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PMD 7.25.0 (29-May-2026)

29-May-2026 - 7.25.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.25.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀️ New and noteworthy
  • Updated ANTLR library to 4.13.2
• 🌟️ New and Changed Rules
  • New Rules
  • Changed Rules
  • Renamed rules and properties
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• 🚨️ API Changes
  • Deprecations
  • Experimental API
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats

🚀️ New and noteworthy

Updated ANTLR library to 4.13.2

We have updated the ANTLR library (parser generator) from 4.9.3 to the latest version 4.13.2, in order to be able to use the latest version of Apex parser library.

This is an incompatible update: In case you use custom language modules based on ANTLR, you need to make sure to regenerate all of your lexers and parsers with the new ANTLR version.

For the ANTLR based language modules, that PMD ships (kotlin and swift and various CPD modules), this is already done.

🌟️ New and Changed Rules

New Rules

• The new Java rule JUnitJupiterTestNoPrivateModifier find JUnit test classes and methods that are private. Test classes, test methods, and lifecycle methods are not required to be public, but they must not be private. Otherwise, they won’t be found by the test framework.
• The new Java rule UnnecessaryBlock reports blocks that are unnecessary as they don't introduce a new scope. This rule helps simplify code structure by identifying and flagging redundant blocks that can make code harder to read and may be misleading.
• The new Java rule VariableDeclarationUsageDistance flags local variables that are declared far from their usage, which can make code harder to read. The rule has a property maxDistance that allows to configure the maximum allowed distance between declaration and usage.
• The new Java rule AssertStatementInTest detects usages of assert statement in tests. These should be replaced by framework assertion methods such as assertEquals.

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• 418f8b7 [release] prepare release pmd_releases/7.25.0
• ba31ce2 Prepare pmd release 7.25.0
• ced4fdc Update contributors for 7.25.0
• 3c65361 chore(deps-dev): bump build-tools from 37 to 38 (#6729)
• f60c490 chore(deps-dev): bump build-tools from 37 to 38
• 6736c60 [java] UnnecessaryBooleanAssertion: Use InvocationMatcher to find assertions ...
• 3f1de35 [doc] Update release notes (#6712)
• 25f30fe [java] Fix #4350: Fix ClassNamingConventions by teaching TestFrameworkUtil ab...
• f306438 [java] Part of #4841: Deprecate unnecessary public methods in FieldDeclaratio...
• ca5bfe4 [java] Fix #6719: UseStandardCharsets UTF-32 on Java >= 22 (#6726)
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