Checkstyle 6.0

[Roman Ivanov]

Checkstyle Release 6.0

http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/releasenotes.html#Release_6.0

New features that extend API:
Support of single-line and block comments in parse tree. ANTLR4 grammar for parsing Javadoc comments.

New features:
AnnotationLocationCheck.
AtclauseOrderCheck.
JavadocParagraph.
JavadocTagContinuationIndentation.
SingleLineJavadocCheck.
NonEmptyAtclauseDescriptionCheck.
Update for existing JavadocMethodCheck to satisfy Google's style requirements.

Notes:
Google style is now covered to maximum of Checkstyle ability - http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/google_style.html.
All binaries are now compiled by Jdk6. Jdk5 is not supported any more.

[Roman Ivanov]

Hi All,

You might notice serious performance degradation on latest version of Google style config.

That is due to JavaDoc validation Checks. 

To avoid performance problems you can disable all JavaDoc related Checks that use new API, or use them in less frequent validation phase (ones a week build) :

SingleLineJavadoc

JavaDocParagraph

AtclauseOrder 

JavaDocTagContinuationIndentation 

NonEmptyAtclauseDescription

SummaryJavadoc

We will resolve that problem in future releases by caching parsed trees between all Checks.

thanks,

Roman Ivanov