplaced javadoc tag. Author: Pavel Bludov #4701

Notes:

pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: rnveach, vasilyeva #4675
Some contents in messages_zh.properties for imports check are not well translated. Author: zhangduo #5393
TranslationCheckTest.testLogOutput is failed . Author: rnveach #5141
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-imports profile to 100%. Author: BBG #5004
Indentation problem in pjdbc project. Author: Roman Ivanov #5286
Use versions-maven-plugin to report versions to update. Author: Roman Ivanov #5208
minimize pitest-checkstyle-utils profile execution. Author: rnveach #4605
api: abstract classes that extending concrete class. Author: rnveach #4716
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5003
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-metrics profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5005
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5008
internal code: terminology problems in ModuleReflectionUtils. Author: rnveach #4876
Add violateExecutionOnNonTightHtml property of AbstractJavadocCheck to xdoc. Author: rnveach #5002
change all sonarqube.com to sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #5290
doc: add 'Checkstyle for Microsoft Visual Studio Code' in known tools. Author: Roman Ivanov
Revert "infra: fix for travis:osx problem with 'shell_session_update: command not found'". Author: Roman Ivanov
Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124

Release 8.5

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

Release 8.4

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

Release 8.3

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
ImportOrder: 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
config: 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 validation is failed with "The type org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull cannot be resolved". Author: Roman Ivanov #5078
find way to launch IntelliJ IDEA 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

Release 8.2

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 '\n\n' 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

Release 8.1

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 sentence. 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 IntelliJ IDEA 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 IntelliJ IDEA inspection: 'throw' inside 'finally' block. Author: vasilyeva #3301
idea: eights part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4711
MT mode: IntelliJ 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 IntelliJ IDEA 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 collection 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

Release 8.0

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 method 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 tokens 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

Old Release Notes 6.0 through 7.8