<section name="Release 10.17.0">

<div class="releaseDate">26.05.2024</div>

<p>Breaking backward compatibility:</p>

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ImportOrder: replace Pattern[] with String[] type for properties staticGroups and groups.

Author: Minghao Li

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13758">#13758</a>

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<p>New:</p>

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new Check: ConstructorsDeclarationGrouping to check the grouping of overloaded

constructors.

Author: Mauryan Kansara

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14726">#14726</a>

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<p>Bug fixes:</p>

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Checkstyle fails with &quot;Path contains invalid character&quot; if path to config file

contains non-ascii characters.

Author: Andrei Paikin

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13012">#13012</a>

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Null pointer Exception in UnusedLocalVariableCheck.

Author: Vyom-Yadav

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13167">#13167</a>

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False positive for UnusedLocalVariable.

Author: Kevin222004

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14506">#14506</a>

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WhitespaceAround reports a violation when switch expression is passed as a method

argument.

Author: Andrei Paikin

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14825">#14825</a>

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InnerAssignmentCheck failed for one line code in Java 14 switch expression.

Author: mahfouz72

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13086">#13086</a>

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<p>Notes:</p>

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Drop ci jobs for unsupported java versions.

Author: Andrei Paikin

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14877">#14877</a>

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test: shallowClone in checkstyle-tester with SHA checkout.

Author: piyush kumar sadangi

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14662">#14662</a>

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--- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin

dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-minor ....

Author: dependabot[bot]

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--- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name:

org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin dependency-type: direct:production

update-type: version-update:semver-minor ....

Author: dependabot[bot]

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<li>

doc: makes links relative for version documentation.

Author: rnveach

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doc: added link to video instructions.

Author: SteLeo1602

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update JavadocTokenTypes.java to new format of AST print.

Author: SteLeo1603, prathm3

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14631">#14631</a>

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doc: update issue template reference.

Author: Emmanuel Ferdman

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Fix performance test.

Author: Minghao Li

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14852">#14852</a>

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Optimize testing methods like verifyWithInlineConfigParser to run Check one time over

file.

Author: mahfouz72

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/12586">#12586</a>

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<li>

Enable examples tests.

Author: prathm3

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13345">#13345</a>

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build failure due to maven.plugin.json.

Author: mahfouz72

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14853">#14853</a>

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Parsing performance regression testing.

Author: Minghao Li

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/14599">#14599</a>

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doc: added additional explanation for clarification.

Author: SteLeo1602

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doc: Updated demonstrative images on intellij doc page.

Author: SteLeo1602

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Remove &#39;//ok&#39; comments from Input files .

Author: prathm3

<a href="https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/13213">#13213</a>

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