Error Prone 2.12.0

New checks

• BoxedPrimitiveEquality
• DoubleBraceInitialization
• IgnoredPureGetter
• LockOnBoxedPrimitive
• IncorrectMainMethod
• LongDoubleConversion
• RobolectricShadowDirectlyOn
• StaticAssignmentOfThrowable
• UnnecessaryLongToIntConversion
• Varifier

Fixed issues: #58, #65, #1327, #1654, #2858, #2867, #2916, #2951, #2954, #3006, #3008

Full Changelog: v2.11.0...v2.12.0

Error Prone 2.11.0

Error Prone now requires JDK 11 or newer (#2730).

New checks

• AutoValueBuilderDefaultsInConstructor
• FloggerLogString
• UnicodeDirectionalityCharacters
• UnicodeInCode
• AlreadyChecked
• BugPatternNaming
• MissingImplementsComparable
• NegativeCharLiteral
• PreferredInterfaceType
• StronglyTypeByteString
• UsingJsr305CheckReturnValue

Fixed issues: #2641, #2705, #2776, #2798, #2799, #2819, #2820, #2831, #2833, #2834, #2835, #2861, #2873, #2889, #2892, #2901

Full Changelog: v2.10.0...v2.11.0

Error Prone 2.10.0

New checks

• AlwaysThrows
• StackTraceElementGetClass
• BareDotMetacharacter
• DistinctVarargsChecker
• MalformedInlineTag
• MemoizeConstantVisitorStateLookups
• UnicodeEscape
• FieldMissingNullable
• Java8ApiChecker
• ParameterMissingNullable
• TooManyParameters
• TryWithResourcesVariable
• UnnecessaryFinal
• VoidMissingNullable

Fixed issues: #2616, #2629

Full Changelog: v2.9.0...v2.10.0

Error Prone 2.9.0

Release Error Prone 2.9.0

New checks:

• DeprecatedVariable
• PublicApiNamedStreamShouldReturnStream

Fixes #2124, #2371, #2393, #2470

Error Prone 2.8.1

This release adds a new check (LoopOverCharArray), and a handful of other small improvements (v2.8.0...v2.8.1).

Error Prone 2.8.0

New Checks:

• JUnit4TestsNotRunWithinEnclosed
• OptionalOfRedundantMethod
• UnnecessaryAssignment
• UnrecognisedJavadocTag
• AnnotationMirrorToString
• AnnotationValueToString
• EqualsMissingNullable
• ReturnMissingNullable

Fixes #1652, #2122, #2122, #2366, #2404, #2411

Error Prone 2.7.1

Everything in Error Prone 2.7.0, plus an additional fix for JDK 17.

Error Prone 2.7.0

Changes

• Initial support for running on JDK 17 EA builds. Supports for Java 17 languages features is incomplete; bug reports for issues with Java 17 are welcome.
• @InlineMe is a deprecation mechanism that allows automated tools to cleanup existing callers: http://errorprone.info/docs/inlineme

New checks:

• EqualsNull
• MissingBraces
• NullablePrimitiveArray
• OptionalMapUnusedValue
• TestParametersNotInitialized

Closed issues: #2257, #2260, #2282, #2301, #2322, #2323, #2324

Error Prone 2.6.0

Checkers Added:

• CharacterGetNumericValue
• ErroneousThreadPoolConstructorChecker
• FloggerArgumentToString
• FloggerStringConcatenation
• ProtoBuilderReturnValueIgnored
• RethrowReflectiveOperationExceptionAsLinkageError
• SystemOut
• UnnecessaryAnonymousClass

Issues Closed:

• RFE: configurable DoNotCall/RestrictedApi/JdkObsolete/DefaultCharset/JavaTimeDefaultTimeZone check (#1211)
• Add SystemOut checker (#1534)
• WellKnownMutability: add java.awt.Color (#1682)
• IdentityHashMapUsage warnings differ from its documentation (#2095)
• UnusedMethod no longer works (#2215)
• Document naming convention for UnusedMethod (#2223)

Error Prone 2.5.1

Changes

NoSuchMethodError: 'com.sun.tools.javac.util.List com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$TypeSymbol.getEnclosedElements

• Fixed NoSuchMethodError crash in HidingField (#2092)
• Fixed NoSuchElementException crash in RestrictedApiChecker (#2099)
• False positive in DifferentNameButSame (#2094)
• False positive in UnnecessaryOptionalGet (#2101)
• False positive in UnnecessaryMethodReference (#2102)
• Fixed a regression in JDK 16-EA support (#2105)