The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.13.0
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. https://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>3.13.0</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Apache Maven PMD Plugin - Version 3.13.0 Bug * [MPMD-295] Maven PMD Plugin fails on Java 13: Unsupported targetJdk value '13' * [MPMD-292] PMD Log is not always integrated into maven log * [MPMD-289] check: unable to find pmd.xml * [MPMD-288] NullPointerException when File.list() returns null Improvement * [MPMD-296] Copy ruleset files into a subdirectory of target * [MPMD-287] Add additional contribution information for GitHub * [MPMD-241] Document the version relationship between plugin and pmd New Feature * [MPMD-269] Display PMD version that is being used Task * [MPMD-293] Fix integration test builds on jenkins * [MPMD-291] Upgrade to PMD 6.21.0 * [MPMD-285] remove pluginTools version override for build (which block reproducible build...) * [MPMD-225] Create report even if no warnings have been found by default Enjoy, -The Maven team