The Checker Framework lets you create and/or run pluggable type checkers, in order to detect and prevent bugs in your code.
**User-visible changes:**
Moved utility classes from `checker-qual.jar` to the new `checker-util.jar`.
Also, added `util` to the end of all the packages of the utility classes.
In Maven Central, `checker.jar` no longer contains duplicates of qualifiers in `checker-qual.jar`, but rather uses a Maven dependency. A fat jar file with all the dependencies (like the old `checker.jar`) is available in Maven Central with the classifier "all".
When supplying the `-Ainfer=...` command-line argument, you must also supply `-Awarns`.
Replaced several error message keys:
* `
contracts.precondition.expression.parameter.name`
* `
contracts.postcondition.expression.parameter.name`
* `
contracts.conditional.postcondition.expression.parameter.name`
* `
method.declaration.expression.parameter.name`
by new message keys:
* `expression.parameter.name.invalid`
* `expression.parameter.name.shadows.field`
**Implementation details:**
Deprecated `ElementUtils.enclosingClass`; use `ElementUtils.enclosingTypeElement`.
Removed classes (use `SourceChecker` instead):
* `BaseTypeContext`
* `CFContext`
* `BaseContext`
Removed methods:
* `SourceChecker.getContext()`: it returned the receiver
* `SourceChecker.getChecker()`: it returned the receiver
* `AnnotatedTypeFactory.getContext()`: use `getChecker()`
* methods on `TreePath`s from class 'TreeUtils`; use the versions in `TreePathUtil`.
Moved class:
* org.checkerframework.framework.util.PurityUnqualified to
org.checkerframework.framework.qual.PurityUnqualified
Renamed methods:
* `AnnotatedTypeMirror.directSuperTypes` => `directSupertypes` (note capitalization) for consistency with `javax.lang.model.util.Types`
* `AnnotatedTypeMirror.removeAnnotation(Class)` => `removeAnnotationByClass`
* `MethodCall.getParameters` => `getArguments`
* `MethodCall.containsSyntacticEqualParameter` => `containsSyntacticEqualArgument`
* `ArrayAccess.getReceiver` => `getArray`
**Closed issues:**
#3325 , #3474.