Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin Version 2.13 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.13.

This plugin generates a report regarding the code style used by the developers.

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>2.13</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.13

Bugs:

• MCHECKSTYLE-126 - Generated HTML page contains "charset=${outputEncoding}"
• MCHECKSTYLE-214 - Resources retrieval ignores resources definition in
• MCHECKSTYLE-225 - headerLocation no longer sets checkstyle.header.file
• MCHECKSTYLE-230 - ConcurrentModificationException in FileResourceLoader.getResource
• MCHECKSTYLE-237 - Changeset 1608113 introduces "Line 0" regression
• MCHECKSTYLE-238 - ConcurrentModificationException
• MCHECKSTYLE-244 - LicenseResourceManager component is not thread safe and causes parallel build failures

Improvements:

• MCHECKSTYLE-70 - Support for multiple source folders
• MCHECKSTYLE-148 - Would be nice to see the name of CHECK together with its output
• MCHECKSTYLE-215 - Abandon sourceDirectory and testSourceDirectory for MavenProject#getCompileSourceRoots
• MCHECKSTYLE-217 - Add parameter which skips rule rows which do not have any violations
• MCHECKSTYLE-232 - add the version of Checkstyle to the generated report
• MCHECKSTYLE-233 - link to rules documentation
• MCHECKSTYLE-234 - group rules by category
• MCHECKSTYLE-235 - improve difference between rules with and without violations
• MCHECKSTYLE-236 - add Rule name to violation message

New Feature:

• MCHECKSTYLE-242 - fine grained ignore of violations

Task:

• MCHECKSTYLE-248 - Remove RegexBasedInterpolator and ValueSource

Wishes:

• MCHECKSTYLE-239 - remove Translation rule from Maven checks
• MCHECKSTYLE-240 - add 17, 31 and 37 to ignored MagicNumber
• MCHECKSTYLE-241 - add SuppressWarningsFilter (introduced in Checkstyle 5.7) to support @SuppressWarnings
• MCHECKSTYLE-243 - log check violations to console by default
• MCHECKSTYLE-246 - add UniqueProperties rule (introduced in Checkstyle 5.7)
• MCHECKSTYLE-247 - add CHECKSTYLE_OFF/ON: regexp support (SuppressionCommentFilter)

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team