diff --git a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
index e070b4ae4..00cebb4ef 100644
--- a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
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@@ -19,6 +19,144 @@
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+ Breaking backward compatibility:
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+ 'ignoreMethods' option has been removed from DeclarationOrderCheck. Author: Baratali Izmailov #2031
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+ fix typos in properties names. Author: Michal Kordas in scope of #1555
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+ New:
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+ Added new Check: CommentsIndentationCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #333
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+ Bug fixes:
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+ fixed problem with lexical order in CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1469
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+ Extended messages for CustomImportOrder. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1648
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+ Changed SAME_PACKAGE rule for CustomImportOrderCheck. Author: Aleksandr Ivanov #1262
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+ reimplement EqualsAvoidNullCheck. Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy #1377
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+ enforce all checks to override getRequiredTokens, getAcceptableTokens methods. Author: Andrei Selkin #655
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+ IllegalType: add 'validateAbstractClassNames' option. Author: Andrei Selkin #1805
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+ Marked 'maxLineLength' as '@Deprecated' at LeftCurlyCheck. Author: Andrei Selkin #965
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+ Detect public constructors in non-public classes in RedundantModifier. Author: liscju #1537
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+ Fixes logic bug in gui ParseTreeInfoPanel making linesToPositions assign lines to inappropriate positions . Author: liscju
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+ Fix RightCurlyCheck with same option not to rise expression in single-line blocks . Author: liscju #1416
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+ Fix UnsupportedOperationException in GUI. Author: Michal Kordas #1718
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+ Notes:
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+ Fix issues reported by IntelliJ IDEA inspections in Checkstyle code. Author: Michal Kordas #1555
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+ Fix violations reported by Checkstyle checks. Author: Baratali Izmailov , Ruslan Diachenko #1566
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+ Sonarqube found problems in Checkstyle. Author: Ilja Dubinin #46
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+ Enable Checkstyle checks for 'gui' package. Author: Roman Ivanov #1678
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+ Corrected links on website. Author: Andrei Selkin #751
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+ Eclipse warnings about unused fields have been fixed. Author: Baratali Izmailov #1243
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+ Simplify overqualified CSS element. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
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+ Remove empty CSS rule. Author: Michal Kordas #2054
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+ config: maven-enforcer-plugin and equalsverifier are updated to newest version . Author: Roman Ivanov
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+ Make coverage 100% for some classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1290
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+ Utils classes have been moved to utils package, new classes CommonUtils and TokenUtils. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1898
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+ Use EqualsVerifier to test equals and hashCode in IntMatchFilter. Author: Michal Kordas #1088
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+ Removed suppression for SwitchDensity rule from PMD. Author: Andrei Selkin #973
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+ Remove obsolete entry from PMD configuration. Author: Michal Kordas #877
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+ Remove unused Coveralls plugin from pom.xml . Author: Roman Ivanov #1881
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+ Update ANTLR to 4.5.1-1 . Author: Roman Ivanov #1880
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+ Update EqualsVerifier to 1.7.4. Author: Roman Ivanov #1879
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+ replace deprecated method in HiddenCheckField . Author: Vladislav Lisetskiy
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+ Created JaCoCo profile of pom.xml. Author: Andrei Selkin #1173
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+ Update Maven FindBugs Plugin to 3.0.2. Author: Michal Kordas #1714
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+ Fixed typo in JavadocMethod's examples xdocs. Author: Andrei Selkin #1668
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+ Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp. Author: Ilja Dubinin #1010
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+ Fix headers for classes in 'gui' package. Author: Michal Kordas #945
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+ Make coverage 100% for all classes at package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding. . Author: Baratali Izmailov #1293
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+ Resolved javadoc problems that reported by java 8. Author: Andrei Selkin #291.
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+ Minor typo fixes. Author: Dave Moloney
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Breaking backward compatibility: