error-prone

New checks:

• InterruptedInCatchBlock: Detect accidental calls to Thread.interrupted() inside of catch(InterruptedException e) blocks.
• RefactorSwitch: Refactorings to simplify arrow switches
• UnnamedVariable: Rena...

Changes:

• The javac flag -XDaddTypeAnnotationsToSymbol=true is now required for Error Prone invocations on JDK 21, to enable the javac fix for JDK-8225377: type annotations are not visible to javac plugins across compilation boundaries. See https://github.com/google/error-prone/issues/5426 for details.
• Remove deprecated value attribute from...

Changes:

• Improved compatibility with latest JDK 26 EA builds.

New checks:

• AssertSameIncompatible: Detect calls to assertSame and similar assertions, where the calls are guaranteed to either succeed or fail.
• FormatStringShouldUsePlaceholders: Sug...

Changes

• The default severity for LabelledBreakTarget is now an error
• Update dependency on Guava (#5108)

Closed issues: #5218, #5278

Full changelog: https://github.com/google/error-prone/compare/v2.43.0...v2.44.0

The minimum supported JDK version to run Error Prone is now JDK 21 (https://github.com/google/error-prone/issues/4867).

Changes:

• -XepPatchChecks now skips disabled checks (#4943)
• AndroidJdkLibsChecker has been removed, the recommended replacement for Android code is Android Lint's NewApi check

New checks:

• [NullNeedsCastForVarargs](https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/NullN...