diff --git a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
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+ Breaking backward compatibility:
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+ Restore 'url' option for ImportControl. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #2231
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+ New:
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+ New option 'requiredTranslations' to Translation check. Author: Andrei Selkin #2166
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+ New option 'switchBlockAsSingleDecisionPoint' for CyclomaticComplexityCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2029
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+ Bug fixes:
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+ Fix java grammar for unicode escape. Author: rnveach #157
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+ Add basic thread-safety to Javadoc checks. Author: Michal Kordas #2237
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+ Fixed NPE in FinalLocalVariableCheck. Author: rnveach #1257
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+ NoWhitespaceAfter, NoWhitespaceBefore and WhitespaceAround don't support GENERIC_START nor GENERIC_END tokens. Author: Roman Ivanov #2219
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+ Add support of lambdas which parameter types are omitted for HiddenFieldCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #2175
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+ Fix RedundantModifier check at final classes in interfaces. Author: Michal Kordas #2203
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+ Print missing cause of exception to console on error. Author: Michal Kordas #2213
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+ Fix not working excludeScope in JavadocMethod check. Author: Michal Kordas #2205
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+ Fix RedundantModifier check to recognise inner classes accessible from global scope. Author: liscju #1537
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+ CustomImportOrderCheck rule priorities. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1273
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+ Fix false negative in AtclauseOrder check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2095
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+ Fix IllegalStateException in JavadocTypeCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2112
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+ Allow COMMA again in NoWhiteSpaceBefore. Author: Roman Ivanov #2089
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+ Fix HiddenField false positive violations for anonymous classes. Author: Andrei Selkin #382
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+ Added support of logging severity for all audit events. Author: Andrei Selkin #67
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+ Allow @return tags from annotation types. Author: Phillip Webb #2141
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+ Fixed redundant modifier false positive for abstract classes in interfaces. Author: Andrei Selkin #1833
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+ Ignore classes nested in interaces or annotations in Final Class Check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2064
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+ Detect nested enums marked as static in RedundantModifier check. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1530
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+ Fixed NPE in MutableExceptionCheck.isExtendedClassNamedAsException. Author: Andrei Selkin #1903
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+ Change message in SummaryJavadocCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2062
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+ Notes:
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+ Update HTML documentation to describe all options for all checks. Author: Andrei Selkin #2169
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+ Make link for each row of Google style coverage table. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1005
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+ Add docs about while idiom to InnerAssignment check. Author: Michal Kordas #2230
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+ Fix additional issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #2080
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+ SuppressionsLoaderTest UT was stabilized. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2191
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+ ROOT locale added in checker creation for UT; travis updated with a new check. Author: Ruslan Diachenko #2193
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+ Update Error Prone to 2.0.5. Author: Michal Kordas #2216
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+ Add "Input" prefix to test input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
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+ Create MacOS matrix item for Travic-CI. Author: Roman Ivanov #2210
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+ POM still references nexus.codehaus.org repo. Author: Roman Ivanov #2200
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+ Make coverage 100% for TokenTypesDoclet. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2126
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+ Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
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+ Use StandardCharsets and get rid of UnsupportedEncodingException. Author: Michael Osipov #2034
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+ Remove errors from Maven output in TokenTypesDocletTest. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2195
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+ Anchor naming checks in google_style.xml. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2108
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+ AbstractHeaderCheck coverage has been increased to 100%. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1292
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+ Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
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+ CopyPasted ITs. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2074
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+ Update Maven Wagon to 2.10. Author: Michal Kordas #2183
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+ Update Maven Project Info Reports Plugin to 2.8.1. Author: Michal Kordas #2182
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+ Split all modules to be separate at config_naming.html. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2108
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+ Remove already fixed exclusion from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #961
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+ Add SLF4J binding required by JGit. Author: Michal Kordas #2129
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+ Configure compiler to use Error Prone for non-input sources. Author: Michal Kordas #2160
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+ Rearrange POM to use canonical ordering. Author: Michal Kordas #809
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+ Unify naming files with test inputs. Author: Michal Kordas #2161
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+ Create wide message for CheckstyleException in PackageObjectFactory. Author: Andrei Selkin #759
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+ Fix compiler warnings in input files. Author: Michal Kordas #2130
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+ Updated checkstyle_checks.xml to use ParameterNumber in default configuration. Author: Andrei Selkin #215
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+ Extended Eclipse user guide for newbies of Checkstyle. Author: Andrei Selkin #606
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+ Fix exception at NeedBraces check in enhanced for loops. Author: Michal Kordas #2135
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+ Make test for FileTabCharacter locale and OS independent. Author: Michal Kordas #2137
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+ Add inspection scope profile for IDEA analysis. Author: Michal Kordas #2131
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+ Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
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+ Added tests for validating commit message. Author: liscju #937
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+ Fix StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2094
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+ Activated TranslationCheck in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #2092
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+ Fix Javadoc generation failure after addition of new tag. Author: Michal Kordas #2106
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+ Add Codacy badge to main page. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
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+ Update all Checks html docs with link to hosted configurations. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1214
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+ Create separate web page for old release notes. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #2063
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+ Extended javadoc/xdoc for RightCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #1900
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+ Added UT which validates that all checks which exist in classpath are referenced in checkstyle_checks.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #945
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+ Add suppression for IntelliJ IDEA inspection. Author: Michal Kordas #2065
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+ Refactoring of TreeWalker to increase readability. Author: Andrei Selkin
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+ Corrected javadoc/xdoc for IllegalTypeCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin
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