Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin Version 2.16 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.16.

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>2.16</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin - Version 2.16

Bugs:

• MCHECKSTYLE-295 Test resources are not included
• MCHECKSTYLE-271 checkstyle plugin fails with default ruleset and checkstyle 6.2

Improvements:

• MCHECKSTYLE-290 add a history table to show which version of Chesktyle is used by default in which version of m-checkstyle-p
• MCHECKSTYLE-284 Remove config/sun_checks.xml and use the one built into Checkstyle 6.2+
• MCHECKSTYLE-272 Upgrade to Checkstyle 6.2

Tasks:

• MCHECKSTYLE-285 Remove config/maven_checks.xml by removing the dependency on maven-shared-resources:2
• MCHECKSTYLE-278 Require Java 7
• MCHECKSTYLE-268 Add flag/option to use built-in Google style

Enjoy,

-The Maven team