The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.17.

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:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.17</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin – Version 2.16

Bugs:

• MCHECKSTYLE-302 – Using inline configuration does not work with Maven 2.2.1
• MCHECKSTYLE-304 – Using inline configuration, checkstyle-checker.xml is generated using DTD v1.2
• MCHECKSTYLE-310 – Parrallel build failing with various errors
• MCHECKSTYLE-311 – “mvn clean site -Preporting” fails with Could not find resource ‘config/maven_checks.xml’

Improvements:

• MCHECKSTYLE-291 – Change format of violation message
• MCHECKSTYLE-293 – Update to use non deprecated method Checker.setClassLoader()

Tasks:

• MCHECKSTYLE-307 – Upgrade to Checkstyle 6.11
• MCHECKSTYLE-313 – Upgrade to Checkstyle 6.11.2

Enjoy,

-The Maven team