Updates the Checkstyle core to version 8.7.

Please note that this version requires Java 8 as the minimum runtime environment . This requires you to run Eclipse on a Java 8 JVM in order to use this plugin version.

This restriction does not affect the ability to analyze Java 5 or lower level source code.

Please read the Checkstyle release notes for details on recent and potentially breaking changes in Checkstyle. Checkstyle configuration files potentially need to be adapted to this version.

The slow rate of recent updates is owed to a shift in personal interest and how I spend my spare time.

If you want to help keep this project afloat and steadily updated please send me a message or post to the forums .

Additionally activity has started to migrate the project to Github ( eclipse-cs Github page ), hoping this will make it easier for contributions. Code and issue tracking have already been moved, other facilities will follow over the course of the next weeks.

-- Lars