3.27.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• Use constant 3.6.3 in prerequisites/maven as minimal Maven version (#640) @slawekjaranowski
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.12.0 to 7.14.0 (#213) @dependabot[bot]
• Allow plugin execute with Maven 4 (#209) @slawekjaranowski
• Upgrade to PMD 7.12 (#196) @elharo
• [MPMD-411] - Implement getOutputPath and identify getOutputName as deprecated, (#179) @elharo

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [MPMD-410] - Number agreement (#181) @elharo

📝 Documentation updates

• Documentation: Excludes should be placed in pluginManagement (#637) (#638) @Bukama
• small parameter documentation improvement (#221) @elharo
• Replace manually maintained release notes by link to GitHub (#214) @slawekjaranowski
• Correct typos (#194) @elharo
• Add more information about excludes (#185) @Bukama
• [MNGSITE-529] - Rename "Goals" to "Plugin Documentation" (#182) @Bukama

👻 Maintenance

• [MPMD-412] - Simplify stub setup by not swallowing exceptions (#226) @elharo
• Use maven-embedder in test scope (#228) @slawekjaranowski
• Ignore the .vscode directory in git (#227) @elharo
• Clarify and simplify isDirectoryExcluded (#222) @elharo
• fix return type of getFilesToProcess in Javadoc (#223) @elharo
• small parameter documentation improvement (#221) @elharo
• Clean up some Javadoc comments (#219) @elharo
• Declare used dependency on org.apache.maven.reporting:maven-reporting… (#215) @elharo
• Buffer the writers (#218) @elharo
• Get rid of maven-artifact-transfer and other legacy stuff (#210) @slawekjaranowski
• Introduce service executors for CPD, PMD executors (#206) @slawekjaranowski
• Upgrade PR template for GitHub issues (#207) @slawekjaranowski
• Update site descriptor to 2.0 (#205) @slawekjaranowski
• Use shared release-drafter action (#203) @slawekjaranowski
• Fix failed tests in CPD reports that were hidden by overly broad catch clauses (#192) @elharo
• simplify code by preferring JDK methods (#199) @elharo
• Declare javax.inject dependency (#197) @elharo
• Avoid catching raw exception (#198) @elharo
• [MPMD-412] - Remove unused code and otherwise cleanup tests (#178) @elharo
• remove redundant code (#193) @elharo
• [MPMD-412] - clean up unused code (#190) @elharo
• Enable GitHub issues (#184) @Bukama
• Prefer Guice injection (#177) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 44 to 45 (#639) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump mavenVersion from 3.6.3 to 3.9.10 (#641) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump pmdVersion from 7.12.0 to 7.14.0 (#213) @dependabot[bot]
• Upgrade to PMD 7.12 (#196) @elharo
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.18.0 to 2.19.0 (#188) @dependabot[bot]
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.17.0 to 2.18.0 (#176) @dependabot[bot]
• Update to Parent 44 (#186) @Bukama

3.26.0

📝 Documentation updates

• MPMD-405 - Update release notes for 3.25.0 (#166) @adangel

📦 Dependency updates

• MPMD-404 - Upgrade to PMD 7.7.0 (#170) @pzygielo
• MPMD-407 - Upgrade to Doxia 2.0.0 GA Stack (#175) @michael-o
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.7 to 2.14.0 in /src/it/MPMD-318-auxclasspath-includeTests/module-a (#174) @dependabot
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.1 to 2.17.0 (#169) @dependabot
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.16.0 to 3.17.0 (#167) @dependabot

NOTE: Read the details on this release here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Towards+Doxia+2.0.0+Stack

3.25.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• MPMD-390 - Dynamically calculate xrefLocation/xrefTestLocation (#126) @michael-o

🐛 Bug Fixes

• MPMD-368 - Parameter 'localRepository' is deprecated

👻 Maintenance

• MPMD-398 - Refresh download page (#165) @FredrikAnderson

📝 Documentation updates

• (doc) Update release notes for 3.23.0 and 3.24.0 (#161) @adangel

📦 Dependency updates

• MPMD-389 - Upgrade to Doxia 2.0.0 Milestone Stack (#126) @michael-o
• MPMD-401 - Upgrade to Parent 43 (#159) @dependabot
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0 (#164) @dependabot
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.14.0 to 3.15.0 (#163) @dependabot

💥 Breaking changes

• If you use maven-site-plugin together with maven-pmd-plugin, you need to upgrade m-site-p to 3.20.0 or later.
• Read the details on this release here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Towards+Doxia+2.0.0+Stack

3.24.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• [MPMD-391] - Log what developers care about and not what they don't (#156) @michael-o

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [MPMD-399] - Incorrect warning: The project X does not seem to be compi… (#154) @michael-o

📦 Dependency updates

• [MPMD-400] - Upgrade to PMD 7.3.0 (#157) @michael-o
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.23 to 1.24 (#155) @dependabot
• Bump org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0 (#153) @dependabot

👻 Maintenance

• Remove outdated (#158) @michael-o

3.23.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [MPMD-395] - Build doesn't fail for invalid CPD format (#150) @adangel

📦 Dependency updates

• [MPMD-397] - Upgrade to Maven 3.6.3 (#151) @michael-o

3.22.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• [MPMD-379] - Upgrade to use PMD 7.0.0 by default (#144) @mkolesnikov

📦 Dependency updates

• [MPMD-394] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins from 41 to 42 (#148) @dependabot
• [MPMD-393] - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 (#147) @dependabot
• [MPMD-393] - Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 (#146) @dependabot
• Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 3 to 4 (#143) @dependabot
• Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-resources from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (#140) @dependabot
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.12.0 to 3.14.0 (#137) @dependabot
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.11.0 to 2.15.1 (#138) @dependabot

👻 Maintenance

• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5 to 6 (#142) @dependabot

3.21.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• MPMD-370 - Remove remaining uses of FileReader
• MPMD-371 - Using two ruleset files with same name in different directories (#127) @harbulot
• MPMD-382 - Regression in report rendering
• MPMD-384 - maven-pmd-plugin is dowloading transitive dependencies of unmanaged version (#135) @caiwei-ebay

👻 Maintenance

• Move commons-lang3 to test scope (#131) @elharo

📝 Documentation updates

• Typo: fill --> file (#133) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• MPMD-380 - Prefer apache commons and JDK to Plexus utils (#132) @elharo
• MPMD-387 - Upgrade to Parent 40

3.21.0

🚀 New features and improvements

• MPMD-365 - Support Java 20 (#116) @adangel
• MPMD-375 - Replace *ReportGenerators with new *ReportRenderers (#130) @michael-o

🐛 Bug Fixes

• MPMD-369 - System encoding conflicts with XML encoding in CpdViolationCheckMojo (#122) @elharo
• MPMD-373 - System property java.version is overwritten in ITs as model property (#128) @michael-o

👻 Maintenance

• MPMD-374 - Remove deprecated and unused PmdCollectingRenderer (#128) @michael-o
• MNG-6829 - Replace any StringUtils#isEmpty(String) and #isNotEmpty(String) (#124) @timtebeek
• Remove vestigial useJava5 parameter (#119) @elharo
• MPMD-367 - Verify / ubuntu-latest jdk-11-temurin 3.9.1 broken at head in MPMD-270-325-JDK11 (#121) @elharo

📦 Dependency updates

• MPMD-364 - Upgrade to PMD 6.55.0 (#115) @dependabot
• MPMD-364 - Upgrade to PMD 6.54.0 (#112) @adangel
• MPMD-366 - Update parent pom to 39 (#118) @elharo
• MPMD-372 - Upgrade plugins and components (in ITs) (#128) @michael-o
• Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.22 to 1.23 (#117) @dependabot
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.21.1 to 5.23.0 (#114) @dependabot
• Bump apache/maven-gh-actions-shared from 2 to 3 (#113) @dependabot
• Bump doxia-sink-api from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0 (#111) @dependabot
• Bump wagon-http-lightweight from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#108) @dependabot

3.20.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• MPMD-335 - Aggregate mode doesn't use additional repositories (#101) @adangel

👻 Maintenance

• MPMD-361 - Explicitly start and end tables with Doxia Sinks in report renderers

📦 Dependency updates

• MPMD-360 - Upgrade to PMD 6.53.0 (#109) @adangel
• MPMD-358 - Upgrade to PMD 6.52.0 (#104) @adangel
• MPMD-357 - Upgrade to PMD 6.51.0 (#100) @adangel
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.21.0 to 5.21.1 (#99) @dependabot
• MPMD-356 - Upgrade to PMD 6.50.0 (#98) @adangel
• Bump maven-common-artifact-filters from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 (#95) @dependabot
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.20.1 to 5.21.0 (#93) @dependabot

3.19.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [MPMD-353] - API incompatibility with jansi after upgrading m-shared-… (#91) @adangel

📦 Dependency updates

• Bump animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.21 to 1.22 (#88) @dependabot
• Bump wiremock from 1.49 to 2.27.2 (#57) @dependabot
• [MPMD-354] - Upgrade to PMD 6.49.0 (#92) @adangel
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5.20.0 to 5.20.1 (#86) @dependabot