Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin Version 2.12 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.12.

Generates a report on violations of code style and optionally fails the build if violations are detected.

You should specify the version in your project´s plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.12</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.12

Tasks:

• MCHECKSTYLE-222 Resource-only project is not checked
• MCHECKSTYLE-221 ResourceIncludes default value is wrong
• MCHECKSTYLE-219 When no license is specified, ALv2 from maven-checkstyle-plugin is used
• MCHECKSTYLE-218 Put file anchor directly on the h2 tag
• MCHECKSTYLE-213 Upgrade Doxia dependencies
• MCHECKSTYLE-212 Upgrade to Checkstyle 5.7
• MCHECKSTYLE-211 allow inline configuration for checkstyle plugin
• MCHECKSTYLE-210 Resource bundles have wrong file encoding
• MCHECKSTYLE-209 Correct grammar, make icons and text consistent in the report
• MCHECKSTYLE-208 Plugin generates reports incompatible with the 'maven-jxr-plugin' version 2.4
• MCHECKSTYLE-207 file handle leak - leading to failed builds
• MCHECKSTYLE-205 NPE in CheckstyleReportGenerator.doFilesSummary:654 version 2.11 regression
• MCHECKSTYLE-190 Add user property for checkstyle:consoleOutput
• MCHECKSTYLE-182 Use Maven log levels when logging to console
• MCHECKSTYLE-169 Suppressions property is incorrectly set if suppressions file is on classpath

Enjoy,

-The Maven team