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25-July-2025 - 7.16.0
The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.16.0.
This is a minor release.
Table Of Contents
- 🚀 New and noteworthy
- 🐛 Fixed Issues
- 🚨 API Changes
- ✨ Merged pull requests
- 📦 Dependency updates
- 📈 Stats
🚀 New and noteworthy
🚀 New: Java 25 Support
This release of PMD brings support for Java 25.
There are the following new standard language features: * JEP 511: Module Import Declarations * JEP 512: Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods * JEP 513: Flexible Constructor Bodies
And one preview language feature: * JEP 507: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview)
In order to analyze a project with PMD that uses these preview language features,
you'll need to enable it via the environment variable PMD_JAVA_OPTS and select the new language
version 25-preview:
export PMD_JAVA_OPTS=--enable-preview
pmd check --use-version java-25-preview ...
Note: Support for Java 23 preview language features have been removed. The version "23-preview" is no longer available.
New: CPD support for CSS
CPD now supports CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a language for describing the rendering of structured
documents (such as HTML) on screen, on paper etc.
It is shipped with the new module pmd-css.
✨ New Rules
- Two new rules have been added to Java's Error Prone category:
ReplaceJavaUtilCalendarandReplaceJavaUtilDate. These rules help to migrate away from old Java APIs aroundjava.util.Calendarandjava.util.Date. It is recommended to use the modernjava.timeAPI instead, which is available since Java 8.
🐛 Fixed Issues
- core
- #4328: [ci] Improve Github Actions Workflows
- #5597: [core] POM Incompatibility with Maven 4
- java
- #5344: [java] IllegalArgumentException: Invalid type reference for method or ctor type annotation: 16
- #5478: [java] Support Java 25
- java-codestyle
- #5892: [java] ShortVariable false positive for java 22 unnamed variable
_ - java-design
- #5858: [java] FinalFieldCouldBeStatic false positive for array initializers
- java-errorprone
- #2862: [java] New Rules: Avoid java.util.Date and Calendar classes
🚨 API Changes
Experimental APIs that are now considered stable
- pmd-java
ASTImportDeclaration#isModuleImportis now stable API.ASTCompilationUnit#isCompactis now stable API. Note, it was previously calledisSimpleCompilationUnit.ASTImplicitClassDeclarationis now stable API.JavaVisitorBase#visit(ASTImplicitClassDeclaration, P)is now stable API.
✨ Merged pull requests
- #5733: [css] Add new CPD language - Thomas Prouvot (@tprouvot)
- #5859: Fix [#5858]: [java] Fix false positive in FinalFieldCouldBeStatic for array initializers - Zbynek Konecny (@zbynek)
- #5872: [java] Add Support for Java 25 - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5876: chore: license header cleanup - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5883: Fix [#2862]: [java] Add rules discouraging the use of java.util.Calendar and java.util.Date - UncleOwen (@UncleOwen)
- #5893: chore: Fix Mockito javaagent warning for Java 21+ - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5894: chore: Fix JUnit warning about invalid test factory - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5895: Fix [#5597]: Move dogfood profile to separate settings.xml - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5899: Fix [#5344]: [java] Just log invalid annotation target type - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5909: [ci] Create a pre-release for snapshot builds - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5911: [doc] Reference CPD Capable Languages in CPD CLI docu - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5914: Fix [#5892]: [java] ShortVariable FP for java 22 Unnamed Variable - Lukas Gräf (@lukasgraef)
- #5918: chore: [cli] Improve symbolic link tests for Windows - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
- #5920: chore: [scala] Fix javadoc config - Andreas Dangel (@adangel)
📦 Dependency updates
- #5857: Bump PMD from 7.14.0 to 7.15.0
- #5861: Bump scalameta.version from 4.13.7 to 4.13.8
- #5862: Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.25.1 to 10.26.1
- #5863: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin from 3.26.0 to 3.27.0
- #5864: Bump kotlin.version from 1.9.24 to 2.2.0
- #5865: Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.13.1 to 5.13.2
- #5866: Bump org.jsoup:jsoup from 1.20.1 to 1.21.1
- #5884: Bump org.junit:junit-bom from 5.13.2 to 5.13.3
- #5885: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin from 3.2.7 to 3.2.8
- #5886: Bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.49.4 to 3.49.5
- #5889: Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0
- #5900: Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.17.0 to 3.18.0
- #5901: Bump io.github.apex-dev-tools:apex-parser from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1
- #5902: Bump log4j.version from 2.25.0 to 2.25.1
- #5910: Bump maven from 3.9.10 to 3.9.11
- #5921: Bump build-tools from 32 to 33
- #5926: chore(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1
- #5927: chore(deps): bump ostruct from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3 in /.ci/files in the all-gems group across 1 directory
- #5928: chore(deps): bump marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment from 2.9.3 to 2.9.4 in the all-actions group
- #5929: chore(deps): Update gems
📈 Stats
- 100 commits
- 21 closed tickets & PRs
- Days since last release: 27