Release 3.27.0 · apache/maven-pmd-plugin

🚀 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

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

[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

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