PMD 7.12.0 (28-March-2025) released

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.12.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.12.0/

28-March-2025 - 7.12.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.12.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Deprecations
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats

🚀 New and noteworthy

✨ New Rules

• The new Java rule ImplicitFunctionalInterface reports functional interfaces that were
  not explicitly declared as such with the annotation @FunctionalInterface. If an interface is accidentally a functional
  interface, then it should bear a @SuppressWarnings("PMD.ImplicitFunctionalInterface")
  annotation to make this clear.

🐛 Fixed Issues

• core
• #5593: [core] Make renderers output files in deterministic order even when multithreaded
• apex
• #5567: [apex] Provide type information for CastExpression
• apex-design
• #5616: [apex] ExcessiveParameterList reports entire method instead of signature only
• java
• #5587: [java] Thread deadlock during PMD analysis in ParseLock.getFinalStatus
• java-bestpractices
• #2849: [java] New Rule: ImplicitFunctionalInterface
• #5369: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod false positives with lombok.val
• #5590: [java] LiteralsFirstInComparisonsRule not applied on constant
• #5592: [java] UnusedAssignment false positive in record compact constructor
• java-codestyle
• #5079: [java] LocalVariableCouldBeFinal false-positive with lombok.val
• #5452: [java] PackageCase: Suppression comment has no effect due to finding at wrong position in case of JavaDoc comment
• plsql
• #4441: [plsql] Parsing exception with XMLQUERY function in SELECT
• #5521: [plsql] Long parse time and eventually parse error with XMLAGG order by clause

🚨 API Changes

Deprecations

• java
• The method buildConstValue is deprecated for removal. It should
  have been package-private from the start. In order to get the (compile time) const value of an expression, use
  getConstValue or getConstFoldingResult
  instead.

• For the same reason, the following methods are also deprecated for removal:
  buildConstValue and buildConstValue.

• JTypeVar#withUpperbound is deprecated. It was previously meant to be used
  internally and not needed anymore.

✨ Merged pull requests

• #5550: Fix #5521: [plsql] Improve parser performance by reducing lookaheads - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5554: Fix #5369: [java] Consider that lombok.val and var are inferred - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5555: Fix #2849: [java] Add rule ImplicitFunctionalInterface - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5556: [ci] New workflow "Publish Results from Pull Requests" - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5574: Fix #5567: [apex] Provide type info for CastExpression - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5583: [java] Fix race condition in ClassStub for inner classes - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5586: [java/core] Micro optimizations - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5588: [java] Fix crash when parsing class for anonymous class - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5591: Fix #5587: [java] Fix deadlock while loading ClassStub - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5593: [core] Make renderers output files in deterministic order even when multithreaded - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5595: Fix #5590: [java] LiteralsFirstInComparisons with constant field - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5596: Fix #4441: [plsql] XMLQuery - Support identifier as XQuery_string parameter - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5598: Fix #5592: [java] Fix UnusedAssignment FP with compact record ctor - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5600: Fix #5079: [java] LocalVariableCouldBeFinal false-positive with lombok.val - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5611: Fix #5452: [java] PackageCase reported on wrong line - Clément Fournier (@oowekyala)
• #5617: Fix #5616: [apex] ExcessiveParameterList: Report only method signature - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5618: [doc] Fix search index - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)

📦 Dependency updates

• #5558: Bump PMD from 7.10.0 to 7.11.0
• #5561: Bump org.apache.groovy:groovy from 4.0.25 to 4.0.26
• #5562: Bump org.junit.platform:junit-platform-suite from 1.11.4 to 1.12.0
• #5564: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1
• #5565: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4
• #5566: Bump io.github.apex-dev-tools:apex-ls_2.13 from 5.7.0 to 5.8.0
• #5571: Bump nokogiri from 1.16.7 to 1.18.3
• #5572: Bump uri from 0.13.1 to 1.0.3
• #5575: Bump org.jsoup:jsoup from 1.18.3 to 1.19.1
• #5576: Bump scalameta.version from 4.13.2 to 4.13.3
• #5577: Bump org.yaml:snakeyaml from 2.3 to 2.4
• #5578: Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 4.29.3 to 4.30.0
• #5580: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2
• #5581: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.21.3 to 10.21.4
• #5582: Bump the gems liquid to 5.8.1 and logger to 1.6.6
• #5602: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4
• #5603: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy-agent from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2
• #5604: Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.15.2 to 5.16.1
• #5605: Bump org.junit.platform:junit-platform-suite from 1.12.0 to 1.12.1
• #5606: Bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.49.0 to 3.49.1
• #5608: Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 4.30.0 to 4.30.1
• #5619: Bump nokogiri from 1.18.3 to 1.18.5
• #5624: Bump scalameta.version from 4.13.3 to 4.13.4
• #5627: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy-agent from 1.17.2 to 1.17.4
• #5628: Bump io.github.apex-dev-tools:apex-ls_2.13 from 5.8.0 to 5.9.0
• #5629: Bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.4.0-jre to 33.4.5-jre
• #5630: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy from 1.17.2 to 1.17.4

📈 Stats

• 114 commits
• 28 closed tickets & PRs
• Days since last release: 27