checkstyle – Release Notes

Release 8.8

Breaking backward compatibility:

Split TreeWalker to TreeWalker and JavaParser. Author: Pavel Bludov #5436

Bug fixes:

DesignForExtension: method javadoc is recognized if no modifier in on method. Author: Roman_Zhigunov #5255
XmlLogger sanitizes exception tags when it shouldn't be. Author: rnveach #5419

Notes:

spelling: Fix German translation of 'tag'. Author: Michael Keppler
Fix violations in local IntelliJ 2017.3. Author: rnveach #5409
Resolve warning during build about prerequisites tag. Author: Andrey Mosin #5377
JavadocMethod: "Expected an @return tag." sounds not right. Author: Varun Upadhyay #5463
Appveyor CI build failure: Unable to get setup from cygwin.mirror.constant.com. Author: Roman Ivanov #5474
spelling: improve french translation. Author: Jajawah
spelling: fix typo in tests. Author: Pavel Bludov
spelling: Fix typo. Author: Tino Desjardins
format xdoc files to follow rule of LineLength (max ia 100) . Author: rnveach #5291
Incorrect documentation for SuppressionXpathFilter. Author: Timur Tibeyev #5400
Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
TokenTypes documentation contains double encoded symbols. Author: Pavel Bludov #5423
Incorrect documentation for SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: Jun Lin #5401
XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values for Strings. Author: rnveach #3254

Release 8.7

Breaking backward compatibility:

Removed guava from api code. Author: rnveach #3455

Bug fixes:

SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter: should not fail when violation is reported on directory. Author: rnveach #5405

Release 8.6

Breaking backward compatibility:

AbstractLoader: move out of api, rename, and remove abstract modifier . Author: Roman_Zhigunov #5338

New:

new Checker filter SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilter as akin to Treewalker's SuppressionCommentFilter. Author: Andrei Selkin #4841
Add @exception JavaDoc block tag to NonEmptyAtclauseDescriptionCheck. Author: Lev_Sikhovets #5388
Support suppression-xpath element in SuppressionLoader. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4421
add ANNOTATION_DEF to RequireThisCheck. Author: rnveach #5363
SuppressionFilter: add suppression by message. Author: rnveach #2804

Bug fixes:

TranslationCheck: should fire file started/finished when invoking errors. Author: rnveach #5057
fixed RequireThisCheck and for loop variable handling. Author: rnveach #5392
changed RequireThis kept track of the frame being examined. Author: rnveach #5364
ImportOrder with option=bottom should not allow non-static import after static import. Author: Julian Hyde #4981
ReturnCount: unclear message when only max property is specified. Author: vaano94 #5306
Incorrect indentation check for method preceded by annotation, with method parameter on separate line. Author: BBG #5154
fixed RequireThisCheck and enum constants handling. Author: rnveach #5361
fixed RequireThisCheck and catch variable handling. Author: rnveach #5351
AnnotationUtility.getAnnotation fails when there is an comment in the annotation. Author: rnveach #5327
False RedundantModifier violation for final method of enum inside final class. Author: BBG #5268
fixed bug on matching xpath when no xpath given. Author: rnveach #5321
Checkstyle ignores javadoc that placed over Annotation type elements . Author: Pavel Bludov #4169
JavadocMethod: No error for a misplaced javadoc tag. Author: Pavel Bludov #4701

Notes:

pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: rnveach, vasilyeva #4675
Some contents in messages_zh.properties for imports check are not well translated. Author: zhangduo #5393
TranslationCheckTest.testLogOutput is failed . Author: rnveach #5141
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-imports profile to 100%. Author: BBG #5004
Indentaion problem in pjdbc project. Author: Roman Ivanov #5286
Use versions-maven-plugin to report versions to update. Author: Roman Ivanov #5208
minimize pitest-checkstyle-utils profile execution. Author: rnveach #4605
api: abstract classes that extending concrete class. Author: rnveach #4716
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5003
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-metrics profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5005
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: rnveach #5008
internal code: terminolozy problems in ModuleReflectionUtils. Author: rnveach #4876
Add violateExecutionOnNonTightHtml property of AbstractJavadocCheck to xdoc. Author: rnveach #5002
change all sonarqube.com to sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #5290
doc: add 'Checkstyle for Microsoft Visual Studio Code' in known tools. Author: Roman Ivanov
Revert "infra: fix for travis:osx problem with 'shell_session_update: command not found'". Author: Roman Ivanov
Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124

Release 8.5

New:

Try to load class from all of packages as classpath scanning doesn't work in Eclipse runtime environment. Author: kazachka #4916

Bug fixes:

RegexpOnFilenameCheck: NullPointerException when relative path is used to run checkstyle CLI . Author: Roman Ivanov #5278
JavadocPackage: NullPointerException when relative path is used to run checkstyle CLI. Author: Artem Dudkin #5127
Checker.destroy doesn't erase fileSets but erases everything else. Author: rnveach #5264
TranslationCheck prints violations from previous AbstractFileSetCheck run. Author: rnveach #5263

Notes:

Fix violations from new sevntu check - CheckstyleTestMakeupCheck. Author: rnveach #5228
doc: typo fix and extension for 'what is javadoc'. Author: Roman Ivanov
Checkstyle UTs shouldn't create custom configuration methods. Author: rnveach #5157
adjacent static import groups ones became impossible in 8.3. Author: BBG #5176
cobertura coverage check failing on jdk 152. Author: Roman Ivanov #5283
Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124
Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
ImportControl: unable to disallow static import. Author: Jochen Van de Velde, Roman Ivanov #4284
doc: Removed maxLineLength property from javadoc, the property itself had been removed earlier. Author: Balazs Nemeth
wercker build is unstable for htmlunit project due to SNAPSHOT dependency . Author: Roman Ivanov #5251
Fix plural agreement grammar in documentation for DesignForExtension. Author: Jake Gage #5249
Mark all checks with appropriate interface so that they could be used in the MT mode. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4870

Release 8.4

Breaking backward compatibility:

Disallowing user to use incomplete fully qualified Check names in config file. Author: BBG #4456
JavadocTokenTypes should keep values of tokens, restore tokens as they were at 8.1 version. Author: Piyush Sharma #5139
Remove extra numeric offset in JavadocTokenTypes. Author: Maksim Shilin #5114

Bug fixes:

Checkstyle produces invalid XML file. Author: rnveach #5162

Notes:

Fix violations from new sevntu check - CheckstyleTestMakeupCheck. Author: rnveach #5228
Unused messages in message.properties. Author: dyominov #5094
Two unit tests for SuppressionCommentFilterTest do not fail if CheckstyleException is not thrown. Author: rnveach #5210
ClassFanOutComplexity for a multi-dimensional array is calculating with an error.. Author: Artem Dudkin #5134
Remove usage of DetailAST.branchContains. Author: rnveach #5124
Checkstyle tests should be named after the class they test and extra validations/helpers should be in a special package. Author: rnveach #5104
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5003
left curly nlow documentation error?. Author: Clément Guillaume #5188
create GeneratedJavadocTokenTypesTest.java. Author: Piyush Sharma #5186
Use private final loggers instead of private static final in Checkstyle codebase. Author: crude #929
Move DetailNodeTreeStringPrinter#createFakeBlockComment to CommonUtils. Author: Turkin Ivan #4785
Prohibit the usage of hardcoded encoding in Checkstyle source code. Author: Artem Dudkin #5023
appveyor: provide ability to skip CI executions base on commit files. Author: Maksim Shilin #3870
Reorganize token methods of all Checks. Author: Subbu Dantu #4581
Remove deprecated class BaseCheckTestSupport. Author: Subbu Dantu #4867
validation by xsd during build is missed for xml files that use packages_1_0.dtd. Author: Roman Ivanov #5177
Sonar validation failing with StackOverflowError. Author: Roman Ivanov #5175

Release 8.3

Breaking backward compatibility:

Uppercase letters to be allowed in package names in javadoc. Author: Piyush Sharma #4408
Making required arguments mandatory for javadoc tags in grammar. Author: Piyush Sharma #4942

New:

NoWhitespaceAfter: do not allow whitespace after '@' sign. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4410
WhitespaceAround: Add support for varargs. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4157
Boolean flag in Javadoc Checks that shows a current Javadoc comment has unclosed HTML tags. Author: Piyush Sharma #3311
Add columnCharIndex field to LocalizedMessage. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4998

Bug fixes:

IllegalType does not seem to handle multidimensional array types. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4425
No violation before or after changes for static import list. Author: BBG #5065
whitespace after Array type when using a type annotation. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #3300
Google Style: Incorrect ParenPad warning. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #4294
NoWhitespaceBefore and empty for loop conditions. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #5058
Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractCheck class. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4908
Fix order of message parameters in DE translation file. Author: Andreas Kurth #5068
Issue with UnusedImports and javadoc usage.. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #3453
@see tag with leading asterisk before arguments lead to parse failure. Author: Piyush Sharma #5035
FallThrough check doesn't handle synchronized blocks. Author: Liam Miller-Cushon #5037
NoWhitespaceAfterCheck for some array initialization crashes Checkstyle. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4557

Notes:

pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4675
Pull #5113: enabled eclipse compiler to flag unused exceptions. Author: rnveach #5113
conifg: bump maven-surefire-plugin to 2.20.1. Author: Roman Ivanov
Support suppression-xpath element in SuppressionLoader. Author: Timur #4421
Checkstyle tests should be named after the class they test and extra validations/helpers should be in a special package. Author: rnveach #5104
Expand eclipse compiler to check test code. Author: rnveach #5116
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-coding profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5008
Add file-stateful and stateless / global stateful check markers. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4883
Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractFileSetCheck class. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4917
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: rnveach #3891
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-metrics profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5005
IllegalType: update documentation to make it clear that LITERAL_NEW is not a target of this Check. Author: Roman Ivanov #5129
XpathQueryGenerator should consider tabWith parameter. Author: Timur Tibeyev #4999
Increase coverage of JavadocParser and JavadocLexer. Author: Piyush Sharma #4769
doc: extend javadoc for JavadocTokenTypes.RULE_TYPES_OFFSET. Author: Roman Ivanov
DeclarationOrder: problem with forward references. Author: kazachka #4984
Fix up Portuguese messages. Author: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva #5082
Travis failing to execute some item on trusty instances. Author: Roman Ivanov #5086
Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: Roman Ivanov #3708
Eclipse validtion is failed with "The type org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull cannot be resolved". Author: Roman Ivanov #5078
find way to launch IntellijIdea inspections from command line. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4682
Rename JavadocLexer rule to a more meaningful name. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #5040
Review disabled validations of eclipse compiler. Author: Roman Ivanov #5060
Using Eclipse compiler in CI to control 0 Warning level. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #2600
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4394
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4402
Launch Sonarqube validation in docker in our CI for each PR validation. Author: vasilyeva #4912
doc: remove section about a resolved API issue. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-imports profile to 100%. Author: vasylieva #5004
made XMLLogger writer final. Author: rnveach #5033
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395

Release 8.2

Breaking backward compatibility:

JavadocParser: inconsistent AST tree with and without SINGLETON_ELEMENT. Author: Piyush Sharma #3810
move AbstractTypeAwareCheck and ClassResolver to javadoc package. Author: rnveach #4676
remove deprecated property maxLineLength from LeftCurlyCheck. Author: rnveach #3671
remove FileContentsHolder module as FileContents object is available for filters on TreeWalker in TreeWalkerAudit Event. Author: Timur, Roman Ivanov #3573
Replace terms in AST Tokens by terms from HTML specification. Author: Piyush Sharma #4448

New:

new Check: single line annotation location. Author: kazachka #3440
Add HTML5 tags support to Javadoc antlr4 grammar and related classes. Author: Piyush Sharma #3332
UnnecessaryParentheses: Reject parentheses around single parameters in lambdas. Author: rnveach #4639
Add token type to LocalizedMessage. Author: Timur #4419

Bug fixes:

Add (WS | NEWLINE) in proper places for javadoc tags. Author: Piyush Sharma #4934
XMLLogger methods should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4932
Javadoc comments containing unescaped Java code with generic types leads to enormous parsing times. Author: Piyush Sharma #4390
PackageObjectFactory can't instantiate AuditListeners. Author: rnveach #4742
Remove thread-unsafe context from the AbstractJavadocCheck class. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4925
SeverityLevelCounter should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4927
JavadocPackageCheck should be thread-safe. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4945
Violations should print ID and observe them as unique. Author: Luolc #4607
SuppressWarnings triggers RedundantModifier check on enum constructor. Author: rnveach #4846
SummaryJavadoc: overlapping messages. Author: rnveach #4798
Remove checkstyle_packages.xml from checkstyle. Author: rnveach #3660
SummaryJavadoc: doesn't completely ignore inheritDoc tag. Author: rnveach #4744
TodoCommentCheck overflows the stack for files with many comments. Author: rnveach #4563
RegexpHeader not detecting '\n\n' by regex properly. Author: Vivek Rao #4735
ModifiedControlVariableCheck crashes for some nested loops with multiple assignments. Author: rnveach #4630
MethodCountCheck: class counts include anonymous methods. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #4539
RequireThisCheck: NPE on method from base class with validateOnlyOverlapping off. Author: rnveach #4856
TreeWalkerFilter needs to be added to ModuleReflectionUtils. Author: Timur #4843
RequireThisCheck: Use and declare a local variable with same name as class variable cause a NPE. Author: rnveach #4777
Indentation: multiple try with resource not checked. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3131
FinalLocalVariable: false-negative with anonymous class. Author: rnveach #4727

Notes:

pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4395
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4394
Remove strong, wildcard suppressions in configuration. Author: vasilyeva, Roman Ivanov #4384
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-design profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5007
Remove usage of javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter (removed in Java 9). Author: Oliver Siegmar #5027
shippable: unstable execution of pitest for pitest-checkstyle-common profile. Author: Andrew Kuchev, Roman Ivanov #5022
Fix documentation for minLineCount property in JavadocMethod. Author: Ruslan Iagudin #4987
Using Eclipse compiler in CI to control 0 Warning level. Author: vasilyeva #2600
IllegalTypeCheck: split illegalClassNames for short names to prevent runtime modification. Author: rnveach #4947
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-whitespace profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #5003
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-sizes profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4993
MainTest.testCreateListenerWithLocationIllegalStateException isn't deleting it's test file anymore. Author: liscju #4842
Implement xpath query generator. Author: Timur #4901
Implement XpathFilter. Author: Timur #4422
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4675
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-regexp profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4988
ReturnCount: enforce max=1 over checkstyle code. Author: Roman Ivanov #3496
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4398
idea: fixing HtmlTagCanBeJavadocTag cause ant build error. Author: vasilyeva #4805
AnnotationUseStyleCheck defaults: mismatch between documentation and code. Author: Stephan Schroevers #4966
idea: fix ThisEscapedInConstructor idea violation for ImportControl class. Author: vasilyeva #4863
idea: twelfth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4940
resolve IDEA inspection BooleanParameter in AbstractModuleTestSupport.createChecker. Author: vasilyeva #4857
AuditEventDefaultFormatterTest should not use PowerMockito for testing. Author: rnveach #4931
idea: eleventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva, Roman Ivanov #4801
avoid boolean parameters for public methods. Author: vasilyeva #4709
Mapper of XPath expressions onto AST nodes. Author: Timur #4369
disallow java.util.Comparator in import-control. Author: Luolc #4907
Custom checks broken with Checkstyle 8.0. Author: rnveach #4885
Split BaseCheckTestSupport into AbstractPathTestSupport, AbstractModuleTestSupport, and AbstractTreeTestSupport. Author: rnveach, Subbu Dantu #4592
idea: ninth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4707
idea: fifth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4726
idea: add messages to all asserts. Author: vasilyeva #4808
wercker: NoErrorTest on sevntu with checkstyle's snapshot. Author: Roman Ivanov #4829
Improve Error Handling for Javadoc Parsing. Author: Piyush Sharma #4717
idea: add initial capacities to StringBuffer. Author: Roman Ivanov #4812
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-main profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4399
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4402

Release 8.1

Breaking backward compatibility:

Make SuppressionCommentFilter and SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter children of TreeWalker. Author: Timur #4714
remove AbstractComplexityCheck, AbstractIllegalCheck, AbstractIllegalMethodCheck, AbstractNestedDepthCheck. Author: vasilyeva #4749
ImportControl: Remove deprecated 'url' property. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3578
remove deprecated AbstractDeclarationCollector, AbstractFormatCheck, AbstractOptionCheck. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4677
FileText should not extends AbstractList. Author: Timur #3034
Move DetailAST log away from AbstractViolationReporter. Author: rnveach #3574
api: LocalizedMessages class should be removed. Author: Andrei Selkin #3545

Bug fixes:

SummaryJavadoc: no violation on absent summary and on javadoc where '.' is used not as end of sentense. Author: Sagar #3907
MethodCountCheck with wrong tokens crashes Checkstyle. Author: rnveach #4556
UnusedImportsCheck does not detect parameter types in javadoc block tags. Author: Brent Plump #4606
UnusedImports processJavadoc fails with javadoc tags that span lines. Author: Nathan Naze #2840
some messages are still hardcoded in english. Author: Subbu Dantu #3110
EmptyBlock: NPE on annotation declaration. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4472

Notes:

idea: tenth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4725
idea: sixth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4724
idea: seventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4722
idea: fifth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4726
idea: eleventh part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4801
Split BaseCheckTestSupport into AbstractPathTestSupport, AbstractModuleTestSupport, and AbstractTreeTestSupport. Author: Subbu Dantu #4592
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-header profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4401
activate IntellijIdea inspection InterfaceMayBeAnnotatedFunctional. Author: vasilyeva #3435
idea: ninth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4707
spelling: Fix German translation. Author: FriedrichFroebel
Increase coverage of JavadocParser and JavadocLexer. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4769
idea: third part of violations. Author: vasilyeva #4713
idea: fourth part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4723
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'regexp' package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4585
spelling: fix typo in docs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
add vavr library to our regression testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #4363
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-filters profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4396
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4394
idea: second part of violations. Author: vasilyeva #4708
Enable IntellijIdea inspection: 'throw' inside 'finally' block. Author: vasilyeva #3301
idea: eights part of idea violations. Author: vasilyeva #4711
MT mode: Intelllij inspection violations. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4700
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs for MainTests to 'main' folder. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4588
UniquePropertiesCheck.getLineNumber should be private. Author: BBG #4694
suppress NewlineAtEndOfFile on all internal javadoc files. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4702
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'ant' package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4686
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in header package. Author: BBG, Dmytro Kytsmen #4365
review all suppressed IntellijIdea inspections with comment 'till ...'. Author: Roman Ivanov #4681
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'javadoc' package. Author: BBG #4586
LeftCurlyCheck: clarify behavior of 'nlow' option after removal of 'maxLineLength'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3855
Avoid usage of getLines method from FileText. Author: Timur #4641
reevaluate tokens in google config for SeparatorWrapCheck. Author: kazachka #3752
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checks-misc profile to 100%. Author: Roman Ivanov #4675
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'checks' package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4587
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: rnveach, vasilyeva #4398
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-main profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4399
ConfigurationLoaderTest::testIncorrectTag is flaky. Author: rnveach #4664
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4400
refactoring: CodeSelectorPModel do double copy of collectio in c-tor. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3555
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'metrics' package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4575
Restore wercker CIs that have custom Checks. Author: rnveach #4582
Fix PMD violations for test code in Checkstyle. Author: vasylieva #877
Build fails on cobertura:check goal. Author: Roman Ivanov #4450
Add multi thread mode to checkstyle launcher. Author: Andrew Kuchev #4370

Release 8.0

Breaking backward compatibility:

api changes: make getAcceptableTokens/getRequiredTokens/getDefaultTokens methods as abstract in Check.java. Author: rnveach #605
deprecate Checker.setClassloader , replace with Checker.setClassLoader. Author: Roman Ivanov #922
Remove deprecated Check class. Author: rnveach #4541
CheckstyleAntTask: substitude setConfig(File) with setConfig(String). Author: Michael Diamond #4449
remove deprecated getFilename menthod from FileContents. Author: Subbu Dantu #3666
rename STMT in BlockOption class to STATEMENT. Author: Subbu Dantu #4035
Remove unnecessary text from Javadoc tokens. Author: Piyush Sharma #3796
Cache conflict between Maven/Ant and Eclipse/CLI run. Author: rnveach #3566

New:

MethodCountCheck: add ANNOTATION_DEF to toknes to avoid NPE. Author: Roman Ivanov #4534

Bug fixes:

some messages are still hardcoded in english. Author: Subbu Dantu, Roman Ivanov #3110
MethodCountCheck: wrong counting with nested interface definition. Author: rnveach #4540
Indentation: custom annotation not checked. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3134
Javadoc is not parsed correctly in files with only CR newlines. Author: Piyush Sharma #2329
CLI Javadoc tree printing does not check placement of Javadoc. Author: Piyush Sharma #4405
Javadoc parser: custom tags content should not be parsed as HTML. Author: Piyush Sharma #4164

Notes:

pmd: fix all the remained. Author: vasilyeva #4567
Localized UTs are not stable on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #4316
Add since version to Checkstyle documentation. Author: rnveach #4475
Fix PMD violations for test code in Checkstyle. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #877
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in 'indentation' package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4538
Use Spotbugs tool in our build process. Author: vasylieva #4373
pmd: enable validation on IT java sources. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4500
upgrade maven-pmd-plugin to version 3.8. Author: vasylieva #4342
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in imports package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4437
Refactor Javadoc AST Tests. Author: Piyush Sharma #4381
pmd: fix JUnitAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage violations in test classes. Author: vasilyeva #4516
pmd: fix TestClassWithoutTestCases violations in test classes. Author: vasilyeva #4518
pmd: fix UselessOverridingMethod violations in test classes. Author: vasilyeva #4488
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva #4395
refactoring: remove 'final' modifier from all arguments of method/c-tor at ImportControlCheck and around. Author: sharang108 #4353
pmd: fix AppendCharacterWithChar violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4494
pmd: fix InsufficientStringBufferDeclaration violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4491
pmd: fix UncommentedEmptyMethodBody violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4495
pmd: fix LoggerIsNotStaticFinal violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4490
pmd: fix NcssMethodCount violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4496
pmd: fix JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4489
pmd: fix ConfusingTernary violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4493
pmd: fix CommentDefaultAccessModifier violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4492
pmd: fix CheckstyleCustomShortVariable violations in test classes. Author: vasylieva #4497
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva, vasylieva, Roman Ivanov #4400
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-api profile to 100%. Author: vasylieva #4394
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-tree-walker profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4398
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in header package. Author: sharang108 #4365

Release 7.8.2

Bug fixes:

Simple name conflict of Checks from thirdparty checks will cause exception in run time. Author: Luolc, Roman Ivanov #4414
3rd party root modules not finding by simple name. Author: rnveach #4417
ASTs should be appended with comment nodes only when javadoc checks are present. ASTs shouldn't be walked if there are no corresponding types of checks. Author: Piyush Sharma #4393

Notes:

SummaryJavadoc: no violation on javadoc where '.' is used not as end of sentense (fixes in javadoc files only). Author: sagar-shah94 #3907
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in imports package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4437
Unstable TreeWalkerTest during coverage execution. Author: Piyush Sharma #4445
spelling: fix spelling of name McConnell. Author: Ryan P.C. McQuen
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-utils profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4395
Design a new format of suppression dtd schema to support XPath queries. Author: Timur #4364
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in modifier package. Author: Subbu Dantu #4431
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-checkstyle-common profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4400
pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-header profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4401

Release 7.8.1

Bug fixes:

problem with usage of third-party Check libraries and checkstyle 7.8. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #4387

Notes:

pitest: increase mutation coverage for pitest-check-annotation profile to 100%. Author: vasilyeva #4402
pitest: create profile for non-checks code. Author: vasilyeva #4367

Release 7.8

New:

ImportControl: new strategyOnMismatch property to xml file structure. Author: Tima #4274
NoWhitespaceAfter: add support for method reference operator (new Acceptable token). Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3950
LocalFinalVariableName: not validating try-with-resource variables (new Acceptable token). Author: vasilyeva #3348
IllegalImport: new property illegalClasses to let blacklist certain classes import. Author: Tima #3449
ExplicitInitialization: new property 'onlyObjectReferences'. Author: Subbu Dantu #2399

Bug fixes:

Javadoc parser: Package names should permit digits in their name. Author: Piyush Sharma #4349
Expand exception violation when haltOnException is off. Author: rnveach #4350
CacheFile: violation on external resource will invalidate entire cache even if no changes are made. Author: rnveach #4101
RequireThis: False positive for lambda parameters. Author: Piyush Sharma #4207

Notes:

bump version for sevnu-checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov
publish all dtd schemas to sourceforge site automatically. Author: Andrei Selkin, Roman Ivanov #4341
Use reflection to load Checks base on checkstyle_packages.xml. Author: Luolc #3607
upgrade maven-pmd-plugin to version 3.8. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4342
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in coding package. Author: slava ganyaev, Dmytro Kytsmen #4165
ImportControl: blacklist mode. Author: Tima #3451
Localized UTs are not stable on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #4316
moved more variables inside if blocks to reduce execution. Author: rnveach #4343
spelling: Improve grammar of usage.distance.extend. Author: Jaron Thatcher
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in annotation package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4313
Revert "Revert "config: bump maven-surefire-xxxxxx to 2.20" due to unstable locale UTs #4316". Author: Roman Ivanov
moved variables inside if blocks to reduce execution time. Author: rnveach #4328
doc: add link to contributing instructions to CONTRIBUTING.md. Author: Nathan Naze
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in design package. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4314
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3891
Wercker CI is unstable while cloning repositories. Author: Roman Ivanov #4329
Revert "config: bump maven-surefire-xxxxxx to 2.20" due to unstable locale UTs #4316. Author: Roman Ivanov
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for PackageName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4172
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MemberName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4151
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4158
move all dtd schemas to sourceforge site. Author: Andrei Selkin #1571

Release 7.7

New:

Ant: accept path in addition to fileset option. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3312
SeparatorWrap: add support for method reference operator. Author: Luolc #3951
NoWhitespaceBefore: add support for method reference operator. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3949
RightCurlyCheck: add support for lambda. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3546
ParenPad: thinks precedence parens are a METHOD_CALL instead of an EXPR, new token TokenTypes.DOT should be supported. Author: Subbu Dantu #3048
DefaultComesLast: new option skipIfLastAndSharedWithCase to raise violation if default doesn't share case. Author: Sagar #4078
ClassDataAbstractionCoupling and ClassFanOutComplexity: property to exclude packages. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3309
ClassDataAbstractionCoupling : Add a excludeClassesRegexps property . Author: Tima #3234

Bug fixes:

NPathComplexity ignores multi-part boolean expressions. Author: kazachka #56
ArrayTrailingComma: Extra coma is required in multiline array value. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1509
EmptyBlock should process LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: Piyush Sharma #4159
Take "break" into consideration in FinalLocalVariable. Author: Luolc #4082
RequireThis treats local variables as properties. Author: Piyush Sharma #3423
Exception message not informative enough for users on incorrect parent. Author: Subbu Dantu #2186
EmptyBlock: can't get violation from case token. Author: Piyush Sharma #3839
RightCurly: False negative on multiblock tokens with ALONE_OR_SINGLELINE option. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4091

Notes:

Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for InterfaceTypeParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4142
ReturnCount: enforce max=1 over checkstyle code. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3496
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test in the blocks package. Author: Subbu Dantu, Dmytro Kytsmen #4220
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ClassTypeParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4137
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for CatchParameterName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4136
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ConstantName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4141
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for checks in coding package. Author: slava ganyaev, Dmytro Kytsmen #4165
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: Jun Lin #4080
Fix new TeamCity violations. Author: Roman Ivanov #4250
spelling: unify THIRDPARTY_PACKAGE into THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE. Author: Yusuke Matsubara
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoLineWrap. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3933
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for OuterTypeNumber. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4043
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParentPad. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4062
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for StaticVariableName. Author: Akshita #4208
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoWhitespaceAfter. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3931
Expand missing testing for PropertyCacheFile tests. Author: Andrei Selkin #3650
Adding IDEA project files to gitignore and excluding them from checkstyle list. Author: Tima #4209
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodTypeParameterName. Author: Janine Freitas #4168
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParameterName. Author: Shubham Kumar #4191
Add suppression of .DS_Store for NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Luolc #4176
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for WhitespaceAround. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3898
Verifying tokens in checkstyle config handles default tokens wrong. Author: rnveach #4119
spelling: fix grammar in messages.properties for indentation package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Javadoc for try-with-resources tokens is not good enough. Author: Subbu Dantu #2899
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for FileTabCharacter. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #3959
Fix new TeamCity violations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3616
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LocalVariableName. Author: Dmytro Kytsmen #4150
Formatting issue in documentation. Author: sagar shah #3902
doc: fix documentation for METHOD_REF token. Author: Subbu Dantu
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LocalFinalVariableName. Author: kurileo #4144
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for NoWhitespaceBefore. Author: Subbu Dantu #3930
Enforce EndOfLine symbols at the end of all files in checkstyle repository. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3072
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test. Author: slava ganyaev #3891
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ParameterNumber. Author: GabrielBercaru #4090
RightCurly: update documentation for singleline statements with SAME option. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4085
spelling: fix typos in tests. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
spelling: fix typos in xdocs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Fix typo in @serialField javadoc tag validation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #4126
spelling: fix some typos in code/javadoc/comments. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for AbstractClassName. Author: vasilyeva #4106
pitest: skip Uts execution as pitest do this for wihtou mutation mode. Author: Roman Ivanov #4104
changed loops to end execution early. Author: rnveach #4102
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for LineLength. Author: MikhailovOlegM #4013
Grammar mistakes in PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. Author: unrealwork #4098

Release 7.6.1

New:

NoLineWrap: add support for static imports. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3892
PackageDeclaration: new property matchDirectoryStructure to match the package name to directory name of source file. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #3437
ParenPad: add LAMBDA token support. Author: Andrew #3329

Bug fixes:

SummaryJavadoc: need special processing of inheritDoc tag. Author: Sagar #3908
Indentation check fails for Line Wrapped Anonymous Inner Class with LCurly on newline. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3612
Regression false-positive FinalLocalVariable. Author: Luolc #3172
ImportControlLoader does not close InputStream and leaks filehandles when xml is malformed. Author: Giorgos Gaganis #3962
RightCurly: ALONE option doen't work for a singleline IF. Author: Andrei Selkin #4044
Test failed due to locale message settings. (with non-English locale settings). Author: Luolc #3896
Control Characters are not skipped with google_checks config. Author: Luolc #3700
WhitespaceAfterCheck: problem with multiline typecast. Author: Andrew Kuchev #3850
try to avoid non jdk runtime exceptions in code. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3763

Notes:

README: broken link. Author: unrealwork #4093
Wrong German translation of declaration.order.access in messages_de.properties. Author: sirdis #4081
Perform refactoring of AnnotationLocationCheck to increase code readability. Author: Andrei Selkin #4055
google_checks: update to most recent version of style guide ( Feb 28, 2017 ). Author: Roman Ivanov #3888
spelling: fix spelling and punctuation in comments (RightCurly). Author: Andrei Selkin
google_checks: update to most recent version of style guide (3 November 2016). Author: Andrei Selkin #3755
NPath for empty block is 1. Author: Roman Ivanov #4045
Add new setting in Beginning Development for IDEA docs. Author: Vikramaditya Kukreja #4030
doc: fix typos in Travis PR validation messages. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
UTs should not use ROOT locale when they test violation/error message. Author: Luolc #3989
wercker ci should have most of testing launches on real code to shorten time of Travis execution. Author: Roman Ivanov #3798
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for SeparatorWrap. Author: Sagar #3904
doc: update documentation for usage of "period" property at SummaryJavadoc. Author: Sagar #3906
spelling: corrected sentence. Author: Sagar
EmptyLineSeparator check not enforcing empty line after class def, enum def or interface def tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #3089
spelling: change 'suite' to 'suit'. Author: ljacqu
WritingChecks: add documentation on java grammar. Author: Sagar #3883
expand documentation on METHOD_REF token. Author: Luolc #3731
circleci: provide ability to skip CI executions base on commit files. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3869
RequireThisCheck is not fully covered with UTs. Author: Andrei Selkin #3848
spelling: fix typo in documentation. Author: Craig P. Motlin
Code coverage is not working for certain classes in checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #3843
Travis faliure: "sonatype-nexus-staging not found" during release. Author: Roman Ivanov #3868
DetailAst class unclear logic in addChilld method. Author: Abulfaz Ahmadov #3491
make code coverage for MainFrameModel 100%. Author: Xiao Pu #3648
Refactiring for RightCurlyCheck.java. Author: sagar shah #3685
Travis faliure: "sonatype-nexus-staging not found" during release. Author: Roman Ivanov #3868
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for WhitespaceAfterCheck. Author: Pedro Portela #3897
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for TypecastParenPad. Author: Piyush Sharma #3900
CommitValidationTest: add character limit to line. Author: sagar shah #3910
doc: add examples for xdoc for ArrayTrailingComma. Author: Pedro Portela #3943
DetailASTTest: 'checkTree' failing on deep AST tree. Author: LoLo #3961
remove from Input files "Compilable with Java8". Author: LoLo #3965
Indentation UTs should not use ROOT locale when they test violation/error message. Author: LoLo #4003
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for OperatorWrap. Author: Nikhil Gupta #3929
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodParamPad. Author: Nikhil Gupta #3954
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for GenericWhitespace. Author: subkrish #3958
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for EmptyForInitializerPadCheck. Author: samuel-gu #3970
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for EmptyForIteratorPad. Author: shivanshsoni #3976
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for EmptyLineSeparator. Author: anudeepti2004 #3985
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for AnonInnerLength. Author: samuel-gu #3986
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for ExecutableStatementCount. Author: GabrielBercaru #3991
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for FileLength. Author: Grigorii Shevchenko #3999
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodCount. Author: timurt #4014
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for MethodLength. Author: GabrielBercaru #4042
Split and Organize Checkstyle inputs by Test for AbbreviationAsWordInName. Author: Igor Shmagrinskiy #4095

Release 7.6

New:

add allowEmptyCatches parameter to WhitespaceAroundCheck. Author: liscju #3841
NoWhitespaceBefore: Add support for varargs. Author: Robert Painsi #3718
Google style: allow single character variables. Author: Andrei Selkin #3702
NPathComplexityCheck: set of tokens should not be customizable by user. Author: kazachka #3797

Bug fixes:

DesignForExtension: order of annotations change violation. Author: Andrei Selkin #3830
AbbreviationAsWordInName: confusing violation message. Author: rnveach #3721
Fix AbstractTypeAwareCheck when dealing with nested interfaces. Author: rnveach #3835
IllegalTokenText in google_checks should not has BACKSPACE character. Author: rnveach #3701
IndentationCheck: catch child indentation not checked. Author: rnveach #3803
Indentation: Annotation with RParen on new line when followed by other annotations causes invalid expectation. Author: shawn.kovalchick #3733

Notes:

Code coverage is not working for certain classes in checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #3843
ImportControl: improve xdoc documentation. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #2935
reevaluate tokens in IllegalTokenText. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3729
reevaluate 'default' and 'case' in google config for EmptyBlock. Author: rnveach #3748
reevaluate tokens in checkstyle config for NeedBraces. Author: rnveach #3735
Config: forbid assert token by Illegal token Check. Author: rnveach #3751
reevaluate tokens in google config for OperatorWrapCheck. Author: rnveach #3749
messages_ja.properties contains funny (wrongly machine-translated) messages. Author: SATO Yusuke #3831
config: Remove redundant and incorrect rules from import control configuration. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3736
travis should skip execution if configs of other CIs are changed. Author: Roman Ivanov #3818
doc: Add notes on import control config for inner classes. Author: Jochen Van de Velde
Rename method in CheckUtil. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3820
wercker ci should have most of testing launches on real code to shorten time of Travis execution. Author: Roman Ivanov #3798
Typo in website documentation for JavadocMethod.. Author: Roman Ivanov #3800
doc: Known API issues was added to reference #3810. Author: Roman Ivanov

Release 7.5.1

Bug fixes:

PackageObjectFactory hides real exception. Author: rnveach #3778
RightCurly: handling of try-with-resources on several lines with CS 7.5. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3776

Notes:

Add the Hibernate Search project to the Checkstyle CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #3790

Release 7.5

Breaking backward compatibility:

ParameterName: deprecate 'scope' and 'excludeScope' properties, introduce new property 'accessModifiers'. Author: Andrei Selkin #3675

New:

Ant: Cannot override default Checker. Author: rnveach #3530
ImportControl should have property which allows to validate specified file path. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3462

Bug fixes:

NullPointerException in AbstractHeaderCheck when cache file specified and no header file. Author: rnveach #3771
RequireThisCheck doesn't see outer classes for anonymous classes. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #3041
NPE on type parameter annotations for this. Author: Markus Rathgeb #3732
UnusedImports behaviour is different from documentation. Author: Andrei Selkin #3741
Javadoc: Column number of DetailNode is always 0 for first line. Author: kazachka #3507
FallThrough check doesn't correctly handle try-with-resources. Author: rnveach #3509
RedundantModifier: no violation on final enum field methods. Author: rnveach #3582
NPE in RightCurly with LITERAL_DO on do-while without curly braces. Author: rnveach #3681

Notes:

reevaluate tokens in google config for NeedBracesCheck. Author: rnveach #3753
refactoring: RightCurlyCheck code expression. Author: rnveach #3764
Verify tokens in google config. Author: rnveach #3740
Verify tokens in checkstyle config. Author: rnveach #3720
Strive for 100% mutation coverage. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3708
doc: Fix typo in config_imports.xml. Author: Jochen Van de Velde
Investigate pitest tool. Author: Roman Ivanov #3271
add pgjdbc project at NoErrorTest group of tests. Author: Roman Ivanov #3670
use shippable CI in testing. Author: Oleg Efremenkov #3316
doc: fix the escaping of AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharactersCheck's javadocs. Author: Michael Diamond
use new checks and new properties from sevntu.checkstyle project. Author: rnveach #3064
CI special phase to enforce 644 permissions on all files. Author: Roman Ivanov, MaksimP #3683
create xdoc for FileContentsHolder. Author: rnveach #3664
doc: Fix incorrect documentation for SuppressWithNearbyCommentFilter. Author: Charlie Pai
doc: how to generate sources after import project to IntelijIdea. Author: Roman Ivanov

Release 7.4

New:

Support LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED token for NoWhitespaceAfter Rule. Author: rnveach #2803
google_checks.xml : NO space is allowed method method name and its arguments. Author: rnveach #2809
Support more tokens in WhitespaceAfter check. Author: MaksimP #3333
Checker: option to allow printing exception as violation and continue execution. Author: rnveach #3611
ImportControl: allow to load files from resources. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3450

Bug fixes:

NullPointerException when using NeedBraces with tokens LITERAL_CASE, LITERAL_DEFAULT. Author: liscju #3655
CustomImportOrder should check that import groups are separated by one line only. Author: kazachka #3551
RightCurly was misconfigured in google_checks.xml for do-while blocks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3678
keep a map of Check name and it package in source to avoid brute force load by PackageObjectFactory from all packages. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3184
Duplicated Checks in google_checks.xml config should have "id". Author: Roman Ivanov #3662
skip unnecessary exception 'Severity not set, ignoring exception'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3657
EmptyLineSeparator causing violation in `package-info.java`. Author: kazachka #3426
FinalLocalVariable should not to check multi-catch variables. Author: liscju #3617
ImportOrder: Check that import groups aren't separated internally. Author: linelect #2143

Notes:

update documentation about getAcceptableTokens for javadoc Checks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3672
update documentation for VariableDeclarationUsageDistance with allowedDistance = 0. Author: Roman Ivanov #3665
Module term and usage is confusing in test area. Author: rnveach #3667
Using the SPDX identifier for the license name. Author: Robert Reiz #3653
XDoc: extend validation to Checker and TreeWalker. Author: rnveach #3622
travis: use standalone shell files. Author: Roman Ivanov #3632
CustomImportControl bad document examples that could lead to false positive on 'special group'. Author: Roman Ivanov #3590
Add new Sevntu checks and create UT for missing checks. Author: Roman Ivanov #3628
repo files should not have execute permissions. Author: MaksimP #3600
use shippable CI in testing. Author: Oleg Efremenkov #3316
100% UT coverage for ParseTreeTablePModel.java. Author: Saideep, Roman Ivanov #3606
Set Load external DTD feature to be enabled. Author: Aurimas Liutikas #3605
Modules and XDocs: change setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation (more 2). Author: rnveach #3575
ImportControl: Deprecate 'url' property in favor of the 'file' property. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3584
Unexpected loss of coverage for PropertyCacheFile.java. Author: Roman Ivanov #3594
Update ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md. Author: Roman Ivanov
refactoring to ImportControlCheck. Author: kazachka #3498
ThreadLocal usage in single threaded checkstyle. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2992
Detect final methods in Enumeration for RedundantModifier. Author: rnveach #2068

Release 7.3

Breaking backward compatibility:

Javadoc grammar: Delete child nodes in Javadoc TEXT node. Author: rnveach #3170

New:

Update Google style coverage to state of 12 July 2016. Author: alberto.cuda #3381
Modules and XDocs: changed setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation. Author: rnveach #3255
CLI: Cannot override default Checker. Author: rnveach #3515
ParameterNameCheck: new scope and excludeScope properties. Author: alberto.cuda #3473
google_checks.xml CustomImportOrder problem. Author: Andrei Selkin #941

Bug fixes:

GUI: Add support of DetailNode objects in CodeSelector. Author: kazachka #3432
GUI: Inconsistency in AST structure for block-comments. Author: kazachka #3445
Checker Cache not saving files that have suppressed violations. Author: rnveach #3488

Notes:

ImportOrder: checkstyle_checks.xml does not have separate "java" group. Author: linelect #3577
doc: fix broken link to file filters page. Author: Ken Geis
use ForbidAnnotationElementValueCheck from sevntu.checkstyle. Author: rnveach #3567
Turn on Config Cache File Locally for Developers. Author: rnveach #3487
document isCommentNodesRequired method in xdoc. Author: Roman Ivanov #3561
Checkstyle tests should not require internet. Author: rnveach #3536
doc: note was placed to TranslationCheck that it has problems with Checker cache. Author: Roman Ivanov

Release 7.2

New:

DesignForExtension: consider overridable methods and javadoc. Author: Andrei Selkin #3102
ImportControl: allow regex in subpackage elements.. Author: Volker Boerchers #2999
Allow WhitespaceAround for ARRAY_INIT token. Author: zenigata #3202

Bug fixes:

Inconsistency in AST tructure for block-comments. Author: kazachka #3431
Checker Cache invalidated falsely on load in second run due to external resources. Author: rnveach #3489
Wrong warning from AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters. Author: Dzmitry Rusak #3476
Add METHOD_REF to the list of valid tokens for OperatorCheck. Author: alberto.cuda #3472
DetailAST should invalidate childCount cache. Author: rnveach #3486
DetailAST should invalidate its methods cache (aka lazy-load). Author: Andrei Selkin #3466

Notes:

Rename PkgControl to ImportControl. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3514
split Guard class into two. Author: Jochen Van de Velde #3497
openjdk8/9 test code should be parseable by checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #3033
use shippable CI in testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #3316

Release 7.1.2

Bug fixes:

Wrong order of "default" method modifier. Author: alberto.cuda #3471
EqualsHashCode: hashCode without equals is not a violation. Author: rnveach #3308

Notes:

Revert "Pull #3162: Update version of commons-collections to 3.2.2 to fix security vulnerability CVE-2015-6420". Author: Roman Ivanov
Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava. Author: Andrei Selkin #3433
doc: fixed the wording in javadoc for TrailingCommentCheck. Author: José Castro
doc: added missing slash to backport documentation url (#3457). Author: rnveach
doc: added links to cs backport jre6 (#3447). Author: rnveach
Replace line-based suppressions with inline ones for Checkstyle's suppressions.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2226
Update Checkstyle GUI in order to display Javadoc tokens. Author: Baratali Izmailov #408
Fix ForbidCertainImports config. Author: Andrei Selkin #3412
use CyclomaticComplexity.switchBlockAsSingleDecisionPoint in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2874
SuppressCommentFilter not working with ClassDataAbstractionCoupling when specified on class. Author: Andrei Selkin #977
Resolve IntelijIdea inspection violations for java8. Author: Mariia Mykhailova #3233
Replace Guava's Joiner with Java 8 native approach. Author: Andrei Selkin #3406
Fix grammar in issue templates. Author: Roman Ivanov #3428
spelling: PR instructions, YOU --> YOUR. Author: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Release 7.1.1

Bug fixes:

EqualsHashCode: hashCode without equals is not a violation. Author: rnveach #3308
RedundantModifier : missed violations at interface and abstract class methods signatures with final parameters. Author: rnveach #3322

Notes:

Remove usage of System.out.println in IT resources. Author: Andrei Selkin #2541
Flaws in German translation. Author: Claas Augner #3403
Add NonDex tool to pom.xml and .travis.yml. Author: Ben Lambeth #3378

Release 7.1

New:

new CLI option: exclude directories. Author: rnveach #3287
ImportOrder: make static imports ordering as in Eclipse. Author: Andrei Selkin #3101

Bug fixes:

Indentation: incorrect expectation for wrapped arguments of chained calls. Author: Kevin Conaway #3208
RedundantModifier: miss violation on extra final in try-with-resources. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3323
RequireThisCheck: false positive on static field. Author: rnveach #3335
FinalLocalVariable: false positive when variable is assigned inside and outside switch-block. Author: Andrei Selkin #3074
RequireThisCheck: NPE when surrounded by braces. Author: rnveach #3334

Notes:

IndentationCheckTest makes assumption about the order of HashMap. Author: Ben Lambeth #3369
Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov, Roman Ivanov #410
Update releasenotes generation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3350
Update releasenotes generation. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3349
Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. Author: Roman Ivanov
doc: Fix JavaDoc comments (#3338). Author: Michael Simons
Online docs: AST example for LITERAL_DO is missing the DO_WHILE node. Author: Roman Ivanov #3209

Release 7.0

Breaking backward compatibility:

update checkstyle to jdk8 as runtime jdk. Author: Roman Ivanov #3229
Modules and XDocs: changed setter methods to recieve similar types with field type for easier xdoc validation. Author: rnveach #3212

New:

VisibilityModifier: allow public final fields. Author: Andrei Selkin #2971

Bug fixes:

Ability to differentiate annotation placement in for each loop from variable declaration.. Author: Andrei Selkin #3117
Java 8 Grammar: Parsing of explicit receiver parameters. Author: rnveach #3239
Java 8 Grammar: annotation on throws types. Author: rnveach #3237
Java 8 Grammar: annotation on generic type. Author: rnveach #3240
CommentsIndentation : Check incorrect work with subsequent comments. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3166
CommentsIndentation : allow upper comments for following block at multi-block structures. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3220
CommentsIndentation : false-positive in empty array declarations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3127
CommentsIndentation: false-positive when a singleline comment follows a block comment. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3126
RightCurly rule should properly enforce same rule for LITERAL_DO. Author: Andrei Selkin #3090
Proper support for generics in visibility modifier check. Author: Andrei Selkin #3142
Indentation: incorrect validation for imports and package. Author: rnveach #2618
Indentation: remove requirement right curlies to be first on line. Author: rnveach #3116

Notes:

doc: fixed checkstyle download url (#3304). Author: rnveach
Reduce the number of tasks performed by Travis CI. Author: Andrei Selkin, Roman Ivanov #3159
Cut down on Checkstyle's dependencies on Guava. Author: Andrei Selkin #3293
doc: update for AnnotationLocation examples to be more exact. Author: Roman Ivanov
6 tests in Checkstyle master branch fail at clean Ubuntu 14.04 Docker container (Java 8, Maven 3). Author: Andrei Selkin #3177
Avoid catching of InvalidPathException and AccessDeniedException in PropertyCacheFile#persist. Author: Andrei Selkin #3259
Review all French translations. Author: Vincent Privat #3282
Improve French translation for annotations warnings. Author: Vincent Privat #3278
Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov, Roman Ivanov #410
corrected alphabetical order of the checks. Author: Claus Schrammel #3263
CommitValidationTest.testCommitMessageHasSingleLine to support github default format. Author: rnveach #3266
XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values. Author: rnveach #3187

Release 6.19

Breaking backward compatibility:

Aligned setters with String collection fields and broke old compatibility. Author: rnveach #3189

New:

new Check: SingleSpaceSeparator. Author: rnveach #3173
ReturnCount: special option for methods with void return type. Author: rnveach #3143
new CLI argument: provide abililty to show debug level of logs from checkstyle code. Author: rnveach #3086
Fix cache usage in presence of filters. Author: Andrei Selkin #407

Bug fixes:

CLI Javadoc tree printer doesn't show errors. Author: Baratali Izmailov #3219
Block Comments: CR lines not handled the same as LF lines. Author: rnveach #3225
IllegalTokenTextCheck and IllegalTokenCheck does not work with COMMENT_CONTENT token. Author: Roman Ivanov #3153
Indentation: throwsIndent should configure indentation of `throws` on next line. Author: rnveach #2763
UnusedImports: value javadoc tag does not reference imports. Author: Konstantin Lutovich #3157

Notes:

FileContents confused about number of lines in comment separated by '\r'. Author: rnveach #3066
Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov, Roman Ivanov #410
XDoc Config: create unit test to verify property types and default values. Author: rnveach #3187
Some PullRequests validation for commit mesage miss some cases. Author: rnveach #3168
AnnotationLocation: unclear behavior when annotation is among modifiers. Author: Roman Ivanov #3164
Documentation for ANT property config is incorrect. Author: Roman Ivanov #3119
Sevntu CS not running on all CS code. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #3175
Update version of commons-collections to 3.2.2(from 3.2.1) to fix security vulnerability CVE-2015-6420. Author: akhil #3162
doc: Indentation property description become worded in the same way. Author: Roman Ivanov

Release 6.18

New:

Make CLI option to print full parsing tree (java + comments + javadoc comments). Author: Baratali Izmailov #3040
Add the ability to validate language codes by TranslationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2969
EmptyLineSeparator to check empty lines inside methods. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2944

Bug fixes:

NullPointerException in FinalLocalVariableCheck with Lambdas. Author: rnveach #3144
Serious performance problem in All Javadoc Check that are based on ANTLR parser. Author: rnveach #1064
CommentsIndentation Check - False Positive at End-of-Method. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2998
Indentation: fix line wrap hanlding. Author: rnveach #2950
Indentation module regression in 6.16 and 6.17.. Author: rnveach #3103
NPE in AnnotationLocationCheck.hasAnnotations. Author: rnveach #3106
Execution of checkstyle audit failed caused by inherited javadoc tag. Author: rnveach #3065
AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters: Tail comment check failed if there's tabs before tail comment.. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3005
FinalLocalVariable: false positive when variable is assigned multiple times. Author: Andrei Selkin #3006
Support for LAMDA token in WhitespaceAround check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2924

Notes:

maven-site-plugin:3.5 has problem to build our website. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii, Roman Ivanov #2966
RegexpOnFilename example from documentation does not work on checkstyle source. Author: rnveach #3085
Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov #410
IndentationCheckTest: 'exp' in input files are out of sync with test. Author: rnveach #3105
Some redundant messages.. Author: rnveach #3000
doc: added Codacy to the list of active tools. Author: JosÃ© Castro
Fix all issues for Java found by Codacy static analysis tool. Author: Andrei Selkin #2271
Use Distelli CI for testing of Javadoc Checks. Author: Baratali Izmailov, Roman Ivanov #2825
doc: DesignForExtension documentation is extended to warn user about possible misusage of this Check. Author: Roman Ivanov
Fund raising pages for checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #3057
Use DatatypeConverter#printHexBinary to convert byte array to hex String in PropertyCacheFile. Author: Andrei Selkin #3093
SSLHandshakeException exception during linkcheck-maven-plugin. Author: Roman Ivanov #3080
Speed up google_check validation test. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3070
Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973

Release 6.17

Breaking backward compatibility:

Add 'baseName' option and remove 'basenameSeparator' option of TranslationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2204

New:

Make CLI option to be able to print Javadoc tree as plain text. Author: Baratali Izmailov #652
java9: try structure is not parsable when only name is used. Author: Roman Ivanov #3025
All messages translated to Chinese. Author: ybbpgfjtey #3001
RequireThis: new option validateOnlyOverlapping. Author: Andrei Selkin #2362

Bug fixes:

Bad german translation of summary.first.sentence. Author: Christian H. Kuhn #3013
Ignored file extensions will output unterminated <file> tags in XML. Author: idarmans #3022
NPE when running CS with cache with Maven plugin using NewlineAtEndOfFile. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2218
Exception when using method reference in lamba "Class<?>[]::new". Author: Ilja Dubinin #2729
ClassNotFoundException when using inherited exception (regression to issue #1192 fix). Author: Roman Ivanov #3008

Notes:

doc: extending Rationale of NewlineAtEndOfFile with example. Author: Roman Ivanov
Fund raising pages for checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #3057
java8: Create compilable test inputs with all possible cases for method references. Author: rnveach #2968
upgrade equalsverifier to version 2.0. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3035
remove dependency to commons-lang3 library. Author: Rasmus Kaj #2428
reenable two sevntu checks. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #3042
Use Collections.addAll() instead of adding elements individually. Author: Baratali Izmailov #625
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.ant. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii, Roman Ivanov #1487
Localed UTs are failing at CheckstyleAntTaskTest.testXmlOutput. Author: Roman Ivanov #3023
Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973

Release 6.16.1

Bug fixes:

fix TokenTypes compatibility problems between 6.15 and 6.16. Author: rnveach #2997
Allow JUnit ClassRule to be public. Author: Andrej Vano #2987
FinalParameters should not warn for non-final parameters of native methods. Author: rnveach #2981

Notes:

Revert "Issue #2973: removed unused FLOAT_SUFFIX from java.g". Author: Roman Ivanov
all rows in coerage table google_style.html shoudl have anchor. Author: rnveach #2975
Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973

Release 6.16

Breaking backward compatibility:

Move Treewalker cache to Checker. Author: Andrei Selkin #569

New:

Make CLI option to be able to print Javadoc tree as plain text. Author: Baratali Izmailov #652
copy Check class to AbstractCheck class to let deprecate Check class. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2551
Print parse tree from CLI to terminal. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2638

Bug fixes:

Skip type annotations from validation of ModifierOrderCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #903
Probable typo in com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.blocks.RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2762
Indentation check reports some incorrect indentation levels on errors. Author: rnveach #2941
6.15 complains about missing @return tag in a overridden method. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2869
Nesting Checks in each other in config does not produce any error. Author: rnveach #2773
Forbid multiple violation for the same line in IndentaitonCheck. Author: liscju #676
LeftCurly not working correctly with lambdas. Author: liscju #2818
Duplicate error message for static final field in DeclarationOrder check. Author: liscju #1048
Translation Check: wrong support for resources with language, country, variant. Author: Andrei Selkin #2251
Checkstyle internal exceptions lack contextual information. Author: Andrei Selkin #2285
Changed semantics of PropertyExpander. Author: Petr Hejl #2886
Indentation properties not applied properly to lambdas. Author: rnveach #281
VisibilityModifier.allowPublicImmutableFields should allow public immutable fields in enums. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2887
FinalClass is over aggressive when extending happen inside class. Author: liscju #2822
WhitespaceAround should have an option allow double-brace initialization. Author: liscju #2838
Exception when using method reference in lamba "Class<?>[]::new". Author: Ilja Dubinin #2729
Wasted disk access. Author: rnveach #2103
JavadocType doesn't report unused param tag. Author: liscju #2811
DeclarationOrder check enforces order that is not possible. Author: Andrei Selkin #924
Tabs are wrongly handled in Indentation check when line is wrapped. Author: rnveach #2795
custom javadoc inline tags cause parse error. Author: rnveach #1184
JavadocStyleCheck: String index out of range: -1. Author: rnveach #2788

Notes:

Strive for 100% line coverage for java grammar. Author: rnveach #2973
Refactor Comments AST Test. Author: rnveach #2396
doc: example to checkstyle's Ant configuration was added to anttask.html. Author: Roman Ivanov
Travis: add xwiki project to regeression testing. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2938
PMD: resolve problems from DefaultPackage rule. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii, Roman Ivanov #957
doc: Improve javadoc of parameters of AnnotationLocationCheck.. Author: liscju
fix java8 compilation broblems in Inputs. Author: rnveach #2904
Create web-page with instructions: how to create Javadoc Check. Author: Baratali Izmailov #410
PMD ExceptionAsFlowControl: Do not use exceptions as flow control to create objects in PackageObjectFactory. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1159
ant with failOnViolation="false" will FAIL. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2185
Checkstyle cannot be built using JDK9 as tools.jar has been dropped. Author: Peter Wong #2905
CS' java 8 code isn't compilable. Author: rnveach #2880
doc: NPath documentation is extended. Author: Roman Ivanov
Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2609
spelling: Correct spelling for fast-forward-merge.sh. Author: Thomas Paul Mann
UTs should be launched in default locale. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2783
Disallow usage of java.util.Stack and java.util.Vector in code. Author: Andrei Selkin #2859

Release 6.15

New:

new Check: RegexpOnFilename. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2546
SuppressionFilter: new option 'optional' to allow skip SuppressionFilter if config file does not exist. Author: liscju #1002
Add possibility to specify a unique ID to all Regexp checks. Author: Andrei Selkin #1008

Bug fixes:

StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in Indentation check. Author: rnveach #2645
AbstractJavadocCheck should process only doc comments placed before class, interface, constructor, method, or field declarations. Author: Baratali Izmailov #325
SummaryJavadoc: false "end with a period" reports when inheritDoc is used. Author: rnveach #2805
JavadocMethod: allowedAnnotations hides bad javadocs. Author: rnveach #2806
FinalLocalVariable doesn't report variable when condition separates 2 assignments. Author: Bhavik Patel #2807
Config of Google Style does not include InterfaceTypeParameterName check. Author: Andrei Selkin #2792
Indentation on annotation parameters is wrong. Author: liscju #1349
OneStatementPerLine check and lambda expression. Author: liscju #2688
Gui should have a splitter bettween tree and code and prefered columns size. Author: liscju #2767
RequireThis reports false-positive when an instance method is overloaded with a static one. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2539

Notes:

Add checkstyle messages to xdocs. Author: rnveach #2836
Setup 'Circle CI' to run checkstyle-tester project on JDK sources. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii, Roman Ivanov #2815
Enforce Checks of sevntu.checkstyle (released version) over Checkstyle source code. Author: Yasser Aziza #2661
Use Codeship CI for testing. Author: Roman Ivanov #2727
Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii, Roman Ivanov #2609
doc: Add sbt-checkstyle-plugin to list of active tools. Author: Andrew Johnson

Release 6.14.1

Bug fixes:

JavaNCSSCheck: unknown format type: numero inteiro. Author: Roman Ivanov #2728
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in getCheckShortName method of AuditEventDefaultFormatter. Author: Andrei Selkin #2780

Notes:

spelling: fix typo in AuditEventFormatter class name. Author: Andrei Selkin

Release 6.14

Breaking backward compatibility:

Remove parameters validation from LocalVariableName. Author: Andrei Selkin #2549

New:

Print name of the Check after printing violation message. Author: Andrei Selkin #2666
WhitespaceAround should have an allowEmptyLambda parameter. Author: liscju #2603
Add ENUM_CONSTANT_DEF support to MethodParamPad. Author: Andrei Selkin #2505
new CatchParameterName Check: to validate names of catch-block parameters only. Author: Michal Kordas #2616

Bug fixes:

FinalLocalVariable false-positive in SWITCH. Author: Bhavik Patel #2405
Typo in Javadoc tag name. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2376
Extend parsing rule of custom Javadoc tag name. Author: Baratali Izmailov #461
Nesting Checks in each other in config does not produce any error. Author: Roman Ivanov #2773
RequireThis check message is not clear enough. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2239
OneStatementPerLine: false match with try-with-resources. Author: Jon Bake #2211
Performance issue in UnusedImportsCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2631
Remove unused message. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2756
Create directory structure needed to store cache file. Author: Andrei Selkin #2575
AbbreviationAsWordInName incorrectly reports constants in annotations. Author: Abram Thielke #2694
Inconsistent violations for NeedBraces/allowSingleLineStatement. Author: liscju #2291
ParameterNameCheck: NullPointerException over checkstyle's input file. Author: Andrei Selkin #2678
@SuppressWarnings annotation does not suppress UncommentedMain. Author: Andrei Selkin #2646
UncommentedMain does not rise violations if main method has varargs as parameters. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2647
Fix 'tokens' property in JavadocStyle check. Author: Thomas Jensen #2644
GenericWhitespace: violation on generic like '...... instanceof Type<?>;'. Author: liscju #2633
AbbreviationAsWordInName: update message to print name that violates a format. Author: liscju #2640

Notes:

Use Nexus Staging Maven Plugin for release process. Author: Roman Ivanov #2619
Enforce Checks of sevntu.checkstyle (released version) over Checkstyle source code. Author: Andrei Selkin #2661
Make UT 'testNonAccessibleFile' locale independent. Author: Andrei Selkin #2749
Refactor gui package. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2609
Make DetectorOptions as final and immutable. Author: Andrei Selkin #2523
Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Roman Ivanov #2080
conf: update guava version to 19.0. Author: Roman Ivanov
doc: Correct regexp in configuration example for ParameterNameCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin
doc: Add example for ParameterName into xdoc. Author: Andrei Selkin
doc: Fix check name in CatchParameterName xdoc. Author: Andrei Selkin
doc: Update comment in google_checks.xml. Author: Michal Kordas
Reorganize token sets in UncommentedMain. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2671
refactor internal tests. Author: rnveach #2625
Update configuration for XXXXName Checks at checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2604
Make validation of expected warnings in integration tests more strict. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2658
spelling: fix typo in word 'Existing' in google_style.xml. Author: liscju
Fix ParseTreeBuilder's variable names to be more readable. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2642

Release 6.13

Breaking backward compatibility:

Remove access to undocumented check properties. Author: rnveach #2451

New:

ParameterName: new option to skip methods with Override annotation. Author: Andrei Selkin #2290

Bug fixes:

False negative in RequireThis check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2240
Checkstyle throws NumberFormatException on Japanese locale when sizes and metrics Checks are used. Author: Takahashi Eikou #2601
EmptyLineSeparator check does not validate newlines before class and after last method. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2067
FallThroughCheck handles finally incorrectly. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1438
EqualsAvoidNull check should сheck String concatenations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1930

Notes:

minor: remove maven-failsafe-plugin from linkcheck excludes, since link was fixed. Author: Andrei Selkin
minor: build-helper-maven-plugin version bump to 1.10. Author: Roman Ivanov
adjust AbbreviationAsWordInName in checkstyle_checks.xml to catch unexpected abbreviations. Author: Roman Ivanov #2639
Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
minor: fixed improper put that should be get. Author: rnveach
Code review of CommentsIndentationCheck.java. Author: Andrei Selkin #2530
Remove drag&drop from GUI. Author: Ilja Dubinin #2608
create HTML web page to describe how to open issues against Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas, Roman Ivanov #2344
Update JGit to 4.1.1.201511131810-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2607
Make methods private in RequireThisCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2605
Tests for validating commit message should not allow period at the end of commit message. Author: Andrei Selkin #2590
doc: Correct xdoc/javadoc for ParameterNameCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin
unify IT test code. Author: rnveach #2589
minor: separated tests so one subject per file. Author: rnveach
Deactivate 'allowSamelineSingleParameterlessAnnotation' property of AnnotationLocation in Checkstyle config. Author: Michal Kordas #2581
Create test for checkstyle-X.X-all.jar on Travis. Author: Roman Ivanov #2516
Update slf4j-simple to 1.7.13. Author: Michal Kordas #2586
Update FindBugs Maven Plugin to 3.0.3. Author: Michal Kordas #2585
PMD: resolve problems from DefaultPackage rule. Author: Michal Kordas #957
minor: fixed wrong variable usage in AbstractOptionCheck. Author: rnveach
Remove usage of System.out.println in IT resources. Author: Michal Kordas, Roman Ivanov #2541
Unify naming of all files with IT inputs. Author: rnveach #2540
UT to validate google/sun style xdocs. Author: rnveach #2557
Unify naming of all files with test inputs. Author: rnveach, Roman Ivanov #2161
spelling: fix strange japanese.. Author: Nobuyuki-Inaba
Improve documentation for CovariantEquals check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1031

Release 6.12.1

New:

Add 'ignoreOverridden' option to skip methods with @Override annotation. Author: Andrei Selkin #2290

Bug fixes:

Fix RedundantModifier at final methods in anonymous class. Author: rnveach #2122
Performance-Optimization: Do not recompile Pattern for each file/line. Author: Fabian Loewner #2495
Fix skipping validation for non empty classes when allowEmptyTypes is true. Author: Andrei Selkin #2480
NeedBraces: allow no body loops. Author: Andrei Selkin #2436
Make 'processJavadoc' property 'true' by default. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1627
spelling: fix strange japanese. Author: Nobuyuki-Inaba #2524

Notes:

removed excess hierarchy from several Checks. Author: rnveach #2451
deprecated AbstractIllegalCheck. Author: rnveach #2451
removed xdoc google style links to master. Author: rnveach #2519
removed xdoc links to master. Author: rnveach #2519
added xdoc example url validation. Author: rnveach #2517
added xdoc check order validation, all xdoc are sorted. Author: rnveach #2292
validate existence of config file sooner. Author: rnveach #1267
reorganized checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: rnveach #2526
Describe token sets in 'writing checks' section in xdoc. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2346
Update System Rules to 1.13.0. Author: Michal Kordas #2513

Release 6.12

Bug fixes:

CommentsIndentationCheck doesn't report errors at end of block. Author: Andrei Selkin #2078
Fix NoWhitespaceAfterCheck. Author: attatrol #1013
Fix NPE in EqualsAvoidNull check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2474
Fix FinalLocalVariable false-negative. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1551
Exclude lines with package in LineLength check. Author: rnveach #2482
fixed NPE in NeedBraces.isSingleLineFor. Author: rnveach #2283
JavaDocMethod: Exception thrown for incomplete @return tag if next line is empty. Author: John Erik Halse #2398
Fix reusability of JavaDoc checks. Author: Björn Kautler #2326
Fixed blank line indentification for EmptyLineSeparator check. Author: Pavel Baranchikov #2266
Support for @SuppressWarnings("all").. Author: Stéphane Galland #2275
Make SuppressWarningsFilter case-insensitive. Author: Michal Kordas #2202
Fix NPE in ModifiedControlVariable on SuppressWarnings. Author: Michal Kordas #2327
Do not recognize '/**/' as valid Javadoc. Author: Michal Kordas #2387
Make JavadocType check customizable by list of tokens. Author: Michal Kordas #2388
Fix FALSE positive in JavadocStyle check on inheritDoc tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2411
Ignore missing Javadoc for 'serialVersionUID' fields. Author: Michal Kordas #792
Exclude lines with imports in LineLength check. Author: Michal Kordas #2433
IllegalTypeCheck, requiredTokens is set to IMPORT only. Author: Roman Ivanov #2415
CLI should print a file name where exception is happen. Author: Roman Ivanov #2109
LeftCurly: add Anonymous class to allowed tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #2431

Notes:

Deploy snapshots versions in CI. Author: WonderCsabo #2167
require all filters appear in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: rnveach #2268
removed xdoc of CustomImportOrder.samePackageMatchingDepth. Author: rnveach #2453
added xdoc check validation. Author: rnveach #2442
Run CheckStyle on Full Test Directory. Author: rnveach #2421
fixed invalid xml examples in xdocs. Author: rnveach #2425
flush audit outputs sooner. Author: rnveach #2085
unify test input locations for whole project. Author: rnveach #2161
removed excess hierarchy from few Check. Author: rnveach #2451
Bunch of refactoring and code optimizarion. Author: rnveach
Update list of missing tools. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
Replaced outdated link for bamboo-checkstyle-plugin. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
'forbiddenapis' plugin added to maven config. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1217
Update list of related Tools. Author: Dawid Nejman #1238
skip all analysers during deploy. Author: Roman Ivanov #2167
usage of error-prone plugin is commented out till problems with Eclipse resovled. Author: Roman Ivanov #2160
Inconvenience to debug UTs after recent changes in BaseCheckTestSupport. Author: Roman Ivanov #2434
Fix PMD violations for ShortVariable rule. Author: Roman Ivanov #985
PMD violations PreserveStackTrace. Author: Roman Ivanov #996
PMD violations EmptyMethodInAbstractClassShouldBeAbstract. Author: Roman Ivanov #997
PMD violation ConfusingTernary. Author: Roman Ivanov #974
rename CheckUtils.isVoidMethod to isNonVoidMethod. Author: Roman Ivanov #2273
Decrease visibility of package-private methods. Author: Michal Kordas #957
Rename tests to match tested class name with Test suffix. Author: Michal Kordas #2215
Fix all issues for Java found by Codacy static analysis tool. Author: Michal Kordas #2271
Fix missing code coverage. Author: Michal Kordas #2243
Fix typos in code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
Update Maven Shade Plugin to 2.4.2. Author: Michal Kordas #2464
Update Maven Surefire and Failsafe plugins to 2.19. Author: Michal Kordas #2394
Update Maven Assembly Plugin to 2.6. Author: Michal Kordas #2350
Update JGit to 4.1.0.201509280440-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2324
Update PowerMock to 1.6.3. Author: Michal Kordas #2293

Release 6.11.2

Bug fixes:

Make ConfigurationLoader.loadConfiguration public. Author: Michal Kordas #2260

Notes:

Create UT to check that all checkstyle modules have xdocs. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
Split config.html into few pages. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
Create xdoc documentation for FileContentsHolder. Author: Andrei Selkin #819
Add GENERIC_START and GENERIC_END into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of NoWhiteSpaceAfter and WhiteSpaceAround. Author: Andrei Selkin #2258
Add COMMA into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of NoWhiteSpaceBefore. Author: Andrei Selkin #2259
minor refactoring, helper method was added. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #2231
fixed jgit resource leaks in commit validation. Author: rnveach
Ilja Dubinin was added as developer. Author: Roman Ivanov
Add WILDCARD_TYPE into list of acceptable tokens in xdocs of WhitespaceAround. Author: Andrei Selkin

Release 6.11.1

Bug fixes:

Add lambda support to indentation check (see #281). Author: Pieter Noordhuis #1548

Notes:

Coverage has been increased to 100% in 'checks' package. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
Resolve Doxia Site Renderer warnings. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #905
Update plexus-compiler-javac-errorprone to 2.6. Author: Michal Kordas #2247
Update JGit to 4.0.2.201509141540-r. Author: Michal Kordas #2246
Fix release failure due to unknown Javadoc tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2245

Release 6.11

Breaking backward compatibility:

Restore 'url' option for ImportControl. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #2231

New:

New option 'requiredTranslations' to Translation check. Author: Andrei Selkin #2166
New option 'switchBlockAsSingleDecisionPoint' for CyclomaticComplexityCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2029

Bug fixes:

Fix java grammar for unicode escape. Author: rnveach #157
Add basic thread-safety to Javadoc checks. Author: Michal Kordas #2237
Fixed NPE in FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: rnveach #1257
NoWhitespaceAfter, NoWhitespaceBefore and WhitespaceAround don't support GENERIC_START nor GENERIC_END tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #2219
Add support of lambdas which parameter types are omitted for HiddenFieldCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2175
Fix RedundantModifier check at final classes in interfaces. Author: Michal Kordas #2203
Print missing cause of exception to console on error. Author: Michal Kordas #2213
Fix not working excludeScope in JavadocMethod check. Author: Michal Kordas #2205
Fix RedundantModifier check to recognise inner classes accessible from global scope. Author: liscju #1537
CustomImportOrderCheck rule priorities. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1273
Fix false negative in AtclauseOrder check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2095
Fix IllegalStateException in JavadocTypeCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2112
Allow COMMA again in NoWhiteSpaceBefore. Author: Roman Ivanov #2089
Fix HiddenField false positive violations for anonymous classes. Author: Andrei Selkin #382
Added support of logging severity for all audit events. Author: Andrei Selkin #67
Allow @return tags from annotation types. Author: Phillip Webb #2141
Fixed redundant modifier false positive for abstract classes in interfaces. Author: Andrei Selkin #1833
Ignore classes nested in interaces or annotations in Final Class Check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2064
Detect nested enums marked as static in RedundantModifier check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1530
Fixed NPE in MutableExceptionCheck.isExtendedClassNamedAsException. Author: Andrei Selkin #1903
Change message in SummaryJavadocCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2062

Notes:

Update HTML documentation to describe all options for all checks. Author: Andrei Selkin #2169
Make link for each row of Google style coverage table. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1005
Add docs about while idiom to InnerAssignment check. Author: Michal Kordas #2230
Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
SuppressionsLoaderTest UT was stabilized. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2191
ROOT locale added in checker creation for UT; travis updated with a new check. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2193
Update Error Prone to 2.0.5. Author: Michal Kordas #2216
Add "Input" prefix to test input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
Create MacOS matrix item for Travic-CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #2210
POM still references nexus.codehaus.org repo. Author: Roman Ivanov #2200
Make coverage 100% for TokenTypesDoclet. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2126
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
Use StandardCharsets and get rid of UnsupportedEncodingException. Author: Michael Osipov #2034
Remove errors from Maven output in TokenTypesDocletTest. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2195
Anchor naming checks in google_style.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2108
AbstractHeaderCheck coverage has been increased to 100%. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1292
Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
CopyPasted ITs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2074
Update Maven Wagon to 2.10. Author: Michal Kordas #2183
Update Maven Project Info Reports Plugin to 2.8.1. Author: Michal Kordas #2182
Split all modules to be separate at config_naming.html. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2108
Remove already fixed exclusion from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #961
Add SLF4J binding required by JGit. Author: Michal Kordas #2129
Configure compiler to use Error Prone for non-input sources. Author: Michal Kordas #2160
Rearrange POM to use canonical ordering. Author: Michal Kordas #809
Unify naming files with test inputs. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
Create wide message for CheckstyleException in PackageObjectFactory. Author: Andrei Selkin #759
Fix compiler warnings in input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2130
Updated checkstyle_checks.xml to use ParameterNumber in default configuration. Author: Andrei Selkin #215
Extended Eclipse user guide for newbies of Checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #606
Fix exception at NeedBraces check in enhanced for loops. Author: Michal Kordas #2135
Make test for FileTabCharacter locale and OS independent. Author: Michal Kordas #2137
Add inspection scope profile for IDEA analysis. Author: Michal Kordas #2131
Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
Added tests for validating commit message. Author: liscju #937
Fix StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2094
Activated TranslationCheck in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2092
Fix Javadoc generation failure after addition of new tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2106
Add Codacy badge to main page. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
Update all Checks html docs with link to hosted configurations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1214
Create separate web page for old release notes. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #2063
Extended javadoc/xdoc for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1900
Added UT which validates that all checks which exist in classpath are referenced in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #945
Add suppression for IntelliJ IDEA inspection. Author: Michal Kordas #2065
Refactoring of TreeWalker to increase readability. Author: Andrei Selkin
Corrected javadoc/xdoc for IllegalTypeCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin

Release 6.10.1

Bug fixes:

broken compatibility with maven-checkstyle-plugin:2.15 at checkstyle:6.10. Author: Roman Ivanov #2065

Release 6.10

Breaking backward compatibility:

'ignoreMethods' option has been removed from DeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2031
fix typos in properties names. Author: Michal Kordas in scope of #1555
Rethrow all exceptions further to caller of Checker. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1304
Improve exception handling in CheckstyleAntTask class. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1245

New:

Added new Check: CommentsIndentationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #333

Bug fixes:

fixed problem with lexical order in CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1469
Extended messages for CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1648
Changed SAME_PACKAGE rule for CustomImportOrderCheck. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1262
reimplement EqualsAvoidNullCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1377
enforce all checks to override getRequiredTokens, getAcceptableTokens methods. Author: Andrei Selkin #655
IllegalType: add 'validateAbstractClassNames' option. Author: Andrei Selkin #1805
Marked 'maxLineLength' as '@Deprecated' at LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #965
Detect public constructors in non-public classes in RedundantModifier. Author: liscju #1537
Fixes logic bug in gui ParseTreeInfoPanel making linesToPositions assign lines to inappropriate positions. Author: liscju
Fix RightCurlyCheck with same option not to rise expression in single-line blocks. Author: liscju #1416
Fix UnsupportedOperationException in GUI. Author: Michal Kordas #1718

Notes:

Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
Fix violations reported by Checkstyle checks. Author: Baratali Izmailov , Ruslan Diachenko #1566
Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
Enable Checkstyle checks for 'gui' package. Author: Roman Ivanov #1678
Corrected links on website. Author: Andrei Selkin #751
Eclipse warnings about unused fields have been fixed. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1243
Simplify overqualified CSS element. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
Remove empty CSS rule. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
config: maven-enforcer-plugin and equalsverifier are updated to newest version. Author: Roman Ivanov
Make coverage 100% for some classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
Utils classes have been moved to utils package, new classes CommonUtils and TokenUtils. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1898
Use EqualsVerifier to test equals and hashCode in IntMatchFilter. Author: Michal Kordas #1088
Removed suppression for SwitchDensity rule from PMD. Author: Andrei Selkin #973
Remove obsolete entry from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #877
Remove unused Coveralls plugin from pom.xml. Author: Roman Ivanov #1881
Update ANTLR to 4.5.1-1. Author: Roman Ivanov #1880
Update EqualsVerifier to 1.7.4. Author: Roman Ivanov #1879
replace deprecated method in HiddenCheckField. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Created JaCoCo profile of pom.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #1173
Update Maven FindBugs Plugin to 3.0.2. Author: Michal Kordas #1714
Fixed typo in JavadocMethod's examples xdocs. Author: Andrei Selkin #1668
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1010
Fix headers for classes in 'gui' package. Author: Michal Kordas #945
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1293
Resolved javadoc problems that reported by java 8. Author: Andrei Selkin #291.
Minor typo fixes. Author: Dave Moloney

Release 6.9

Breaking backward compatibility:

Change default value of property "format" to "^Abstract.*$" in AbstractClassNameCheck. Author: Bhavik Patel #1279
Removed property "url" in ImportControlCheck. Note: will be restored in release 6.11. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1128

New:

New option for MagicNumber: constantWaiverParentToken. Solution to not detected properly numbers. Author: Bhavik Patel #1266

Bug fixes:

Fixed NPE in MultipleVariableDeclarationsCheck Issue. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1539
Added column number into violation messages for RightCurlyCheck and LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1511
Fix BooleanExpressionComplexity check violations in Checkstyle code. Author: Andrei Selkin #1052
Add new option for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1019
Updated configuration for Eclipse Mars in xdoc. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1464
updated Xdoc and Javadoc for ImportOrder and CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1464
Remove from dependecies deprecated jar commons-beanutils-core.jar. Author: Roman Ivanov #1471
RedundantModifier for inner classes and enum constructors. Author: liscju #1242
Add missing xdocs for allowMultipleEmptyLines property of EmptyLineSeparatorCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #881
Add setter for 'ignoreEnums' in LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #975
JavadocType does not check parameters in inner classes. Author: Pavel Baranchikov #1421
ImportOrderCheck. Fix separation for static imports. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1398
Fix for SuperClone and SuperFinalize checks reporting violations on native methods. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1367
Fix FallThroughCheck fails on if with no else. Author: Andrei Selkin #1395
fix JavadocParagraph allows new line before the next paragraph. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1332
Fix RegexpHeader causing exception with default config. Author: Andrei Selkin #1129
Fix OneStatementPerLine on multiple field initialization bug. Author: Andrei Selkin #1237
extend target list fo SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1158
provide human message for SuppressWarningsHolder. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1158
Raising exception for CustomImportOrder.SAME_PACKAGE. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1282

Notes:

Enable CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1459
Add UniquePropertiesCheck into checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #1129
Refactoring of FinalLocalVariableCheck to avoid 'fall through' violation. Author: Andrei Selkin #1395
Add Organize Imports instructions to site. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1448
Fixed compilation error for CustomImportOrder input file. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1470
ImportOrder enabled in configuration. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1448
Number of updates for. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
Fixed incorrect Google Java Style links. Author: Andrei Selkin #751
Refactoring of RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1511
Apply various improvements over Checkstyle test code. Author: Michal Kordas #1542
Apply various improvements over Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1538
Remove unnecessary consecutive lines in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1534
Fix some SonarQube violations. Author: Michal Kordas #46
Enable NonEmptyAtclauseDescription check on Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #945
fix for UTs on Windows7 and do not conflict with WindowsServer. Author: Roman Ivanov #1496
Investigate UTs failure to MainTest on Windows. Author: Roman Ivanov #1510
fix for build problem in Idea on Windows. Author: Roman Ivanov
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.metrics. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1287
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp (partial fix). Author: Ilja Dubinin #1010
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.blocks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1291
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding. Author: Baratli Izmailov #1293
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.modifier. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1286
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1288
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1289
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #1294
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api. Author: Roman Ivanov #1295
Make coverage 100% for Indentation check. Author: Michal Kordas #1295
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc. Author: Michal Kordas #1308
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.filters. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #1296
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.imports. Author: Alexander Ivanov #1128
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.header. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1292
CheckDocsDoclet.java was removed as it is not used in a project.. Author: Roman Ivanov
Import which produces error on MacOSX jdk has been deleted. Author: Ilja Dubinin
javadoc: deperecate overview.html and package.html support. Author: Roman Ivanov #1415
Make "private" methods "static" where possible. Author: Michal Kordas #46
new images were provided by our artist, new header for web site. Author: Roman Ivanov
BaseCheckTestSupport.verify fails on Windows. Author: WonderCsabo #1388
check for connection is done by our website URL, as resource file is there. That let pass test when sourceforge web site is down. Author: Roman Ivanov
Switch options reoganized for easier reading. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1376
add example for ConstantName in xdoc. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1106
commented code was removed from CheckerTest. Author: Roman Ivanov
fix eclipse package declaration error in InputPackageDeclaration. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Add Gradle to list of related tools Correct SonarQube name and links in same list. Author: Thomas Jensen
fix structure of site.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1341
Move tests which cause compilation problem in Eclipse 4.2.2 to non-compilable folder. Author: Andrei Selkin #1351
Fix integration test compilation error for Windows environment. Author: Michal Kordas #1342
Fix failing of ITs for OneStatementPerLineCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1348
surefire and failsafe plugins are moved above checkstyle validation to run before long checkstyle execution. Author: Roman Ivanov
add IT to validate google_checks config. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1275
rename fields in ConfigurationBuilder and BaseCheckTestSupport. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
update build procedure to validate all XML files against their schemas. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1275
Fix compilation error for Windows environment. Author: Michal Kordas #1342
Remove usage of deprecated methods from MainTest. Author: Michal Kordas #1325
Restore checkstyle validation on https://sonarcloud.io. Author: Roman Ivanov #1319
Update Maven Shade Plugin, EqualsVerifier, antlr, system-rules and Maven PMD Plugin to latest versions. Author: Michal Kordas
system-rules, ant were updated to latest version. Author: Roman Ivanov
Removed all assert statements. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1298
Fix AbstractClassName Check on checkstyle code. Author: Bhavik Patel #945
Make Eclipse / m2e plugins generate valid projects. Author: Juan Martín Sotuyo Dodero

Release 6.8.2

Bug fixes:

Incorrect xml structure at google_checks.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1275

Release 6.8.1

Bug fixes:

Cannot use config file bundled in jar. Author: Roman Ivanov #1265
NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Pattern from com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.DetectorOptions.getPattern. Author: Michael Vorburger #1224
StackOverflow at java.util.regex.*. Author: Michael Vorburger #1221
StackOverflow in com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.MultilineDetector.findMatch. Author: Michael Vorburger #48
RightCurly: Curly brace '}' should be on line by itself not reported for method with annotation. Author: Andrei Selkin #1014

Release 6.8

Breaking backward compatibility:

Detect only label as illegal token in IllegalToken check, default token set is changed to TokenTypes.LABELED_STAT. Author: Michal Kordas #1162
Add possibility to configure targets for ParenPad check, LPAREN and RPAREN were removed from acceptable tokens. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1189
Set default value of max property to 4 (from 1) for ThrowsCountCheck and update javadoc/xdoc. Author: Andrei Selkin #1143
Restoring method FileContents.getFileName() to keep backward compatibility for some time. Author: Thomas Jensen #1205
Rename CheckStyleTask to CheckstyleAntTask, Rename and move checkstyletask.properties. Author: Michal Kordas #1108
Remove AnnotationUtility and ScopeUtils from API package. Author: Michal Kordas #1057

New:

New option for ModifiedControlVariableCheck: skipEnhancedForLoopVariable. Author: Bhavik Patel #1015
New options for SingleLineJavadoc: ignoredTags, ignoreInlineTags. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1063

Bug fixes:

correction of parsing of attributes in AtclauseOrderCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1152
fix for JavadocMethodCheck: catch NoClassDefFoundError in ClassResolver. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1192
Replace hardcoded message in WhitespaceAfterCheck with new message (i18n). Author: Andrei Selkin #967
Solution to wrong variable reported because of name shadowing in FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: Bhavik Patel #1142
Clarify misleading command line tool (CLI) output. Author: Bhavik Patel #1062
solution to CLI fails when it could not find output file. Author: Bhavik Patel #1181
Fixed exception in AvoidStaticImport check trying to exclude members of inner class. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1209
Solution to "Incorrect config file cause CLI finish with error but no output with details". Author: Bhavik Patel #1180
Fix exception in SuppressWarnings check on complex annotations. Author: Michal Kordas #1201
Fix value pair representation in SuppressWarnings check. Author: Michal Kordas #1246
Do not generate violation for empty SuppressWarnings. Author: Michal Kordas #1187
Fix PackageDeclaration check for files with comments only. Author: Michal Kordas #1149
Fix exception in SuppressWarningsHolder on complex annotations or annotation with dot. Author: Michal Kordas #1148

Notes:

.gitignore with Eclipse's .externalToolBuilders and .checkstyle from Checkstyle CS Eclipse Plug-in. Author: Michael Vorburger
100% test coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.sizes. Author: Andrei Selkin #1024
Fix empty html pages for extending Checkstyle and style configurations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1231
move non-compilable input to resources-noncompilable. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
Minor update in FallThroughCheck xdoc and javadoc. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii
PMD violations: UncommentedEmptyMethod, EmptyMethodInAbstractClassShouldBeAbstract, AbstractNaming. Author: Bhavik Patel #995, #997, #983
Fix violation of EmptyStatement, UncommentedMain, AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters, AbbreviationAsWordInName Checks in Checkstyle code. Author: Bhavik Patel #945
Ineffective suppressions are removed from checkstyle's configs. Author: Bhavik Patel
Checking existence of config file before processing target file.. Author: Bhavik Patel
Changed Integration Tests to use /src/it/. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1200
Updated description for UnusedImports, RedundantImport , Change "Beginning Development" page to reference JDK1.8. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov
UT coverage for RedundantImport. AvoidStarImportCheck check, Added UTs for getAcceptableTokens() and getRequiredTokens(). Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1128
CyclomaticComplexity applied with level 11. Author: Roman Ivanov #954
NPathComplexity: extend documentation to make clear how it works, suppression rules for NPathComplexity. Author: Roman Ivanov #1218, #953
Content section was added to ease navigation in Checks descriptions pages, favicon images (png,ico) were introduced. Author: Roman Ivanov #1208
till MECLIPSE-735 we will keep Eclipse project files in repository. Author: Roman Ivanov #1219
Ordering issue with nested classes in static imports - xdoc was extended. Author: Roman Ivanov #1239
Update ant to 1.9.5, update for maven-eclipse-plugin to 2.10, system-rules updated to 1.11.0, commons-cli to 1.3.1. Author: Roman Ivanov
Integrate google-style-config-test as Integration Test. Author: Roman Ivanov #863
Add known limitations to SuppressWarnings check documentation. Author: Michal Kordas #1252
Fix PMD violations of ExceptionAsFlowControl, AvoidCatchingGenericException rule. Author: Michal Kordas #959, #962
Use SHA-1 instead on non-standard SHA in PropertyCacheFile. Author: Michal Kordas #1251
Add TravisCI build for assembly creation. Author: Michal Kordas #1204
Provide additional regression test for ParenPad check. Author: Michal Kordas #1189
Add tests for equals and toString in SuppressionCommentFilter. Author: Michal Kordas #1088
Move Regexp check from miscellaneous to regexp category. Author: Michal Kordas #1170
Remove unused MethodCallLineWrapHandler class. Author: Michal Kordas #1178
Make cobertura and coveralls build faster, Provide workaround for incorrect coverage shown by Cobertura. Author: Michal Kordas #1176
Generate HTML report on Maven cobertura:cobertura goal. Author: Michal Kordas #1169
Add virtual machine crash log files to .gitingore. Author: Michal Kordas #1168
Configure RegexpSinglelineJava to detect non-ASCII characters. Author: Michal Kordas #1165
Verify that classes with constants have private constructors. Author: Michal Kordas #840
Update system-rules to 1.10.0, maven-assembly-plugin to 2.5.5, maven-failsafe-plugin to 2.18.1, Maven Shade Plugin to 2.4. Author: Michal Kordas #1156, #1175, #1193, #1204

Release 6.7

Breaking backward compatibility:

Remove FastStack from API. Author: Michal Kordas #989
Util classes should be moved out of api package. Author: Roman Ivanov #1057
method TreeWalker.setClassloader() was renamed to TreeWalker.setClassLoader() with deprecation of old method. Author: Roman Ivanov #922

New:

New "ignorePrivateMethods" property for ThrowsCount check to skip private methods. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1136
New "crlf" option for lineSeparator property in NewlineAtEndOfFile check. Author: Martin Steiger #1045

Bug fixes:

Make message-based checks invariant to Locale. Author: Martin Steiger #1044
Fix no possibility to set English language explicitly in config. Author: Michal Kordas #152
Do not verify overriding methods in ThrowsCount check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1085
Fix Regexp check causing exception on file with newline on top. Author: Michal Kordas #1129
Fix RegexpMultiline check causing exception with default config. Author: Michal Kordas #1129
Add support for canonical class names in MutableException. Author: Michal Kordas #1124
Fix NeedBraces check not requiring braces in multiline statements when using allowSingleLineStatement option. Author: Michal Kordas #895
Fix equals and hashCode in SuppressionFilter, SuppressElement, IntRangeFilter, LocalizedMessage and remove obsolete toString. Author: Michal Kordas #1088
Add "/", "+" and "-" to list of allowed tokens in MagicNumber check. Author: Michal Kordas #1113
Extend ReturnCount check to use separate return counter for lambdas. Author: Michal Kordas #1068
Fix exception in OneTopLevelClass check for package-info files. Author: Michal Kordas #1065
Fix exception in FallThrough check for nested switch statements. Author: Michal Kordas #837
MagicNumber annotation detection enhanced for arbitrary parent nodes in MagicNumber check. Author: Mehmet Can Cömert #926
Improve standard package regexp for CustomImportOrder check. Author: Michal Kordas #1020
Fix NPE in ModifiedControlVariable check. Author: Michal Kordas #1012
Include enums in CovariantEquals check analysis. Author: Michal Kordas #1011
Fix parsing of allowedAnnotations property in JavadocMethod check. Author: Gustav Carlson #1145

Notes:

Change location of left curly braces to end of line. Author: Michal Kordas #1089
Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.sizes. Author: Andrei Selkin #1024
100% test coverage for com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1009
removing dead code and refactoring in VisibilityModifier check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1107
Replace deprecated PosixParser with DefaultParser. Author: Michal Kordas #1099
remove dead code from MutableException check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1103
remove dead code from FinalClass check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskii #1100
Make tests of Main class platform independent. Author: Michal Kordas #1086
removing abandoned test input files. Author: Ivan Sopov
Fix typos. Author: Julian Hyde
Fix PMD violations for number of rules. Author: Michal Kordas #948, #949, #960, #984, #998, #999, #928
Enable multiple Checkstyle checks on Checkstyle codebase. Author: Michal Kordas #945, #1049, #1040
Update commons-cli to 1.3. Author: Michal Kordas #1067
Update wagon-ssh to 2.9. Author: Michal Kordas #1060
Update maven-assembly-plugin to 2.5.4. Author: Michal Kordas #1055
Update cobertura-maven-plugin to 2.7. Author: Michal Kordas #916
Complete descriptions in checks index. Author: Andrew Gaul
Remove obsolete space from general error message. Author: Michal Kordas #1029
Add missing space in error message for CustomImportOrder check. Author: Michal Kordas #1027
resolving Findbugs violation: #911 , #909, #778, #923, #925, #596. Author: Roman Ivanov
huge refactoring for CLI Main class. Author: Roman Ivanov #596
Option allowPublicFinalFields does not exist in VisibilityModifier check. Author: Roman Ivanov #1126
OneTopLevelClass check example is broken and documentation missing, for 'tokens' property. Author: Roman Ivanov #1017
OneTopLevelClass check example in documentation has invalid XML syntax. Author: Roman Ivanov #1016

Release 6.6

New:

New option for MagicNumber Check to ignore magic numbers in field declarations. Author: ychulovskyy #148
New option for ModifiedControlVariable Check to ignore validation of variables defined in for loop which are not changed in for loop iterator part. Author: liscju #286

Bug fixes:

Extend LeftCurly check to verify static initializers. Author: Michal Kordas #966
Extend EmptyBlock check to verify synchronized blocks. Author: Michal Kordas #964
Fix generics with arrays handling in NoWhitespaceAfter. Author: Michal Kordas #931
Fix upper/lower case conversation, enhance tests. Author: Mehmet Can Cömert #969
Introduce new handler SynchronizedHandler for checking indentation. Author: liscju #580
added validation for header in setHeader in RegexpHeaderCheck.java to provide better feedback when an invalid Pattern is specified. Author: richter722 and Roman Ivanov #897

Notes:

Delete System.exit() and delegate exit control into separate method. Author: Damian Szczepanik #882
Repair ignored test. Author: Michal Kordas #994
Fix AnnotationLocation violation in Checkstyle codebase. Author: Michal Kordas #945
Fix AvoidStaticImport check violations in codebase. Author: Michal Kordas #979
Fix AtclauseOrder check violations in codebase. Author: Michal Kordas #978
Resolve Javadoc problems found by Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas #978
Replace all occurrences of FastStack with ArrayDeque. Author: Michal Kordas #86
Fix PMD violations from numerous ruleset in Checkstyle. Author: Roman Ivanov #744
Fix PMD violations from numerous ruleset in Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas #987, #982, #872, #744, #942, #874, #873, #871, #869, #876, #875,
Update Apache Commons Lang to 3.4. Author: Michal Kordas #899
Use use Java 7 instead of custom logic for relative paths. Author: Michal Kordas #857
Add test for non existing cache file. Author: Michal Kordas #921
Use entrySet iterator to fix FindBugs violations. Author: Michal Kordas #778
Integrate Gitter with Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas #864
Resolve some problems in Javadoc reported by Java 8. Author: Michal Kordas #291
Disable Findbugs for 'grammars' package. Author: Michal Kordas #778
Update Maven Compiler Plugin to 3.3. Author: Michal Kordas #867
Update FindBugs Maven Plugin to 3.0.1. Author: Michal Kordas #865
Update Maven Javadoc Plugin to 2.10.3. Author: Michal Kordas #939
Use SVG badge for coveralls.io. Author: AnirvanSarkar
all TODO/FIXME were removed, some of them converted to issues. Author: Roman Ivanov
all findbugs validation rules are activated. Author: Roman Ivanov #912, #778

Release 6.5

Breaking backward compatibility:

Class checkstyle.api.Utils was moved to checkstyle.Utils. Author: Alex Kravin #661

New:

New sortStaticImportsAlphabetically property for ImportOrder check that allows alphabetical grouping order in static group. Author: Alex Kravin #12
New allowSingleLineStatement property for NeedBraces check to allow one-line statements. Author: Alex Kravin #300
New ignoreAnnotationCanonicalNames property for VisibilityModifier check, to ignore fields with particular annotations. Author: Alex Kravin #584
New validateEnhancedForLoopVariable property for FinalLocalVariable check to enforce final variables in for each clause. Author: Bhavik Patel #20

Bug fixes:

CustomImportOrder checks import sorting according to ASCII order instead of case-insensitive alphabetical order. Author: Michal Kordas #847
Fix failing EmptyLineSeparator check on multiple imports or fields. Author: liscju #706
Fix ignoreSetter property of HiddenField not working for one letter fields. Author: Michal Kordas #730
Token WILDCARD_TYPE was added to WhitespaceAround check. Author: Danil Lopatin #853
SuppressionCommentFilter does not suppress StrictDuplicateCode warnings. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #26
AnnotationsUseStyle yields warning on "({})" of Array types. Author: Alex Kravin #28
Fix bug with lambda params in FinalLocalVariable check. Author: Alex Kravin #747
FinalLocalVariable Check, extended acceptable tokens. Author: Alex Kravin #762
Add support of logging severity for all audit events. Author: Alex Kravin #67
Fix typo in violation message of ModifierOrder check. Author: Michal Kordas #740

Notes:

Add anchors to sections. Author: Alex Kravin #586
Extended guide for newbies. Author: Alex Kravin #606
Remove printStackTrace(...) from whole code. Author: Alex Kravin #660
Move content from available_checks.html to checks.html. Author: Alex Kravin #691
EmptyCatchBlock check, updated docs. Author: Alex Kravin #571
Add post field for mailing lists. Author: Glenn Hollingsworth #743
Automate Code Coverage Validation. Author: Bhavik Patel #722
Update all Maven plugins to latest versions. Author: Michal Kordas #644
Resolve all violations that were found by default PMD maven plugin rule sets. Author: Michal Kordas #744
Add maven-project-info-reports-plugin to POM. Author: Michal Kordas #776
Several fixes for problems found by Findbugs. Author: Michal Kordas #778
Add OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder to Available Checks page. Author: Michal Kordas #784
Add test to verify that all checks are present on website. Author: Michal Kordas #783
Remove deprecated getLines() methods from Utils. Author: Michal Kordas #854
Deprecate FastStack and replace it with ArrayDeque. Author: Michal Kordas #86
Huge amount of refactoring and improvements, some of them without issue reference. Author: Michal Kordas #674 , #729 , #730 , #736 , #742 , #751 , #787 , #790 , #805 , #806 , #809 , #816 , #821 , #821
Use Guava Closeables to manage closing exceptions. Author: Michal Kordas #836
Remove duplicate UniqueProperties section. Author: Michele Mauro #843
Add Utils.isPatternValid method to hide try-catch blocks when parsing is used only for validation. Author: Damian Szczepanik #835
Reduce complexity in HandlerFactory class by grouping catch blocks. Author: Damian Szczepanik #833
Delete ///CLOVER comments. Author: Damian Szczepanik #824
Update all links to sun.com reference to oracle site. Author: Damian Szczepanik #724

Release 6.4.1

Bug fixes:

VisibilityModifier Check, updated option setter. Author: Alex Kravin #710
GenericWhitespace Check, updated method references processing. Author: Alex Kravin #677

Notes:

HiddenField Check, updated docs for 'ignoreFormat' option. Author: Alex Kravin #607
Clarified all Indentation Input files for certain expected values. Author: Alexey Zuy #675
Update of maven plugins. Author: Michal Kordas #644
Fix incorrect author and typos in release notes for Release 6.4. Author: Michal Kordas #694

Release 6.4

New:

New Check: EmptyCatchBlock Check for Google Style Guide. Author: Alex Kravin#571
New option for VisibilityModifier Check, to allow public immutable fields. Author: Alex Kravin#61

Bug fixes:

Added support of Windows line separator to Javadoc parser. Fixed UTs. Author: Baratali Izmailov #612
Fix NPE when setting classpath field. Author: Aaron Sheldon
IllegalType Check, updated memberModifiers option setting. Author: Alex Kravin #663
BooleanExpression Complexity Check, fixed NPE. Author: Alex Kravin #654
FinalLocalVariable Check, fixed false-positive. Author: Alex Kravin #258
AbstractClassName Check, updated default regex. Author: Alex Kravin #595
EmptyLineSeparator Check, fixed Exception if file doesn't have header. Author: Alex Kravin #621
BooleanExpressionComplexity misidentifies integer expression as boolean expression. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #572

Breaking backward compatibility:

Fixed typo in 'ignoreOverriden' property of IllegalThrowsCheck. Author: Alex Kravin #623
AnnotationLocation Check, extended typo fixing. Author: Alex Kravin #585

Notes:

Javadoc comments for JAVADOC_TAG and JAVADOC_INLINE_TAG related nodes. Author: Baratali Izmailov #409
Linkcheck report, fixed errors. Author: Alex Kravin #549
Refactored UTs. Author: Alex Kravin #537
Site: feeds icons were added. Author: Alex Kravin #617
TreeWalker update, added logging warning if AcceptableTokens are broken. Acceptable tokens are specified for all checks. Author: Alex Kravin #342
SuppressionCommentFilter, extended docs for messageFormat option. Author: Alex Kravin #123
Site: moved 'Extending Checkstyle' to Developers groups. Author: Alex Kravin #606
Update some maven plugin in pom.xml. Author: Michal Kordas #644
Reformat and fix example for AnnotationUseStyle. Author: Michal Kordas #672
Require at least Maven 3.0.1 to build Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas #620
Site: moved 'Extending Checkstyle' to Developers groups. Author: Alex Kravin #606
Replace `StringBuffer` with `StringBuilder` to improve performance. Author: Michal Kordas
Repair typos in UniqueProperties description. Author: Michal Kordas
Replace verbose type arguments with diamond type. Author: Michal Kordas
Fix for typos in documentation. Author: Michal Kordas
Use Collections.addAll() instead of adding elements individually. Author: Michal Kordas
Added missed @Test annotation on test-case 'IndentationCheckTest.testMethodCallLineWrap'. Author: Alexey Zuy
IndentationCheck. Refactoring: got rid of anonymous classes. Author: Alexey Zuy
Fix table display. In config_whitespace, a comma was incorrectly replaced with a period. Author: Glenn Hollingsworth
Update config links in Google Style html page. Author: Glenn Hollingsworth #686

Release 6.3

New:

New option to HiddenField, to skip builder methods - setterCanReturnItsClass. Author: Dmitri Priimak #598
New option to Checker and TreeWalker to specify file extensions. Author: Alex Kravin #25
New option to EmptyLineSeparator Check, for managing empty lines between class members. Author: Alex Kravin #530
New option to Indentation to avoid C style. Author: Max Vetrenko #354
New option to IllegalThrows Check due to twitter custom checks. Author: Alex Kravin #430
New option to JavadocMethod Name Check - ignore method name regex. Author: Alex Kravin #430
New option to IllegalType Check to control validation based on modifiers - memberModifiers, updated default illegal types. Author: Alex Kravin #567

Bug fixes:

ExtendedMethodName Check to ignore overridden methods. Author: Alex Kravin #430
Allow basedir property of Checker module to be set to NULL. Author: Lars Ködderitzsch #570
CustomImportOrder Check, third-party package meaning is adjusted. Author: Alexey Kravin #515
FinalLocalVariable Check, fixed false-positive. Author: Alexey Kravin #258
IllegalType Check, fixed false positives on same file names, added support of analyzing imports. Author: Alexey Kravin #78
SuppressWarnings Holder - fixed throwing exception if annotation uses constant value. Author: Alexey Kravin #539
NoWhitespaceAfter Check, fixed NPE, fixed false-positives at multidimensional arrays. Author: Alexey Kravin #542
message is extended according to google/guava/issues/1891. Author: Roman Ivanov

Breaking backward compatibility:

AnnotationLocation Check, fixed typo in property name. Author: Alex Kravin #585

Notes:

Code examples of filters' usage. Author: Alex Kravin #289
Changes to checkstyle's configuration for Checkstyle (Prefixes are removed, indentation for SWITCH block is changed). Author: Alex Kravin #512
Custom Import Order Check, rewrote compare method. Author: Alex Kravin #234
Switched Checkstyle and all resources to UTF-8 encoding. Author: Alex Kravin #489
Logging of exceptions to console. Author: Alex Kravin #546
Got rid of javadoc warning. Resolved maven compilation warnings. Author: Alex Kravin #548
Refactored tests from blocks package. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #537
Turn on -r recursive by default in CLI. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #3
Fixes for suppression examples. Author: Michal Kordas #289
Repair Sonarqube problems found in Checkstyle. Author: Michal Kordas #46

Release 6.2

Bug fixes:

Serious compatibility problems with versions 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1. Author: Ilja Dubinin #505
Added basenameSeparator configuration option for TranslationCheck. Author: Alex Kravin, pulse00 #149
Added google and sun configs to jar. Author: Alex Kravin #305
Added UT for lambda expressions for InnerAssignmentCheck. Author: Alex Kravin #377
Build and install the tests jar artifact. Author: Peter Palaga #477
FinalLocalVariable Check, fixed false-positive - native method's param should be declared final. Author: Alex Kravin #158
FinalParameters Check, added option allows ignoring primitive types as params. Author: Alex Kravin #446
Unsatisfiable Indentation module scenario with difficult annotations. Author: Alex Kravin #321
Fixed false-positive in GenericWhitespaceCheck. Author: Alex Kravin #51
Fix InnerAssignment check for lambda expressions. Author: Evan Cahill
GenericWhitespace Check, fixed bug - '>' is followed by an illegal character. Author: Alex Kravin #350
InnerTypeLast within methods. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #6
AnnotationUseStyle closingParens check failed. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #131
RequireThis triggers when try-with-resources defines resource with same name as method. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #257
NullPointerException with SuppressWarningsHolder and enum fields. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #353
ParameterNumber check option to ignore methods with an @Override. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #66
MutableException check requires class to explicitly extend some other class. Author: Michal Kordas #60
NeedBraces, added option which allows one line if-statements without braces. Author: Alex Kravin #300
RedundantModifier Check fixed bug with warning on final variables in default methods. Author: Alex Kravin #364
RedundantModifier Check, fixed false-positive Redundant modifier final error for @SafeVarargs method. Author: Alex Kravin #301
SummaryJavadoc Check, added 'specify period' option. Author: Alex Kravin #472
SuppressWarnings Check, annotation param in constant. Author: Alex Kravin #268

Breaking backward compatibility:

Checkstyle is switched to jdk7. Author: Roman Ivanov. commit.
Abstract Aware Type Check marked as deprecated, removed Redundant Throws Check. Author: Alex Kravin #473
JUnitTestCaseCheck was removed from Checkstyle. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy #457
Remove StrictDuplicateCodeCheck and whole package. Author: Michal Kordas #523
removing ignoreDirectoryName option from PackageDeclarationCheck. Author: Ivan Sopov #209

Notes:

All UTs Inputs are now compilable. Author: Alex Kravin #308
Fix for typos in documentation, fixes for Sonar violations, pom formatting, latest JUnit 4.12, ..... Author: Michal Kordas
google-style-config-test project for Google style is introduces, google_style wiki was updated. Author: Max Vetrenko
New maven profile "assembly" for quick build without any report and checks has been created. Author: Ilja Dubinin

Release 6.1.1

Bug fixes:

Generics in postfix expression before method references can be parsed now. Author: Ilja Dubinin #339
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if Indentation and FileContentsFolder are enabled. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #92
Create ParseErrorMessage if error message is null during Javadoc parsing. Author: Baratali Izmailov. #385
Added $ to all identifier definitions at javadoc grammar. Author: Baratali Izmailov. #376
Fixed NumberFormatException while logging in AbstractJavadocCheck. Author: Baratali Izmailov. #371
Indentation check fails for switch statements. Author: Max Vetrenko. #341
-v CLI flag for querying the installed Checkstyle version. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy. #9

Notes:

Checkstyle logo was changed. Author: Alexandra Ulanovskaya and Daniil Yaroslavtsev.

Release 6.1

Bug fixes:

Huge performance optimization for JavaDoc parsing. In scope of issue #49. Caching DetailNode trees in AbstractJavadocCheck. Author: Baratali Izmailov #355
"FileContents.getLines()" performance fix. Author: Vladimir Sitnikov, Ivan Sopov. #351
Fix for MultiMap empty collections garbage. Author: Vladimir Sitnikov, Ivan Sopov. #348
Performance fix for RegexpCheck. Author: Vladimir Sitnikov, Ivan Sopov. #348
Removing unnecessary char[] copying to reduce GC-pressure. Author: Vladimir Sitnikov, Ivan Sopov. #347
Using BitSet for indent levels for performance. Author: Vladimir Sitnikov, Ivan Sopov. #349
Various documentation/spelling issues with AnnotationLocationCheck. Author: Roman Ivanov. #356
Multidimensional arrays can be parsed now. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #304

Breaking backward compatibility:

AnnotationLocationCheck, package location was changed, one option was renamed. Author: Roman Ivanov. #356

Release 6.0

New features that extend API:

Support of single-line and block comments in parse tree. ANTLR4 grammar for parsing Javadoc comments. Author: Baratali Izmailov. #49

New features:

AnnotationLocationCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #302
AtclauseOrderCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #306
JavadocParagraph. Author: Max Vetrenko. #315
JavadocTagContinuationIndentation. Author: Max Vetrenko. #308
SingleLineJavadocCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #332
NonEmptyAtclauseDescriptionCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #309
Update for existing JavadocMethodCheck to satisfy Google's style requirements. Author: Max Vetrenko. #319

Notes:

Google style is now covered to maximum of Checkstyle ability. See detailed report here. Authors: Max Vetrenko, Ruslan Diachenko, Roman Ivanov.
All binaries are now compiled by Jdk6. Jdk5 is not supported any more.

Release 5.9

New features:

Support of Java8 syntax. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #10

Bug fixes:

Enormous update on Indentation Check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #294
Fixed IllegalInstantiationCheck, so it won't recognize a constructor reference (Java8) as instantiation. Author: Ryszard Wisniewski.
Since Java 8 we can have methods body in interfaces. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #282
Default modifier has been added to modifier list. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #284
Fixed bug in DefaultComesLast check. Now it supports java 8 default methods. Author: Ilja Dubinin. #297
Fixed IndexOutOfBoundsException in CustomImportOrderCheck. Author: Max Vetrenko. #296

Notes:

Correct OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder name in documentation. Author: Andrew Gaul.

Release 5.8

New features:

Google Java Style xml configuration was added. Author: Max Vetrenko.
New: AbbreviationAsWordInName check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #212
Added enum processing to TypeNameCheck. Author: Pavel Baranchikov
Added method to clear cache to LocalizedMessage. Author: Joni Salmi. #156
New: AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #194
New: CustomImportOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #194
New: EmptyLineSeparator check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #186
Enable array initialisation indentation settings. Author: Vaclav Chalupa.
Enhance WhitespaceAroundCheck to ignore Annotation Array Initialization curlies as it does for Array Initialization outside of annotations.. Author: Jacob Tomaw
ignore option to the JavadocVariable check. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy. #98
New: InterfaceTypeParameterName check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #202
New grammar rule was added only for catch types. IllegalCatchCheck has been extended to use catch with few exception types.. Author: Ilja Dubinin #165
LocalVariableName. Allowed one char variables in initialization expressions in FOR loop. Author: Max Vetrenko #192
New: NoLineWrap check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #173
New: OneTopLevelClass check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #173
New: OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #32
New option to allow no empty line between fields at EmptyLineSeparatorCheck check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #227
New option to allow that force overload methods are grouped together at DeclarationOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #163
New option to allow empty classes, enums and interfaces, empty loops are allowed at WhitespaceAround check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #163
New: VariableDeclarationUsageDistance check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #223

Bug fixes:

Update for EmptyBlock to allow empty loops. Author: Max Vetrenko. #190
EmptyLineSeparatorCheck was updated to validate empty line after header. Author: Max Vetrenko. #218
LeftCurly Check was updated to force line break. Author: Max Vetrenko. #247
update for OuterTypeFilename Check to check top level type are the public type or the first type in file if public is missed. Author: Max Vetrenko. #248
update for RightCurly Check, new option to check line break after the closing brace if that brace terminates a statement or the body of a method, constructor or named class. Author: Max Vetrenko. #182
Added test and fix for the case if there is a semicolon between import statements. Author: Ryszard Wisniewski
Adding ANNOTATION_DEF to the valid list of parentASTs for the SuppressWarningsHolder. Without this, any @SuppressWarnings (checkstyle or not) present on an annotation definition class will fail. Author: Dominic Jones
Adding u HTML tag to list of allowed tags in JavaDoc. Author: Ilja Gubins. #58
update for WhitespaceAround. Allowed empty anonymous classes. Was updated allowEmptyTypes property. Author: Max Vetrenko. #197
Fixed AbstractTypeAwareCheck for generics in interfaces. Author: Tobias Baum. #177
Fixed RightCurlyCheck for empty methods. Author: Max Vetrenko. #213
Fixed WhitespaceAroundCheck. fix for anonymous inner class. Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy. #105
Fixed RedundantModifier. Abstract Interface Should not be Allowed. . Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy. #209
Fixed EmptyBlock. need to handle switch block. . Author: Max Vetrenko. #235
Fixed WhitespaceAround. Fix false positive with ANNOTATION_DEF. . Author: Max Vetrenko. #237
Fixed GenericWhitespace. Fix false positive with Array. . Author: Inav Sopov. #47
Fixed JavadocStyleCheck. HTML comments break the Javadoc style HTML check. . Author: theqaguy. #119
Fixed Java grammar. Now it can parse 'return (byte[].class);' . Author: Ilja Dubinin. #130
Exception thrown when parsing numeric constant "3.14_15F". . Author: Yuriy Chulovskyy#134
RequireThis triggers for static interface fields Fixed. . Author: Sergiu Dumitriu #155
Javadoc in GenericWhitespaceCheck was updated. . Author: Max Vetrenko #254
MemberNameCheck should not validate interface constants, that's ConstantNameCheck's role. Author: Sergiu Dumitriu
RightCurly. Force line break before '}' in case SAME option. . Author: Max Vetrenko #250
SeparatorWrapCheck. Covers separators like ',', '.' . . Author: Max Vetrenko #179
Support annotations in TypeNameCheck. Author: Thomas Jensen
Update UnusedImportsCheck to correctly detect classes in parameters and inline tags nested within block tags. fixing checkstyle issues Fixing even more checkstyle issues. Author: James Gorman
Use a thread-safe map implementation to keep the compiled patterns. Author: Christoph Kutzinski
WhitespaceAround with allowEmptyMethods complains on annotation's empty method . Author: Max Vetrenko #21

Notes:

dsm-maven-plugin is used to show dsm/index.html dependency structure of project on site. Author: Ilja Dubinin.
Added and updated documentation/messages for number of Checks. Authors: Max Vetrenko, Thomas Jensen, Yuriy Chulovskyy, Jarmo Isotalo, Peter O, Ryszard Wisniewski, Ilja Gubins, Baratali Izmailov, Jan Schafer, Niklas Walter, Andrew Gaul.
Moving to standard directory layout. Author: Ivan Sopov.

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