RefactorFirst changelog

Changelog History

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• v0.8.0 Changes

  February 24, 2026

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 Reduce JGit memory use #82 by @patomos in #151
  • 🔨 Updated the unit test for detecting cycles by @patomos in #150
  • 👌 Improve analysis performance by @jimbethancourt in #153
  • 🔨 #152 Add minimum feedback set algorithms by @jimbethancourt in #165
  • 🔨 #152 Handling generated classes by @jimbethancourt in #170
  • 🚀 #154 Update Maven Central release process & migrate to JReleaser by @jimbethancourt in #171
  • 🔨 #163 Relationships are backwards for Java Generics Type Variables and Parameterized Types (BUG fixed)

  🆕 New Contributors

  • 🔨 @patomos made their first contribution in #151

  Full Changelog : 0.7.1...0.8.0

• v0.7.1 Changes

  April 03, 2025

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 #139 use js delivr instead of unpkg by @jimbethancourt in #143

  Full Changelog : 0.7.0...0.7.1

• v0.7.0 Changes

  March 17, 2025

  What's Changed

  🔨 #111 Moved Java parser to OpenRewrite and parsing as many Java language features as I could figure out
  🔨 #109 Excluding tests from analysis by default
  🔨 #114 #132 Maven report now delegates to HtmlReport. Less code to maintain!
  🔨 #124 Displaying map of entire codebase. Excludes unit tests and classes that do not have any incoming or outgoing relationships.
  🔨 #128 Added 3D Force Graph rendering of class map and cycles. Makes looking at your code fun again!
  🔨 #129 #130 Added DSM to identify backward edges. Performing what-if analysis on backward edge removal.
  🔨 #131 Added ability to minify HTML report. Disabled by default.
  Limiting cycle analysis to 10 cycles. Will parameterize in the future.

  Full Changelog : 0.6.2...0.7.0

• v0.6.2 Changes

  November 17, 2024

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 #115 Rendering bubble charts inline instead of separate files. Report is now generated in a single file.
  • 🔨 #116 Fixed issues with Doxia site renderer by upgrading Maven plugin dependencies
  • 🔨 #119 Upgraded vulnerable dependencies

  Full Changelog : 0.6.1...0.6.2

• v0.6.1 Changes

  October 03, 2024

  What's Changed

  • ✂ Removed jgrapht-core and jgapht-ext from report module by @jimbethancourt in #108
    🚚 This removes a transitive dependency on org.tinyjee.jgraphx:jgraphx, which has been identified as a vulnerable component in CVE bulletin CVE-2017-18197

  Full Changelog : 0.6.0...0.6.1

• v0.6.0 Changes

  October 02, 2024

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 #101 Rendering DOT images instead of png iimages by @jimbethancourt in #105
  • 🔨 #93 Only calculating cycle class churn when showDetails = true by @jimbethancourt in #106 since number of classes in a cycle has a strong correlation to the cycle's average commit count
  • 🔨 Render dot graphs in maven report by @jimbethancourt in #107
  • 🔨 Logging parsed files during circular reference checking in #107

  Full Changelog : 0.5.0...0.6.0

• v0.5.0 Changes

  September 25, 2024

  Notable changes since 0.4.0:

  • 👍 Java 21 support
  • 🔨 Cycle analysis performed in Maven report and HTML reports (based on field types and method signature types) (#56 #92)
  • ➕ Added Simple HTML Report - can be used in GitHub Actions
  • 🐎 Significant performance improvement for large codebases with a high number of commits (#95)
  • 🔨 Silenced PMD complaints (#91)
  • 🔨 Codebases with generated sources now successfully analyzed (#99)

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 Updated versions of Lombok, ErrorProne, and Spotless. by @jimbethancourt in #63
  • 🔨 Updated versions of the jacoco-maven-plugin and maven-plugin-plugin by @jimbethancourt in #64
  • 🔨 #62 mvn site and #70 GH buttons on mvn site generated page by @jimbethancourt in #71
  • 🔨 Provide CLI verion by @d4c4nf3 in #66
  • 🔨 CLI and other upgrades by @jimbethancourt in #74
  • 🔨 [Snyk] Security upgrade org.apache.maven:maven-core from 3.9.2 to 3.9.4 by @jimbethancourt in #67
  • 🔨 Update version to 0.5.0.M1-SNAPSHOT by @jimbethancourt in #75
  • 🔨 Update version directly to 0.5.0-M1 by @jimbethancourt in #76
  • 🔨 Reverting README.md by @jimbethancourt in #77
  • 🔨 Updated GH buttons to point to refactorfirst/RefactorFirst repo by @jimbethancourt in #78
  • 🔨 Upgrade to new pmd by @jimbethancourt in #84
  • 🔨 Hyperlinking RefactorFirst in report title by @jimbethancourt in #85
  • 🔨 Refactor by @jimbethancourt in #87
  • ➕ Add circular reference detector by @jimbethancourt in #88
  • 🔨 Generating Cycle data by @jimbethancourt in #89
  • 🛠 Fixed issues by @jimbethancourt in #90
  • 🔨 #92 Add weighted edges by @jimbethancourt in #96
  • 🔨 Optimize git by @jimbethancourt in #98
  • 🔨 Handle generated sources by @jimbethancourt in #100

  🆕 New Contributors - Thank you!!!

  • 🔨 @d4c4nf3 made their first contribution in #66

  Thank you @nikhilpereira1793 for creating the java-circular-reference-detector (Original code located at https://gitlab.com/nikhil_ideacrest/java-circular-reference-detector)

  Full Changelog : 0.4.0...0.5.0

• v0.5.0-M3 Changes

  July 03, 2024

  What's Changed

  • 🛠 Fixed issues by @jimbethancourt in #90

  Full Changelog : 0.5.0-M2...0.5.0-M3

• v0.5.0-M2 Changes

  July 03, 2024

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 Upgrade to new pmd by @jimbethancourt in #84
  • 🔨 Hyperlinking RefactorFirst in report title by @jimbethancourt in #85
  • 🔨 Refactor by @jimbethancourt in #87
  • ➕ Add circular reference detector by @jimbethancourt in #88
  • 🔨 Generating Cycle data by @jimbethancourt in #89

  Thank you @nikhilpereira1793 for creating the java-circular-reference-detector (Original code located at https://gitlab.com/nikhil_ideacrest/java-circular-reference-detector)

  Full Changelog : 0.5.0-M1...0.5.0-M2

• v0.5.0-M1 Changes

  October 10, 2023

  What's Changed

  • 🔨 Updated versions of Lombok, ErrorProne, and Spotless. by @jimbethancourt in #63
  • 🔨 Updated versions of the jacoco-maven-plugin and maven-plugin-plugin by @jimbethancourt in #64
  • 🔨 #62 mvn site and #70 GH buttons on mvn site generated page by @jimbethancourt in #71
  • 🔨 Provide CLI verion by @vojislav-cuk in #66
  • 🔨 [Snyk] Security upgrade org.apache.maven:maven-core from 3.9.2 to 3.9.4 by @jimbethancourt in #67
  • 🔨 Updated GH buttons to point to refactorfirst/RefactorFirst repo by @jimbethancourt in #78

  🆕 New Contributors

  • 🔨 @vojislav-cuk made their first contribution in #66

  Thank you!

  A HUGE thank you @vojislav-cuk for contributing the CLI runner feature!
  Thank you @karianna for suggesting that the Maven site report be rehabilitated!
  Thank you @lagooned for pair programming!

  Full Changelog : 0.4.0...0.5.0-M1

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