Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.1 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.1

A Maven plugin for the PMD toolkit, that produces a report on both code rule violations and detected copy and paste
fragments,
as well as being able to fail the build based on these metrics.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/

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

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.1

Bug
* [MPMD-179] Plugin generates reports incompatible with the 'maven-jxr-plugin' version 2.4
* [MPMD-176] upgrade to last 5.0.5
* [MPMD-172] Warning about missing XRef for module with no source
* [MPMD-168] Skip report generation if results are empty
* [MPMD-167] CPD performance issues
* [MPMD-166] Plugin fails when switching from 2.7.1 to 3.0.1

Improvement
* [MPMD-180] Remove redundant "Report" word on report name labels
* [MPMD-175] Work around PMD bug #1155 which crashes the plugin with an empty ruleset element.
* [MPMD-169] Support multi-threaded mode of PMD 5

New Feature
* [MPMD-181] Add flag to capture Benchmark information

Enjoy,

-The Maven team