diff --git a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
index 6f80cd9ed..37479a962 100644
--- a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,183 @@
+
+ New features:
+
+ -
+ Google Java Style xml configuration was added. Author: Max Vetrenko.
+
+ -
+ New: AbbreviationAsWordInName check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #212
+
+ -
+ Added enum processing to TypeNameCheck . Author: Pavel Baranchikov
+
+ -
+ Added method to clear cache to LocalizedMessage. Author: Joni Salmi. #156
+
+ -
+ New: AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #194
+
+ -
+ New: CustomImportOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #194
+
+ -
+ New: EmptyLineSeparator check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #186
+
+ - Enable array initialisation indentation settings. Author: Vaclav Chalupa.
+ - Enhance WhitespaceAroundCheck to ignore Annotation Array Initialization curlies as it does for Array Initialization outside of annotations. . Author: Jacob Tomaw
+ -
+ ignore option to the JavadocVariable check. Author: ychulovskyy. #98
+
+ -
+ New: InterfaceTypeParameterName check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #202
+
+ -
+ New grammar rule was added only for catch types. IllegalCatchCheck has been extended to use catch with few
+ exception types. . Author: Ilja Dubinin #165
+
+ -
+ LocalVariableName. Allowed one char variables in initialization expressions in FOR loop . Author: Max Vetrenko #192
+
+ -
+ New: NoLineWrap check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #173
+
+ -
+ New: OneTopLevelClass check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #173
+
+ -
+ New: OverrideMethodsDeclarationOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #32
+
+ -
+ New option to allow no empty line between fields at EmptyLineSeparatorCheck check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #227
+
+ -
+ New option to allow that force overload methods are grouped together at DeclarationOrder check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #163
+
+ -
+ New option to allow empty classes, enums and interfaces, empty loops are allowed at WhitespaceAround check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #163
+
+ -
+ New: VariableDeclarationUsageDistance check. Author: Max Vetrenko. #223
+
+
+ Bug fixes:
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+ -
+ Update for EmptyBlock to allow empty loops. Author: Max Vetrenko. #190
+
+ -
+ EmptyLineSeparatorCheck was updated to validate empty line after header. Author: Max Vetrenko. #218
+
+ -
+ LeftCurly Check was updated to force line break. Author: Max Vetrenko. #247
+
+ -
+ update for OuterTypeFilename Check to check top level type are the public type or the first type in file if public is missed. Author: Max Vetrenko. #248
+
+ -
+ update for RightCurly Check, new option to check line break after the closing brace if that brace terminates a statement or the body of a method, constructor or named class. Author: Max Vetrenko. #182
+
+ -
+ Added test and fix for the case if there is a semicolon between import statements. Author: Ryszard Wisniewski
+
+ -
+ Adding ANNOTATION_DEF to the valid list of parentASTs for the SuppressWarningsHolder. Without this, any
+ @SuppressWarnings (checkstyle or not) present on an annotation definition class will fail. Author: Dominic Jones
+
+ -
+ Adding u HTML tag to list of allowed tags in JavaDoc. Author: Ilja Gubins. #58
+
+ -
+ update for WhitespaceAround. Allowed empty anonymous classes. Was updated allowEmptyTypes property. Author: Max Vetrenko. #197
+
+ -
+ Fixed AbstractTypeAwareCheck for generics in interfaces. Author: Tobias Baum. #177
+
+ -
+ Fixed RightCurlyCheck for empty methods. Author: Max Vetrenko. #213
+
+ -
+ Fixed WhitespaceAroundCheck. fix for anonymous inner class. Author: ychulovskyy. #105
+
+ -
+ Fixed RedundantModifier. Abstract Interface Should not be Allowed.
+ Author: ychulovskyy. #209
+
+ -
+ Fixed EmptyBlock. need to handle switch block.
+ Author: Max Vetrenko. #235
+
+ -
+ Fixed WhitespaceAround. Fix false positive with ANNOTATION_DEF.
+ Author: Max Vetrenko. #237
+
+ -
+ Fixed GenericWhitespace. Fix false positive with Array.
+ Author: Inav Sopov. #47
+
+ -
+ Fixed JavadocStyleCheck. HTML comments break the Javadoc style HTML check.
+ Author: theqaguy. #119
+
+ -
+ Fixed Java grammar. Now it can parse 'return (byte[].class);'
+ Author: Ilja Dubinin. #130
+
+ -
+ Exception thrown when parsing numeric constant "3.14_15F".
+ Author: ychulovskyy#134
+
+ -
+ RequireThis triggers for static interface fields Fixed.
+ Author: Sergiu Dumitriu #155
+
+ -
+ Javadoc in GenericWhitespaceCheck was updated.
+ Author: Max Vetrenko #254
+
+ -
+ MemberNameCheck should not validate interface constants, that's ConstantNameCheck's role . Author: Sergiu Dumitriu
+
+ -
+ RightCurly. Force line break before '}' in case SAME option.
+ Author: Max Vetrenko #250
+
+ -
+ SeparatorWrapCheck. Covers separators like ',', '.' .
+ Author: Max Vetrenko #179
+
+ -
+ Support annotations in TypeNameCheck. Author: Thomas Jensen
+
+ -
+ Update UnusedImportsCheck to correctly detect classes in parameters and inline tags nested within block tags.
+ fixing checkstyle issues Fixing even more checkstyle issues . Author: James Gorman
+
+ -
+ Use a thread-safe map implementation to keep the compiled patterns. Author: Christoph Kutzinski
+
+ -
+ WhitespaceAround with allowEmptyMethods complains on annotation's empty method
+ Author: Max Vetrenko #21
+
+
+ Notes:
+
+ -
+ dsm-maven-plugin is used to show dependency stucture of project on site. Author: Ilja Dubinin.
+
+ -
+ Added and updated documentation/messages for number of Checks. Authors: Max Vetrenko, Thomas Jensen, ychulovskyy, Jarmo Isotalo
+ , Peter O, Ryszard Wisniewski, Ilja Gubins, Baratali Izmailov, Jan Schafer, Niklas Walter, Andrew Gaul.
+
+ -
+ Moving to standard directory layout . Author: Ivan Sopov.
+
+
+
+
New features:
@@ -259,7 +436,7 @@
Enhanced MagicNumber
to support the parameter ignoreHashCodeMethod to ignore
magic numbers in hashCode() methods. Thanks to
- Daniel Solano Gómez for patch #3050788.
+ Daniel Solano Gómez for patch #3050788.
-
Enhanced
@@ -2303,7 +2480,7 @@
- Added DTD for XML output (request 622157).
- Added an XSL stylesheet to convert XML output to plain text, contributed by Jon Scott Stevens.
- Added a Portuguese localization, contributed by Pedro Morais.
- - Added a Finnish localization, contributed by Ville Skyttä.
+ - Added a Finnish localization, contributed by Ville Skyttä.
- Added a French localization, contributed by Pierre Dittgen.
@@ -2357,7 +2534,7 @@
Incorporate patch 566855 from Rob Worth to optionally check that parenthesis are padded with spaces.
Incorporate patch 590931 from Vijay Aravamudhan to improve documentation of the build.xml file.
Incorporate patch from Vijay Aravamudhan to enforce requiring @version tag (request 543964).
- Incorporate patch 607481 from Ville Skyttä to enforce wrap on operator at EOL.
+ Incorporate patch 607481 from Ville Skyttä to enforce wrap on operator at EOL.