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PMD 7.14.0 (30-May-2025)

30-May-2025 - 7.14.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.14.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • PMD CLI now uses threaded execution by default
  • New Rule UnnecessaryWarningSuppression (https://github.com/pmd/pmd/blob/HEAD/experimental)
  • Migrating to Central Publisher Portal
  • More CLI parameters shared between PMD and CPD
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • CLI
  • Deprecations
  • Experimental
• ✨ Merged pull requests
• 📦 Dependency updates
• 📈 Stats

🚀 New and noteworthy

PMD CLI now uses threaded execution by default

In the PMD CLI, the --threads (-t) option can now accept a thread count given relative to the number of cores of the machine. For instance, it is now possible to write -t 1C to spawn one thread per core, or -t 0.5C to spawn one thread for every other core.

The thread count option now defaults to 1C, meaning parallel execution is used by default. You can disable this by using -t 1.

New Rule UnnecessaryWarningSuppression (experimental)

This new Java rule UnnecessaryWarningSuppression reports unused suppression annotations and comments. Violations of this rule cannot be suppressed.

How to use it? Just include it in your ruleset:

<rule ref="category/java/bestpractices.xml/UnnecessaryWarningSuppression" />

Note: This rule is currently experimental. It is available for now only for Java. The rule for now only reports annotations specific to PMD, like @SuppressWarnings("PMD"). In the future we might be able to check for other common ones like @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") or "fallthrough". Since violations of this rule cannot be suppressed, we opted here on the side of false-negatives and

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• 876d4ab [ci] Use correct credentials for central deployment
• 3a6e7a4 [release] prepare release pmd_releases/7.14.0
• 0cdb9c8 Prepare pmd release 7.14.0
• 1c1ef83 Add @​Ledmington as a contributor
• 49a321d Add @​Daniel-Ventura-25 as a contributor
• 3bd234c [core] Add rule to report unnecessary suppression comments/annotations (#5609)
• 4f9df6f [cli] Make CLI default to multithreaded (#5741)
• 1924d23 Fix unit tests
• f479b7d Apply suggestions from review
• c69c881 Fix unit tests
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