PMD 7.15.0 (27-June-2025) released

• Downloads: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/releases/tag/pmd_releases%2F7.15.0
• Documentation: https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.15.0/

27-June-2025 - 7.15.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.15.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Rule Test Schema
• 💵 Financial Contributions
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats

🚀 New and noteworthy

✨ New Rules

• The new Apex rule AvoidBooleanMethodParameters finds methods that take a
  boolean parameter. This can make method calls difficult to understand and maintain as the method is clearly
  doing two things.

🐛 Fixed Issues

• apex-design
• #5427: [apex] New Rule: Avoid Boolean Method Parameters
• apex-security
• #5788: [apex] ApexCRUDViolation unable to detect insecure SOQL if it is a direct input argument
• doc
• #5790: [doc] Website rule reference pages are returning 404
• java-bestpractices
• #5785: [java] UnusedPrivateField doesn't play well with UnnecessaryWarningSuppression
• #5793: [java] NonExhaustiveSwitch fails on exhaustive switch with sealed class
• java-codestyle
• #1639: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for multiline @link Javadoc
• #2304: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for on-demand imports in JavaDoc
• #5832: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for multiline @see Javadoc
• java-design
• #5804: [java] UselessOverridingMethod doesn't play well with UnnecessarySuppressWarning

🚨 API Changes

Rule Test Schema

The rule test schema has been extended to support verifying suppressed violations.
See Testing your rules for more information.

Also note, the schema rule-tests.xsd
is now only in the module "pmd-test-schema". It has been removed from the old location from module "pmd-test".

💵 Financial Contributions

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Cybozu (@cybozu)

✨ Merged pull requests

• #5738: chore: Remove unused private methods in test classes - Pankraz76 (@Pankraz76)
• #5745: [ci] New "Publish Release" workflow - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5791: [doc] Add a simple check whether generate rule doc pages exist - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5797: [doc] Update sponsors - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5800: Fix #5793: [java] NonExhaustiveSwitch should ignore "case null" - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5803: chore: Remove unnecessary suppress warnings - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5805: Fix #5804: [java] UselessOverridingMethod needs to ignore SuppressWarnings - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5806: [test] Verify suppressed violations in rule tests - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5814: Fix #5788: [apex] ApexCRUDViolation - consider deeper nested Soql - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5815: Fix #5785: [java] UnusedPrivateField should ignore SuppressWarnings - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5818: Fix #2304: [java] UnnecessaryImport FP for on-demand imports in JavaDoc - Lukas Gräf (@lukasgraef)
• #5821: [apex] New Rule: Avoid boolean method parameters - Mitch Spano (@mitchspano)
• #5823: [doc] Fix javadoc plugin configuration - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5833: Fix #1639 #5832: Use filtered comment text for UnnecessaryImport - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
• #5851: chore: [java] ReplaceHashtableWithMap: Fix name of test - UncleOwen (@UncleOwen)

📦 Dependency updates

• #5775: Bump PMD from 7.13.0 to 7.14.0
• #5778: Bump the all-gems group across 2 directories with 3 updates
• #5779: Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1
• #5780: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0
• #5781: Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 4.31.0 to 4.31.1
• #5782: Bump org.apache.groovy:groovy from 4.0.26 to 4.0.27
• #5783: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.24.0 to 10.25.0
• #5784: Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.12.2 to 5.13.0
• #5807: Bump maven from 3.9.8 to 3.9.10
• #5809: Bump org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1
• #5810: Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.13.0 to 5.13.1
• #5811: Bump junit5.platform.version from 1.13.0 to 1.13.1
• #5812: Bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.49.3 to 3.49.4
• #5813: Bump the all-gems group across 2 directories with 1 update
• #5828: Bump scalameta.version from 4.13.6 to 4.13.7
• #5829: Bump liquid from 5.8.6 to 5.8.7 in /.ci/files in the all-gems group across 1 directory
• #5838: Bump marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment from 2.9.2 to 2.9.3 in the all-actions group
• #5839: Bump log4j.version from 2.24.3 to 2.25.0
• #5840: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.25.0 to 10.25.1
• #5841: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy-agent from 1.17.5 to 1.17.6
• #5842: Bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy from 1.17.5 to 1.17.6
• #5843: Bump org.sonatype.central:central-publishing-maven-plugin from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0
• #5844: Bump ostruct from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 in /.ci/files in the all-gems group across 1 directory
• #5853: Bump build-tools from 30 to 32

📈 Stats

• 91 commits
• 24 closed tickets & PRs
• Days since last release: 27