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 sentence (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 sevntu-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 without 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 doesn'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 failure: "sonatype-nexus-staging not found" during release. Author: Roman Ivanov #3868
• DetailAst class unclear logic in addChild method. Author: Abulfaz Ahmadov #3491
• make code coverage for MainFrameModel 100%. Author: Xiao Pu #3648
• Refactoring for RightCurlyCheck.java. Author: sagar shah #3685
• Travis failure: "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 IntelliJ IDEA. 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 receive 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 receive 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 structure 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 IntelliJ IDEA 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 receive 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 ability 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 message 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 handling. 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: José 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 coverage table google_style.html should 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 IndentationCheck. 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 regression 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 problems 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 between 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 identification 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 optimization. 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 resolved. 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 interfaces 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 dependencies 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: Baratali 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: deprecate 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 reorganized 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 .gitignore. 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 'ignoreOverridden' 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.