Added

Added #879: Documentation for Junit export with third party
Added #836: Provide option to allow reference to a class in the root namespace without an import
Added #856: Adds checkstyle compatible renderer, suitable for cs2pr or reviewdog
Added #858 in #865: Add SARIF renderer.
Added #873 and #876: Added option to baseline existing violations
Added #861: Docs for GitHub renderer
Added #868 In #869: Option to ignore globally-namespaced classes from MissingImport
Added #834 : Add "tool" property to main "pmd" tag in XML report

Changed

Fixed #673 in #782: Ignore dynamic class name from missing imports
Fixed #577 in #844: Recognize compact variables with double quotes
Fixed #818 in #822: Fix passing-by-reference detection
Fixed #826 in #827: Consider foreach exception only for direct children
Fixed #851 in #852: Fix multiple underscores in method name when allow-underscore-test is allowed
Fixed #846 in #847: Catch DevelopmentCodeFragment with fully qualified functions
Fixed #829 in #835: Fatal error while analyzing anonymous class
Fixed #816 in #818: Fixed undefined index referring

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