Sourced from checker-qual's releases.

Checker Framework 3.4.0

Version 3.4.0, May 3, 2020

The annotated jdk8.jar is no longer used. You should remove any occurrence of

  -Xbootclasspath/p:.../jdk8.jar

from your build scripts. Annotations for JDK 8 are included in checker.jar.

The Returns Receiver Checker enables documenting and checking that a method returns its receiver (i.e., the this parameter).

Closed issues: 3267, 3263, 3217, 3212, 3201, 3111, 3010, 2943, 2930.

Sourced from checker-qual's changelog.

Version 3.4.0, May 3, 2020

The annotated jdk8.jar is no longer used. You should remove any occurrence of -Xbootclasspath/p:.../jdk8.jar from your build scripts. Annotations for JDK 8 are included in checker.jar.

The Returns Receiver Checker enables documenting and checking that a method returns its receiver (i.e., the this parameter).

Closed issues: 3267, 3263, 3217, 3212, 3201, 3111, 3010, 2943, 2930.

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Version 3.3.0, April 1, 2020

New command-line options: -Alint=trustArrayLenZero trust @ArrayLen(0) annotations when determining the type of Collections.toArray.

Renamings: -AuseDefaultsForUncheckedCode to -AuseConservativeDefaultsForUncheckedCode The old name works temporarily but will be removed in a future release.

For collection methods with Object formal parameter type, such as contains, indexOf, and remove, the annotated JDK now forbids null as an argument. To make the Nullness Checker permit null, pass -Astubs=checker.jar/collection-object-parameters-may-be-null.astub.

The argument to @SuppressWarnings can be a substring of a message key that extends at each end to a period or an end of the key. (Previously, any substring worked, including the empty string which suppressed all warnings. Use "all" to suppress all warnings.)

All postcondition annotations are repeatable (e.g., @EnsuresNonNull, @EnsuresNonNullIf, ...).

Renamed wrapper annotations (which users should not write):

• @DefaultQualifiers => @DefaultQualifier.List
• @EnsuresQualifiersIf => @EnsuresQualifierIf.List
• @EnsuresQualifiers => @EnsuresQualifier.List
• @RequiresQualifiers => @RequiresQualifier.List

Implementation details:

• Removed @DefaultInUncheckedCodeFor and @DefaultQualifierInHierarchyInUncheckedCode.
• Renamings: applyUncheckedCodeDefaults() to applyConservativeDefaults() useUncheckedCodeDefault() to useConservativeDefault() AnnotatedTypeReplacer to AnnotatedTypeCopierWithReplacement

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• 8941ce9 new release 3.4.0
• 8ad6828 Fix broken links.
• 026202f Update version number.
• e0e6125 Update change log.
• 415220c Parse the annotated JDK as a stub file and remove jdk8.jar (#3273)
• 88ca463 Add GenericAnnotatedTypeFactory#getExceptionalExitStore (#3272)
• 40a2e9d Expand section title to reflect section contents
• ccdcaf8 Add -AparseAllJdk option (#3279)
• e38f895 Fixes #3217: Lambdas: use erased type. (#3252)
• 33b3e18 Remove unused methods from PluginUtil. (#3264)
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