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PMD 7.15.0 (27-June-2025)

27-June-2025 - 7.15.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.15.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • ✨ New Rules
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Rule Test Schema
• 💵 Financial Contributions
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats

🚀 New and noteworthy

✨ New Rules

• The new Apex rule AvoidBooleanMethodParameters finds methods that take a boolean parameter. This can make method calls difficult to understand and maintain as the method is clearly doing two things.

🐛 Fixed Issues

• apex-design
  • #5427: [apex] New Rule: Avoid Boolean Method Parameters
• apex-security
  • #5788: [apex] ApexCRUDViolation unable to detect insecure SOQL if it is a direct input argument
• doc
  • #5790: [doc] Website rule reference pages are returning 404
• java-bestpractices
  • #5785: [java] UnusedPrivateField doesn't play well with UnnecessaryWarningSuppression
  • #5793: [java] NonExhaustiveSwitch fails on exhaustive switch with sealed class
• java-codestyle
  • #1639: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for multiline @link Javadoc
  • #2304: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for on-demand imports in JavaDoc
  • #5832: [java] UnnecessaryImport false positive for multiline @see Javadoc
• java-design
  • #5804: [java] UselessOverridingMethod doesn't play well with UnnecessarySuppressWarning

🚨 API Changes

Rule Test Schema

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• f06835e [release] prepare release pmd_releases/7.15.0
• e84f47a Prepare pmd release 7.15.0
• 8e5654f [ci] publish-snapshot/release: also create javadocs for kotlin (dokka)
• 48e6c5f [doc] Fix javadoc plugin offline link configuration
• 77276fb [ci] Fix condition for publish-release
• 2b40c9e [ci] Fix regression tester script for release builds
• 888eb62 [ci] Fix dogfood check during release builds
• 59e32be Bump build-tools from 30 to 32 (#5853)
• 5e2bf35 [ci] New "Publish Release" workflow (#5745)
• 6462b0c [ci] Small fixes
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