24-April-2026 - 7.24.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.24.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🌟️ New Rules
• 🐛️ Fixed Issues
• ✨️ Merged pull requests
• 📦️ Dependency updates
• 📈️ Stats

🌟️ New Rules

• The new Apex rule AvoidInterfaceAsMapKey reports Map declarations
  (fields, variables, parameters) whose key type is an interface that has at least one abstract implementing
  class defining equals or hashCode. Using such maps results in potentially duplicated map entries or
  not being able to get entries by key.
• The new Java rule OverridingThreadRun finds overridden Thread::run methods.
  This is not recommended. Instead, implement Runnable and pass an instance to the thread constructor.

🐛️ Fixed Issues

• apex
  • #5386: [apex] Apex files ending in "Test" are skipped with a number of rules
• apex-errorprone
  • #6492: [apex] New rule: Prevent use of interface -> abstract class with equals/hashCode as key in Map
• apex-security
  • #5385: [apex] ApexCRUDViolation not reported even if SOQL doesn't have permissions check on it
• java-bestpractices
  • #4272: [java] JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert: False positive with assert in lambda
• java-multithreading
  • #595: [java] New rule: Implement Runnable instead of extending Thread
• kotlin
  • #6003: [kotlin] Support multidollar interpolation (Kotlin 2.2)

✨️ Merged pull requests

• #6493: [apex] New Rule: AvoidInterfaceAsMapKeyRule - Jonny Alexander Power (@JonnyPower)
• #6497: [kotlin] Fix kotlin grammar for parsing multidollar interpolation - Peter Paul Bakker (@stokpop)
• #6555: [java] New rule: OverridingThreadRun to prefer using Runnable - Zbynek Konecny (@zbynek)
• #6556: [java] Fix #4272: False positive in UnitTestShouldIncludeAssert when using assertion in lambda - Lukas Gräf (@lukasgraef)
• #6563: [apex] Remove class name suffix "Test" as indicator of test classes - David Schach (@dschach)
• #6576: [test] chore: Throw a TestAbortedException on disabled tests - UncleOwen (@UncleOwen)
• #6577: [dist] chore: Improve error message for missing JAVA_HOME in AntIT.java - UncleOwen (@UncleOwen)
• #6607: [doc] basic.xml has been gone for a long time - UncleOwen (@UncleOwen)

📦️ Dependency updates

• #6515: chore: bump pmd-regression-tester from 1.6.2 to 1.7.0
• #6552: Bump PMD from 7.22.0 to 7.23.0
• #6564: chore(deps): bump ruby/setup-ruby from 1.295.0 to 1.299.0
• #6565: chore(deps-dev): bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy from 1.18.7 to 1.18.8
• #6566: chore(deps): bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 13.3.0 to 13.4.0
• #6567: chore(deps-dev): bump log4j.version from 2.25.3 to 2.25.4
• #6569: chore(deps-dev): bump net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy-agent from 1.18.7 to 1.18.8
• #6570: chore(deps): bump org.apache.groovy:groovy from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5
• #6571: chore(deps-dev): bump io.github.git-commit-id:git-commit-id-maven-plugin from 9.0.2 to 9.1.0
• #6572: chore(deps): bump bigdecimal from 4.0.1 to 4.1.0 in /docs
• #6578: chore(deps): bump marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3
• #6579: chore(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.44.0 to 1.45.0
• #6580: chore(deps): bump ruby/setup-ruby from 1.299.0 to 1.300.0
• #6581: chore(deps-dev): bump io.github.git-commit-id:git-commit-id-maven-plugin from 9.1.0 to 10.0.0
• #6582: chore(deps): bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.54.0 to 4.0.0
• #6583: chore(deps-dev): bump ant.version from 1.10.15 to 1.10.16
• #6584: chore(deps): bump bigdecimal from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /docs
• #6588: chore(deps): bump actions/cache from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5
• #6589: chore(deps): bump marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4
• #6590: chore(deps): bump crate-ci/typos from 1.45.0 to 1.45.1
• #6591: chore(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1
• #6592: chore(deps): bump actions/create-github-app-token from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1
• #6593: chore(deps): bump scalameta.version from 4.15.2 to 4.16.0
• #6594: chore(deps): bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.25.4 to 0.25.5
• #6595: chore(deps-dev): bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.5.0-jre to 33.6.0-jre
• #6596: chore(deps-dev): bump ant.version from 1.10.16 to 1.10.17
• #6599: chore(deps-dev): Bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1
• #6600: chore(deps-dev): Bump addressable from 2.8.9 to 2.9.0
• #6613: chore(deps): bump ruby/setup-ruby from 1.300.0 to 1.305.0
• #6614: chore(deps): bump com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin from 0.25.5 to 0.25.6
• #6615: chore(deps): bump scalameta.version from 4.16.0 to 4.16.1
• #6616: chore(deps-dev): bump org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin from 5.5.0.6356 to 5.6.0.6792
• #6617: chore(deps): bump org.jsoup:jsoup from 1.22.1 to 1.22.2
• #6618: chore(deps): bump bigdecimal from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 in /docs

📈️ Stats

• 82 commits
• 14 closed tickets & PRs
• Days since last release: 27