6.0.0

• (BREAKING) Drop gradle 7.0 support (7.1 min requirement due to spotbugs plugin)
• Update checkstyle 10.12.7 -> 11.0.0 (java 21 records support)
  • Add PatternVariableAssignment
  • Add UnnecessaryNullCheckWithInstanceOf
  • Add ConstructorsDeclarationGrouping
  • (BREAKING) Remove checkstyle support for java 8 due to remove of the backport project (including maven central)
    • quality.checkstyleBackport property removed
    • On java 8 checkstyle plugin simply isn't applied
  • (BREAKING) Checkstyle 11.0 requires java 17 and so for java < 17 it would be disabled
    • On java 11 you can manually configure 10.26.1 to enable checkstyle
      (or use new option fallbackToCompatibleToolVersion to downgrade automatically)
• Update spotbugs 4.8.3 -> 4.9.4 (requires java 11)
  • On java 8 you can manually configure 4.8.6 to enable spotbugs
    (or new option fallbackToCompatibleToolVersion to downgrade automatically)
  • Add quality.spotbugsQuiet = true option which could be used to remove spotbugs warnings
    like "The following classes needed for analysis were missing:"
• Update pmd 6.55 -> 7.16.0 (java 25 support)
  • Fix gradle plugin for pmd 7 (pmd 7 split jar so plugin classpath must be overridden )
  • Pmd config:
    • Remove legacy rules
    • Remove AvoidLiteralsInIfCondition
    • Remove AvoidSynchronizedStatement
    • Remove AvoidSynchronizedAtMethodLevel
    • Remove ImplicitFunctionalInterface
    • Change CouplingBetweenObjects 20 -> 25
    • Remove pmdIncremental property (it was useful for already not supported gradle 5.6 - 6.3)
• Update codenarc 3.4.0 -> 3.6.0
  • Remove new rule NonSerializableFieldInSerializableClass
    to avoid enhanced rules enabled warning (and potential problems)
• Fix CPD plugin compatibility for version 3.5
  • Update default xsl file (for html report)
• (BREAKING) Spotbugs plugin:
  • Spotbugs plugin 6.x support
  • Spotbugs plugin is not installed automatically anymore: it should be applied manually
    (and quality plugin will configure it as before) because
    • The latest spotbugs plugin (6.x) requires java 11 (direct dependency would drop java 8 support for the entire plugin)
    • For java 8 spotbugs plugin 5.x could be used
  • For multimodule projects it is enough to specify spotbugs plugin in the root project (with "apply false")
  • Custom spotbugs plugin is not used anymore: now extra dependencies cleared from the check task
  • Fix spotbugs exclusions for multiple affected source sets
• Fix default configs caching on plugin version change
• Add qualityToolVersions task to show applied tools versions. Could be useful for debug
  because now spotbugs and checkstyle versions depend on a used java version
• (BREAKING) Quality extension properties are now wrapped with Property:
  • groovy builds must use '=': quality.prop = value
  • kotlin builds might require explicit .set(value)
• Add quality.fallbackToCompatibleToolVersion option to automatically lower checkstyle
  version for java 11 and spotbugs for java 8. False by default (used for tests)
• Add quality.animalsniffer option to be able to disable animalsniffer plugin configuration
• quality.checkstyle and quality.spotbugs by default analyze configured tool versions
  and, if version is compatible with current jvm, enable tool (no need to manually enable tool, just set version)
• (BREAKING) quality.sourceSets option now accept strings to simplify configuration
  Legacy way with source set objects is available with method: quality.sourceSet(project.sourceSets.main)
• Fix quality tasks up-to-date check
• Fix build cache for checkstyle tasks
• Configuration cache support
  • There is now a separate task copyQualityConfigs actually performing default configs copying
    allowing gradle to properly cache default config files

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